Smoker?
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pyahnitsa — 17 years ago(June 15, 2008 09:25 PM)
He did a really good job of portraying a smoker? Wow, I didn't realize that pretending to smoke in a movie was some sort of difficult accomplishment. Take cigarette, light it, put it to mouth.that's all it takes.
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jonaswo — 17 years ago(July 18, 2008 04:24 PM)
Nobody said anything about it being a difficult accomplishment. Often smokers can tell if a non-smoker pretend to be one, especially on film. Non-smokers are not likely to be able to. Perhaps you are a non-smoker, who just don't know what you're talking about. Or perhaps you are a smoker, or previous smoker, and I still think you don't know what you're talking about.
WHAT THE HELL IS AN ALUMINUM FALCON??
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pyahnitsa — 17 years ago(July 26, 2008 09:55 PM)
Really, jonaswo? Which actors are "BAD" smokers in your opinion? Which actors have done such an UNBELIEVABLE job of smoking in their films? Hmm? I beg of you to please enlighten me. I am, unfortunately, a smoker and I DO know what I'm talking about.
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jonaswo — 17 years ago(July 27, 2008 12:34 PM)
Perhaps I was being unclear. Let me put my view like this:
If an actor is not used to handle weapons (could even be toy weapons as a kid), he/she will have to learn to act like it, or it will look obvious.
If an actor is not used to hand-to-hand combat, he/she will have to learn to act like it (often by a choreograph), or it will look obvious.
If an actor is not used to smoking, he/she will have to learn to act like it, or it will look obvious.
Obvious to me, in any case.
I apologize fo2000r jumping the gun by saying that you don't know what you are talking about. It was presumptuous of me. I was triggered by your sarcasm, which I found rude and unnecessary.WHAT THE HELL IS AN ALUMINUM FALCON??
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jonaswo — 17 years ago(July 29, 2008 04:46 PM)
If an actor is playing a character doing "something" that the actor is not used to doing, the actor will have to learn to act like he/she is used to it, or it will look obvious to people who is.
It doesn't make a much of a difference if it a difficult accomplishment or not; if the actor hasn't learned to act like it, it will show.
I would go so far as to call it the pretty much foremost definition of an actor!
You can replace "something" with smoking, handling a fancy gun or actually reading forum posts before replying to them. Take your pick.
I hereby retreat. Reply what you want.WHAT THE HELL IS AN ALUMINUM FALCON??
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Jason2006 — 17 years ago(January 30, 2009 08:43 PM)
@Jonaswo
Ahh. I know what you're saying. For example, I will try to remember the movie but it had an asian guy (in a big modern highrise mobsters office) who had to make a cool statement and then take a tough guy drag on a cig and he botched it completely. He held the smoke up to his mouth and awkwardly paused and tried to kind of aim or set it up in his mouth and take a drag and it looked totally phony. It was funny if you noticed it.
@Dramatic Miss
Also maybe the question was referring to his breathing style which does sound as though he is or was a smoker.
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Boogalow — 15 years ago(September 07, 2010 03:45 AM)
My parents were both heavy smokers but I don't smoke as i couldn't inhale the smoke! That's a way i use to see if anyone is a smoker in real life. A smoker will inhale the smoke and relish 238it, sometimes blowing it out of the nose whereas a non smoker just takes the smoke into their mouth and blows it right our again.
I could be wrong here, but I don't think so (sorry).
I know the actor Jameson Parker doesn't smoke but he had a scene in a movie where he smoked and it was obvious he was just blowing the smoke out of his mouth.
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jambojake — 17 years ago(February 23, 2009 04:34 AM)
Can I just interject into this year old argument and say that I think John Travolta is a really bad at 'portraying a smoker'. I can't remember if it was in 'get shorty,, be cool, or 'pulp fiction'. I think it was 'be cool', and everytime he lit up he looked really unnatural at smoking.
having said this I bet some know it all will tell me he has smoked for 30 years or something.
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skemask — 10 years ago(September 10, 2015 06:21 AM)
You are a complete idiot. Look at John Travolta in Broken Arrow terrible smoker, looks forced and not true, then look at Freddy Rodriguez in Planet Terror, looks like he's been smoking 3 packs a day like a pro. Same as action movies. "how hard is it to pick up a gun and point it" People make tasks look believable and some don't. And you may be a smoker but you don't know what you're talking about.
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TeddieDog — 18 years ago(February 24, 2008 06:43 PM)
WHO CARES! Why are there so many questions about whether someone is a smoker or not? Does that make them a bad person? NO IT DOESN'T! I guess it's OK if someone is a serial killer, child molester or if they club baby seals with new born kittens, but if you are a smoker.well then you are an evil criminal!