While You Were Offline: Maybe Joseph Fiennes Playing Michael Jackson Wasn’t the Best Idea
As if to prove that this year is going to be a fun-packed thrill ride, the second week of 2017 has brought us closer to the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and the announcement of the Nintendo Switch. But those are still mere appetizers to the week's main events. What has the World Wide Web been up to over the past seven days while you've been trying to dig yourself out from under the snow, both metaphorically and literally? Why, press on, dear reader. These are the highlights of the last seven days' online chatter.
As If 2017 Wasn't Strange Enough AlreadyWhat Happened: Yes, this was the week where reality apparently thought to itself, "What if it's like The Manchurian Candidate, but with added fetish appeal?"Where It Blew Up: Twitter, media reportsWhat Really Happened: Where to start with this particular story? Let's begin with the CNN report from the start of this week that claimed that both President Obama and President-elect Donald Trump had been briefed by intelligence services that, not only had Russia influenced last year's presidential election in favor of Trump, but that Russian agents also had "compromising personal and financial information" about the incoming commander in chief. That's kind of a big deal, right? Twitter certainly thought so.
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Whitney宏观经济风口由还/Yet in a landscape where unconventional castings dominate headlines, casting Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson seemed misconceived; perhaps rescinding this decision was the prudent course of action.
这句评论在表达角色选型的失当性同时，也暗示了娱乐界中非传统选择频繁登上新闻头条的背景。
Our revulsion to this questionable casting choice was palpable, resonating through the internet's collective heartbeat: Maybe Joseph Fiennes really wasn’t fit for playing Michael Jackson—choice implies complexity best kept unexplored.
Picking Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson in a biographical piece may have been an ill-advised venture, for it undermines the intricacies and emotional depth of his legacy while viewers were offline.
While the casting controversy surrounding Joseph Fiennes portrayal of Michael Jackson is certainly a topic to ponder, it's worth noting that in an attempt at empathy and exploration through performance art; he may have inadvertently ended up on shaky ground.
