i watched the film “hollywood land” last night.\u00a0 mostly a propos of the terrible superman curse.\u00a0 a man just never really knows how good he’s got it until that final moment.\u00a0 anyway, the film has an excellent smoking scene, in fact it treats the problem of cigarettes in film very well, being partly ABOUT hollywood.\u00a0 like at one point some people tell superman to put his cigarette out because “superman doesn’t smoke.”\u00a0 in a film set in the 50’s, i believe this is an excellent anachronism… in a time when riders in the tour de france would stop at stage passes and smoke because they thought they were expanding their lungs!\u00a0 so the scene of which i spoke is when this p.i. is real down and out (previously having declaimed smoking and demonstrating this throughout the movie by chewing gum), and frantically upturns his apartment we come to find out for… yes, a cigarette.\u00a0 he pulls it out of this little tin container and SMOKES it.\u00a0 his first drag on the thing is painful to watch; like, it’s totally obvious that he’s an addict and the cigarette might as well be a needle.\u00a0 it’s just terrible.\u00a0 so i appreciated hollywood finally making smoking look bad, in action, and in a self reflective way.<\/p>\n
otherwise the film is not the most amazing thing.\u00a0 i don’t recommend rushing out and spending your $2.79 at the video store on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
i watched the film “hollywood land” last night.\u00a0 mostly a propos of the terrible superman curse.\u00a0 a man just never really knows how good he’s got it until that final moment.\u00a0 anyway, the film has an excellent smoking scene, in … Continue reading