I've noticed that many films have trivia that lists how many times a certain word is spoken. Although I have no problem with the word, I was shocked at the amount of 'c' words spoken, or rather shouted, in this film. Anybody get a count on how many times it came out?
"Now you go get me a beer and a woman. I'll give that waterbed a workout!"
AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE
By my count the Big "C" is used about 35 times but the F-word is far more prevalent, coming in at around 225.
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Actually, I lived in London for a year, but rarely did I ever hear it uttered.
"Now you go get me a beer and a woman. I'll give that waterbed a workout!"
AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE
*beep* is used pretty commonly in England, the rest of the UK and indeed in Ireland.
shareSorry just had to reply because you have the same name as I, sort of.
shareTrue that--and, while it's still pretty vulgar, it's not nearly as taboo in the UK as it is in the US.
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I don't have a problem with the word but I felt it was far too overdone in the film, it was almost laughable and too forced like they were trying too hard to sound tough. it's like (I will use the words "Flipping" and "Carp" so they don't get bleeped) "You Fli.. You Flipping carp, I'll flipping do you you flipping, you flipping CARP! you flipping carp. You Carp!!! what do you thing I am a flipping carp? you flipping Carp, you flip ....you...you flip....you flipping CARP! CARP!!!!!" and that bit at the start where McDowell looks at the camera with the champagne and says "what do I look like? A *beep* that's so stupid. But I still like the film.
***"What are you going to do, bleed on me?"***
(the Carp thing let's me think about Tom Felton, never mind though :P)
I also think the F-word is laughable, but in a good way. It somehow just fits in the film to my idea :)
"Draco Malfoy is a slick-haired, evil, nasty little kid, really.” – Tom Felton
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F1uck off you flucking CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANT !
shareThat's one of my favorite scenes ever, when McDowell looks to the camera in the beginning sayin "What do you take me for? A CANT?!?", replying to the audience when he's about to drink from his champagne after he's been takin a pee near it. Love it.
shareHey, I've just found the same topic about "Sexy beast":
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203119/board/flat/21935202
They're both English films, maybe in the UK the "C word" is a more "fashionable" word than the "F word"!
Ah, actually I've just discovered that the writer of the piece at the base of "Gangster No. 1" is David Scinto, who wrote "Sexy beast".
I'm Winston Wolf. I solve problems.
ITALY CHAMPION OF THE WORLD! ITALY CHAMPION OF THE WORLD! ITALY CHAMPION OF THE WORLD! ITALY CHAMPION OF THE WORLD!
TILL I WILL LIVE, I WILL BE A REDBLACK! I WILL BE A REDBLACK! AND FOR THE MILAN I WILL SING, I WILL FIGHT!
These are cockney gangsters, not american puritans.
The tone and repetition of both cu nt and fu ck are perfectly natural and realistic.
If anyone doesn't like bad language, watch Mary Poppins instead of a British Gangster movie.
Many women, especially in North America consider it the ultimate obscenity, particularly when referring to anatomy. I read somewhere that it's from Old English and has the same linguistic origin as 'quaint'. Apparently it means 'the source' or 'the beginning'. Kind of charming when you think about it. Anyone confirm or deny?
shareI was just going to post this. I used to have big problems w/ the c-word but I really don't now. I don't say it but to hear it in films is no big deal.
In this one, however, I think it's usage is way too much. Then I thought about where they were from, but still any overusage of a word in a film is bad even if it is the f-word, or in this case the c-word. But Malcolm Mcdowell was great in this one.
The word 'Cunny' and cu nt were perfectly normal accepted words in Britain for a ladies 'front bottom' right up until about 200 years ago...then the bloody Victorians came along and loads of words and expressions deemed perfectly acceptable were then deemed 'unacceptable' and 'vulgar' and 'obscene' and it's because of that that words like *beep* and cu nt are now frowned upon.
In America cu nt (along with nig ger) are the two most taboo words on TV...over here we have whole comedy sketches based around the word cu nt
Check out the Wikipedia entry under 'cu nt'...
Personally if I watch a British Gangster Movie and don't hear some cockney geezer viciously spiting out the word CU NT then i get slightly disapointed. I am from the UK and think it is still in the top 3 most vicious swear words along with F and N, but it just seems even more brutal when said by an angry cockney. I think British people are more accustomed to swearing their heads off, like my parents would never hide swearing from me, whilst perhaps in the US ppl make a bigger deal out of profantiy (makes sense that they did that whole Sh!t episode of south park for example when the Brits wouldnt really do something like that)
Anyhoo great movie, the over use of swearing just added to the brutal and vicious tone.
I really don't see how a Brit villain spitting cu nt in every sentance is any worse than a 'gangsta in da Hood' in an American crime flick spouting 'muthafu cker' every other word...
shareExactly.
I'm from a certain city in the UK and there the word has no stopping power except in front of people's grannies, maybe.
It ruined the film for me because even gangsters didn't use it much at that time. Now is very different, but then? No way.
The problem I've noticed is that the vast majority of Americans just can't say the word with the right amount of emphasis. I recently watched the whole of Deadwood and with the exception of Ian McShane (obviously) nobody got it right. HBO got a lot of stick over the first episode, which was non-stop swearing.
But if you want a nationality that really knows how to swear check out the Dutch. Their equivalent is kut and you will find it all over the place.
I saw this film for the 1st time last night and i was quite shocked about the C word as like the others on here i havent a problem with it and i try not to use it if i can but it does get a bit much at times i know a lot of ladies dont like using the word
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the C word?
cancer?
kankerhoer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDJutaFuVD0
It shouldn't be considered to be as offensive as is it.
Quite interesting to consider that the accepted V word should be actually more offensive to women than the C word.