alicebentley (
alicebentley) wrote2008-11-20 06:05 pm
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Hey movie buffs!
My 15 year old asked for examples of movies where the "cool" people smoke.
I thought of Casablanca, but it turns out he hasn't seen it.
And Cowboy Bebop, but that was rejected as "too nerdy". I assume too nerdy to admit he used to like it.
What movie is recent enough that he and his classmates would be likely to have seen it, and old enough that they still allowed smoking, and for smoking to be cool?
I thought of Casablanca, but it turns out he hasn't seen it.
And Cowboy Bebop, but that was rejected as "too nerdy". I assume too nerdy to admit he used to like it.
What movie is recent enough that he and his classmates would be likely to have seen it, and old enough that they still allowed smoking, and for smoking to be cool?
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(I seem to have misplaced a decade somewhere.)
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Yes, it's been a while since we hung out together.
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Didn't Sharon Stone light up in Basic Instinct?
He's 15, he'll like both of those.
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Janeane Garofolo's character in "Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion."
I recall "The Warriors" having some smoking scenes. Not a lot, though.
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James Bond came to the rescue in terms of references for his paper.
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James Bond movies were what we finally settled on. The earlier ones had a lot of smoking shown as a positive thing.
I get the impression this was for a paper for school about smoking. The kid has had so little exposure to smoking that he doesn't see how it could be attractive to anyone - which no doubt made that part of his paper challenging to write.
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Basically, it's about 2 Irish guys who do vigilante killings in Boston and has Willem Dafoe as a wonderfully arrogant FBI agent.
If you watch it, I'd love to hear what you think of it.
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I've been trying to think of examples, but I tend to tune out the smoking, I think.
Louise Fletcher was unsuccessfully militant about her right to smoke in the Wildfire facility in The Andromeda Strain, but did that make it cool? And I think she also smoked in Brainstorm, but that at least one character said they wished she wouldn't.
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And it's a damn cool show.
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Clearly, it's time for bed.
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Your question reminds me of an exchange I had years ago with my cousin, who's always been like a little sister to me, at the birth of her first baby. She named her girl Sophie, which I really like as a name (even before reading Howl's Moving Castle) but it's not a name I had ever heard of in our family before. "Janine," I asked, "where did 'Sophie' come from?"
She looked at me very seriously. "Guy," she said, "if you don't know that by now, I'm not sure I am the one to tell you..."
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I pretty much had to FORCE them to sit and watch this movie, they were sure it was another of dad's boring videos (I'm usually watching documentaries). They were both howling with laughter by the end.
I plan to keep working on them.
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As for Bond movies, an interesting one to highlight is "You Only Live Twice". Bond being allowed to smoke in the crater-base's control room is what allowed the ninjas to infiltrate the facility.