When Theatre is Life Imitating Art as The Greatest Deception
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| A Man and his Human Reveal |
‘At your highest moment, be careful, that’s when the devil comes for you” is the advice Denzel Washington gave to Will Smith after the slap at Oscars 2022
No one saw it coming. Not the Oscars, Not Chris Rock, and ultimately not Will Smith.
Will Smith, the Prince of Philly, encountered the elephant in the room, the out-of-body seismic ego-shattering deafening moment of the human reveal.
We witnessed the absolute incarnation of what fame, fortune, possessions, money, and having, cannot buy. HAVING is not BEING.
‘At your highest moment, be careful, that’s when the devil comes for you.”
All over the world media today, Oscars 22 will overshadow, in some people's minds, this unscripted, unrehearsed, naked emotional outburst by the consummate "Mr. Everything is cool actor Will Smith", while all the more serious World crises are still ongoing.
The role-playing behind the mask of theatre, the rise to the pinnacle of success, the ultimate "I Am" this moment of public applause and acknowledgment was stripped of the glamour and glorification, and diminished to a slap in the face.
What Chris Rock understood, perhaps also, on that stage, under the bright lights of stardom, is that he was defenseless. He understood, more so than the audience and the cameras, the rage that he had incited, not as the theatre of comedy, but the rage that brother to brother, was unleashed.
‘At your highest moment, be careful, that’s when the devil comes for you.'
What the role of King Richard was, did not win Will Smith the Oscar. The King Richard of the Venus and Serena story depicted the public storytelling of a man who was obsessed with a passion to ensure that his daughters became the epitome of his dreams. They would be Superheroes in Tennis. They were Richard Williams "Oscar" winning trophies.
Though he would dedicate his whole life to having Venus and Serena become icons of sports history, they could not make him a family hero. He was staged and acted brilliantly depicted on screen by Will Smith as King Richard.
Richard Williams the father, the husband, the individual; a very broken and fragmented man was portrayed as this Atlas of a character with an indomitable spirit of pursuit.
Will Smith presented a Richard character worthy of an Oscar.
When Barack Obama and Michelle Obama and many of the legends of the world stage faced hated rhetoric and constant public ridicule, Michelle lent the world the mantra, When they go low, We go High. Denzel reminded Will and us all to pay attention.
‘At your highest moment, be careful, that’s when the devil comes for you.'
Not because Jada is diagnosed with hair loss, or wears a bald look, - shaven hair, baldness have now become the standard of beauty that women around the world have begun to embrace without threat to their feminine -, was Will Smith propelled to be chivalrous. Not because their family's intimate and personal lives have been on public display, with its entanglements, which we saw publicly about Jada, and there was nothing it seems, that Will committed, was Will Smith so impassioned to defend in his wife's honor
Will Smith was perhaps having an orgasmic episode of self-implosion. All too often the high-profiled famous, the monarchy, the leaders of governments have been the muses of public opinion. Too many celebrity lives have become too public for them to try to manage and we the public are their critical audiences.
Denzel Washington gave a wisdom message, not just to Will, but to all who need to pay attention.
Not because Jada is diagnosed with hair loss, or wears a bald look, - shaven hair, baldness have now become the standard of beauty that women around the world have begun to embrace without threat to their feminine -, was Will Smith propelled to be chivalrous. Not because their family's intimate and personal lives have been on public display, with its entanglements, which we saw publicly about Jada, and there was nothing it seems, that Will committed, was Will Smith so impassioned to defend in his wife's honor
Will Smith was perhaps having an orgasmic episode of self-implosion. All too often the high-profiled famous, the monarchy, the leaders of governments have been the muses of public opinion. Too many celebrity lives have become too public for them to try to manage and we the public are their critical audiences.
Denzel Washington gave a wisdom message, not just to Will, but to all who need to pay attention.
‘At your highest moment, be careful, that’s when the devil comes for you.'
Even with your greatest performance, your heights of celebration, your untamed desire for applause...the Oscar message of 2022 is a Reflection of Real Emotion and we can instinctively be at the mercy of our own naked human reveal.
‘At your highest moment, be careful, that’s when the devil comes for you.”
Even with your greatest performance, your heights of celebration, your untamed desire for applause...the Oscar message of 2022 is a Reflection of Real Emotion and we can instinctively be at the mercy of our own naked human reveal.
‘At your highest moment, be careful, that’s when the devil comes for you.”
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