MOVIE NEWS – The retirement of Bruce Willis caused a lot of reactions on a large scale. The Razzies retracted the Bruce Willis Award, and many of his colleagues expressed their sorrow over the actor’s condition.

Bruce Willis, the iconic actor from Die Hard, Pulp Fiction or The Sixth Sense, announced that due to his aphasia diagnosis not a long time ago. After that, many of his colleagues expressed their sadness that the actor was retiring. However, it also raised the question of whether his Razzie should be retracted or not.

The Golden Raspberries is a parody of the Oscars, founded by Mo Murphy and John Wilson. It is often questioned whether the awards are fun and serve the original aim to help actors “own their mistakes”, or they’re just simply mean and unnecessary.

Nevertheless, the Twitter post of Mo Murphy and John Wilson on the Twitter account of the Razzies certainly was mean. Reacting to Willis’ news, they tweeted: “perhaps this explains why he wanted to go out with a bang in 2021.” The two received a mass amount of criticism for their insensitive reaction to the point that they perhaps took the time to think it through and wrote a new tweet:

“After much thought and consideration, the Razzies have made the decision to rescind the Razzie Award given to Bruce Willis, due to his recently disclosed diagnosis. If someone’s medical condition is a factor in their decision making and/or their performance, we acknowledge that it is not appropriate to give them a Razzie.”

Eventually, the founders of the award decided to rescind Willis’ nomination. They also expressed that they feel bad for Shelley Duvall’s Golden Raspberry because they didn’t consider that Kubrick didn’t treat her so well during the making of Shining.

Many colleagues, such as Sylvester Stallone or Hayley Joel Osment, expressed their sadness over Bruce Willis’s retirement and condition. Osment played with Willis in The Sixth Sense as a child, and he fondly remembers his time with the actor. M Night Shyamalan, the director of The Sixth Sense, also shared on Twitter how devastated he is to hear this sad news.

Many from Hollywood will miss the iconic actor f so many action films, along with all the fans, who are devastated over the sad news. Stallone shared several pictures of Willis and himself as he reminisced about their time together. Besides him, Matthew Perry invited Willis to watch a film together sometime, and Kevin Smith expressed his regret over a petty misunderstanding between him and Bruce Willis.

Source: Movie Web