I counted at least four times in the film where Lange lights a cigarette, then looks to be removing something from her tongue right afterwards. Anyone notice that?
shareMy aunt used to smoke non-filtered cigs and did that same motion to remove the bit of tobacco that was left behind after each drag.
"Hey, I should be mad at YOU . . . now turn around."-Bender/Futurama
She does the exact same thing in Crimes of the Heart when she smokes in that movie.
shareYes, I did notice because she did it regularly. I've noticed smokers doing that to remove bits of tobacco off the tongue. It may've ended up as a quirky habit of her character - probably a conscious decision on Lange's part. It's a small, expressive physical gesture that makes a portrayed character seem more authentic. Perhaps Lange understood this gesture to be one of Farmer's too.
"Don't get chumpatized"! -The King of Kong (2007)
Non filtered cigarettes. If you don't tap them and compact the tobacco you can get some in your mouth.
shareShe's just smoking non-filtered cigarettes, as others have said. You tend to get bits of the tobacco leaf on your tongue if there's no filter. I've seen photos of Frances Farmer when during her institutionalization years, and in many of them she is smoking thick cigarettes that you can tell are hand-rolled. That's how they did it back in the day; I don't believe pre-rolled filtered cigarettes became the norm until the fifties or sixties. Unfortunately, it's also probably why she died of esophageal cancer at 56.
shareI did! At first I thought it was clever but she kept doing it.
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