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Wonder why no marijuana scene

posted 13 years ago by RobSac
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Not one pot scene. Interesting. Surely considering the timeline of this story and the types of characters, there had to have been a pot smoker or two (or more) amongst them. I mean I doubt it was moral reasons, considering heavy drinking, cussing, a violent fist fight, a ton of sexual satire and discussion, including making light of a characters' borderline infatuation with a much underage girl take place in the film. Even the young girl makes jokes about sex and drugs.

Even with all of this, would pot still somehow be taboo and an untouchable topic to producers?

[–] jokeco68 13 years ago

You know this movie was right in my age group, I graduated in '86 and maybe it was the Reagan 'brain on drugs' thing but at that time weed was kinda out. The 70's here in my town and elsewhere's absolutely huge and definitely resurged back in the 90's but I think there truly was a bit of a gap there where booze ruled and smoking dope was for dopes.

Everyone gets everything he wants.

[–] bigsoundp 12 years ago

I dunno. I grad in '83, and we all smoked pot.

[–] Naughty-God 12 years ago

I dunno, but some groups of friends don't really get caught up in toking up all that much. It happens more often than someone who smokes habitually may know. As for these characters, maybe winter time does not suit well as a time to smoke a lot especially if you have obligations or live at home with your parents? I never got the vibe that marijuana was taboo.

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[–] kjones1067 11 years ago

I'm sure they smoked pot, but there wasn't enough time to put that into the movie. 10 years after high school, most of my friends smoked pot, but they/we kept it hidden. IE: Didn't smoke around the kids we were starting to have, didn't smoke around the non-pot-smokers. etc...

A few of my friends became cops, didn't smoke around them anymore, even though we used to.

[–] FizzyGillespie 10 years ago

Because it's a cliche? The whole marijuana thing in these types of films is played out.

[–] tallkennj 10 years ago

Maybe the producers thought it was taboo, but the director, Ted Demme, sure didn't. A few years after this movie, he died of a heart attack that was believed to be partly the result of cocaine in his system.