Cigarette Smoking In the 'Charlie's Angels' Movie: A Long Review
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Charlie's Angels featuring Cameron Diaz
http://www.mascotcoalition.org/educ...ies_angels.html
Charlie's Angels Reviewed
Advertised as "a high-octane, high tech update that brings the show
from the 1970s into the new millennium," this 2000 action movie
features the sexy trio of Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu.
The MPAA rates this film "PG-13" for "action violence, innuendo and
some sensuality/nudity."
Some consider this an empowering "chick-flick" that manifests some
positive female roles, yet MASCOT has never reviewed such a blantant
smoking-imagery movie. All "bad" or rebellious characters use
cigarettes and smoking to enhance their performance.
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http://smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/whoswho/actors.html
The only way for an actor to smoke on screen is to do it with the
camera running. If they refuse, it won't happen. Stars who insist on
smoking because of their nicotine addiction -- particularly when they
smoke identifiable brands -- are compromising the film and betraying
their fans.
There is good scientific evidence that teens are more likely to smoke
if their favorite actors smoke.
These actors and actresses have smoked a lot in their movies:
Drew Barrymore
Annette Bening
Kenneth Branagh
Nicolas Cage
Matt Damon
Robert De Niro
Danny DeVito
Leonardo DiCaprio
Mel Gibson
Gene Hackman
Anthony Hopkins
Ethan Hawke
Samuel L. Jackson
Kevin Kline
Matthew McConaughey
Al Pacino
Gweyneth Paltrow
Joe Pantoliano
Brad Pitt
Kevin Pollack
Julia Roberts
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Gary Sinse
John Travolta
Deborah Unger
Denzel Washington
Bruce Willis
http://smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/act...rrym
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Here are some questions to ask the actors who smoke in movies:
How do you feel about helping the tobacco industry make money selling
its deadly product?
Do you realize your smoking on screen helps Big Tobacco get around ad
restrictions worldwide?
Why not promote nonsmokers' rights instead of tobacco industry
profits?
Have you read any of the secret tobacco industry documents about
smoking in the movies?
Drew Barrymore
1122 S. Robertson Blvd. #15 Los Angeles CA 90035
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http://www.time.com/time/pacific/ma...0415/smoke.html
Puffing Up a Storm
Smoking is on the rise in movies, sparking a campaign to stub it out.
A look at who's behind it
By MARGOT ROOSEVELT
Rob Reiner, co-founder of Castle Rock Entertainment, was appalled
when he saw his studio's film Proof of Life. It wasn't that he could
predict the movie's demise at the box office. "I thought, 係ow,
why is Meg Ryan smoking up a storm?'" Reiner says. "It didn't add to
the plot." Fourteen months later, Castle Rock now has a policy of
discouraging tobacco use. Any actor, director or screenwriter who
wants to depict it must first meet with Reiner. "They have to make a
really good case," he says. "Movies are basically advertising
cigarettes to kids."
Movie characters light up more often than people do in real life,
argues Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at the University of
California, San Francisco, who has launched a "Smoke-Free Movies"
newspaper ad campaign. His study, funded by the National Cancer
Institute, found that on average the 20 top-grossing films featured
50% more instances of smoking an hour in 2000 than in 1960. And an
American Lung Association survey discovered that 61% of the tobacco
use in films last year occurred in family- and teen-rated movies.
With youth smoking up dramatically in the past decade, a movement is
building to hold Hollywood accountable. Says Glantz: "The
entertainment industry is in denial."
But it's getting an education. Susan Moses, deputy director of
Harvard's Center for Health Communication, and Lindsay Doran, former
head of United Artists, have been going door to door among the
studios. They hit the honchos with hard facts: a million American
teens a year become daily smokers, and a third of those will
eventually die from tobacco-related illness. When Doran and Moses met
with executives from Imagine Pictures, says Doran, "they said,
郡moking is not in any of our scripts.' But then they called the
next day and said, 係e looked, and it's everywhere.'" Karen
Kehela, co-chairman of Imagine, recalls trying to take smoking out of
one script after the meeting, "but the actor insisted on smoking,"
she says. In fact, many movie stars are hooked on the habit. "Actors
who smoke look for any reason to incorporate it into their
characters," Reiner says. "You have directors who don't care about
the social implications or are kowtowing to the actors."
