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29/10/2013 03:52 par tellurikwaves

Inhale

Author: bitcetc from United States
24 March 2006

You'll need to inhale, then exhale slowly and relax before plunging into the world of Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart), lobbyist and bag man for the Tobacco Industry. The laughs are some of the best abdominal exercise I've ever had at the movies. Thank You for Smoking is far and away the best satire to come out of Hollywood in years. The last attempt I remember was WAG THE DOG. This film is far better at true satire, its wit biting do-gooders and do-badders alike. It has been too long since Satire and the Politically Incorrect Sense of Humor have been allowed to point out the absurd in all sides of an issue. If you don't laugh out loud, your sense of humor has become a casualty of malpractice by the Doctors of Spin and the Nursemaids of Political Correctness.

Young Jason Reitman's direction and screenplay are deft and light. He is never heavy-handed, or worse, condescending (as may have happened more than once in WAG THE DOG). Based on a novel by Christopher Buckley (the son of William F. Buckley), the script is the star here. The double, triple, and sometimes quadruple entendres are spoken conversationally by a star-studded ensemble cast, who clearly revel in great material and great lines. Every reviewer opines that this will be Aaron Eckhart's break-out role. With his Dudley-Do-Right face and "that guy who always gets the girl---on crack" charm and glibness, his Nick Naylor is the ultimate purveyor of the spin doctor's prescription: "the means justify the end".

The casting director should be congratulated in the same breath as the director. Rob Lowe as the "genius" behind Hollywood "EGO", a consultant firm which helps raise financing for movies with strategic product placement, is note-perfect in a "small role". With William H. Macy, the Vermont Senator who takes on the tobacco industry, Maria Bello, a fellow Merchant of Death lobbyist, and Robert Duvall, the "Captain" of this particular industry--- the cast is jaw-dropping, and sublimely funny. Katie Holmes, pre-TomKat, is gorgeous, seductive, and completely believable as the reporter who stops at nothing to get her story.

Nick Naylor's relationship with his son is the lens which focuses Nick on his own behavior. Even that relationship is not treated as a cliché, or completely reverently by the satirist, who remains true to the last frame to the goal of letting the air out of our self-righteousness. It is a breath of fresh air. I not only recommend it, I intend to see it again.

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29/10/2013 03:46 par tellurikwaves

born for secret stardom

Author: Eli Kim from United States
4 March 2006

I hate to say it. but this movie is gonna fail in the box office. for the same reason no one showed up to its screening. but this will be one of the most entertaining cult movies ever. although it lacks the glam and actually will turn a lot of people away before they even get to the box office do to the subject matter, but they will all be missing out on a hilariously made movie. I don't think i've laughed this hard in a long long time.

This movie isn't really intended to be anti-smoking propaganda, but there is some of it. Its more of a satire on the reality of people and how much we're willing to believe or willing to be dooped. I see it similar to liar liar not being about about the legal system but the moral and ethical decisions of people within society. overall I would have to saw this is a great great movie. Highly recommend it. And could not imagine this movie to turn out any better than it has already been with the perfect cast and great story line. I think the best way to encompass the movie is paraphrased in the movie's catchy advertising line the main character, Nick Naylor doesn't lie, he filters the truth.

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29/10/2013 03:11 par tellurikwaves

