Originally posted by SC-Sp00k
Are you telling me the Malbouro man was really a French Pastry maker with a Tall hat and a fetish for leather tassled chaps?
That Clint Eastwood as a Cowboy had a thick piece of dried Cow doo doo hanging out of his mouth that only smoked as a result of methane exudation?
That Charlie Bronson was sucking burnt lollipop sticks to emulate Tele Savalas so as not to upset the the children while he blew the badguys away left and right and splattered whole neighbourhoods with badguy guts?
An ignorant aussie shows his complete cluelessness of american life again.
We are talking about
current advertisment campaigns by tobacco companies. They would not spend billions on those if some ancient movied did the work for them.
Things changed a lot here over the last twenty years. How many kids still see those old movies in a theater? None - old stuff is not shown there. Neither would they rent that crap on video.
Do kids even know who James Dean was, do they care about Woodstook of 70s?
The only place where kids can see those old flicks is on TV - where they are shown prety often.
Do you know that when such movies a shown on TV in America, they are severely edited? That the scenes of nudity, some foul language, blood, gore, splattered guts, bullets striking the bodies are removed? Obviously you do not now that.
They may still show a hero shooting a gun with a cigarette forgotten in a corner of his mouth where nobody notices it, but that closeup shot where he slowly and demonstratively enjoyes a pull on a cigarette and then blows circles - that scene is gone!
A though I was pretty explicit when I said
"Unlike european TV, our TV almost never shows smoking on screen where kids can see it". Did I make any exception about Bronson, Eastwood and James Dean? No - because there is none.
So get a clue. We are fighting smoking in thjis country and it is pretty successfull. Among educated people the rate is around 8%. The total rate is closing on 20%.
Here is a little secret - with the recent tobacco settlement our governmnent is now interested in well-being of our tobacco companies. We never stopped subcidising tbacco growing. We never took those stocks from our retirement funds. We are perfectly fine with tobacco companies poisoning stupid clueless dolts - as long as they do it outside of this country.
So the ads, the movies the brainwashing you see - it's not what we see here!
miko