Last month, the American Lung Association gave its Hackademy Award to
Sissy Spacek and In the Bedroom for using Marlboros throughout the
film. Dishonorable Mentions went to Charlie's Angels and Save the
Last Dance-smoke-filled movies aimed at adolescents. "Teens imitate
onscreen behavior," says Doran. And it's not enough to make the good
guy a nonsmoker because "bad guys are cool."
If all the friendly meetings and cutely named awards fail, critics
have a solution the industry will hate: require an R rating on movies
that glamorize smoking. "If your movie has the F word twice, you get
rated R," says Reiner. "But that's a lot less harmful to a kid."
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http://old.smh.com.au/news/0101/13/.../features7.html
A lucky strike for the baccy firms
Where on Earth do teenagers get the idea that smoking is cool?
THE TRIBAL MIND by David Dale
In Charlie's Angels, the most popular film of the holiday season, only
the villains smoke. Indeed, they puff away like choo choos. One
character, who appears to be a goodie for the first half of the film,
starts to smoke only when he is revealed as a baddie.
A flashback suggests that the Angel played by Drew Barrymore used to
be a smoker but that was during a troubled period of her life. Now
that she is on the right side of the law, she no longer puffs (though
she retains her lighter to burn through ropes if she should find
herself tied to a chair - a job the lighter ultimately fails to do).
You may feel that this represents a responsible approach by the
film-makers, designed to show impressionable youngsters that only
creeps are nicotine addicts. It contrasts with the approach taken in
the other hit of the holidays, Meet the Parents. Here the main
character, Ben Stiller, is both a smoker and a nice guy. But his
addiction gets him into a whole heap of trouble. So you could say that
Meet the Parents tells impressionable youngsters that if you let
yourself become a slave to cigarettes you will risk losing your loved
one forever.
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http://www.tobacco.org/news/107178.html
Smoking grows after film ban
Source: Cleveland (OH) Plain Dealer, 2002-10-30
Author: Sabrina Eaton / Plain Dealer Bureau
Intro:
Cigarette smoking in popular teen-oriented films increased by 50
percent after a ban on tobacco product placement in movies in 1998,
according to a study released yesterday by a nonprofit watchdog group.
[b]It found that top-grossing PG-13 movies such as "Charlie's Angels"
and "The Perfect Storm" contain extensive smoking sequences even
though they were made after tobacco companies agreed to stop targeting
youths with cigarette ads as part of a legal settlement.
"We suspect the tobacco industry might be paying or pressuring the
film industry, and we'd like other organizations, like Congress, to
investigate," said Jennifer Thompson, a consumer advo- cate at U.S.
Pub lic Interest Re search Group, which wants an "R" rating for films
that show tobacco use.
But spokes persons for the nation's top cigarette makers, Philip
Morris and R.J. Reynolds, said their companies don't permit use of
their products in films and actively discourage youth smoking. . .
"Hollywood is either corrupt or stupid," said Glantz. "Either they are
taking hidden money from the tobacco industry and denying it, or they
are giving away hundreds of millions of dollars in promotion to the
tobacco companies."
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http://www.cancercouncil.com.au/editorial.asp?pageid=1070
What do these films have in common?
Answer:
They are all among the rising number of films that feature lead
characters who smoke.
When producers portray smoking in the movies, they often use it to
signal that a character is cool, rebellious or sophisticated. Research
has shown that this is just the sort of message that is most effective
in encouraging young people to start smoking and, for many, continue
for a lifetime. The fact is that smoking is deadly. If you've known
someone who suffers from lung cancer or emphysema, you will know that
the reality is a world away from the glossy images on screen. Help us
to counteract the effect of smoking in movies by taking one of the
actions below. Together we can send the message that this kind of
propaganda is not acceptable.
