Posted on 12/14/2017 10:21:38 PM PST by nickcarraway
A proposal to ban smoking in French films has been met with splutters of indignation in a land raised on images of puffing, pouting silver-screen stars.
The idea was floated last week by a senator from the opposition Socialist Party, Nadine Grelet-Certenais, during a parliamentary debate on how to help the French quit smoking.
Quoting a study that found 70 percent of new French films show at least one character lighting up, the senator accused filmmakers of painting smoking in a positive light.
(Excerpt) Read more at lifestyle.inquirer.net ...
> Quoting a study that found 70 percent of new French films show at least one character lighting up,
So it’s down from 100%.
It is not enough to ban smoking in all future French films; already-made films must be re-edited - using Computer-Generated Images - to eliminate the cigarettes.
Imagine the retouched scenes of Simon Signoret not smoking a cigarette, but rather sucking a lollipop!
Regards,
I think it was 125%.
No pain, no Gitanes.
There’s actually a name for that. It’s called Kojackizing the film.
Jesus turned the water into juice. There was no alcohol involved.
Right, because smoking is killing the french these days.
Unless smoking is a euphemism for muslim savages.
Smoling is still killing more French than Muslims are.
Big brother deciding which products are legal and which legal products to now not put in films.
Yup thats the solution there alright.
On a new Stones release of BBC material they brushed out Charlie Watts cigarette.
https://www.budapesttimes.hu/2017/10/24/those-charming-deviationists
It’s called product placement. In the 1980s every character in every American film smoked, pretty much. It was a bit obvious.
How long before they make a law that every movie has to show someone smoking pot?
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Did you see the post it was responding to?
Yeah, mine. Missed your point.
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