The Mac Baren Movie

By 25-year-old Christoffer Boe.

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25-year-old Christoffer Boe certainly knows that. He is a trainee director at the Dansk Filmskole (National Film School of Denmark) and a passionate pipe smoker. What he yearns for is classic film genre and the classic pipe tobacco: Mac Baren Tobacco's Mixture.




"There is something special about the first time, he says. "In any case, I started with Mac Baren Tobacco Mixture and have smoked it ever since. When you're satisfied, why change? When it comes to the crunch, one is very conservative in these things: good experiences beckon you to return and enjoy them again and again. I cannot guess how many times I have seen Lars von Trier's films. I can never imagine changing my tobacco. Our work is a reward in itself and this is the motivation behind our actions."

Christoffer disagrees that there is a lack of pipe smokers in the film industry. Sherlock Holmes, Maigret - what detective with any self-respect solves a crime without smoking his pipe? Dan Aykroyd, Yul Brynner, Ronald Reagan: they are all actors and seasoned pipe smokers. The directors John Ford and Orson Welles created their masterworks with a pipe in their mouths.



"Then there are the stars Clark Gable, Cary Grant and Spencer Tracy who are among the foremost representatives of pipe smoking on the big screen. Movie heroes who do not smoke pipes nowadays do not do so, because their character has disallowed it. They have become action figures such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, who act before they think and use force before words - it is hard to imagine them going through a wall or mowing a couple of hundred people down and then lighting a pipe at their leisure. The amusing thing in all this is that both Stallone and Schwarzenegger are pipe smokers in real life!"

Christoffer Boe has himself made a small film in homage to pipe smoking and pipe tobacco and, of course, it revolves around Mac Baren Tobacco, his favorite brand. It is an excellent, lyrical short film, which tells the story of the firm from its founding in 1826 up until today. At the same time as this, he has done his best to capture the unique atmosphere and pleasure connected with pipe smoking in picturesque natural backdrops. When we have guests visiting Mac Baren Tobacco, his film is a permanent feature in the program with our common hero in the leading role: the pipe & pipe tobacco.