We propose:
That all movies are assessed for inappropriate smoking content prior
to release,
That, once they have been identified, these films are accompanied by
strong smoking education advertisements.
That this requirement is written into law at State and Federal levels.
What you can do
Write to the Chair of the Motion Picture Distributors Association of
Australia, and tell him that you don't want to see films that
glamorise smoking.
Mr Sunder Kimitrai
Chair of the Motion Picture Distributor's Association of Australia
PO Box 888
Paddington 2021
Write a letter to the editor
Whether it's your local paper or one of the Sydney metro papers,
letters to the editor are a great way to promote debate about
different issues.
Tell the editor what you think about smoking in films and how you feel
when you see films that glamorise smoking.
Editor, Sydney Morning Herald
Email: let...@smh.com.au
Fax: 9282 3492
GPO Box 3771
Sydney 2001
Editor, Daily Telegraph
Email:let...@dailytelegraph.com.au
Fax: 9288 2300
PO BOX 2808
GPO
Sydney NSW 2001
Join the Tobacco Action Group mailing list
Quick facts about smoking in film
1 in every 2 lead characters smoke compared to 1 in 7 people of
similar social background in the general population.
In the 1990s actors lit a cigarette every 1 to 3 minutes compared to
the 70s and 80s when they lit up every 10 to 15 minutes
Over 89 percent of top US movie rentals in 1996-97 contained tobacco
use
Since 1998 smoking has increased by 50 percent in youth-oriented film.
A study of the 250 highest-grossing films over 10 years found that
characters smoked in 85% of them.
What is 'product placement' in movies?
United States tobacco industry documents have shown that the tobacco
industry has paid large amounts of money to have its products appear
in movies and TV series. This form of product promotion is known as
'product placement'. Examples include:
$350,000 to have Lark cigarettes appear in the James Bond movie
License to Kill
$42,000 to place Marlboro cigarettes in Superman II
$30,000 to place Eve cigarettes in Supergirl
Over $5,000 to have Lucky Strike appear in Beverly Hills Cop.
An agreement to pay a $500,000 fee to actor, Sylvester Stallone to use
Brown and Williamson products in five feature films.
Go deeper
There is a lot more to learn
Reeling them in: An information sheet on smoking in movies
http://www.cancercouncil.com.au/editorial.asp?pageid=716
The tobacco industry
Sites of interest
Smoke Free Movies http://www.smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/index.html
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ALCOHOL OR DRUG USE
Some people have drinks on a plane, including one "man" who orders
Scotch.
People, including Corwin, have drinks at a party/reception where Pete
works as a bartender.
Corwin has a drink at a racetrack.
A man drinks a beer in a belly-dancing venue.
Alex and Jason have wine with a meal.
Vivian has wine (and spikes Bosley's with some unknown substance).
Knox has champagne.
The Angels have drinks while lounging on the beach and they state that
Bosley has had too many drinks (we see him tip over in his chair).
DISRESPECTFUL/BAD ATTITUDE
A man has a bomb strapped around his chest, presumably to blow up the
plane he's on.
We see brief flashback footage of Dylan as a recruit and she punches
her "drill sergeant" instructor in the face (after tiring of him
badgering her).
Some viewers may be offended by a scene where Alex is dressed like a
stereotypical Japanese masseuse and her two cohorts join her (dressed
the same way) as the song, "Turning Japanese" plays on the soundtrack.
Knox turns out to be a bad guy who tries to kill Dylan (and thinks
he's succeeded), and Vivian turns out to be his criminal accomplice
who fights the Angels. Meanwhile, the mute Thin Man works for them and
fights/tries to harm/kill the Angels.
IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR
Phrases: "Bastard," "Crazy bitch," "Jerk," "And that's kicking your
ass" and "Sucks."
Some kids, and in this case, girls, may want to imitate anything and
everything the Angels do, such as dressing/acting provocatively or
engaging in acrobatic martial arts moves.
