{"id":4259,"date":"2019-04-12T21:23:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T21:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4259"},"modified":"2020-05-09T23:42:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T23:42:12","slug":"so-will-disney-ban-smoking-in-20th-century-fox-movies-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4259","title":{"rendered":"So, will Disney ban smoking in 20th Century Fox movies now?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Once upon a time, there was a LOT of smoking in Disney movies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Anyway, speaking of Disney, Disney just completed a purchase of 20th Century Fox, does that now mean there will be no more smoking in 20th Century Fox movies?<\/p>\n

This New York Times article points out that Fox has no such strict policy. And when asked about it, Disney bluntly had no comment on the matter. Interesting.<\/p>\n

From a New York Times article:<\/a><\/p>\n

Now antismoking advocates want Mr. Iger to extend that rule to all future youth-rated films (G, PG, PG-13) made by Fox and its Fox Searchlight specialty label, which are among the assets that Disney is buying from Rupert Murdoch for $54.2 billion<\/a>. Among other things, activists want \u201cgraphic health warnings\u201d added to youth-rated films in the Fox library that depict smoking \u2014 like \u201cAvatar\u201d and \u201cX-Men: Days of Future Past\u201d \u2014 before selling them on DVD or via video-on-demand services.<\/em><\/p>\n

The requests were made in a Feb. 20 letter to Mr. Iger that was signed by 46 activists and faith-based shareholders. Boiled down, the dispatch, which has not previously been disclosed, raises a broader question shared by some people in Hollywood: How accepting will the Magic Kingdom be of the button-pushing content offered by Fox, the home of the R-rated \u201cDeadpool\u201d superhero franchise, the violent \u201cPlanet of the Apes\u201d movies and \u201cThe Simpsons,\u201d the show that once produced an episode featuring a nicotine-laced variety of tomato called \u201ctomacco.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Activists are continuously pressuring studios over one cause or another, but Mr. Murdoch has frequently dismissed such efforts as political correctness run amok. Disney, on the other hand, pays extraordinary attention to its brand perception, which activists often try to use to their advantage.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe ask you now to follow your convictions, common sense and experience in keeping kids safe,\u201d the antismoking activists wrote in their letter, a copy of which was given to The New York Times by Jono Polansky, a policy consultant for Smoke Free Movies, an initiative at the University of California at San Francisco. \u201cAmid the myriad details involved in a corporate acquisition of this size and complexity, Disney cannot afford to leave young people\u2019s health and lives unprotected.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Tom McCaney, associate director of corporate social responsibility for Sisters of St. Francis<\/a>, an activist order helping to lead the antismoking effort, said that Disney\u2019s response to the letter was unsatisfactory. \u201cDisney told us it wasn\u2019t appropriate to discuss until the Fox deal goes through,\u201d Mr. McCaney said. \u201cWe disagree.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

PS — that brief smoking scene in Avatar was wildly controversial, because there is absolutely no point to it. There is absolutely NO reason for it to be in the PG-13 movie, which anti-tobacco advocates loudly pointed out. And director James Cameron lashed out, basically saying, “don’t tell me how to do my job, man…”<\/p>\n

The article I believe had a minor error, pointing out that Deadpool and X-Men were actually Fox Studio movies. Yes, they were, but they were also Marvel properties and my understanding is that Disney’s smoking ban applied to all Marvel properties, even those Marvel properties being made by other studios. So if you noticed in the Deadpool and Logan movies … no smoking. Except ironically, Deadpool does smoke one<\/em> cigarette briefly in Deadpool 2 to commit suicide by using it to light a gasoline bomb. In the director’s commentary, Ryan Reynolds said they went back and forth about whether Deadpool should be smoking a joint or a cigarette before committing suicide, and they decided on a cigarette since he’s in the middle of killing himself anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyway, speaking of Disney, Disney just completed a purchase of 20th Century Fox, does that now mean there will be no more smoking in 20th Century Fox movies? This New York Times article points out that Fox has no such strict policy. 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