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Gabsi Meriem
L2 - G1B
April 10 ,2013
Film review : Thank you for smoking , Jason Raitman 2005
Drawing the line between personal practice and personal morals is a complicated task when
your job requires you to have a thick skin and get the job done. Compromising the way you
live your life and the way you perform at work can make a person feel like a hypocrite.
So , finding the middle ground can, for some, take years and years of work in their field to get
right.
Also , nowadays image is everything and there is a familiarity between the consumer and the
product. Therefore, it is clear that in the art of persuasion through the mass media, imagery is
the foundation stone in essential techniques such as ethos and pathos. In the film, the
filmmakers have used the persuasion tools of a much higher level. The filmmakers did not
only single out one handsome man to represent the face of Big Tobacco Company, they also
made him a man of great drive, passion and character.
The film Thank-you for smoking is a masterpiece of the art of persuasion. Throughout the
movie, it is clear that the aspect of persuasion is widely used. The intention of both the writer
and the director is unquestionably an agenda of trying to convince the audience to conceive
the idea.
The movie is a satire, meant to point up the absurdities of socio-political behavior in the early
21st Century .
Set in the recent past, not long before Big Tobacco started cutting checks for its sick and
dying former customers, the film tracks the ups and mostly downs of a Washington lobbyist
who's consistently on the hunt for new and inventive ways to rebrand cancer sticks for public
consumption. Nick uses doubt like a weapon, building on the work done by his employer,
the Academy of Tobacco Studies which Mr. Buckley based on the Tobacco Institute, the
onetime trade association for the tobacco industry....