Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cigarette Girl (2009 film)


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The result was keep. Liz Read! Talk! 07:26, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Cigarette Girl (2009 film)

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Only one notable review (and a barebones one at that), created by SPA for possibly promotional reasons. Admittedly didn’t look that hard but it’s a nano-budget ultra-obscure indie by a non-notable director with a cast of nobodies and only 47 “reviews” (ratings; actual reviews number like 5) on IMDb so I’m not inclined to waste my time looking. Dronebogus (talk) 09:15, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 12:17, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Google search does not reveal any more sources. Sungodtemple (talk) 12:54, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.  This film review is 190 words. The film review notes: "The sort of movie a young Russ Meyer would be making if he had digital cameras and were addicted to graphic novels, noir pastiche “Cigarette Girl” is a hot low-budget mess, but fun. ... Thesping goes frequently over the top, and tech credits offer a weird blend of invention and amateurishness, but the pic never bores."  The film review notes: "Because the film mostly is set in the crumbling inner-city, effects creator H.G. Ray is able to evoke a futuristic setting with minimal but effective touches. ... The lo-fi sci-fi feel places "Cigarette Girl" in the tradition of such countercultural and artsy future films of decades past as "Five" (1951), "Glen and Randa" (1971), Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville" (1965) and Truffaut's "Fahrenheit 451" (1966). "Cigarette Girl" loses some momentum during its concluding act, in part because descent into gunplay is such a familiar story resolution and in part because the low budget becomes more obvious as the action moves into the underpopulated nightclub."  The film review notes: "Cigarette Girl is a different kind of film for Mississippi native McCarthy ... McCarthy’s new film, by contrast, cuts back on spectacle while beefing up story. It also draws on a slightly different mix of cultural influences: girlie mags, trash cinema, and early rock-and-roll giving way to anti-hero comics, film noir, and gritty sci-fi. (Fritz Lang’s silent classic Metropolis is repeatedly referenced.)"  The film review notes: "By the end of this week, "Cigarette Girl" will have been passed around more often than a cigar butt in a hobo jungle. A futuristic film noir in fishnet stockings about a sexy nicotine addict in the dystopian Memphis of 2035, 100 years after the birth of Elvis, the movie is being projected, promoted, streamed and celebrated. ... Ingeniously crafted and beautifully shot on a very low budget, "Cigarette Girl" is only the latest in a string of McCarthy features and shorts that exposes an obsession with grindhouse cinema, comic books, rock and roll, Russ Meyer, Elvis Presley and Memphis pop culture and history."  The article notes: ""Cigarette Girl" is set in the year 2035, 100 years after the birth of Elvis. (Almost all McCarthy's films reference the King of Rock and Roll.) The title character is a glamorous-looking if much-abused rogue dealer who sells smokes at the bargain price of $50 a pack, undercutting the gangsters and "Clockwork Orange Mound" street hoodlums who control the illicit cigarette trade of the future. When the mob tries to snuff her out, Cigarette Girl kicks butt, filter-tipped and otherwise." </ol>There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Cigarette Girl to pass Notability, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Cunard (talk) 05:32, 15 August 2022 (UTC) </li></ul> Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  11:15, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
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 * Keep - Great work Cunard MaxnaCarta (talk) 13:10, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep as above, great job finding those! Oaktree b (talk) 14:55, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep as has substantial coverage such as reviews in multiple reliable sources as identified by Cunard above so passes WP:GNG so that deletion is unnecessary in my view, Atlantic306 (talk) 19:44, 17 August 2022 (UTC)


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