                                             Robert Duvall : Doak 'The Captain' Boykin

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Trivia/Autour du film

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-One of Sam Elliott's conditions to do the part was to have him carry a rifle in a scene instead of the scripted shotgun.Jason Reitman agreed to change the script. When they were about to do the scene, Reitman realized that he had forgotten about the rifle and went to the prop wagon frantically hoping to find one. There were three guns laying on the tailgate, two shotguns and a rifle. When Elliott picked up the rifle, Reitman breathed a sigh of relief. He asked Elliott if he needed instruction on how to use it. Elliott declined and said that he knew how to use it because the rifle was his.
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-During the scene in which Nick and Joey are in the amusement park riding the Ferris wheel and are eating what appears to be ice cream, they are actually eating mashed potatoes. The reason for this being that during filming under hot movie lighting, actual ice cream melts too quickly to ensure continuity from shot to shot. The use of mashed potatoes is an old photography trick used commonly in the advertising industry, and is something infinitely more desirable than the other oft-used ice cream substitutes in film or photography:Crisco or Lard.
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-No one is shown smoking a cigarette throughout the entire movie. In fact, except in the black and white film that Naylor watches, no-one isseen even holding a cigarette. Naylor holds an empty packet and Robert Duvall holds an (unlit) cigar.
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-Leading up to its release, it was reported by numerous trade magazines that Tom Cruise had demanded a sex scene involving his wife, KatieHolmes, be cut from the movie. At the 2006 Hay-On-Wye book festival, Jason Reitman dismissed this report as complete rubbish, explaining that these reports came from the film's first festival screening where an overzealous projectionist had accidentally cut the scene when splicing the film together (an easy mistake to make, as the scene came at the end of a reel and followed a couple of seconds of black). At a Q&A that followed said screening, Reitman mentioned to the festival audience that there was a missing sex scene in the version they just saw, which was somehow seen by (equally overzealous) reporters as being a result of Tom Cruise and/or Scientology's involvement.
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-Sam Elliott wanted his character to refuse to take the money. Jason Reitman spent three hours persuading him to do the part as scripted.
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-Rob Lowe only worked a day.
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-17 minutes into the film you see an ad "More doctors smoke Alpacas than any other cigarette." This is a spoof on Camels cigarettes, which used that slogan on paper and on old time radio advertisements.
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-Sam Elliot's character is based on real "Marlboro Man" model Wayne McLaren, who contracted lung cancer, testified for anti-smoking legislation, and had the Phillip Morris Company try to deny he was in the ads. Two other models - David McLean and Dick Hammer - also died of lung cancer.
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-Jason Reitman wrote individual letters to each of the stars in the film telling them why they would be right for the part. Every one of his first choices accepted their parts and most thanked Reitman for his great letter.
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-The black and white film that Naylor watches is the end of Iwo Jima.
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-When Heather is watching Nick speak to the press on the TV (after the Washington Probe article), the name Theresa Greene is seen on a placard on one of the cubicles in the office. Theresa Greene was the art department coordinator for the movie.
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-Selected for the Deauville American Film Festival 2006.
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-Christopher Buckley (who wrote the original novel) can be seen at the metro station reading Heather's article about Nick.
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-When Nick Naylor is sitting with his son Joey Naylor waiting to meet Jeff Megall, they are watching BBC's The Blue Planet.
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-Finistirre, the last name of William H. Macy's character, is an alternate spelling of the word "finisterre", which was in ancient times the word used to denominate the edge of the flat earth. It means literally "end (finis) of the earth (terre)", or "land's end." It is also the name of the most western point of the Spanish region known as "Galicia", as well as the name of a French "département" located at the most western point of the country. In the french case though, spelling is "Finistère" but it has the same "end of land" meaning. The character's first name is "Ortolan," which could refer either to Ortolan Restaurant in Los Angeles or a mythical race of elephantine creatures in the Star Wars saga whose most recognizable member is the character "Max Rebo."
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-The Academy of Tobacco Studies building in DC is actually the Department of Energy (the Forrestal Building) on Independence Avenue, SW. The Academy's sign is superimposed over the actual Department of Energy sign.
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-The movie's title can be seen on a placard on B.R.'s desk.
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-When the rights for the film were first purchased in the 1990s, Mel Gibson was going to play Nick Naylor.
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-Michael McKean participated in a public reading of the film's script before it was produced.
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-WILHELM SCREAM: During the footage of the Kent State shootings shown while Nick describes Bobby Jay Bliss' background.
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-When Nick mentions how smoking was affected by the development of motion pictures, he briefly refers to a scene between Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The scene is from the movie Le port de l'angoisse.
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-Christopher Buckley's father, columnist William F. Buckley died of emphysema in 2008. One of Buckley Sr.'s last columns before his death was entitled "My Smoking Confessional", in which he wrote he'd ban smoking in America if he had the authority.
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-Dwayne Johnson was considered for the role of Nick Naylor.
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-William H. Macy came up with the line "The great state of Vermont will not apologize for its cheese". His original line was "Why you son of a..."(? koâ...of a bitch? ben dis le !)

