why R?


jus wondering why...

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Come on. Every other word starts with 'f'. Of course it's rated R.

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Yeah, um, how about just EVERY line Williams speaks? LOL

My favorite: "fúck him, fúck them and fúck you.... (pause)... fúck YOU!!!"

(classic)

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Did you watch this movie? It's pretty profane.

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I remember being shocked by the language in this film when it first came out in 1981. I had heard plenty of "language" in movies, but couldn't remember being bombarded by the F-bomb quite as relentlessly. In fact, after all these years, that's all I remember about this film!

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You've obviously never seen SLAP SHOT. Had the record for most cuss words back in 1976.

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You've obviously never seen SLAP SHOT. Had the record for most cuss words back in 1977.

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A PG movie back then ....before 1984.....could maybe say the F word ...once throughout the film.

Any more....boom.....R rating.

PG-13 came about in the mid 80's ...like 1984 or 85....they can say the F word a few more times.

Ya gotta remember....Stand By Me ....which seemed more like an "pre-teen aimed audience" type of movie......was R....because of the language.

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This was one of the earlist films that contains pervasive language.

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jim--your post is an absolute classic.

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Raging Bull had pervasive language before this, but this Prince Of The City are good examples of early eighties films with a good deal of profanity. It was interesting to hear so much cursing in those earlier films. Sometimes actors just start cursing in improsived dialouge because there are a couple of curse words on the page. However, Sidney Lumet is casual about using profanity himself.

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LOL! Do you dopes really not understand what "pervasive language" means? What a couple of twits!

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because americans are afraid of the most common word in the world.

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the most common word in the world is probably "THE".....I used it twice in a short sentence before putting down a third time in quotations.

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"the" is not a word. its addition to a word.

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any thing that uses letters to make up something to say is a word.......it is indeed a word, and a pretty damned common one for what you call an "addition".

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