Thank You For Smoking Movie Extra Credit
The movie “Thank You For Smoking” showed a man, Nick Naylor, and his job as the
Vice President of the Academy of Tobacco Studies, in which he was supposed to inform the public on information of research into effects of tobacco. Yet since he worked for a tobacco company, he had to justify the positive side of a substance that was the cause of the most deaths in America. I didn’t really like the movie that much, but I did like the acting. I thought the main character who played Nick was very good at portraying a man who needed to be constantly on his toes in order to persuade people and convince people of the GOOD side to a substance that is viewed as so evil. I also thought William Macy did a great job portraying Vermont Senator …show more content…
There was such an outrage in this time period about the discoveries linking smoking to lung cancer and other such diseases, that people were willing to mess with the supporters’ lives. When
Nick was kidnapped, the people who kidnapped him stuck numerous nicotine patches onto his body, hoping to kill him (spoiler alert: he lived). They wanted to set the example that tobacco was bad and even harmed the people who defended it. I also really did like the relationship that
Nick had with his son, because even though many people didn’t agree with his job, he was able to teach his son important life lessons and tactics. For example, he taught his son the importance of argument vs. negotiations, and his son was able to use that on his mother (Nick’s ex-wife) to get him to be able to go to California with his dad. On this trip, Nick’s son was able to learn about his dad’s work and how his dad was able to convince people of such things that seemed impossible. I really didn’t like the end however, because it was not very climactic or resolving, yet I did like how Nick’s son was able to empower him by telling him to not give up
The movie “Thank You For Smoking” showed a man, Nick Naylor, and his job as the
Vice President of the Academy of Tobacco Studies, in which he was supposed to inform the public on information of research into effects of tobacco. Yet since he worked for a tobacco company, he had to justify the positive side of a substance that was the cause of the most deaths in America. I didn’t really like the movie that much, but I did like the acting. I thought the main character who played Nick was very good at portraying a man who needed to be constantly on his toes in order to persuade people and convince people of the GOOD side to a substance that is viewed as so evil. I also thought William Macy did a great job portraying Vermont Senator …show more content…
There was such an outrage in this time period about the discoveries linking smoking to lung cancer and other such diseases, that people were willing to mess with the supporters’ lives. When
Nick was kidnapped, the people who kidnapped him stuck numerous nicotine patches onto his body, hoping to kill him (spoiler alert: he lived). They wanted to set the example that tobacco was bad and even harmed the people who defended it. I also really did like the relationship that
Nick had with his son, because even though many people didn’t agree with his job, he was able to teach his son important life lessons and tactics. For example, he taught his son the importance of argument vs. negotiations, and his son was able to use that on his mother (Nick’s ex-wife) to get him to be able to go to California with his dad. On this trip, Nick’s son was able to learn about his dad’s work and how his dad was able to convince people of such things that seemed impossible. I really didn’t like the end however, because it was not very climactic or resolving, yet I did like how Nick’s son was able to empower him by telling him to not give up