Seriously every 2 minutes I realise its cool looking and all but for goddamn sake the doctor lights up when telling jane that he basically transformed her into a man without even asking her or anything. A time and place for smoking in movies and that tine and place is not every single god damn they get the chance to.
shareAs a 62 year old I can tell you everybody smoked, every second, in every career - it's a decade thang.
sharehush, you'll never convince them.
I remember walking into a bank in the days before there were glass partitions to prevent hold-ups. The bank teller was blowing smoke rings.
Balotelli...Aguerooooo! I swear you will never see anything like this ever again!
New Zealand has gone _back_ to the open-air counters.. They're awesome! :)
shareAbsolutely correct artisannes, I am 62 years old as well and my observation was that medical doctors seemed to lead the "pack" (pun intended) back in the 60s, 70s and into the 80s.
shareWell I saw that particular scene as the doctor being in a stressful situation, so he needed a smoke to calm his nerves a bit.
And I assume Jane was smoking to help with her new voice.
The scenes in the restaurant in particular every time all thy do is smoke it looks cool bit I dont know kind of takes it overboard to be honest.
shareIt adds realism, there was a time when everyone smoked and that time was known as "right up until the the 90's".
It's bad enough that people expect every 4th person in a European period drama to be African, now they want smoking to be written out of history. Soon movies portraying the past won't actually look anything like the past they are trying to portray.
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It's just being realistic. Younger people today have no idea how prevalent smoking used to be. It used to be allowed on airplanes, in hospitals, everywhere. This movie was set in the 40s, 60s, and 70s. Peoples attitudes towards smoking was vastly different then.
shareIt's funny, but also infuriating. It's like watching a western and asking why the hell people keep riding horses or watching a medieval movie and asking why the hell people keep drawing swords. You'd think these people growing up now, so triggered by seeing smoking in a movie, could have the awareness that people used to smoke more.
shareSome people are totally uninterested in the truth of anything that happened before they were born ...especially if they disapprove of it.
How about a film where someone not only fathers themselves but also give birth to themselves. ...And they snag on smoking ...?!
In those days most people smoked. I'm too young to remember smoking in the cinema, but older people have told me it was difficult to see the screen sometimes.
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It was in the cinema that I learned to smoke without fear of being seen. A favourite trick amongst my friends was to have a cigarette and offer one to the person in the next seat. One would then light one's own cigarette and as you passed the lighter over you increased the setting to maximum flame and watched as the poor sap set his hair on fire in the darkness :)
shareWell you may be a middle schooler or not the brightest bulb in the pack, but in the past people smoked very goddamn chance they got. Doesnt matter if you are too young to have personally experienced it. Nor does it matter that you know nothing of history or watching people smoke is irritating to you. History is what it was. And if you are trying to duplicate the past, well guess what chief? The vast majority of people were constantly smoking.
shareSeriously ....... What is COOL about the filthy habit of smoking?....... breathing in burning rubbish and blowing out filthy smoke........ COOL? you must be joking.
shareI first thought about yeah, the time period. Cigarettes didn't stink as badly back then, either. Nowadays, there are additives like formaldehyde, which make it deadlier and more annoying to people nearby.
But I have to say, other movies in other time frames show a lot of smoking now, too. So I say "product placement."
Note that every cigarette is new and clean. No long ashes, no crushed butts in ashtrays, no coughing, even by "Old John/Fizzle Bomber," no one dumping the tray of butts into the trash. So it's definitely trying to show the chic side of smoking. Ciggie companies have limited outlets for ads these days.
When I was a kid, I wanted to smoke just because Zippo lighters were cool, esp. if you practiced opening them in a unique way. Luckily, I discovered Pez dispensers instead.