Nica Javier CRITHIN A62 Ms. Hazel Biana August 5‚ 2013 “Thank You for Smoking” film viewing Identifying fallacies paper. The movie‚ “Thank You for Smoking” is a comedy with a tobacco industry lobbyist‚ Nick Naylor as the lead. The movie has an eerie comic theme which tackles the serious issue of the addicting substance of tobacco‚ or to be more specific‚ nicotine. The idea which the movie was trying to portray was that this lobbyist was a great speaker who is able to manipulate many
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Thank You for Smoking is a both fierce and sophisticated satire written by Jason Reitman. The moral of the film is on the matter of cigarettes and cancer and how it is associated with the responsibility of choice. Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart) leads as a lobbyist for Big Tobacco who will fight to protect America’s right to smoke -although it may kill him and others. Nick does not take sides in the matter‚ but rather spins the situation around in which makes all others wrong. Although the realistic
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hunting the birds is in play. On one side are the French‚ who wish to continue the trapping of the ortolan; an extravagant and traditional delicacy. On the other side are the Cypriots‚ whose financial struggles lead them to hunt down migrating songbirds in order to make a living. Essentially‚ because of the high status of French cuisine‚ some of the articles and the book display a sympathy towards the ortolan hunters‚ while the Cypriots are seen as criminal in a different article. What the authors of these
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Would You Bet Your Life On The Bottom Line? “Thank You For Smoking” is a satirical comedy which is graceful‚ yet brutal. This film targets the pro-tobacco lobbyists‚ who would like the public to believe that smoking cigarettes is not harmful. It stars Aaron Eckhart as Nick Naylor‚ who is the spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies. The opening scene starts with Nick appearing on "The Joan Lunden Show‚" sitting beside a bald-headed boy named Robin‚ a 15-year-old boy dying of cancer‚ but who
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plays Nick Naylor‚ a lobbyist for Big Tobacco who uses rhetorical appeals to defend cigarette companies against Senator Finistirre’s crusade to place a “poison” skull and crossbones sticker on all boxes of cigarettes. Throughout the film‚ Naylor‚ Finistirre‚ and other minor characters provide countless examples of logos‚ pathos‚ and ethos in their persistent debate over the controversial issue of tobacco use in today’s American society. Nick Naylor’s uses of logos as a rhetorical device is obvious
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be found inThank You for Smoking during a scene where Nick Naylor delivers an argument against putting a skull and crossbones label on every pack of cigarettes. This is done during a hearing in front of a congressional committee lead by Senator Finistirre from Vermont. Naylor’s audience is the committee and members of the audience including his young son. Naylor is defending a controversial idea with controversial evidence and support‚ whether it goes against what he believes or not. Naylor’s own
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In the movie "Thank You for Smoking" the smoking industry is coming under the attack from Senator Finistirre over putting a skull and crossbones on all the packs of cigarettes. The smoking industry has created the "The Academy for Tobacco Studies" with researchers to prove that there are no problems with smoking. The main character Nick Nalor’s job‚ the chief Spokesperson for Big Tobacco‚ is to discredit all the problems associated with smoking to the public. He had a relationship with a reporter
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There’s something exhilarating about watching a clever liar in full‚ resplendent flight. Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhardt) has what he cheerfully describes as a "challenging" job: he represents the interests of the tobacco industry in a world that generally considers the product reprehensible. At the beginning of "Thank You For Smoking‚" Nick is getting ready to defend himself on the Joan Lunden talk show‚ in the company of anti-smoking do-gooders and a cancer-stricken‚ bald teenaged boy. Did I say
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movie a very important quote said by Nick Naylor is one that said; “ We can put the sex back in the cigarettes.” That quote came out when the board of the academy for tobacco studies was in session due to the threat posted by the Vermont Senator Ortolan Finisterre‚ an important critic against cigarettes usage in the United States. The threat against all of the tobacco companies was a year after the announcement every package of cigarettes must contain a picture of skull and
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