Her Apocolyse Now scene
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Aurore Clément
diddymuck — 18 years ago(February 26, 2008 06:15 AM)
What was the reason or meaning behind her cigar scene at the dinner in Apocolpse Now? Too irregular a scene to be non-symbolic. Was it an ad-lib? Did it have some relevant signification? Was her dreamy state of depression part of the meaning? Was she saying she's so devoid of control she doesn't know what she's doing? That she's still the matriarch of the plantation and that a cigar represent her status as the person in control? Is it an ironic control symbol seeing how her world is now in tatters? Or maybe its yet another Alice in Wonderland bit of non sequitor in this world-gone-mad movie.
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Thomasrq — 17 years ago(April 17, 2008 07:34 PM)
Wow are you serious?
I dont know how to put this but women smoke. French women smoke. No doubt the cigars were high quality.
I know TONS of hotties who smoke cigars.
I think she was smoking a cigar because we likes it, nothing more or less. -
diddymuck — 17 years ago(June 29, 2008 10:52 PM)
The gesture would have been remarkably out of place in the 60's when the film was set or the 70's when it was filmed. Women enjoying cigars is a late 90's to early 2000's fad. Further, her expression and "all-is-lost" demeanor imply the act had some emotional symbolism.
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diddymuck — 14 years ago(May 16, 2011 11:58 PM)
In the body of the film, the act was remarkably out of sync. Taking place in a era where cigars are not fashionable, particularly for women, her behavior was confusing. Was it a symbolic gesture inserted by the director or just an extemporaneous moment?
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HalRagland — 17 years ago(July 16, 2008 02:08 AM)
I wasn't really paying attention to that, as I was just counting down the minutes before she would finally get to be alone with Willard (I knew that was where this was all headed the second I saw her looking down from the balcony after Willard and his men showed up at the plantation). I was also having a laugh at how embarrassed she was by the behavior of her family.