I'm working on a screenplay and my lead smokes cigars. What would he have been smoking in Germany and France in 1943? H.Upmann was not producing cigars during the war. Thanks for any help.
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Just note, however, that a Churchill sized cigar wasn't called that during WWII, it was called a "Clemenceau" (from the French Prime Minister during WWI)...
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Originally posted by rlkenney: I'm working on a screenplay and my lead smokes cigars. What would he have been smoking in Germany and France in 1943? H.Upmann was not producing cigars during the war. Thanks for any help.
Is the role of cigars in your screenplay similar to that in Hotel Rwanda where they actually talk about Cohiba and how good it is or is it more like in The Assassination of Jesse James where Jesse is constantly smoking a cigar, but always unbanded and never talks about the brand? Just curious.
Originally posted by Boknows: Is the role of cigars in your screenplay similar to that in Hotel Rwanda where they actually talk about Cohiba and how good it is or is it more like in The Assassination of Jesse James where Jesse is constantly smoking a cigar, but always unbanded and never talks about the brand? Just curious.
Both those are great films but The Assassination of Jesse James is one of my all-time favourites. I wonder what cigars he smoked.. _______________________________________________
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Is the role of cigars in your screenplay similar to that in Hotel Rwanda where they actually talk about Cohiba and how good it is or is it more like in The Assassination of Jesse James where Jesse is constantly smoking a cigar, but always unbanded and never talks about the brand? Just curious. [/QUOTE]
Excellent question. My lead (played by Hannes Jaenicke who's been featured on the cover of cigarclan.de)smokes cigars in his scenes in Poland (1943), and then picks up black market cigars in Paris (I'm thinking some kind of Cubans), and manages to replenish them in Marseilles. The woman he falls for loves the scent of something he's smoking. But what would that be??
I'd be glad to be more specific about what he's smoking. Would that entail production design on a label? A box? Or shall we go with unbranded? I could let this all go until we hit production, but it would be fun to be specific in the script. Also, Dutch masters are out. Found out they aren't really Dutch, they're US.
Thanks for the Hotel Rwanda mention. I'll have to go back and look at that.
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Originally posted by CrazyPoet: You can also contact the folk at the Gotham Cigar Museum - they have a lot of info about cigars that were available in that time-frame.
Perfect. Will do. Thanks for the lead.
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Originally posted by CrazyPoet: You can also contact the folk at the Gotham Cigar Museum - they have a lot of info about cigars that were available in that time-frame.
Great. I jsut went over there and sent them a note. Thanks.
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