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Do you have any Tobacco?..

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    freesharon — 19 years ago(February 13, 2007 07:17 AM)

    Good catch. Nobody really is a funny guy. I guess I'm ready to look this board over for new interpretations and then see the movie again. Want to add that this is the most respectful board I've found for any movie, actor, director, or writer. That alone indicates to me something profound about the value (or values) of the movie.
    "There are three sides to every story: yours, mine, and the truth." ~ Robert Evans

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      aviva00 — 18 years ago(June 25, 2007 05:56 PM)

      It was mentioned that tobacco is a sacred plant, but the line is used for foreshadowing and humour.
      Its not obvious on first viewing to some people that he's on his Journey so when Nobody asks him for tombacco, they think he wants a smoke We "whities" may make that mistake when we first see the film The irony, and the humour is that Nobody doesn't want a smoke - he's collecting it for the offering to guide the boat safely to the spirit world. The repetition makes it funny.

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        stoned_soldier — 18 years ago(July 21, 2007 03:02 PM)

        It's called a running joke/gag.

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          mediocredave — 17 years ago(August 25, 2008 06:02 AM)

          Why wouldn't the guy sell tobacco to Nobody? I mean, obviously on the surface it was racism, but where does that fit into the symbolic narrative?

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            nxgn_not_not — 9 years ago(April 07, 2016 12:14 PM)

            he wanted to sell nobody dis-eased blankets
            he was a pseudo-rel-ligious
            representation of what the takers
            did 2 those that would not pay taxes
            4 shur
            so 2 sell him sum tom-back-key
            wood go agin' everything he stood 4
            as a hater
            Hate is the key 2 the "Doc Ock" character
            as ill-lust-trated by the pen in the hand
            as 2 the thread
            pour Moi
            sum Tum-Bacc-Key
            is so so so nyo the Resin in "WaterWorld"
            the distant dream of a hoppier time
            but that's jus' moi
            Gelebt haben. Zu sterben, um wieder zu leben.

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              KenMishima — 9 years ago(May 29, 2016 02:35 AM)

              I don't think I've ever seen the English language so brutally deconstructed and annihilated than this instance right here.

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