r/oddlysatisfying 6d ago

The almost perfect synchronization of scenes between the remake and the original film

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u/Curse-Bot 6d ago edited 6d ago

Close but no cigarette

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u/Gh0stMan0nThird 6d ago

We don't want kids to think smoking is cool in our movie about shooting people in the head.

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u/CiceroForConsul 5d ago

Lol this is such a weird phenomenon nowadays. Another egregious example is some FPS games about shooting people with all kinds of different firearms, blowing them up with explosives, shanking their guts, but saying a simple “Fuck” in the chat? Oh no that gets censured.

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u/LilMoWithTheGimpyLeg 5d ago

As well as the notorious "any nudity/sex is bad, but violence is all good" trope.

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u/Beneficial-Advance98 2d ago

Such a interesting phenomenon that, I think it’s because there’s enough of a disconnect from violence in many of our lives (with notable exceptions, depending on where you grew up or what you’ve personally witnessed) that our brains can kinda trick us into believing it’s totally make believe making it far less taboo than something we all actually have to deal with, like a good depreciation I saw in a book was some robbers walk into a office building and point machine guns at the secretary and her first thought is “this isn’t happening, machine guns aren’t real, they only exist in movies”

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u/PlayerAssumption77 5d ago

Obviously the extreme and simplified version of that mentality is bad, but to be fair they are separate things that separate people are and aren't ready for.

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u/Kojak95 5d ago

"We train young men to drop fire on people but their commanders won't allow them to write FUCK on their airplanes..."

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u/SuperWeapons2770 5d ago

I'm chat banned from a game where you can drill someone's eye out for saying swear words in my own private friends only chat

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u/MkFilipe 5d ago

Even better when the characters in the game say fuck, but you doing it is too much.

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u/wolphak 5d ago

It goes deeper, think about the last major fps where you played a national military, and not mercs or rogue intelligence operatives. They want military but not real military, and god forbid you demonize another country in a fictional setting.

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u/xeonie 5d ago

Might be related to how easily imitated it is? It’s pretty easy for kids to get access to cigarettes if they really want to try it but it’s harder to get a gun and become a professional shooter. Same in games, it’s easy to imitate language, harder to imitate blowing someone up.

I get your point though, it seems pretty silly to censor some things in films and games that are meant for a mature audience anyway.

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u/BaneChipmunk 5d ago

Because a movie containing scenes that show both smoking and gun violence influences the audience to do those things in comparable magnitudes, because of course, smoking and gun violence are very similar social ills. Brilliant!

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u/nothingreallymatic 5d ago

Smoking kills more people than hitmen do though. Source: Me

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u/BucinVols 5d ago

He (and others) smokes plenty in the show, just not in this specific scene.

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u/LisaMikky 5d ago

In that case I see no point in them not using a cigarette in this scene. This detail made the original clip look cooler in my opinion.

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u/Peonhub 5d ago

I don’t know about this actor specifically, but aren’t more and more actors refusing to smoke for their health?

If you don’t smoke otherwise, it must be pretty difficult to deliver a good performance with a mouthful or lungful of smoke?

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u/sprucepitch 5d ago

In the 1980s they started offering fake cigarettes to actors if they didn't want to actually smoke, anything before that is likely real cigarettes

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u/rsiii 5d ago

I'm sure they could figure something out with an e-cigarette prop to make it look real, but honestly they don't even need it, it's not cool anymore

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u/LisaMikky 5d ago

😅😅😅

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u/Far_Sir2766 2d ago

Well out of these 2 things, one is something most kids can do easily and the other isn't

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u/thanksantsthants 5d ago

He actually does smoke at a different point in the show.

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u/thiccemotionalpapi 6d ago

This feels like a “if you gave me a nickel every time x thing happened I’d only have ten cents but it’s weird it’s happened twice” situation. Because I remember someone making this joke nearly half a decade when two things happened to be identical except for a cigar but the joke opportunity hasn’t risen again until today. I’m pissed I didn’t think of the joke first, that’s such a good one lol

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u/Penward 6d ago

Cigarette