TV & Movie Drinking Tuesday, December 12, 2006
#1
Posted 12 December 2006 - 05:59 PM
You've seen it. An actor or actress will lift up a glass of hard alcohol (usually brownish in color), take a sip and then overreact to it in the following manner. First, the person will turn their head to the left or right while puckering their lips and squinting their eyes. Next, the actor or actress will swallow the liquid. After that, the actor or actress will exhale sharply, usually followed by a light or heavy cough. Finally, they will say something like, "Wow," or, in the case of Chevy Chase, mutter something completely unintelligible like, "Hot jamamma woo woo." (The latter may also apply to Martin Short or Steve Martin.)
This, much like the Samuel L. Jackson thing, had been annoying me for a really long time but I was reminded of it most recently when I saw Cousellor Troi drink unconvincingly in Star Trek: First Contact and finally last night while watching a god awful Lifetime Christmas movie where a bride can't get to a wedding and she finally gets a ride with a biker gang and then some Vietnam veterans fly her to the church during a blizzard (seriously, check it out).
The thing is, no one drinks like this. Often times they portray a businessman who drinks every day as drinking in this fashion. Someone who drinks daily is usually adjusted enough to not recoil from a sip of whiskey. Neither do regular people. I probably consume two or three tiny glasses of brandy on the rocks in the winter time when I have a bad cold or I'm looking to warm up on a particularly cold evening. I've never had my head shoot from side to side after taking a tiny sip of hard alcohol. Maybe pure grain alcohol would give an average person a bit of a shock, but regular 80 proof whiskey (while strong) shouldn't make a grown man or woman lose control of their senses.
This madness has to stop. I would like to hereby call to all actors to better hone their fake drinking skills. If you need to practice, just try replacing that water with actual hard liquor and look in a mirror at your actual normal human reaction. You'll find that there is little change in your facial expression other than an indication that there is a liquid in your gullet.
Good luck.
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#2
Posted 12 December 2006 - 07:01 PM
there's something classy about sir richard dangerous and sir adrian dangerous opening a bottle of gin by smashing the top of against the wooden liquor cabinet and pouring half of it into one vase and the other half into another dropping a couple of whole lemons into each and then adding a tiny splash of tonic water.
pure class.
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#3
Posted 12 December 2006 - 07:03 PM
When I drink it, I never get that reaction. I too can "throw it back" and I just swallow it. Nothing big. Maybe I'm not drinking the good sake.
#4
Posted 12 December 2006 - 07:11 PM
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#5
Posted 12 December 2006 - 07:19 PM
Hey, could be. I drink it to kill anything that maybe alive still on my sushi...
#6
Posted 12 December 2006 - 10:48 PM
I try and down my shots with decorum. Fling it down, face in neutral, clench teeth if needs be. Even if its something like Old Nick, which is apparently a punch, looks like cheap, undiluted orange squash, but tastes like how you'd imagine your piss to after drinking bad vodka AND bad tequila all night.
However, all bets are off when its Black Death Tequilla. That stuff should either be illegal, or used to fuel cars.
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#8
Posted 13 December 2006 - 12:48 PM
or perhaps one drink that might make anyone lose control.
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#9
Posted 13 December 2006 - 07:04 PM
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#10
Posted 13 December 2006 - 07:17 PM
#11
Posted 13 December 2006 - 08:36 PM
I'm with you 100% on that one. I just take my time in the restaurant and watch the Japanese ladies.
Few things in this state make me smile, that be one of them.
This post has been edited by Vesuvius: 13 December 2006 - 08:36 PM
#12
Posted 14 December 2006 - 06:55 AM
But I agree with you 100% on the pretty Japanese women.
This post has been edited by David-kyo: 14 December 2006 - 06:56 AM
#13
Posted 15 December 2006 - 01:11 AM
#15
Posted 15 December 2006 - 11:06 PM