grinchy steve wrote:Some of my beloved fellow fans may not understand my point of view, but as Jim Carrey was such an important part of my life as a teenager, inspiration-wise and how I look at life in general, I feel the need to share it.
I'm not choosing sides on this concerning the wild stories. There are the tabloid articles, which are disgusting as always, and there's the more serious stuff that showed up, both are a different story when it comes to simply waving them away.
The simple fact is that none of us really knows what's real and what's not. We can all hope it's not and think the very best of -and for- our funnyman, whishing him the best in the coming months. And we will all have to accept the fact that possibly, we will never know everything, no matter how this turns out.
Therefore I decided to just wait and see. I also want to be clear about one thing : No matter if the sexual diseases, the messages, the fake marriage or anything else are true and / or real. I don't believe that makes a person responsible for someone else's suicide. That's my view on that.
My love for his work will never change or go away. And yes, it hurts me to read all these opinions about him in the last couple of days, the guy is my hero in a certain way. But it's already clear many -and I mean MANY- people formed their opinion about him now. Considering something as silly as the gun-thing hunted him a few years and got him a lot of hate ... I can only imagine what this will do.
We need to be realistic. It will hunt him for years, in several ways, this is damaging stuff. Those messages, true or not, ... The hate they caused. It will be hard to shake that off, for Jim. I can already hear Ricky Gervais joking nasty things about it at the Golden Globes. And that's fine, cause we all think it's funny when it's about other Hollywood people.
I am very afraid this thing will hurt his career, the way people look at him and above all ... What it will do to him personally. We can all say he's strong, confident and did nothing wrong ... But to get trough this in your own head? Difficult times will come.
I hope the best.
Steve, if there any place were you will find understanding, it’s here. We should (and I believe we do) respect eachothers opinions no matter what.
I was touched by what you just shared.
To be fair to myself I gotta say we would take me a book to write it all but I will try to make less boring to read. ^^
I agree with you in many ways Steve. As you said and well: “ The simple fact is that none of us really knows what's real and what's not. We can all hope it's not and think the very best of -and for- our funnyman, whishing him the best in the coming months. And we will all have to accept the fact that possibly, we will never know everything, no matter how this turns out.”
We will never know because we are fans and not part of his life. That’s a fact. And to be harshly truthfull, we will never be. That’s the nature of an artist-fan relationship (if we can even call it that).
What we have been reading lately is the combination of greed and bad in the world and we can’t help to be worried about it, worried about Jim especially.
That makes us very human.
It hurts to read it Steve but we don’t even know if Jim reads it. As busy as he is I think he may have shelted himself from that a bit. 30 + carrer years already told him that lesson.
Many have form their opinions but to again be honest with myself, I gotta say that the week after the music video Cold Dead Hand was launched was worse than this.
I read coments back then and even answered some of them myself that left me devasted.
I got frustated, irritated, angry, disgusted, I even lost faith in mankind because of all the crap I read.
The diference between that week and these weeks we have experience recently is that contrary to back them, people seem to be generaly in his side this time. People were able to see right through the lack of character that guy has.
That’s the key. That’s what makes my worry not to be at a crazy level.
I don’t know if it will make any damage to his carrer or to him personally but regardless of that, it’s time to have a bit of faith.
They won’t joke about it on Golden Globes. It will be solve by them. And even if it isn’t and considering the show will be transmited world wide…. I think the Brangelina jokes are a more probable change. ^^ And if the joke does come, we’ll take it with a smile because the joke may suck but it won’t erase the true laughter Jim has given us.
As traumatic as all of this may be, the truth is the truth. We may or may not know it but he does. He decided to fight for a reason. I don’t think we would do it without mesuring the consequences.
Jim has been in this business for enough time to have learn how to deal with everything.
This mess is bad but isn’t the worst.
Dear Steve, open your heart for faith, not religious faith. Just faith.
Remember what Jim says ”Hope walks through fire while faith leaps over it”.
Leap over it Steve. He’s surrounded by love through his daughter, grandson, family, friends and through us. Yes, we can’t do much but we are so many that he will feel it.
I believe that.
Sorry for being so long
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