Chainsmoking

December 27th, 2006Blog0 comments

I watched Good Night and Good Luck again recently — it’s such a simple and effective movie. Each sequence is an actor’s delight — tight, well-designed scenes full of great dialogue and confrontation. Plus everyone’s under hot, hot lights required for black and white film.

Also people smoke a heckuva lot in that movie. Even as a former smoker, my eyes were watering. But that’s part of the beauty and mystique of smoking, innit? To be cocooned in a curtain of smoke, hammering at a typerwriter with the filter clenched in your teeth — now that’s real grinding, my friend. Real, ass on the line grinding.