Smoking in films and TV programmes . – Page 2 – Chat Forum

RamseyNeil · 2017-01-03T19:28:10Z

Last week I watched a bit of telly and a couple of films . There was a pretty good Agatha Christie two part thing on and while I am aware that it was portraying events that happened in an age when most people smoked do they really need to have people smoking in every scene ? I'm pretty sure if nobody was smoking then that wouldn't have detracted from the story line , I mean everybody has a shit now and then but they don't show that in the interest of realism . I think it's a bad image to put out and certainly nothing glamorous or sophisticated about it . Happy New Year everybody . :D

TheBrick

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Still a lot of smoking in German workplaces ime.

Posted : 05/01/2017 3:29 pm

BobaFatt

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watched this last week

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Why were there so many bikes in it? I mean, it's personal choice, but I don't need them rammed down my throat. Everyone takes a shit, but they didn't show one person riding a bog in that entire thing

Posted : 05/01/2017 3:39 pm

maccruiskeen

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People have drinks in the same way in modern telly still.

Much to the art department's annoyance. Continuity nightmare.

Posted : 05/01/2017 5:21 pm

StefMcDef

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It was quite a striking thing about that Ethel and Ernest, the Raymond Briggs' animation about his childhood and his parents that was on over Christmas, that his dad always had a fag dangling out the side of his mouth.

Kind of brought home the extent to which smoking is a thing people - as in, near enough everybody - [i]used[/i] to do.

Posted : 05/01/2017 5:24 pm

molgrips

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Continuity nightmare

Lol yes I bet.

I love these insights into TV production btw - more fascinating than it ought to be 🙂

Posted : 05/01/2017 5:57 pm

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