I counted the amount of F-Words in this movie and there's 429 and if anyone can try to prove me wrong they can actually watch the movie and stop screwin around.
Movies like this suck like when they rely on audiences that rent movies for this *beep* language. I mean casino was tolerable because it at least was entertaing and had a good plot but this one is like a *beep* comedy for the poor. Thats all i have to say.
You use it yourself. A sensible answer to your question (though it hardly deserves one) is "As many as required, as long as you're not a puritan".
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But...the point is that these people did. The people that Mr. Oldman was associated with in the neighborhood where he grew up, did. It was a movie about those people (generically). It shows what it was like, for him; his experience; not yours.
Sorry. I just can't understand why people don't get that. If a movie was made about Winston Churchill, would the actors not use the same type of language, accent, etc., used by him and the people he was associated with?
It's understandable that people do not like profanity and I certainly do not. But there is a difference in using profanity in a movie just for the sake of profanity and using it realistically. Also, Gary Oldman withstood considerable financial hardship to make this movie as he saw it. I hardly think he had to try to "get away" with anything.
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I just finished writing a movie and in it the F-word is said 506 times. I'm going to go back and add it in a few places. And it takes place in America, not Europe.
Also, I've heard that they say it more than 500 times in this. Or am I mistaken?
What's this movie of yours about? (and how many pages is it?) 506 is quite a lot, and if you use the F-word every other word (or every line), you're likely to have your audience lost in the vulgarity, instead of the point they're trying to make. (really, if you're trying to earn an impact with some of those lines, it might not work, since the audience is already numb to it. (watch "Good Will Hunting" to see what I mean. There is a fine example of some the most gratuitous F-words in a film))
The common statistic is 470, but I haven't seen this. You might actually have to grab ahold of the script and count it from there (or read the closed captioning, or something), I don't think that for a film like this, you'll EVER get an accurate count. There's no doubt that it's probably the most uses of the F-word in a film. (and possibly the most uses of the word "c-nt" (which even I would consider to be a very coarse word (the F-word is quite common in my daily vocabulary)): 42)
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Captions wpn't help you count them, most captions skip some swear words and change the dialogue slightly to fit the screen. I'll definitely see this though, given Oldman is a movie genious. Man, I thought Pulp Fiction was vulgar......this must be much worse. Well, gotta go watch Leon and The Fifth Element back to back, bye....
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Good Will Hunting? Whatz the matter with you. Most gratuitous? You aint seen many movies than have you. GWH is like rated M here, "for mature audiences" thats like a PG-13 in the US.
The C word is apparently the last taboo word in the US. It rarely is said more than once in American films, when it is said it is usually said for shock value (Casino, Silence of the Lambs, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest). Australian movies 'Wolf Creek' and 'Bad Boy Bubby', as well as Scottish 'Trainspotting' and English 'Sexy Beast' all have amusing use of the C word. I don't think its as offensive in these places as in the US.
Heres a tip, when watching a movie, consider placing it in context, for example: maybe other countries have different (verbal) habits than Americans? Another tip is 'read the MPAA's rating advice' i.e: "Rated R for graphic drug use, NON-STOP STRONG LANGUAGE, brutal domestic violence and some nudity."
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hi dawson24348
well im surprised that you had the time to count the amount of f-words in this film and did not appreciate what a brilliant film it is. i grew up and was brought up in exactly the same area as portrayed in the film and obviously you have never been to this area or anywhere like it by the way you categorise "beep comedy for the poor"-what does that mean?
watch the film again or better still pay a visit to south london-you never know, you may like it
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Good grief. As many other posters have pointed out, that's how "we" speak in areas of the UK. Its not all Mary Poppins and Merchant Ivory period dramas over here you know :)
Whilst I'm articulate and fairly well-spoken, when I return to some of the areas I grew up in, I can easily sound just like the characters in the film. It makes me laugh... but that's just the way it f**king is alright?
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Did Brits always say "f u ck" or is it fairly recent? Seems like it used to be "bloody," or maybe that was just for the movies back in the day. You almost never hear bloody in a UK film anymore. I wonder if so much use of "f u ck" is mostly from watching US films? (If the real word gets changed to *beep* that was done by the administrators.)
sharesemi-buff - are you serious? We did NOT get the word from the U.S.A, it has been in the English language for several hundred years before the U.S.A even existed!
shareSemi-buff, thats so an American thing to think. Because most of the MOVIES you have seen that are English use the term 'bloody' and not F UCK, you assume pommies don't use it. RAFL!!! So American, get your education from films!!!
share"Did Brits always say "f u ck" or is it fairly recent? Seems like it used to be "bloody," or maybe that was just for the movies back in the day. You almost never hear bloody in a UK film anymore. I wonder if so much use of "f u ck" is mostly from watching US films? "
Yeah, the word is actually English, AFAIK short for "Fornication Under Consent [of the] King" way back when we had some obscure rules/laws hundreds of years ago.
And to reiterate, yes there are people all over the UK who speak like that, I'm from the east end of Glasgow, Scotland, and I'm pretty much immune to most "vulgar" language, it's just so commonplace.
I'm pregnant atm, and *beep* myself because I know I'm going to slip up and swear in front of the kid and teach it bad manners and I really have to concentrate not to, because unfortunately being around other people who talk like that sort of makes you replace other, more descriptive words in your vocabulary for all the F'n Bstrd Cnting Shyte you can think of.
(For example I've had to go through this post after writing it and change over 10 swear words to other adjectives that I didn't even notice while writing it the first time :P )
Obviously replace *beep* with the word we're talking about here.
shareDawson, you actually counted the amount of times *beep* was said. You're one sad *beep*
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