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A week of "slap" content!
Abdullah Al Qamzi
Abdulla.AlQamzi@emaratalyoum.com
04 April 2022
Three days before the Oscars, the headlines were saying the event was suffering a sharp drop in viewership, and today we have an entire week of content in the American press just about Will Smith's slap on Chris Rock and its consequences.
Suddenly, viewership rose to record numbers, not because Apple made history as the first tech company to win Best Picture of 2021, but because of that slap.
There was no justification for the slap, it was an outright assault on a man who came to make jokes, that's part of the host's job.
Go back to all the previous editions of the "Oscar" and you'll find the hosts making jokes about movie stars.
Rock is not stupid and knows where his red lines are, and the proof is that everyone was laughing, including Smith himself.
If a group or the present majority had denounced a rock joke, we would have heard a voice: “boooooo,” which is a symbol of rejection.
Is it permissible to ridicule an actress's disease?
In fact, Rock didn't make fun of her but rather it was a joke with a history and context in Hollywood.
Rock said, “I hope to see you in the second part of J.
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Gene.
What is meant is that he is quite bald, Smith's wife Pinkett, who suffers from alopecia, is bald, star Demi Moore in the aforementioned film.
In Hollywood, this is very normal.
An actor who suffers from a disease that causes his appearance to change does not remain sitting in his home, but is given a role commensurate with his new shape, or who is born with a disability or physical deformity is given a role commensurate with his disability. This is not a new practice in Hollywood, but rather has existed since the early thirties of the 20th century .
Situations
Sylvester Stallone suffers from a disability in the left half of his face that makes the exits of his letters unclear, and he has been the subject of constant ridicule for 40 years, despite that Hollywood producers flocked to him because this disability gives him a distinctive and even iconic shape.
Robert Zadar is a third-class actor who has a disfigured face due to a rare disease that gives him a terrifying look that Hollywood used in horror films in the eighties.
Forest Whitaker has a disease that makes his left eye drop and gives him a distinctive shape that has never been reduced in demand as an actor because of his disability, and he is mocked for his appearance and has never slapped anyone.
I will not forget the inability of the Austrian star, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the best action star in the history of cinema, to control the American dialect, and he has been subjected to scathing ridicule since he set foot in the United States, and he has no problem.
• It is not a new practice in Hollywood, but has existed since the early thirties of the twentieth century.
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