This document discusses 6 movies where smoking plays an important role in certain scenes: The Graduate, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Girl, Interrupted. In each movie, smoking helps establish character, build tension or awkwardness, and punctuate pivotal moments through the visual of a character holding a cigarette.

1. Six Movies Where Smoking
Steals the Scene
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2. 1. The Graduate

3. Mrs. Robinson
probably wouldn’t
look quite as demure
– and, well, let’s say
it: seductive –
without a cigarette
dangling between her
fingers.

4. 2. The Good, the Bad, and the
Ugly

5. It can seem like
Blondie is chewing
on the same ratty
cigar for the entirety
of the film, but
nothing punctuates
a shoot-out like that
single, swift
readjustment at the
end of this scene…

6. 3. Pulp Fiction

7. It’s easier to punctuate
sentences in that
awkward silence with a
cigarette. You’ll note
that it’s sometimes
important for actors to
have something to do
with their hands – we
don’t want things
getting too awkward,
after all…

8. 4. Goodfellas

9. De Niro doesn’t get
anything in this
scene except a
cigarette, his eyes,
and a badass tune.
That’s all the master
needs, though.

10. 5. Fear and Loathing in Las
Vegas

11. It’s hard to imagine
Depp’s Hunter S.
Thompson without a
massive cigarette
holder clenched
between his teeth,
seemingly never
smoking it, just
holding on from start
to finish like it’s the
only thing of
permanence in the
entire film.

12. 6. Girl, Interrupted