Dead Man - The Quest for Tobacco

I smoke, but am in the process of trying to quit, which is why I thought of this movie and the inordinate number of times the characters in it ask, "Have you got any tobacco?" I suppose if there's a 'message' in this montage, it would be that tobacco can kill as surely as a bullet...
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Dead Man is a 1995 film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch.
It stars Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Billy Bob Thornton, Iggy Pop,
Gabriel Byrne, Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Michael Wincott,
Lance Henriksen, and Robert Mitchum (in his final role).
The movie is something of a Modern Western, dubbed an
"Acid Western" by director Jarmusch, which includes twisted
elements of the Western Genre. The film is shot entirely in
black-and-white.

Dead Man is the story of a young man's journey, both physically and
spiritually, into very unfamiliar terrain. William Blake travels to
the extreme western frontiers of America sometime in the 2nd half of
the 19th century. Lost and badly wounded, he encounters a very odd,
outcast Native American, named "Nobody," who believes Blake is actually
the dead English poet of the same name. The story, with Nobody's help,
leads William Blake through situations that are in turn comical and violent.
Contrary to his nature, circumstances transform Blake into a hunted outlaw,
a killer, and a man whose physical existence is slowly slipping away.
Thrown into a world that is cruel and chaotic, his eyes are opened to
the fragility that defines the realm of the living. It is as though he
passes through the surface of a mirror, and emerges into a previously-unknown world that exists on the other side.

Cast:
Johnny Depp...William Blake
Gary Farmer...Nobody
Crispin Glover...Train Fireman
Lance Henriksen...Cole Wilson
Michael Wincott...Conway Twill
Eugene Byrd...Johnny 'The Kid' Pickett
John Hurt...John Scholfield
Robert Mitchum...John Dickinson
Iggy Pop...Salvatore 'Sally' Jenko
Gabriel Byrne...Charlie Dickinson
Jared Harris...Benmont Tench
Mili Avital...Thel Russell
Jimmie Ray Weeks...Marvin, Older Marshal
Mark Bringleson...Lee, Younger Marshal (as Mark Bringelson)
John North...Mr. Olafsen
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[ElKilla1993]

Not makin me wanna quit. Makin me wanna have another.

[TerrapinStation5]

@ElKilla1993

...which is exactly the point of the video.

[roddy76to86]

That does it, I'm giving up smoking !

[TerrapinStation5]

@roddy76to86

Good luck to the both of us. ;-} Quitting really sucks tho...sometimes the stress level reaches the point where I don't know whether to shit or wind my watch ! (see 0:46-1:03)... have done that a few times.

[dksdestiny]

"Stupid F***ing white man...........

[dksdestiny]

@honorwoundedknee Thank you. Glad to see I wasnt the only one who got it. Aho!

[dksdestiny]

He asks for tobacco because the natives use it as an offering to the Great Spirit. Its very valuable to them. They just carried it through. I watched it with frieds. The natives got it the white men didnt :P

[honorwoundedknee]

tobacco is sacred and necessary to offer in his journey to the spirit world

[roddy76to86]

@TerrapinStation5

Hang in there !