Post by ellynmacg on Nov 17, 2019 3:50:16 GMT
One less pleasant thing I notice about the older films--which continues to be true up until, I think, about the early nineties--is how much more the characters smoked. They probably drank a lot more, too, but for some reason, I find the constant use of ciggies, pipes, etc. more jarring. My gosh, it seems like every couple of minutes, somebody (not just male, but female, too) would light up. 
One darkly amusing note to this: bad girls smoked more than good ones, and a dead giveaway for the naughty girls is the way they usually exhaled the smoke: through their nostrils. When nice (or nicer) girls smoked, they usually exhaled through their mouths.
One darkly amusing note to this: bad girls smoked more than good ones, and a dead giveaway for the naughty girls is the way they usually exhaled the smoke: through their nostrils. When nice (or nicer) girls smoked, they usually exhaled through their mouths.
