As the world knows, Will Smith took great umbrage at Chris Rock's somewhat ungainly 'GI Jane' joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's tonsorial stylings during the Oscar's broadcast. Herewith, the anatomy of the event, and why Will Smith should apologize.
Smith seemed to recognize that very large irony as it settled on his shoulders during the lurching, tattered remains of his acceptance speech for the Best Actor award, attempting to excuse himself on loyalty-to-family grounds, and, along the way, explaining his knowledge of the industrial code of learning to accept all barbs and to move on. To his credit, he actually apologized to his fellow actors and, in a smart bit of self-awareness and possibly self-preservation, to the Academy. Mr.
Chris Rock is hardly Agamemnon, but in his momentary rage Will Smith did a fair impersonation of the disastrously impulsive Achilles. After that moment, the formidable wise man Denzel Washington stepped in to play the father figure who, judging from the mile-wide grin across his face as he walked Mr. Smith offstage, could not contain his amusement at improbability of the dust-up.
By it Rock meant to accomplish three things, all of which the statement did. First, one very good way to gain perspective on a sudden event of magnitude is to acknowledge it. It’s a fact that unintentional drama rules on television and especially at the Oscars. Rock gave us all a larger perspective by showing us that he had it.
All this leaves Mr. Smith facing a more or less infinite morning after. It won’t necessarily be pleasant, but all monumental hangovers do have to be lived through. One good way to begin to work through this one will be to apologize to Chris Rock in short order.
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