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In Reply to: It is all entropy... posted by Victor Khomenko on November 24, 1999 at 04:57:18:
I'm no prude and I've been know to cuss, sometimes frequently (most frequently when designing with a computer - plotters are truly evil, possessed devices), and occasionally the only rational response to some people is f*&# you, but for the most part I find cussing in movies to be gratuitous and a substitution for having to actually come up with intelligent dialog."Every once in a while there is a good new one too."
I don't see that many new movies. Usually see them after they are 2 or 3 years old. Of the movies I consider to be above average that I've seen in the last 3-4 years, only one of them has much cussing in them. To wit: Titantic, Braveheart, Apollo 13. Braveheart is one of only 3 or 4 movies I have on tape and will repeat watch. The fourth movie that springs to mind is older and every other word is a cuss word. "Fear of a Black Hat". A truly funny, low budget flick that parodies the parody "This is Final Tap". Note "Fear" is not a chick flick. Fear is a supposed documentary that follows a rap group on tour. In this context the cussing is sorta realistic as opposed to gratuitous.
If you want to really see an abuse of language watch "Hoffa" sometime. Being a Nicholson fan and a DeVito fan and from a blue collar, union family from Detroit, I was really interested in this movie. There was so much swearing in it I actually was embarrassed and ultimately bored by it.
***Fear is a supposed documentary that follows a rap group on tour. In this context the cussing is sorta realistic as opposed to gratuitous.Shall we say it is a realistic presentation of an extrem case of gratuitous use?
Needless to say, many realistic things hardly deserve to be shown on the screen. Realism is one of the lower forms of art. Unless it is the Social Realism - then it is few nothes below that.
"Shall we say it is a realistic presentation of an extrem case of gratuitous use?"Or an extreme presentation of realistic gratuitous use.
I shouldn't have used the term realistic. As a parody, everything in the movie is over the top. Still, its one of the funniest movies I've seen in years. Definitely not for everybody though. One of those movies I find to be intelligently written yet others would consider "trash" :-)
"Needless to say, many realistic things hardly deserve to be shown on the screen."
Couldn't agree more. Gore and blood come to mind, although as with "Fear" I make an exception for Braveheart. A very gory movie, yet well done.
"Unless it is the Social Realism - then it is few nothes below that."
Showing my ignorance - I'm not sure what you mean by this
Whatever. The official Communist Party sponsored school of art. Basically, the only allowable form for several decades.Amazingly, some artists managed to remain artists even during that era. But mostly many stupid paintings of Lenin and Dzerzhinski in a long menacing coat, workers hammering steel, proletarians fighting capitalists... Trash... you didn't miss much.
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