Do you have any Tobacco?..
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wabus44 — 19 years ago(June 10, 2006 05:38 AM)
Tobacco is a sacred plant for those who follow our own Indian spiritual beliefs in much of Indian Country. It is used as a way of giving thanks and showing respect. Sometimes it is smoked, other times it is given as a gift and other times it is used as an offering. For example, although I do not smoke cigarettes I almost always carry tobacco, and will use it as an offering when I pray. Hope this helps.
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Cinema_Crow — 17 years ago(April 20, 2008 10:27 PM)
Agreed. I think that was the idea behind the theme, also I personally think that having tobacco represented that one had been offered the gift, as on that has embarked on his spirit quest as blake is. I noticed just last night when watching the film again, that every character in this movie does ask either blake or another character if they have any tobacco. The only ones that do not, are Robert Mitchum and John Hurt's, and they are, incidentally smoking throughout the movie.
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Mr_Cinema8 — 17 years ago(May 06, 2008 01:29 AM)
There's a few things going on there , so alot of you are right IMO(first time I've ever used IMO). A brilliant filmmaker, which I believe Jarmusch is, will give layers to elements like that. They will function differently throughout the movie. On the surface, NOBODY kept asking him that because as someone earlier pointed out Indians use tobacco as a spiritual offering. Symbolically, I believe the tobacco did represent faith, as Johnny Depps character was in purgatory and trying to make it to "heaven"(or whatever you want to call it). And lastly, it was a great running gag. Jarmusch is the master at this layering, as you'll discover if you watch "GhostDog" which has even more of that going on.
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pathfinder616 — 10 years ago(February 03, 2016 05:52 PM)
waabus44, thanks for explaining the reason Nobody asked Blake for tobacco. several white frontiersmen asked Blake for tobacco and had no spiritual need for tobacco. they simply enjoyed chewing and smoking it.
the line "Do you have any Tobacco?" is delivered by almost every new character that appears and it would appear it has a 'tongue-in-cheek' connotation.
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antimusick — 19 years ago(June 13, 2006 01:28 PM)
All great films have some kind of catch phrase
see AFI 100 years of famous Movie Quotes list:
http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/quotes.aspx