We see Dylan at a younger age and she gives "the finger" to the
camera.
We see a young couple sneak into an airplane bathroom (presumably to
have sex), but we don't see anything more concerning them.
Natalie dances around in a cropped shirt and her underwear at her
place, often vigorously shaking her panty-clad rear end.
Posing as a masseuse, Alex gets rough with Corwin (he thinks its part
of the massage) by jumping and landing on his back.
We see a human fire breather do his thing at a party (hold a flame to
his mouth and spit alcohol over it to create a fireball).
MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE)
The song "Undercover Angel" has lines with wording such as "I never
had a dream that made sweet love to me."
Another song repeats the lyric, "Smack my bitch up."
A song has a lyric something along the lines of "do you do me baby."
Another song, "Baby Got Back," is all about the singer's preoccupation
with women's butts (that he likes them and wants women to shake them,
etc.) and includes the word "hell."
PROFANITY
At least 1 "s" word, 2 asses, 2 damns, 1 hell, 5 uses of "Oh my God,"
2 of "God" and 1 use each of "G-damn," "Jesus" and "Oh God" as
exclamations.
SEX/NUDITY
We see a young couple sneak into an airplane bathroom (presumably to
have sex), but we don't see anything more regarding them.
We see Natalie in a small and revealing bikini.
We see part of Dylan's bare hip (as well as lipstick smeared across
her face) as she sleeps in Chad's bed (suggesting they slept
together). When she gets up, he states that they can have breakfast
and then maybe "a little Chad."
Natalie dances around in a cropped shirt and her underwear at her
place, often vigorously shaking her panty-clad rear end. When she then
answers the door to accept a package from a deliveryman, she tells him
that after she signs a release waiver, he can feel free "to stick
things in my slot" (innuendo from the movie and not intentionally from
the character).
Alex and Jason rehearse some lines from a movie (although we don't
know this at first, thus leading to the following innuendo), with her
stating that it's going to be long, hard and rough and him replying
that he likes it rough and it just gets him there faster.
Alex shows cleavage.
We see Alex in a small, formfitting dress as she poses as a masseuse.
Later, as she gives a massage to Corwin, he says that she's good with
her hands and that he could use someone like her on his staff (of
employees). She replies that her hands aren't going anywhere near his
"staff" (a reference to his genitals that we don't see).
The camera briefly focuses on Alex's clothed butt.
While talking to Pete about this being her first time acting as a
waitress at a party, Natalie tells him that she's like a virgin, and
that it's her first time (more innuendo).
Dylan shows a great deal of cleavage while dressed in an auto racing
jump suit that's zipped down quite a ways in the front (she isn't
wearing a shirt). She then tries to distract a limo driver by stating
that it's "hot" and then suggestively licking his steering wheel.
The camera briefly focuses on Natalie's clothed butt.
We see Natalie and Alex dressed and performing like traditional belly
dancers and then later see the three women dressed in
cleavage-revealing outfits where one of them smacks the clothed butt
of the other while performing a song for a man they're trying to dupe.
The camera briefly focuses on Alex's clothed butt while she wears a
tight, leather miniskirt. She then acts like something of a dominatrix
while addressing an assembly of software engineers who are mesmerized
by her, her appearance, and her repeating cracking of what looks like
a riding crop.
The camera briefly focuses on Natalie's clothed butt as she bends over
wearing a formfitting outfit.
Wearing what looks like a tight, leather dress, Vivian visits Bosley
and then aggressively comes on to him, kissing him and then moving
partially on top of him on his sofa.
We see Dylan get out of Knox's bed with just a sheet wrapped around
her, suggesting that they had sex. When Vivian later spots her that
way and comments on working undercover, Dylan snidely remarks that
hers is a "full service job." Later, Knox states that Dylan was (what
sounded like) "a tomcat in the sack."
