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movie title offensive?

posted 17 years ago by Bluecher
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Would Hollywood accept a movie title like "The Ni g g er", The Ch i nk", "The K i ke", or "The G o ok"?

I don't think so.

Fun is a steel bath.

[–] thewholebrevitything 17 years ago

Shut up Limey.

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[–] DonkeyCorleone 17 years ago

I'm a 'limey' and the title isn't any more offensive than the French calling us 'Roast Beef'. The script made me want to throw up though, with its "let's speak cockney" lessons interjected throughout. Stamp's dialogue was extremely unnatural and forced in this film.

[–] lyricaldon 17 years ago

I loved this film, but I do have to agree with the forced cockney dialog in this film. Stamp did do well in this film though.
P.S I don't find the word 'Limey' offensive, I'm proud of being English and like the so called insulting nicknames. They are funny.

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[–] Cookster5 16 years ago

I'm English and I don't find 'limey' offensive. Possibly because the nickname originated so bloody long ago that its lost all meaning?

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[–] cinematographique 16 years ago

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399407/

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seems a house of leaves
moments before the wind

[–] blame_thatcher_2003-2011 16 years ago

Many of us younger limeys wouldn't even know that it referred to us.

§ “I've taught you to love chickens, to love their flesh, their voice.”

[–] lambrettaguy200 16 years ago

I'd agree about the cocker-nee from the guy from Enger-land.

I'm a Sweaty (note my pride - I used a capital S), but I lived and worked in London (including the East End) for over 20 years and I did cringe at the forced use of the rhyming slang in The Limey. Terence did try to make it sound his own, but it was a bit contrived. I would have loved him to explain arris or nooky or cobblers. I never even heard anyone use it down the rub-a-dub in Hoxton or East Ham where I lived, except for the odd venerable old word or phrase.

Gor Bimey Guv'nr and strike a light, that Sonderburgh's 'avin' a larf inay eh ? Bleedin' liberty taker !!

Just wait until I tell my friend Mary Poppins ! (But in the East End nowadays, it's Mary Poppadums)

"S h i t happens in mysterious ways, its wonders to peform"

[–] JG_Hennessy 16 years ago

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034405/

and I'm London Irish

..To think, I killed a cat
And might I say not in the gay way..

[–] mmagbee-1 16 years ago

As Terrence Stamp himself said, "It's like calling an American a Yank".
Big *beep* deal!
Get off your PC high-horse and worry about something that matters.

[–] Loomis_Orange 16 years ago

And I'm a N i g G Er and I don't find the word n I G g eR offensive.

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night? ~~ Jack Kerouac

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[–] Byzantine15 15 years ago

I agree. Yank, Limey, Canuck. Maybe the most thin skinned would find them mildly disrespectful. They just don't have the same history of oppression or animosity that the previously mentioned terms do.

"By God, I heard the crow call my name!" exclaimed Caw.

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[–] trickyrgg 15 years ago

yank and limey are simliar in that they dont offend but they are said as derogatory terms