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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf Will Smith really landed that roundhouse right, Chris Rock would be spitting teeth
Instead, after the verbal theatrics, Chris Rock just went back to reading awards.
I'm pretty sure they punked everyone.
Marcuse
(7,480 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)Not a knuckle-sandwich.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,798 posts)I still think it was a setup.
We found videos from Japanese and Australian TV to listen to the shouting.
Keep in mind, Chris Rock and the Smiths are close friends of many years' standing.
Doc Sportello
(7,520 posts)It was not fake. From Smith's acceptance speech, to Denzel talking to Smith and his wife afterward afterward to Amy Schumer making a joke about how the mood in the room changed when she was backstage changing. It was all uncomfortable.
Stinky The Clown
(67,798 posts)Doc Sportello
(7,520 posts)Just pointed out that there were several other elements on the show demonstrating it wasn't a prank.
Stinky The Clown
(67,798 posts)jk
Doc Sportello
(7,520 posts)It's time for you to chill.
Stinky The Clown
(67,798 posts). . . . the cat's not hatin' it.
Doc Sportello
(7,520 posts)He apologized for it. Not to Rock but to the Academy.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)Smith and Rock are playing the long game!
Stinky The Clown
(67,798 posts)Read about it here.
Found a brazilian videos.
Read it as bullshit.
Posted here.
Ocelot II
(115,686 posts)BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)Pretty sure it was real.
Smith cried like a baby trying to weasel out of it.
Thank god for Lady Gaga showing what real dignity and class is.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)Rock throws out an appearance-shaming joke at the woman's expense. Rock is an ass.
flying_wahini
(6,594 posts)Calista241
(5,586 posts)He has eyes, and he saw it coming. While he may have lessened the impact by 'leaning back', he still took it to the face.
live love laugh
(13,104 posts)TlalocW
(15,381 posts)And at first I thought he had hit THE Rock, and I was like, "OMG! Will Smith is dead!"
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exboyfil
(17,863 posts)Maybe if he keeps his distance he could survive such an encounter.
Then again I have seen the Rock hitting weights so no.
TlalocW
(15,381 posts)But along with the advantage in muscle being waaaay in the Rock's favor, for all of wrestling's scripted outcome, you still have to be tough enough to get knocked around.
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misanthrope
(7,411 posts)I don't believe Smith would have attempted the same on someone that he didn't drastically outsize. Especially someone who could so plainly defend himself as a gargantuan former pro wrestler and college football player.
Smith went after Chris Rock because he's small.
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)Personally, I dont think he was offended for his wife. His masculinity was threatened by Rock referring to his wife without hair.
misanthrope
(7,411 posts)This could have been building in him for a while.
C Moon
(12,213 posts)exboyfil
(17,863 posts)If any kids are watching the Oscars. Settle your dispute with your hands.
Either WWE or they allowed a man who had just committed a public battery collect an award and go about his day. Either way a bad look for the Oscars, Will Smith, Chris Rock, and the joke writer.
If the two are friends than this is common banter/actions when they are together, then please don't air it in a public forum for millions to see. A friend slapping another friend in private is a whole lot different than in front of millions of people. They have now made it the public's business.
walkingman
(7,611 posts)exboyfil
(17,863 posts)He has a right to be sensitive and outraged. He doesn't have the right to commit a battery though.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)Who was not laughing and then Will decided to ratchet up the stakes
.sad for the world when so many other more important events are happening
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Renew Deal
(81,856 posts)Rocks cheek swelled up.
FakeNoose
(32,638 posts)I mean, maybe his wife is really going bald, and Will was upset over Chris Rock's joking about it. I don't know, maybe she's on chemo or something, and it hasn't been released to the media. There could be another reason.
Or maybe he was just all wound up because he was waiting to hear if he had won.
If they were punking, it was kind of stupid and pointless.
Stinky The Clown
(67,798 posts)I am not sure. Just reporting that I read that.
ymetca
(1,182 posts)Sean Penn melt his Oscar
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,195 posts)UTUSN
(70,686 posts)UTUSN
(70,686 posts)Kablooie
(18,634 posts)It was a slap.
There is a hit sound but it's from the microphone being jostled.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)... like me, because even that slap might've caused a detached retina in my only remaining eye with sight.
I'm relieved it wasn't worse.
misanthrope
(7,411 posts)Smith wouldn't have stood a chance of winning in court.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,195 posts)DET
(1,309 posts)Dont mean to be rude, but youve posted this like 20 times already.
standingtall
(2,785 posts)I could've believed it was staged.