How to smoke like a bad guy, according to John Travolta Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction (1994): the 'cool and casual'

Blog Movies, Films, and Netflix has offered us some fascinating insight into the methodology of an actor. Because when Travolta wants to play a bad guy, he smokes; and yet the very art of his smoking serves as a surprisingly revelatory character tool. Vincent Vega, for example, is all about the effusion of cool. The casual switch between smoking styles: from the cigarette naturally resting between thumb and pointer finger to it resting between the pointer and middle finger in a scissor style. Yet, like Tarantino's own work, there's a level of self-consciousness there. Vega's a kind of showman, and his smoking reflects how he controls his own self-image. When he wants to intimidate, he'll smoke with a little more flair; he's far more relaxed when he's in the disarming presence of Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman).