Hobbit delayed by a year? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

***Mister Underhill*** · 01-03-2009, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Bb

Never seen it but given it's Bogey and Bacall, you've got me predicting just what activities preceded the smoking. Which has nothing to do with smoking in LotR of course.

Never seen The Big Sleep? I'm shocked that a movie aficionado such as yourself never caught it. Ah well, the main attractions are Bogie being Bogie and the sparks he strikes with Bacall onscreen. It works much better as a novel. Take out most of Chandler's lively prose and strip it down to bare plot and I'm afraid it's a bit difficult to make sense of.

Anyway, what made me post is to say that in a lot of those old forties movies there didn't have to be any particular "activities" as you so delicately put it to prompt smoking; everybody smoked like chimneys all the time. They'd wake up in the morning and reach for a smoke.

Morthoron · 01-03-2009, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Mister Underhill

Anyway, what made me post is to say that in a lot of those old forties movies there didn't have to be any particular "activities" as you so delicately put it to prompt smoking; everybody smoked like chimneys all the time. They'd wake up in the morning and reach for a smoke.

One of my favorite movies, 'The Quiet Man' with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara (directed by John Ford) also shows the differences in economics from then to now. John Wayne smokes about 100 cigarettes throughout the movie, but usually tosses them away after only a couple of puffs. With the cost of cigarettes currently (along with the taxes burdening each priceless pack), he would be much more careful with his tobacco treasures and savor each puff, only ruefully parting with them once reaching the baleful butts.

*Sniffs*

Lalwendë · 01-03-2009, 12:43 PM

Personally I think it has been delayed while all the British actors auditioned for the role of the next Doctor - now the 11th has just been announced they can start casting for The Hobbit

Morthoron · 01-03-2009, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Lalwendë

Personally I think it has been delayed while all the British actors auditioned for the role of the next Doctor....

Ummm...Doctor who?

*ba-dump-bump*

Sorry, it was there, I had to take it.

Lalwendë · 01-03-2009, 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Morthoron

Ummm...Doctor who?

*ba-dump-bump*

Sorry, it was there, I had to take it.

As the 10th Doctor might say, what? What? WHAT?!

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