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“Fake smoking” in movies?
Posted on 7/9/20 at 11:30 am
Posted on 7/9/20 at 11:30 am
I used to be a smoker in my younger days and for some reason, in movies, when you see someone “smoking”, I can’t help but ALWAYS look to see if they’re actually smoking...
When I see some wannabe-tough guy smoking a cigarette, and it’s obvious that they aren’t inhaling, it just bothers the shite out of me...
Anyone else?
When I see some wannabe-tough guy smoking a cigarette, and it’s obvious that they aren’t inhaling, it just bothers the shite out of me...
Anyone else?
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Posted on 7/9/20 at 11:33 am to yankeeundercover
These days most actors smoke herbal and non-addictive cigs. Back in the day they usually did the real thing though.
Posted on 7/9/20 at 11:39 am to The Pirate King
I don’t smoke and never paid that much attention to it but I remember reading that Gene Hackman doesn’t smoke at all and struggled with herbal cigarettes for a role.
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Posted on 7/9/20 at 11:42 am to yankeeundercover
quote:I had a problem with flat stage eyeglass lenses before flat lenses became a real option. I still dislike it in period films.
When I see some wannabe-tough guy smoking a cigarette, and it’s obvious that they aren’t inhaling, it just bothers the shite out of me...
Anyone else?
My other peeve is actors playing musical instruments badly.
Posted on 7/9/20 at 11:42 am to The Pirate King
quote:
herbal and non-addictive cigs.
this is what the chick from the short-lived american woman series with alisha silverstone said.
Jennifer Bartels
@TheJenBartels
Replying to
@MorbidTheClown
and
@MenaSuvari
They were herbal cigarettes and it was a choice to play true to the time. Wasn’t the most fun but honest. Thanks for watching
This post was edited on 7/9/20 at 12:12 pm
Posted on 7/9/20 at 11:47 am to Keys Open Doors
quote:
Gene Hackman doesn’t smoke at all and struggled with herbal cigarettes for a role.
That had to be Heartbreakers... He smoked like a chimney in that movie.. Funny movie too.. Jennifer Love Hewitt makes it worth watching..
Posted on 7/9/20 at 12:12 pm to Fewer Kilometers
quote:Thanks a lot for giving me something else to critique
My other peeve is actors playing musical instruments badly.
Posted on 7/9/20 at 12:14 pm to Fewer Kilometers
Do you guys understand what I’m driving at?
When an actor/actress just pulls the smoke, herbal or real, into their mouth and just “puffs it out”...
It reminds me of the kid in HS who really wanted to “look cool”, but couldn’t/didn’t actually inhale...
When an actor/actress just pulls the smoke, herbal or real, into their mouth and just “puffs it out”...
It reminds me of the kid in HS who really wanted to “look cool”, but couldn’t/didn’t actually inhale...
Posted on 7/9/20 at 12:21 pm to yankeeundercover
John Travolta in Broken Arrow was bad.
Posted on 7/9/20 at 12:31 pm to yankeeundercover
quote:
Do you guys understand what I’m driving at?
When an actor/actress just pulls the smoke, herbal or real, into their mouth and just “puffs it out”...
It reminds me of the kid in HS who really wanted to “look cool”, but couldn’t/didn’t actually inhale...
I mean the scene you’re watching might be take #50
Fake cigs or not, that’s gonna get old quick
This post was edited on 7/9/20 at 12:32 pm
Posted on 7/9/20 at 12:36 pm to Fewer Kilometers
Yeah they are not smoking real cigarettes. Prop departments get these herbal cigs that smell weird.
Posted on 7/9/20 at 12:37 pm to yankeeundercover
It's easy to tell who's an actual smoker and who's just faking for the camera.
Posted on 7/9/20 at 12:49 pm to Saint Alfonzo
Mad Men had some sexy lady smokers
Posted on 7/9/20 at 1:28 pm to haikarate
Eastwood hated the cigarello's he had to smoke in his westerns.
Doubt they were herbal...
Doubt they were herbal...
Posted on 7/9/20 at 1:35 pm to yankeeundercover
Not as much when they are holding, carrying, sipping a drink and there it is clearly an empty cup. It pisses me off so much and I have no idea why.
Posted on 7/9/20 at 2:06 pm to kciDAtaE
quote:
Not as much when they are holding, carrying, sipping a drink and there it is clearly an empty cup. It pisses me off so much and I have no idea why.
I’m with you on this.
Posted on 7/9/20 at 2:08 pm to yankeeundercover
What drives me crazy is the way a scene is edited to where the actor takes a drag, but you never see him exhale. It makes me uncomfortable. Dude, exhale. You're gonna make yourself sick.
Posted on 7/9/20 at 2:39 pm to boxcarbarney
Fake cigs are a fairly recent phenomenon. Kirk Douglas claimed he had to smoke for a role, and got addicted for ten years.
He also said he quit by doing what his Russian peasant father had done: he would carry a pack around w/him in his pocket, then when he wanted to smoke he would take out the pack, look at it, and ask "Who stronger? Me? You?", then put the pack back in his pocket.
He also said he quit by doing what his Russian peasant father had done: he would carry a pack around w/him in his pocket, then when he wanted to smoke he would take out the pack, look at it, and ask "Who stronger? Me? You?", then put the pack back in his pocket.
Posted on 7/9/20 at 2:42 pm to Kafka
FWIW we may end up seeing a lot less smoking in movies, as free speech lib Rob Reiner wants to make smoking an automatic R rating.
Trivia tidbit: in the WWII movie Pearl Harbor not one person smokes.
Trivia tidbit: in the WWII movie Pearl Harbor not one person smokes.
Posted on 7/9/20 at 2:54 pm to Kafka
quote:
Trivia tidbit: in the WWII movie Pearl Harbor not one person smokes.
I watched Hidden Figures twice and the one thing that really bugged me was that for all the detail they put into the props, costumes and cars, not a single person in the movie was seen smoking. You have to know with all those physicists and mathematicians almost all of them smoked either cigarettes or a pipe.
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