Where’s the smoking? - Cruella (2021) Discussion

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

The movie was sanitized by Disney. You can't smoke in a Disney movie anymore, it's been that way for a while now.

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[–] blue1981 (6602) 3 years ago

But still, I think I’ve read the movie is set in the 70s and more people smoked back then.

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[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Did you not understand what I said? Disney doesn't allow smoking in ANY of their movies, even if a character is smoking in the script Disney forces them to eliminate it from the movie.

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[–] orangeflava (1736) 3 years ago

is there an article where they state this? when did this happen? what was the first movie to be sanitized by disney? got a link?

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[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9632487/Emma-Stone-reveals-cigarette-holder-missing-Cruella-Disneys-smoking-ban.html

Read about half way down and you see that the ban came to be in 2007

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[–] TandyMan (10434) 3 years ago

Her being a chain smoker would have actually helped this movie quite a bit, visually. I would have showed her as a kid having her first smoke after she joins the the other two in their lair. You know, if you were actually trying to make a great movie.

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[–] Pete314 (2474) 3 years ago

Yes, I can see that, Cruella as a chain smoker, but Estella as a non-smoker (starving for the next cigarette).

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[–] TandyMan (10434) 3 years ago

Ha. Even better. They definitely should have leaned more into that duality.

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[–] Otter (24464) 3 years ago

I partially disagree. Yes, it would have been authentic to the original character, and would have allowed them to address the unhealthy lifestyle expected of anyone working in the fashion industry. Models and other people in the fashion industry smoke a lot to kill the hunger pangs, and starve and take cocaine and adderall and whatnot to keep their weight down, a lifestyle that makes you look as gray and emaciated as the original Cruella by forty.

However, I think Emma Stone was good enough to get the job done without props like cigarette holders.

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[–] Macnickster (33) 3 years ago

Yup. god forbid someone smoke, that's bad. But having a trans character is perfectly acceptable for a childrens movie.

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[–] blue1981 (6602) 3 years ago

Seriously?

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[–] Macnickster (33) 3 years ago

Seriously.

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[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

I don’t think it made any difference to the character or the film and I certainly didn’t sit there thinking “this would be so much better if Emma was puffing away on a filthy dart”. To be honest I didn’t even notice.

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