Moments later, Dylan hangs from that sheet and then falls to the
ground below and rolls down a hill completely nude (seen from a
distance and without any detail, but you can tell she's nude). She
then picks up an inflatable, donut shaped pool tool that she holds up
to her body (thus covering her breasts and crotch, but we see her bare
belly and the sides of her bare hips from a frontal view) while
knocking on a sliding glass door to ask two boys for help.
Natalie shows some cleavage in a scuba outfit and when she and her two
cohorts begin to remove those wetsuits, we see their bare backs but
the camera pans up before we see anything else.
SMOKING
The Thin Man smokes more than 5 times, Knox smokes a few times, Dylan
does so once in a flashback to her rebellious years, some
miscellaneous/background characters smoke (one uses a cigar), and we
see a still smoking cigar in an ashtray (that belongs to Charlie).
TENSE FAMILY SCENES
Knox mentions that his father was killed in the past when his Green
Beret partner turned on him.
Dylan then mentions that her mom died when she was six and that she
never knew her father.
TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT
The way in which the women resolve their problems and the situations
in which they find themselves.
Drew Barrymore's character sleeping with two different men over the
course of the film.
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>why is Meg Ryan smoking up a storm?'" Reiner says. "It didn't add to
>the plot." Fourteen months later, Castle Rock now has a policy of
>discouraging tobacco use. Any actor, director or screenwriter who
>wants to depict it must first meet with Reiner. "They have to make a
>really good case," he says. "Movies are basically advertising
>cigarettes to kids."
>
>Movie characters light up more often than people do in real life,
>argues Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at the University of
>California, San Francisco, who has launched a "Smoke-Free Movies"
>newspaper ad campaign. His study, funded by the National Cancer
>Institute, found that on average the 20 top-grossing films featured
>50% more instances of smoking an hour in 2000 than in 1960. And an
>American Lung Association survey discovered that 61% of the tobacco
>use in films last year occurred in family- and teen-rated movies.
>With youth smoking up dramatically in the past decade, a movement is
>building to hold Hollywood accountable. Says Glantz: "The
>entertainment industry is in denial."
>
>But it's getting an education. Susan Moses, deputy director of
>Harvard's Center for Health Communication, and Lindsay Doran, former
>head of United Artists, have been going door to door among the
>studios. They hit the honchos with hard facts: a million American
>teens a year become daily smokers, and a third of those will
>eventually die from tobacco-related illness. When Doran and Moses met
>with executives from Imagine Pictures, says Doran, "they said,
>next day and said, ŚWe looked, and it's everywhere.'" Karen
This is the age old argument about what is shown on TV & Movies having an
impact on kids etc. People smoke. People swear. Violence is apparent in our
communities. If the youngsters can't seperate what they see on the Box with
reality then we can't control that. If you remove smoking, drinking,
violence and sex from movies how real will the movies seem. I hate smoking
more than anything but would notice if nobody did it in the movies. The real
issue is that people let kids sit in front of the TV watching movies and
playing video games with no encouragement to get out and live an active
life. People need to monitor what the kids/teens watch and give them a solid
kick up the ass if they pick up a smoke................cheers
mr pibb
>How do you feel about helping the tobacco industry make money selling
its deadly product?
How about this..People can choose what they want to do. Why stop at
smoking? Go after the actors and actresses who eat cholesterol filled
pepperoni pizza among other lard infested items in their movies. How
about alcohol? No, you won't mention that since you probably drink it.
Alcohol certainly kills people. Second hand smoke is an evil but so is
air pollution. What kind of movies do you like? Are they action movies
where someone gets killed or have acts of any kind of crime or violence?
How do you feel about gun control? Many people know now that smoking is
bad for ones self and choose to do it or not to do it. That is THEIR
choice, not yours. Maybe instead of writing these actors and actresses
and telling them your disapproval of them smoking, how about encouraging
them to do more scenes where they are exercising? How about instead of
focusing on tobacco and crusading against it, look at yourself a little
more and try to make yourself a better person by promoting peace amongst
your fellow man instead of looking down on him...
pibb
Vincenzo Beretta
> >if their favorite actors smoke.
They saw it through a microscope or what?