Slap! After Oscars, Reflecting on Celebrity Standards
F irst of all, I don’t think celebrities should be held to a higher standard than others because there are various kinds of standards that are already presented to each celebrity. Opinions from society have already given peer pressure on celebrities, resulting in them to satisfy their audience by fulfilling their setted standard. My personal opinion of the Oscar’s situation is that an out-of-hand action performed by some famous individuals can easily be the talk of the town, rather than acknowledging the well deserved celebrities. For this incident from Will Smith and Chris Rock; obviously they have known everything is going to be recorded and spread throughout the media, however, still continued to act this way but Chris handled that slap pretty well, he simply carried on. As they went on with this unintended performance; I wonder, what motivated Chris Rock to say this line along with out of all the jokes he had to say, Will Smith doesn’t tolerate it? It...