A hugely popular meme on Facebook claims that actor and director Clint Eastwood returned his five Academy Awards in protest. It’s all true? People magazine clarified.
The world of social media, if navigated for pleasure, is a treasure chest overflowing with very entertaining pearls. As the saying goes, however, all that glitters is not gold. Not infrequently, when faced with ambiguous content on the web, it happens that one feels confused or allows oneself to be misled. And here we mistake fake news for the truth or confuse the serious with the facetious. This is what happened with a meme, which went viral on Facebookwhich concerns the legendary Clint Eastwood.
Let’s take a small step back. What is a meme? This is shareable digital content. Often these are images accompanied by captions, intended to arouse humour. Well, come on Internet A post of this type, created by the satirical page, is circulating The America’s Last of Defensewho claims that the Hollywood icon has returned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences its five Oscar Awards. The reason? He does not wish to be “associated with any of the Hollywood nonsense”. In particular, his speech would be a protest against woke culture, which he says is responsible for the decay of the film industry.
The meme was published on Wednesday 15 May and, in a flash, got 42,000 likes. On the Facebook page in question, mainly parodies and humorous content are published. Nonetheless, just take a look at the comments section to realize that the majority of users are convinced that the news is real. No one, it seems, took any notice disclaimer which states that “nothing on this page is real”.
Let’s go back to Clint, who will turn 94 on May 31st. During his exceptional career, the star won the award for best film and the best direction For The ruthless in 1993. In 2005 he took home the same two awards for Million Dollar Baby. Furthermore, in 1994 he received the Irving G. Thalberg Award. At this point, the question arises spontaneously. Did Eastwood really give the statues of him back? The answer, predictably, is no.
The magazine People he categorically denied what the viral meme stated. Because, apparently, a denial was needed. Unfortunately, it is not the first time that Clint Eastwood’s name has been used to confuse people online. About a month ago, someone created a profile on (formerly Twitter), claiming to be the icon of westerns. A spokesperson for the actor and director however confirmed that Clint Eastwood doesn’t use social media and does not have any official account.
Eastwood, for his part, is working on his new film, Juror No. 2three years after his last work, Cry Macho – Homecoming (2021). Juror No. 2 is a judicial drama and tells the story of Justin Kemp (Nicholas Hoult), a family man who serves as a juror in a murder trial. The story takes an unexpected turn when Kemp realizes that he is responsible for the victim’s death. What to do? To save the accused without being indicted, he will try to cover his tracks. They complete the cast Leslie Bibb, JK Simmons, Zoey Deutch, Toni Collette, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris Messina And Adrienne C. Moore.
