Everybody smokes too much!!! this movie is not for kids, I guess with so many people smoking they used the smoke for D-Day!!! How many times is Ike smoking he needs a cigarrete everytime his is remembering or planning something.
shareIke smoked 4 packs a day. Most people smoked back then. Get used to the idea. Why should that be wrong for kids to see? It was a fact of the time. It's only the politically correct times we live in now that makes it *seem* strange.
So, you're saying it's okay for kids to see people killing each other in movies, but not to see people smoking??? Interesting...
And no, I don't smoke, but it never bothers me if someone near does.
..Joe
I lost somebody very close to me thanks to lung cancer maybe one day you can understand.
shareI lost somebody very close to me thanks to lung cancer maybe one day you can understand.
So did I, and it's totally irrelevant. As is your sanctimony, which we indeed understand, all too well.
I think him smoking that much in the movie is supposed to tell us something without words. Care to guess what that would be?
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It's not supposed to "tell" us anything except that Ike was a chain smoker. What's wrong with you twits?
shareI thought it was a way of showing how much under pressure and whatnot he felt. He had a very decisive role of the outcome of this war, it would make any smoker light up more than what they usually do.
And don't call me a twit, you... twit!
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You tell em, boy. The movie was trying to replicate as much about Ike as they could. One of his characteristics was that he was a chain smoker. He was also bald. Thye cut off a lot of Tom Selleck's hair and they had him skoke a lot. Like you, I see nothing wrong with this.
shareHoly cow, you knew someone who got cancer? That is so very unique in this world, it does not however explain your complete ignorance of history. You do know there was a time when everyone smoked? It was like eating and it happened as often as breathing, people did not just have a "sneaky puff after supper".
Kids today baffle me with their idiocy.
Ya Kirk-loving Spocksucker!
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Ike was noted for his chain smoking. What's your problem?
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I agree it is awful, but as in Mad Men, it is probably accurate...smoker's smoke rate also goes up during high stress, battles or planning a very critical battle.
Bear in mind that in those days anti-smoking education amounted to jokes about 'it will stunt your growth!"
In WW2, they actually encouraged it in US forces, due to it being perceived to improve morale, which maybe it did.They had a poster 'Keep 'em smoking!"
Even in 1967, Yitzak Rabin, maybe in s similar situation to Ike in 1944 in some ways, smoked so much during the 6-Day War, he collapsed from nicotine poisoning..