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They removed Gordon's cigar-smoking.

posted 9 years ago by Smug_Grinch
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Really? Lots of references to murders, taking drugs, bloody fist-fights, a woman showing her breasts (nips covered by swastikas), onscreen deaths (stabbed, bludgeoned, shot, throat slit with broken mug, death by Smilex gas). Then, they went an removed Gordon's cigar-smoking for the child demographic. That's messed up. This movie deserves a solid R-rating as-is, without any smoking references at all.

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[–] Zius_Maximus 9 years ago

You do realise that in the book, Gordon quits smoking, don't you?

[–] Smug_Grinch 9 years ago

Haven't read the book, but the idea that they pulled something as benign as smoking to protect kids in a movie where all this other stuff was happening just seemed absurd to me.

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[–] Zius_Maximus 9 years ago

Ah, fair call. Well in the book he stops smoking because his wife forces him to quit. So it's not so much Warner/DC protecting kids as honoring the source material.

Long Live Coulson!

[–] yvonneshusband 8 years ago

Gordon does quit smoking, nagged into it by his wife. But he is shown smoking in the book several times. I don't think they had nicotine gum at the time the book was written though.

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