Lucky
I dropped by Velvet Glove, Iron Fist yesterday.
Christopher was on about Tobacco on TV. I laughed out loud as I read it.
For some reason an image came to mind of Albert Steptoe hunched over a little television with his little notebook and a stub of a pencil frantically counting every sight or mention of a cigarette.
I’m well aware that the gender may be wrong, but my mental image still stands.
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A week or so ago I watched a film.
“Lucky” is a film about … well, I’m not quite sure. There was no romance or suspense. There were no explosions or car chases. There was one glimpse of a gun but this is definitely not a film for the shoot-em-up generation.
Basically it just followed the eponymous Lucky – a 90 year old – as he lived his life in one of those dusty Arizona Desert towns [at least I assume it was Arizona, though it doesn’t really matter]. It was an excellent film with a lot of humour – there is a scene repeated several times where we see Lucky pass a gate and each time he stops and shouts “cunt” for no apparent reason.
The one thing about the film that struck me was the frequent emphasis on smoking. One of the very first scenes is a close up of a cigarette being lit, and Lucky smokes like a trooper throughout. At one point he calls into the store “for his usual three packs”. He visits his doctor who tells him he is remarkable health considering he’s 90 and a smoker [now where have I heard something similar before?] and that it would probably do more harm for him to quit [that’s familiar too].
It is a film I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend, especially to Snowdon’s friend Jo Cranwell.
Guaranteed to give her a heart attack.
German TV puts out a new Thriller every Sunday evening…by law I think.I was watching the latest one last night and was, yet again, surprised by how ‘relaxed’ it was about smoking….even IN a Bavarian police station (and the Bavarians are at the forefront of smoking verbots). Compare that with an English thriller….has anyone smoked in Midsommer since before it went all multi-culti? Not, mind, that anyone ever had chance to die of lung cancer or another ‘smoking related’ disease in Midsommershire. We, the Brits, don’t need to legalize euthanasia …just ship the OAPS off to Causton.
Anyways I read CS’s piece yesterday and am still trying to get my head around the level of fuckwittery required to designate the sight of a ‘No Smoking Sign’ as a risk to the CHEEELDREN.
The level of insanity in CS’s piece has to be seen to be believed. It is almost a self parody. Can you imagine the scenario –
This programme has been banned due to a mention of smoking – i.e. a No Smoking sign is visible.
Aw shit!
The notice announcing the banning of a programme has been banned due to the word Smoking.
Fuck!!!
The notice about announcing the banning of a programme…….. I give up.
Read it too and couldn’t believe it.
“I guess it beats working for a living.” I guess so too.
And yes, BD, I’m also always amazed that there is still smoking to be seen in the Sunday “Tatort”.
And yes, BD, I’m also always amazed that there is still smoking to be seen in the Sunday “Tatort”.
This time it was a Polizeiruf110 …with that rather good von Meuffels guy, as it happens but yes the same is true for Tatort et al. Obviously the Bundestag still fails to take this LETHAL DANGER to our Kinder seriously!
They should urgently speak to Stanton Glantz 😉
I suspect that the film ‘Lucky’ may have enjoyed a bit of quiet product-placement bonus from ‘Lucky Strike’, the big US cig-brand – the line about “his usual three packs” is obviously an unsubtle volume-purchase suggestion.The sequel may be titled ‘Vapey’.