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Most unnatural-looking smoking ever.


This movie is silly fun, hammy and over-the-top...not the least of which is Deak's extremely odd method of holding and smoking a cigarette. I've seen him smoke in other movies, and he doesn't hold the cig wedged way up between his fingers, with super-straight, exaggerated, angular release and recapture as he takes a drag. Anybody else find it distracting?? It's super-picky, I know.

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yeah i did, funny stuff , when he's smoking in the locker room at the beginning, i just laughed. very exaggerated indeed

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Pretty sure he did it the exact same way in Face/Off.

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He did it the same way in pulp fiction. So that's 0 for 2. Nice attention to detail, op

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It's Travolta. He smokes like that in Get Shorty as well. My guess is he probably doesn't smoke in real life, so it doesn't feel or look natural.

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He does it in Grease as well.In the shot where everyone's sat around the table at the diner and he wants to be alone with Sandy.It's the most unnatural looking smoking ever.

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Why smoke in a boring way, if you can smoke in a fun/entertaining way? Perhaps he's one of those more imaginative people, who like playing and toying with things, instead of taking them for granted? Everyday life is more fun, when you do everything a more fun way.

When I smoked, I often smoked in different kinds of humorous ways, just because I thought it was funny, I liked it, and because it was an expression of my personality. I always wanted to carry humor with me, and this paid off once, when my acquintance recognized me from my silhouetted exaggerated smoking (not only the cigarette smoke in the lungs makes smoking fun, it is also the poses you can make and the movements you can do with the cigarette, and all the stuff you can do with the smoke itself, like blowing rings and such, which I always used to do a lot), just when we really needed his resources (we were in a 'pinch', like the japanese would say).

He would not have dared to approach us so late at night in a desolate place in the woods, but as I said, he recognized my 'funny' movements with the cigarette, and approached us and offered us.. well, that's another story.

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I love the way he smokes. Its melodramatic its charming

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