You think Will Smith would deliberately sabotage his reputation and career by smacking someone in the face on live tv, then using the F word twice?
GET REAL, WAKE UP, YOU'VE LOST YOUR MARBLES
Its possible that in a desperation move by the industry that needed massive attention drawn back to an increasingly irrelevant awards show, that behind the scenes Will Smith was given "assurances" that his standing within the industry would not take a hit & was guaranteed his first Oscar if he were to go along with the stunt. Perhaps Will also wanted to established some "edge" & controversy to the squeaky clean, nice guy reputation that he has carefully cultivated for over 30 years in the industry, given recent humiliating revelations about his wife's extra marital "entanglements" so he went along with the over the top stunt to as a way of showing off his manhood on the most pubic stage he possibly could.
Backlash in the first hour after the broadcast and continuing non-stop since it happened. By now they would've announced it was a bit and not let it fester like this. The Academy is very likely to ban Will from future award ceremonies. Will is also being made fun of now more then he has ever has in his entire career, Comedians are destroying him, his new name is Cuck Smith. The whole showing off his manhood is pulling at strings, I mean 10 mins later he was crying like a little bitch accepting his Oscar. Conspiracy nuts are rampant in 2022.
shareIt's been 2 days. There's plenty of time for the criticism to die down & failing any major career consequences for Smith, if this all just ending with a finger wag & a slap on the wrist reprimand for appearances sake, I say that would lead credence to the idea of it potentially being a desperate publicity stunt. I'm not entirely convinced one way or the other but it's a bad look either way.
shareVirtually no benefit for Will Smith, ruining your reputation for an Awards show's ratings is incredibly stupid. Academy put out a statement saying they asked Will to leave after the slap and he refused. His punishment is being announced on April 18th. But at this point the crazies that think it was staged have dug there feet in, they live in a fantasy land. All we can do now is laugh at them.
shareI guess I'm a simpleton cuz I 100% believe it was staged. I saw this morning - someone wrote that Pfizer is involved because they are coming out with a new drug. Apparently this drug helps people that have the condition Jada Pinkett has - a condition which is now suddenly out in the open. I could most definitely see Pfizer writing real nice checks to Smith and Rock to do what they did - all in an effort to promote their new drug. I haven't verified any of this but I have to say, this particular scenario (It was fake - PFizer is behind it) makes complete sense to me.
shareKind of ironic that the OP believes actors on a television show to be real and calls doubters 'simpletons'. You raise a good point about the drug company and a previous poster also brought up good points about Smith being bribed to do the stunt. Also there are screen captures showing Chris leaning into the hit with his face clinched and ready....
Not saying it was staged but at the same time, I don't buy a dang thing Hollyweird wants to sell me.
You people are nuts.
Staged!
Period!
And they did a poor job of it all.
As for the sad and distraught, the traumatized and the heartbroken, no worries...there will be a new ‘thing’ to bring up to your therapist in a week or so, just be ‘patient’.
At least they will stop talking about the ending of game of thrones, psychiatrists would probably be relieved.
To think of it Hollywood brought them a lot of new businesses.
I might be a simpleton because I simply don't know if was staged or not. I don't think that the slap itself was staged, but I know the Oscars have had dwindling ratings over the last few years. This has created a lot of buzz. I would not put it past the producers of the Oscars to have said to Smith and Rock that there would be a bonus for them if they created a Kanye moment.
They will never, ever admit that it was staged, as it would essentially ruin the Oscars.
I find it convenient that Smith used protecting his family in his acceptance speech, and compared it his role where he was protecting his family, after he slapped a presenter while protecting his family.
Chris Rock's ticket sales for his comedy tour have skyrocketed. Smith is getting a lot of publicity and not all of it is bad. Am I just being cynical? I very well could be. This could have been 100% real, and in a way I would very much prefer that.
There is also a problem to this line of thinking. Smith is too wealthy to take such a big risk.
share"They will never, ever admit that it was staged, as it would essentially ruin the Oscars."
It's ruined either way. Wouldn't it be easier to simply start handing out Best Picture Oscars to men-in-tights-and-capes movies if its ratings they're after? This conspiracy theory just has too many holes in it. Not seaworthy.
I don't think it's a conspiracy theory. It's not really a theory at all. I do mostly lean on the side of not staged and it was all real, but too many things that have happened in this world have told me to at least think that what I'm seeing might not be true. That's really it. Yeah, I'm a bit of a cynic, but it happened on tv. That is really why I have the few doubts that I have.
I do disagree that the Oscars are ruined. At least not because of this.
I'm not sure this is going to be "the last Oscars", or they can't recover, but it is a very big hit. Thing is, they could quite easily "save" the Oscars... by handing out Best Picture awards for superhero movies. I'm not saying I like the idea, but if it's ratings they're after that makes a lot more sense than an elaborate ruse with uncertain results. That's one of several reasons why the theory doesn't float for me. There are others.
shareIf it were staged, it's only fair to assume the Academy would be in on it as well to get ratings on the up and up but seeing the upcoming fallout on the latter's part in regards of Will's reputation and Oscars future attendance will prove that it wasn't set up.
shareIt's easy to see how when most content on TV is staged (movies, shows) and most news is really just another form of entertainment, well, that must be staged too. It's just the other end of the spectrum from folk who think their soap opera is real life. They've both spent too long in front of TV and not enough time with real people to know the difference.
sharewhat makes you think he has done something negative to his career? he's now maybe the most talked about person on the planet
shareTrouble is, Will Smith is pushing 60 and needs to transition to the latter half of his career. Winning an Oscar, gaining acceptance as a serious actor, becoming an "elder statesman" of Hollywood, etc. is all part of that. Transitioning to a "bad boy" image this late in his career is hardly conducive to any of that. Being talked about and getting parts (more specifically the sort of parts suitable for an actor at his stage of career) are not the same thing.
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