Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good God, Mark, have you been to a movie in the past five years? Even Mickey Mouse is smoking - well, maybe not Mickey, but everyone else is. Smoking in movies is so common now that it has become a real problem in terms of the campaign to try to convince young people not to smoke. Virtually ALL the younger movie stars smoke, on and off screen... Mark Rabiner wrote: > > I raised the issue of a cigarette used in a portrait. In this case a self > portrait. Ones image and it's effect on other people. > In fashion and portraiture not log ago it was common. A favorite prop. Harry is > not Harry with out his cigarette. Now almost unheard of. > Same with films. When you see it you go: "Hey look at the cigarette!". > > Modern WWII PC films are especially funny. You see five people all talking no > one with a cigarette and it's 1944. No way. They'd ALL have a cigarette. But now > they're all dead. They may have dodged bullets with amazing luck. But not cancer. > > The glamorous fashion models from those previous decades have all gotten > cervical or breast cancer. > > No we don't want those young people to smoke. We don't want to make cool images > of people smoking. That's my opinion. > > Mark Rabiner > > Portland, Oregon > USA > > http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/ > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html