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I'm curious what the Inmates opinions are about smoking in movies. It seems as widespread as ever for reasons that allude me.Personally, I can't stand it, and find it to be an annoyance--thank goodness one can't smell the smoke while watching! Seldom is it really necessary for the character.
Cetaele (aka Bob)
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some things look good in movies. smoke does, and it gives the actor something to do naturally with his or her hands.so do wet streets at night. in just about every movie shot on an empty city street at night, the streets are hosed down. even if the earlier shots show that it was a sunny day. it just looks good on film.
but seriously, i got nothing against smoking in the real world, but i personally think films should avoid showing smoking and kids with guns. movies influence kids. nothing bugs me like a film that depicts a kid grabbing a gun and saving the day with it. some kid is bound to get the wrong idea.
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Today, with all the hard competition in the music business, it's almost impossible to come up with anything totally original. So we haven't. However, this disc was made with the accent on heavy music.
When Will Smith showed us his sneaker brand about 5 times in the beginning of I-Robot (disgusting plugs to me, just too much), that must have cost them a pretty penny. Do tobacco companies do the same?
That said, although...
1 - I used to be a smoker
2 - Think smoking is a bad habit
3 - Feel it sad to portray smokers on TV/Film as "cool"
... still realize that the fact is a number of people in life smoke, so it's not out of place in movies.
Makes me think of an old Bob Newhart radio skit about a tobacco company way back when introducing cigarettes to a buyer (?) that went something like:
"So you say that you take a bunch of dried leaves and roll them in paper?"
"Uh huh"
"Then you light one end on fire?"
"Yes, that's right"
"Then you put the other end to your mouth and inhale the smoke from the burning leaves?"
"That's right"......
I don't mind it too much when it seems to fit with a character's persona. But I agree that it is used way too often these days. And its always a bit strange when they show a character in their (approx) 50's smoking like a fiend, yet their face shows no signs of having been a smoker for a long time. 30+ years of daily cig smoking usually takes a toll on one's face.......
Yes no smoking in movies and no drinking anymore, and of course no sex...Films should shows us the way it should be in a clean society.
"Films should shows us the way it should be in a clean society."........ Just like the Bush administration :-(
My two-bits: let's portray real life in movies--smoking, drinking, sex, whatever.However, smoking today in movies involves too much fantasy, IMHO. Smoking has dramatically declined in the U.S. population over the past two decades and, it is hardly surprising that the U.S. Surgeon General now lists obesity as America's #1 health problem.
Has smoking ever been realistically portrayed in movies? Has any movie character developed emphysema, chronic bronchitis, chronic cough (in morning on awakening), hypertension, etc? How about a discussion of how expensive this habit is (a la the diner discussion of tipping at the beginning of Reservoir Dogs)?
For movies portraying contemporary times, I think it would be more accurate to have less smoking, depending of course on the populatoin, but I'm not sure that is happening.
I do resent Hollywood stars who make money by featuring their face on the front of cigar magazines (e.g., Alec Baldwin). Cigars, as well as cigarettes, present cancer risk along the entire run of the respiratory system--from lungs to mouth (not just cancers of the lung, but also of esophagus as well as mouth).
If Alex Baldwin and John Travolta want to smoke cigars, I have no problem with that. But don't advertise the fact on magazine covers.
townsend
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