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If the 94th Academy Awards needed one tight slap to wake it up from its post-Covid torpor - quick, which film won the 2021 Best Film Oscar? Best Actor? - it was neatly orchestrated by this year's host and the winner of this year's Best Actor Oscar.
After establishing the fact that Will Smith had slapped, and not punched, Chris Rock for cracking a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, for a brief moment in another dull ceremonial show, viewers were entertained by a TikTokish display of old-style husband-standing-up-for-his-wife that would have raised hackles from wokes in a film or TV show.
We were back when Hollywood power couples existed, and alpha male badla, just like a Ranjeet being shown his place with a Vinod Khanna upper-cut, was SOP spousal practice. The Rock-Smith thappad chemistry was delightfully choreographed and certainly Filmfare Award-worthy.
The Rock-scissors-Smith show may or may not have been scripted. But it did what one good scene in a dull film does - become the sole conversation of the movie. Rock may have come out of the Oscars as the bad guy, cracking a joke at Mrs Smith's expense. But what does one expect Rock to have played except the ratty-voiced chap that everyone loves to smack. Great interlude, guys, in an otherwise anachronistic show. Clap to the slap.
After establishing the fact that Will Smith had slapped, and not punched, Chris Rock for cracking a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, for a brief moment in another dull ceremonial show, viewers were entertained by a TikTokish display of old-style husband-standing-up-for-his-wife that would have raised hackles from wokes in a film or TV show.
We were back when Hollywood power couples existed, and alpha male badla, just like a Ranjeet being shown his place with a Vinod Khanna upper-cut, was SOP spousal practice. The Rock-Smith thappad chemistry was delightfully choreographed and certainly Filmfare Award-worthy.
The Rock-scissors-Smith show may or may not have been scripted. But it did what one good scene in a dull film does - become the sole conversation of the movie. Rock may have come out of the Oscars as the bad guy, cracking a joke at Mrs Smith's expense. But what does one expect Rock to have played except the ratty-voiced chap that everyone loves to smack. Great interlude, guys, in an otherwise anachronistic show. Clap to the slap.
