Saturday 2 April 2022

Thoughts on Will Smith's Assault on Chris Rock



I think people who have come out saying this was all a staged Kabal gimmick to distract us from the real issues around the globe are jumping the gun. This wasn't staged at all. This was Will Smith doing the unthinkable and the fact it can happen in everyday life doesn't change that.

The Kabalistic elites running Hollywood organize the Oscars to promote Hollywood productions, and it just so happens that Pfizer was also in on the promotion side and they happen to have a drug on the market for alopecia, a side effect of its mRNA vaccine, believe it or not. They would definitely have sought attention for the condition, and the medication, but to do it this way?

Bottom line is this was a day for the Kabal running Hollywood to promote themselves and if they attracted attention in the wrong way then they would suffer the consequences.

Attracting attention through a distasteful act of violence is definitely one of those things that could trigger the negative rapport, because anyone who is OK with what happened has probably never been hit by a powerful man. As we advise our kids, ‘use your words’.

Furthermore, while there may be some room for speculation over the slap itself, Smith’s anger as he shouted at Rock certainly seemed 100% genuine.

In the aftermath of the incident, footage shows Denzel Washington consoling Smith during an ad break, the latter wiping away tears. Smith also wept during an acceptance speech that looked a deeply troubled one for him, despite the fact he had just reached what is the pinnacle of a film actor’s career. Apologising to the Academy and his fellow nominees but not Rock.

He said: "Art imitated life; I look the crazy father, just like they said about Richard Williams. Love will make you do crazy things.” If all that was make-believe, he deserves a lorryload of Oscars.

There is another aspect to this whole incident that doesn't support the view it was staged. In the aftermath of the slap, it was allowed to reverberate throughout the event with Chris Rock doing the unthinkable. He acted as if nothing had happened and didn't even rub the cheek that had been hit. If the scenario was put in script then the instructions he would have been given would be to get slapped, pretend he had been hit, then act as if nothing had happened.

The police or security at the venue would be instructed not to step in to escort Will Smith out, even when his behavior remained threatening after he had assaulted someone.

Now, the assault alone would have been grounds for immediate arrest because it was viewed by those who would have needed the evidence to proceed with the detention of Will Smith.

These are all factors that those who would have planned the incident would have had to consider prior to the fact because they would have been aware of the lingering bad taste it would leave in both the mouths of those present and viewers at home had they not stepped in and did as I indicate above. Chris Rock himself would have been required to feign injury and an inability to continue with his hosting for it to be in sync with the continuation of the event. All this would have been pre-planned because it would have brought closure to the incident and allowed the awards to proceed without the ghost of the incident haunting them as much as it did that day or night, without people wondering whether the man presenting the awards was in pain or not, whether he would be attacked again or not.

Remember here that Will Smith threatened to do it again in his manner in the immediate aftermath, and also that he didn't find it necessary to apologize to Chris initially even though he apologized to everybody else present.

What seems clear is that Rock’s joke about Pinkett-Smith crossed a line. It is absolutely believable that it could cause significant offence. As Pinkett-Smith told a 2018 episode of her Facebook Watch series Red Table Talk, her alopecia has caused her considerable suffering. “It was terrifying when it first started,” she said. “I was in the shower one day and had just handfuls of hair in my hands and I was just like, ‘Oh, my God, am I going bald?' It was one of those times in my life where I was literally shaking with fear.”

It has also been pointed out that Smith and Pinkett-Smith do have some previous rifts with Rock, having been on the receiving end of another Oscars ribbing by the 57-year-old in 2016. Reacting to the pair’s decision to boycott that year’s awards over a lack of diversity in the nominees, Rock, who was hosting the ceremony, said:

“Jada said she’s not coming. I was like, ‘Isn’t she on a TV show?’ Jada’s gonna boycott the Oscars? Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna’s panties. I wasn’t invited!” Rock also took aim at Smith, saying: “It’s not fair that Will was this good [in the movie Concussion] and didn’t get nominated. It’s also not fair that Will was paid $20 million for Wild Wild West!”

But still, Will Smith hitting Chris Rock for offending his wife is unathema for anybody who knows and has followed the two. There is no comparison to what's wrong with that picture. Imagine that this wasn't Chris Rock, but Jay Leno who told a bad joke and got a member of the audience walk up to the stage and b*tch slap him for it. On top of that, he goes back to his seat and shouts, audibly, that Jay should keep whoever out of his dirty mouth.

A comedian has a dirty mouth now?

Comedians can cross the line sometimes and when this happens we don't expect people to walk up to the stage and punch, slap, kick or shoot them in the head. That defeats the entire point of a comedy show. There would be nothing left of comedy if comedians couldn't tell certain jokes for fear of a violent reaction from the public. And if one really crosses the line then there is always time afterwards to put them back in line without endangering the entire profession.

This is a social contract about comedy and comedians, and it is observed globally, if I am not mistaken.

What's disturbing about this incident is the fact the individual who did this is himself a stage performer, an actual comedian who had come to get an award for a performance in which he could possibly have crossed the line for somebody somewhere. This attack was made by someone who should have known better.

I think Will Smith has trashed his entire film making career right at its pinnacle. I for one will find it very hard watching films in which he stars after this, and I think that it's going to be the same for many more people around the globe and if this whole thing was staged then the Kabal shot itself in the foot.

I doubt Will Smith will be able to pull the crowds to movies he stars in, as easily as he has managed to do thus far, after exposing himself as a shallow, emotional and violent, insecure man.

Yes he should care about his wife. Yes he should protect her from being offended and having her feelings hurt. But the question should be asked what, in that GI Jane joke, was offensive in a way that's insensitive to victims of alopecia? This is if Chris even knew this is what she was suffering from.

And no! This is not me being distracted from what's important. This is me voicing concern for an incident I find unpalatable on many levels, almost all unconnected to Oscars and Hollywood, a feeling that I share with many other people around the world.

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