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.

[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??

[mithril]

oceans 12, benitict (sp?) smokes cigars, but so does the other guy on ocean's team (i can't think of his name).

[WinstonSpencer]

Tony Soprano and crew

[Lopaka]

Schwarzenegger in Running Man and Predator. And he smokes regulary.
(the garbage truck driver in the beginning of Terminator)

Micheal Duglas in Wall Street. "Davidoff, his favorite, and very hard to get"

A few films with Mel Gibson, just can't think of them.

Tom Cruise and Eric Stoltz in "Jerry McGuire"

Those are a few that I can think of.

[Amanda]

I can't think of too many women smoking cigars in films or TV shows, but I do remember an old Seinfeld episode where Elaine was smoking a large cigar. I also have vague memories of other women smoking cigars in movies, like one of the Bond girls in Golden Eye. Hopefully, we start seeing more cigar-smoking ladies in movies. It might reduce the number of snide looks I get when I smoke one..lol.

[Iced T]

I never watched Seinfeld much, but I do remember Kramer was a big cigar smoker, and it came up a few times, but not too negatively it seemed.

BTW

[VTCrosscut]

I just watched Be Cool last night. Steven Tyler from Aerosmith and John Travolta smoke cigars in the movie. The Rock plays a gay country western singer, and the video of him singing "You ain't woman enough to take my man" is one of the most disturbing images I've seen in a while.

[Island Epicurean]

Intelectuals also smoke cigars. Look at Sigmund Freud or Sherlock Holmes. (The original prefered a cigar to a pipe!)

[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.

[Lopaka]

Intelectuals also smoke cigars. Look at Sigmund Freud or Sherlock Holmes. (The original prefered a cigar to a pipe!)

Winston Churchill

Cuban Cigar Lifestyle/Churchill

Indeed, among Churchill's favorite brands were Romeo y Julieta and the now-defunct La Aroma de Cuba. He had a number of regular suppliers of Cuban cigars who kept him well-stocked with Cuban cigars throughout his life, even during the prohibitive years of war. And at Chartwell Manor, his country home in Kent, Churchill stocked between 3,000 and 4,000 Cuban cigars in a room adjacent to his study. The Cuban cigars were kept in boxes on shelves with labels reading "large" and "small," "wrapped" and "naked" to distinguish the Cuban cigars' sizes and whether or not they were wrapped in cellophane. Not surprisingly, Churchill spent a great deal of money on his Cuban cigars over the years. As one of his valets, Roy Howells, wrote in his book, Simply Churchill, "It took me a little while to get used to the fact that in two days his Cuban cigar consumption was the equivalent of my weekly salary."

[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.