Steven Spielberg's West Side Story and Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog were the standout champions on the movies side, with the former winning Best Picture (Musical or Comedy), Best Supporting Actress (Ariana DeBose), and Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical (Rachel Zegler), and the latter scoring Best Picture (Drama), Best Supporting Actor (Kodi Smit-McPhee), and Best Director for Campion's work.
Chris Rock kicking himself that he didn't retort and tell Willy and Jada to keep their hair on!
Have we considered it was a false flag or psy-op?
Just out of curiosity, what would you need to see/hear to believe it was genuine?
If you were going to stage something like that, you would need Daniel Day Lewis and DiCaprio to pull something like that off, not Will Smith and Chris Rock.
Bet away,
Either way in time it'll be known
And the rest possibly not staged......yes, land of make believe alright!
A genuine reaction to getting his across the face. The swing from Smith was hard enough that had it connected Rock would have been off balance.
Also when hit the most natural reaction is to put your hand towards the place that was hit - this didnt happen. His reaction was to laugh and move on with the script.
Acting
Staged.
More fake news
You are just highlighting how professional Chris Rock was, which is getting overlooked in all of this. Kept his composure.
Are you okay?
Edit: I mean, I asked you because while scanning through I see constant references to skin colour in your posts - I didn't understand why so I asked, surely in the time it took you to go back and look at whatever posts you did you could have just answered? Its a discussion board like. It makes your second line ironic though I'll give you that.
clearly not - highlighting the fact that if he was struck he would be somewhat off balance and react with shock - not a smile on his face.
I doubt that’s the first slap Rock has gotten, nor the last.
He was off balance, does he look all smiles here?
Yeah I'm sure the Academy and the Broadcaster totally approved the sweary rant in the middle of primetime as well.
If you're so satisfied it was staged, then explain the point of it? What was it all for?
Although I have to say, a false flag operation to make people forget how shyte the rest of the show was, would be a gift to the Academy.
if i was Chris Rock i would have got out my phone and said 'hello operator can can i have the LAPD please i want to report an assault'
and it was an assault with a billion witnesses 😑
Chris Rock would look fsr too weak if he was to press charges. He got slapped, nothing more.
In fairness, if you saw how many flubs he made while introducing the Best Documentary category, you can see he is shaken.
Violence?
thats not violence, thats just pointing a fellas face in a different direction.
No fist, no cut, no damage.
Calling that violence is a stretch.
I diagree here. It was a committed assault. Slap or kick or punch, or whatever.....he was genuinely whacked/assaulted
I don't think many would see him as "weak" (whatever that means here) if he pressed charges. I'd see him as real and principled.
The only one who'd come off as weak is the perp.
it was violence
It is violence. Had that been a woman struck with that slap she'd be out of it....
sexist!
It's amazing how you think that everybody acts the same way in situations.
Also Rock had no idea that Smith was going to do what he did and didn't have time to put hands up.
If it was staged then there would have been a comic element to it and Smith would not have sworn like he did on live TV.
This is turning out to be very damaging to Smith and has completely over shadowed his much longed for Oscar win. His reputation is shot and there's just no upside to stage this.
No idea what the point of it was - not as close to Will as I used to be be.
Just calling it as I see it. A staged incident that has the whole world talking.
Plenty of slow mo videos out there that show there was no connection
My point about the hand was - if you get smacked across the face your first auto reaction if to feel the area you were smacked, in this case his face, instead his hands remained behind his back.
in the slow mo videos you can see
If it had been Katy Taylor, Will Smith would have been out of it. Though, actually on reflection she is too classy for that, she would have just evaded the slap and ignored Smith.
I wonder what today will bring now that reactions from other parts of the world have been coming in overnight. Only early morning here on the west coast, so id expect as the day goes on, the sour taste will become more apparent.
I would say comedians got about a years worth of material on Smith already at this stage.
The great thing for Rock is he can get all that money back he lost in his divorce now. Lawyers licking their lips at an assault on live television beamed around the world. Rock should be checking himself into a clinic now for emotional stress
I was watching live and initially thought it might have been a setup and it was a ‘stunt’ slap. But once the shouting and repeated F bomb was used, along with the deathly silence in the auditorium that followed where everyone realised this was not ‘a bit’ and then the way Rock was after it; he tried to ride it out but kept getting his words mixed up, was clearly shaken, then almost gave up and said “let’s just go to the nominations”…It was no doubt 100% real IMO. It’ll be interesting to see how it develops…
One of several things it overshadowed was Coppola’s acknowledgment of Robert Evan’s part in the success of The Godfather shortly afterwards - that was a huge moment!
Dancing to his own (terrible) songs like nothing happened.
well he was hurt & visibly shaken by the incident, you could hear it in his voice- he went off cue and found it difficult to compose himself ...i'm no fan of Chris Rock i can take him or leave him, but i wouldn't call him weak for pressing charges, I mean Smith didn't even apologise to him afterwards when he collected his award which if I was Rock i'd be mighty miffed about😗
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