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29/10/2013 03:00 par tellurikwaves

Autour du film
-Bien que ce soit son premier long-métrage comme réalisateur, Jason Reitman devait initialement réaliser In the Air, dont il avait commencé à travailler sur le scénario en 2002, mais repoussa ce projet et tourna finalement Thank You for Smoking. Quant à In the Air, il le tournera en2008 et le film sortira en 2009.

-Plusieurs acteurs apparaîtront dans les deux longs-métrages suivants de Reitman : Sam Elliott (In the Air) et J. K. Simmons (Juno et In the Air).

-Le film fit partie de la compétition officielle du festival du cinéma américain de Deauville de 2006.

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28/10/2013 18:45 par tellurikwaves

William H. Macy : Ortolan K. Finistirre
 

Cast (partiel)
Aaron Eckhart  : Nick Naylor
Maria Bello  : Polly Bailey
Cameron Bright : Joey Naylor
William H. Macy : Ortolan K. Finistirre
Adam Brody  : Jack
Sam Elliott : Lorne Lutch
Katie Holmes  : Heather Holloway
J. K. Simmons : Budd "BR" Rohrabacher
Robert Duvall : Doak 'The Captain' Boykin
Rob Lowe : Jeff Megall
                                   

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                                                       Rob Lowe : Jeff Megall

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Résumé Wiki
Nick Naylor est un surdoué de la communication qui travaille pour le lobby du tabac, Big Tobacco. Le film montre les péripéties de sa croisade pour ses patrons : redorer le blason de la cigarette, tout en désarmant ses adversaires les plus tenaces, par exemple le sénateur Ortolan K. Finistirre…

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Titre original et français : Thank You for Smoking
Réalisation : Jason Reitman
Scénario : script de Jason Reitman adapté
du roman du mm nom de Christopher Buckley
Décors : Steve Saklad
Décorateur de plateau : Kurt Meisenbach
Costumes : Danny Glicker
Photographie : Jim Whitaker
Montage : Dana E. Glauberman
Musique : Rolfe Kent
Casting : Mindy Marin
Production : David O. Sacks
Co-production : Daniel Brunt,
Daniel Dubiecki, Mindy Marin
Production associée : Eveleen Bandy
Production exécutive : Max Levchin
Société de distribution : Fox Searchlight Pictures
Budget : 7 000 000 $
Pays d'origine :  États-Unis
Langue originale : anglais
Genre : Comédie satirique
Durée : 92 minutes
Dates de sortie en salles :
Canada : 9 septembre 2005
(Festival international du film de Toronto)
États-Unis : 17 mars 2006
(sortie limitée) • 14 avril 2006
France : 13 septembre 2006

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28/10/2013 03:50 par tellurikwaves

Thank You for Smoking (littéralement « Merci de fumer ») est un film américain réalisé par Jason Reitman, sorti en 2006, après une présentation au festival du film de Toronto, en septembre 2005. Le film est adapté du roman épo..du même nom de Christopher Buckley.

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Résumé
Lobbyiste séduisant et ambitieux, Nick Naylor met son charme, son talent et son sourire carnassier au service de la société Big Tobacco pour contrer les ravages de la politique de prévention contre le tabagisme. De conférence de presse en talk-show télévisé, il défend l indéfendable, mais a du mal à convaincre son ex-femme qu'il peut être un père modèle pour son fils