Cigars in Cinema

[luckme10]

Cigars as they are Deplicted in Movies

Have you guys ever seen how things are deplicted in the movies and wonder why they are so inaccurate sometimes? As someone with a little familiarity with IT, watching computer hackers pick at a screen while the text flies by is always amusing. I mean I get it, hacking is a difficult thing and often quite boring to watch someone peck away on a computer.  Any way to make it look more entertaining in the limited amount of time they have is always going to be more understandable to the viewer. But smoking a cigar, really isn’t. And so when I see some things like this, it always seems to raise my eyebrows.

Take a look at some of the late, great, Sam Shepard’s shots in cinema. He just never seems to actually have the cigar lit.

Swordfish

 

Black Hawk Down



 

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Another shot that caught my eye was a fan released video of the popular game Uncharted that recently came out, starting Nathan Filion. One of the main characters, Victor Sullivan, who is Nathan Drakes sidekick, always has one lit in the games. He lights it with a zippo, and sort of gets a little smoke going, but not really enough to light the thing.

 

Here’s Independence Day, one of my personal favorite cigar smoking movies. Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum light the cigar up in outer space. 

 

 

Later they are seen walking back in the to desert. And the cigar was barely smoked:

 

Here's another independence day clip, with an unsmoked cigar:

 

Anyways, I just thought it was a fun little bit. And certainly wouldn’t stop me from watching future movies. Please let me know if you can think of any other instances that just seem off in cinema, in regards to cigar smoking or otherwise.
 

[mike74]

Brian Cox as Churchill: his cigars always looked fake, as they’d always been smoked the exact same amount. 

[Wilzc]

The latest Kingsmen had the bossman of the American branch sniffing cigars but never actually smoking then lolol


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[kalibratecuba]

When I was younger and interested in learning film, I learned about this topic. It has to do with takes, camera angles and reshoots. You don't want a cigar or cigarette gaining length during a shot.

I might have missed OP's point since I just woke up. You can likely find a clip where a director missed this and it ended up in the final cut.

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[luckme10]

Hmm, I guess I didn't think about reshoots and camera angles. So that makes sense. But I mean, I don't think it's always the case that the actor has an unlit cigar or a cigar that hasn't been smoked for awhile, or not properly lit, etc. In the opening sequence of Predator, Arnold lights up his cigar on the chopper and takes a small drive to meet the general. You can clearly see that he's smoked it down during the scene, considerably.

 

 

[mikeyjb]

My favorite actor! in my favorite genre!

 

[Cayman17]

One of my favorite cigar scenes.  Looks pretty authentic (although I’m not sure if you are allowed to smoke like that inside Naval ships).  “Don’t screw around with me, Maverick.”

[clutch5150]

Montecristo boxes in the background here in this epic classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjB8z0Bvi14

[joeypots]

Gary Oldman as Churchill. He won the best actor Oscar For The Darkest Hour. Haven't seen it. Word was that he went through loads of cigars for the shoot and that he got nicotine sick a few times. He was something in  Sid And Nancy  as well as  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

And my favorite. George C Scott as General Patton. It looks like he smokes three or four H Upman Julieta #2s in the movie. They don't make a movie like Patton very often.

[hedgeybaby]

Lovely stuff :

 

 

[filltang]

Can't forget Tony Montana... 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs8I_mlOG2Q