Will Smith's slap What is the power of laughter from the background?
April 11, 17:34
At the Academy Awards ceremony, which is considered to be the highest honor in the American movie world, actor Will Smith slaps a comedian who makes fun of his wife's appearance.
The award-sponsoring organization has announced that it will not allow Smith to attend awards ceremonies and other events for the next 10 years.
Violence is never tolerated, but some question the comedian's remarks that triggered the turmoil.
Is that laughing?
(Network News Department, Soraya Sugimoto, Yuki Matsumoto)
Laughter of "superiority complex" that hurt people?
"Is that laughing?"
Asked Kosuke Enomori, a laughing entertainer and YouTuber, who appeals in a red loincloth against the backdrop of the sea of Okinawa.
In a video released, he criticizes what happened at the Academy Awards as "a hurtful laugh."
One of the references was the theory of laughter by the 17th century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, "Why do people laugh?"
The reason why the humor that despises uncle Sayarogai
is interesting is that you can feel the superiority complex that you are superior to the other person, but isn't it too bad personality?
human!
Moreover, the laughter theory proposed 300 years ago!
How long have you been doing it!
(From the video)
When I asked him why he released this video, he told me about his experience.
I myself have done it as a comedian in the past, and even now I do it at times.
Laughter is sometimes swallowed up by the dynamics of the competition, or the place where you just want to get laughed, and you always reflect on it and check if it has hurt anyone.
Furthermore, it seems that the people who were laughing at the venue had something to think about.
When I saw the video of the award ceremony, there was a lot of laughter (from the surroundings).
I had the experience of being ridiculed by someone and laughing when I felt really unpleasant, and that unpleasant feeling turned into a more miserable feeling.
In some cases, laughing can be harmful.
Whether you make people laugh or laugh, if you go over it, you might think about the "line of laughter".
What happened in the first place?
Why in the highest honor?
The main speaker is Chris Rock, who was the presenter at this year's Academy Awards.
A popular comedian is a storytelling called "stand-up comedy," which satirizes politics and social issues.
The tumultuous remarks popped out in a series of talks in which Mr. Rock messed up the actors who gathered at the venue to liven up the award ceremony.
Will Smith's wife, who was nominated for the leading actor award, cast a word on actor Jada Pinkett Smith, hoping to appear in the sequel to the once-hit movie "GI Jane." It was.
This movie is a story about a female soldier who is the main character, cutting her hair and challenging harsh training.
Jada said she had long confessed that she was suffering from alopecia, and she attended the award ceremony with her short hair.
She doesn't know if Rock knew that and she talked about it.
While the venue was filled with laughter, when I said, "(Joke now) wasn't it?", Mr. Smith slapped his cheeks, and the venue turned into an awkward atmosphere.
Smith cried in tears in a subsequent award-winning speech.
If you do this job, you may be abused or you may be told something strange.
You may also be exposed to rude behavior.
I still have to laugh and stay calm ... I also had a crazy father.
Just like Richard Williams (the role that won the Best Actor Award).
Love is what makes people behave crazy.
We apologize to the academy, attendees and candidates.
I also apologized to Mr. Rock on SNS.
The Academy Awards organizer disposes of Mr Smith, but does not mention Mr Rock's remarks.
What you tried to do was "fall of value"?
Why didn't the Academy Awards consider Rock's remarks as a problem?
Professor Satoru Kimura of Japan Women's University taught me about the power of "laughter" that seems to be a hint to answer that question.
Professor Kimura studied the theory of laughter and has a book called "Philosophy of laughter".
The keyword is "falling value"
Laughter has the power to change the values we take for granted, and Mr. Rock tried to do that laugh.
The people who are gathering there are movie stars or movie-related people, who are a kind of celebrity or socially-positioned people.
People who are generally considered to be "successful" are overturned by tampering and cheating.
Laughter has that kind of "power to overthrow existing values," and it can be seen that the people at the venue were playing in that mood.
American comedians have a very strong tendency to laugh at taboos so that people aren't over-dominated.
I am strongly aware that laughter breaks down the "rules" of the values that bind us, such as being correct, beautiful, and ugly.
So, I think some people, whether or not everyone, think that it's very important to receive Chris Rock's performance as a joke.
Laughter that "falls value" that is emphasized in the United States.
It is said that it did not work this time.
Jada is also a vulnerable person with illness in the sense that she suffers from alopecia.
In this day and age, celebrities may even sympathize with their fans by revealing their weaknesses and diversity and not hiding them.
That's confusing this event, and I think (she) is a strong man, so Chris Rock tries to make it a "value fall", but from Jada's point of view, it's about his hair. I take it from the standpoint of a weak person who has been damaged.
When it comes to that, Will Smith can't easily keep silent.
I see it as an event in such an era of diversity.
What the turmoil is pointing to us
An era of diversity in which the strong become the weak and the weak become the strong.
It seems difficult to laugh when you think about it, but Professor Kimura says that whether or not a laughed person is hurt depends not on what was laughed at, but on the relationship with the other person and the way society should be.
For example, Kimimaro Ayanokoji, a comic talker who makes middle-aged and older stories laugh at middle-aged and older people.
People sometimes bother to pay and laugh, even though they are laughing at them.
In addition, the talent Sandayu Dokumamushi goes to see the grandmothers and grandfathers in the shopping district on a radio program and says, "How are you, fucking baba, fucking jijii" or something that you usually shouldn't say.
But the side who was told that would be happy to accept it.
There is a comfortable space to be laughed at.
Mr. Dokuma calls it a "comfortable space," and it seems as if everyone is using the hot springs.
It's hard to believe, but in short, I think there is "love".
They trust each other, and no matter what they say, they have a strong bond.
I think it's very important to remember that the seemingly negative word "fucking baba" can be reversed.
Professor Satoru Kimura
One student who listened to my class told me about the experience of being laughed at by his family when he was fooled.
That's what's important.
How can you create a "relationship that can be laughed at" that can be established with someone you trust?
How can you find a space in society where you can laugh?
Rather, I think this is what we should think about now.
Laugh, laugh, make me laugh.
It's nice to have a laugh that confirms love and trust each time.