Image of Cigar Smokers in Entertainment

[cigar no baka]

I've been noticing who smokes cigars in movies and TV. It seems to me that only the evil people and/or the powerful people smoke cigars. Anyone else notice that?

I've been watching Into the West on TNT and it seems like only evil people smoke cigars.

Kingpin in Daredevil smokes cigars.

These are just two examples, I've seen many more.

Anyone else notice this trend in pop culture?

[grand cru no 2]

You should watch Tombstone! Wyatt smokes cigars.

Also, I remember a scene in We Were Soldiers in which Mel Gibson & Sam Elliot's characters are smoking cigars before they go into battle. Couple of good guys there.

[8-5-8]

I was watching Bad Boys the other night and noticed the chief (good guy) constantly has a cigar in his hand... even when shooting hoops in the gym!

Verone (Bad Guy) in 2 Fast 2 Furious had a taste for LGC's (prolly Miami-made, since the movie was based there)

The bad guy (i forget his name) in the Darkman movies had a thing for cigars, and cutting off peoples fingers with his cutter...

[QuietC]

almost every chief in a cop movie is smoking a cigar, or has one hanging in his mouth, while yelling at the other officers for screwing up. Johnson and Smith are always getting yelled at.

[cigarsarge]

almost every chief in a cop movie is smoking a cigar, or has one hanging in his mouth, while yelling at the other officers for screwing up. Johnson and Smith are always getting yelled at.

Realism at it's best. I always yell at my guys while I have a cigar clinched in my teeth.

[grand cru no 2]

Now, we can't forget Mark Twain! Although I think he smoked the worst cigars ever made.

[MichaeldeL]

Clint Eastwood was smoking Toscano cigars in those spaghetti westerns by Sergio Leone.

[jaewing]

I've been noticing who smokes cigars in movies and TV. It seems to me that only the evil people and/or the powerful people smoke cigars. Anyone else notice that?

Well that makes sense . . . I am both evil AND powerful. ~~~~ send me your premium cigars young padwan ~~~~

[Iced T]

Don't forget Clint...

[cigar no baka]

Don't forget Clint...

Oh god, what were those things he was smoking? Were they Parodi cigars? My dad smokes them and they look one helluva lot like the ones Clint smoked in the Spagehetti westerns.

[gtxjet]

What about Will Smith and that one cable repair man geek in Independence Day? Not until the fat lady sings....

[MMAB]

I am evil....and extremely powerful. You have a problem with that?

[cigar no baka]

I am evil....and extremely powerful. You have a problem with that?

Hell no, how many times have you been in movies or on TV??

[Johnny]

Oh god, what were those things he was smoking? Were they Parodi cigars? My dad smokes them and they look one helluva lot like the ones Clint smoked in the Spagehetti westerns.

http://www.forces.org/writers/james/...y/frayling.htm

James Leavey: Clint Eastwood smoked cigars in the Leone spaghetti westerns

Sir Christopher Frayling: Yeah. Theres a great debate as to what kind of cigars they were. The Italians claim that they were a cigar called Toscano, or Toscani in the plural, which are these rather evil southern Italian cigars of very closely packed tobacco, very dark. I had a go at them. Wow, theyre strong stuff. If you notice in the movies, Eastwood is constantly lighting his cheroot and it keeps going out, I think deliberately, cos he didnt want to actually smoke, he disliked smoking a lot. But Toscani do that as well, you keep trying to get them going and they keep going out. What people in Italy do is cut them in half with a pair of scissors or a razor blade, and then try and draw on them and it works a bit better. Some people claim they were actually American cheroots, but I like the Italian version actually.