Will Smith Doesn’t Love Adolf Hitler, Actually
Despite what you probably think, Will Smith isn't a Nazi. And he certainly doesn't have an Adolf Hitler poster on his bedroom wall that he strokes before he goes to sleep.
That's a stone cold fact. Will Smith legally doesn't have an embarrassing schoolboy infatuation with Adolf Hitler, and if you say he does he'll sue you. And win.
Will Smith has won damages after a news agency ran an article called Smith: Hitler Was A Good Person last year. Great news – by suing, Will Smith has not only fixed a weird misapprehension about his beliefs, but he's also effectively ruled out the rumoured Will Smith Adolf Hitler biopic. Thank god – we're pretty sure the world can live without a rap-lite movie theme-tune containing the phrase 'Indomitable Fuhrer' repeated several times in the chorus.
Some say that Will Smith is the biggest movie star in the world. That's probably true, because his movies always break records and top box offices no matter how brain-damagingly dreadful they are. But even though there are tens of up-and-coming actors waiting to take his place – like Shia LaBeouf and, um, look, let's just pretend that others exist, OK? – Will Smith has decided to use now to speak out on a range on crackpot subjects.
Will Smith giving an endorsement to Scientology and then following it up by handing out Scientology audit passes as wrap gifts on his newest movie set off a few alarms. But then again, if alarms don't go off when a man chronically compelled to only make films about himself saving the world decides to align himself with a faith that believes humans were created when a monster dropped an atom bomb into a volcano. And, clearly, once you've let Scientology into your life, the next logical step is Nazism.
Tom Cruise has done it – his next movie is all about the Nazis. John Travolta is doing it – his next movie is called Look Who's Talking About Exterminating All The Jews – and we heard unsubstantiated rumours about Kirstie Alley eating a colossal swastika burrito formation once, too. But Will Smith? Nazis? Surely he wouldn't be so foolish.
Well, yes and no. In an interview for a Scottish newspaper last year, Will Smith vaguely touched on the subject that Adolf Hitler probably didn't see himself as the most evil man in history all the time, which was regurgitated around the world as headlines like Will Smith Thinks Hitler Is Brilliant, Will Smith Wishes That His Own Father Was More Like Hitler and Will Smith Wants To Exhume Hitler's Corpse, Dress Him Up All Pretty And Kiss Him On The Mouth. Or, more accurately, WENN's Smith: Hitler Was A Good Person.
And Will Smith, alarmed at the deliberate misrepresentation, sued WENN. And now he's won, as The Telegraph reports:
The Hollywood actor Will Smith has received a public apology and damages in the High Court in London over allegations he thought Adolf Hitler was "a good person". Smith, one of the film industry's highest paid stars, was "deeply distressed" after World Entertainment News Network (WENN) published an article last year under the headline "Smith: Hitler was a good person", the High Court heard. Smith's solicitor, Rachel Atkins, said the Men In Black star was wholly misrepresented in his comments and, contrary to the report, "believes that Adolf Hitler was a vile and heinous man".
This ordeal over, Will Smith can now relax in the knowledge that nobody really thinks he has a secret fondness for berserkoid dictators with unlimited power and dangerously unstable egos who are hell-bent on making the world a living misery for all of its inhabitants.
So he'll probably need to get out of the movie business, then.
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Will Smith wins damages over 'Hitler was good' slur - Telegraph
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Hey guys, stop picking on Will Smith! We all actually entertained the notion that he might think Hitler was a good person. I mean, if he handed out Scientology cards, he’s obviously got an interesting and warped view of reality.
Oh well, he had to sue. It’s one of the religious rites of Scientology. Finding someone you don’t like or who said something you don’t like, and suing the bejesus out of them is one of the ways to get up the “Bridge to Total Freedom.” It’s kind of like confirmation class for Scientologists.
If I was married to Jada Pickett, I’d think that, by comparison, Hitler wasn’t a bad person.
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Nice point… LOL
I know that, while it’s quite a lot of fun to bash Black people, anything remotely off colour to a Jew calls for electrocution. However, I really have to admit… I’ve thought an awful lot about Hitler and I can’t help but be fascinated by a couple things.
1. I’m a graphic artist (illustrator) and I’ve created a country in my own head where things run the way I think the should in my own country. I’ve even mapped out city blocks and created postal codes and mailing addresses, etc. But Hitler, at a time when the world was HUNORMOUS, managed to gain control of approximately 3/5 of it. 3/5 of the planet responded when he gave a command. Try standing in your office and ordering people to lunch at 11:00 and see if anyone moves. He designed his empire’s flags, military wardrobe, insignia, even the car he envisioned in everyone’s drive. Whew. And he got there from Undereducated, Talentless Street Punk in how many years? 3 if that many?
Amazing. What’s more, he had absolute faith in his ability to do it!! Unthinkable. The point at which he dropped the ball was the point at which he began to doubt himself following his stunning defeat at the hands of Gen. Mother Nature in Russia. From there it went the route of Counting Crows’ career. (Not that I’ve ever even heard their music, but I’m pretty sure it sucks. I’m usually right about these things, you see.)
2. The other thing about Hitler that fascinates me is how close he came to getting himself stuffed in a microwave with a fork. He was a brunette, about Prince’s height and Austrian trying to create an nation of aryan basketball players who could beat his liliputian a$$. If I could change the course of history I might allow him to win just so I could hear his litany of excuses for being a foreign midget the day the other Nazi’s caught on. I can almost hear him at the rally. “Ahem. So…….seems everyone’s about taller th- THE ECONOMY!!! YES!!!! EVERYONE SALUTE THE ECONOMY!!”
What I think old Will was getting at was the plain fact that nobody actually sets out to be evil. Everyone can rationalise whatever they do; whether they blame it on their parents, the nuns, or some kid that used to beat them up at school…everyone has some excuse or ideation for what they’re doing. In short, nobody actually THINKS he is an evil megalomaniacal psychopath – sometimes it just turns out that they are, in retrospect.
It doesn’t seem that far-fetched an idea to me, but obviously the conventional wisdom is that Hitler wasn’t even a human being, hence the palaver.
Just another low blow on the World Wide Waffle. Let’s pervert what WS actually said so as to villify him. Where do you guys do your research; Wikipedia? I believe WS said that he thought that Hitler was doing what he(Hitler) thought was right, Right? That doesn’t say that WS thought he was right though. Your article reads like the empty gossip of a lonely woman with no life.
Adolf Hitler can suck on my ball sack, like your moms did to me last night. Will Smith rules and Jada Pinkett is HOTT!!!!!!