How the wolf of wall street broke movie swearing record. Wolf of wall street isnt the first time scorsese, 71, has dabbled in the profane. List of movies with the highest number of fbombs dropped. Uncut gems has the seventh most fwords in movie history. These are the 10 films with the most uses of the fword. To get the allimportant pg rating from the mpaa, screenwriters can use quite a fair amount of salty language, but for most films you get one use of the fword in a nonsexual context. That expletive was used in this movie 269 times, which puts it ahead. Scorsese has broken his own record vegas gangster epic casino 1995 was a record breaking swearfest at the time of release, containing 422 uses of the fbomb including in the narration 2.
The use of profanity in films has always been controversial, but has increased significantly in recent years. List of films that most frequently use the word fuck wikipedia. By their count, there are 408 uses of the fword alone. The 14 sweariest, most foulmouthed films in history. Through a perfect storm of circumstances far too lengthy and tedious to explain, i found myself without an easy backup from which to restore, and my hosting provider found themselves unable to restore my site from the weekly server images that they store every week.
Im not sure who did all the counting, but clearly it was time well spent. The wolf of wall street almost has the most fwords in a movie posted on january 12, 2014 by metro leonardo dicaprio shouts out at least a couple of the purported 544 fwords dropped in. Q2kkrd timestamps below be sure to visit our suggest tool. A film student who is obsessed with the movie grave encounters sets out with his friends to visit the psychiatric hospital depicted in the original film.
Could you edit to include what the movie was that first used the f word rather than relying on the link which may. The nwa biopic straight outta compton has launched itself into notoriety with it being courting controversy from filming all the way through to release one of the things that has slipped under the radar of the reaction to the film is that it has made ut onto the list of films that have dropped the most fbombs in movie history. Though it said the f word at least 100 times, bey was in it for only 30 or even less minutes and proceded to say the f word, not including cuss words, 12 times. Why does the movie industry use the f word in most of. Mirror mirror, the movie i should have seen even though its a kids movie was mirror mirror, at least according to joanna. The list contains the best, new and most relevant uses the word fag movies ordered by relevance. Top 10 uses of the fword in non rrated films youtube. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, sexual, humorous, serious, semi serious and touching films and tv shows about with uses the word fag, gay, gays and lesbians, gay kiss, gender, gay slur, homosexual, coming out, love and romance and gay sex plots mostly in drama, romance and. The use of the word fuck in film draws particular criticism. Movie with the most times the f word is used yahoo answers. Perhaps one of the most interesting and colorful words in the english language today is the word fuck. List of films that most frequently use the word fuck. The reason that filmmakers and writers use the f word.
Why do some movies include only one instance of the f word. The same fword expletive is used 506 times an average of 2. The highest movie on the list of top grossing movies of all time that has an r rating is the passion of the. Fuck, according to wikipedia, is thought to be the taboo word used most in american film and boy does it get used. From the start the director justin lin and the writer dave collard knew they wanted their movie to be rated pg. Martin scorseses the wolf of wall street caused headlines upon release for its sweary, sordid content but did you know its not the film with the most uses of the fword. In 55 days at peking about 2 hrs and 20 min in an off screen voice uses the f word in haranguing his men to put out fires with buckets. It should be noted that the exact number of fword usage in the wolf of. But in the movies especially in the last three or four decades its become a case of almost anything goes. Coming attractions for you 2020s most anticipated movies. However, the biggest gripe the mpaabbfcother variants have is the use of the word fuck in a sexual context, or as a verb. If ever there was a situation that called for the fword, id say getting fking stranded on mars would be it.
Movies with the most f words a list of 15 titles movies you cant help but like a list of 10 titles movies to watch when youre drinking with your buddies a list of 10 titles see all lists by. This is a list of non pornographic, english language films containing at least 150 spoken uses of the word fuck or one of its derivatives, ordered by the number of such uses. The 10 films featuring the most swear words have been revealed in a new survey. About a week and a half ago, the server which listology lived on suffered a catastrophic failure. We ranked every tarantino movie by the amount of cursing.
Uncut gems has the seventh most fbombs in movie history. The movie is technically first with 935 instances of the word scorseses wolf of. Movie with the most times the f word is used i just saw cadillac records because i am a huge beyonce fan, and i loved it. One movie thats tipped to pick up a respectable handful of awards this season is wolf of wall street. This is how adam sandler and the safdie brothers win.
Uncut gems has the seventh highest use of the fword in movie history. Neither hold a candle to the single most fuckfilled movie of all time. Wait, they are not porn movies or adult films, but typical feature films. Interestingly the movie held the record for the most f bombs until 1999, and still holds the record for the word cunt, used a staggering 82 times.
Heres a fun little list courtesy of the folks at box office psychics that counts down all the movies released to date containing the highest number of expletives specifically, the most uses of the almighty fword. Best songs that say the f word the top ten best songs that say the f word. Some of the movies that blake has seen that are listed as containing the most use of the f word. The fbomb is dropped 506 times in martin scorseses new movie. The movie is a 2014 canadian comedy film directed by warren p. Out of all of the english words that begin with the letter f, fuck is the only word that is referred to as the fword. The movies with the most f words, visualized digg theres a general consensus that most pg movies only allow for the f word to appear once although there are exceptions, and that more than one fuck especially when used in a sexual context will land that movie an r rating. Why does hollywood have to throw the fword into movies. The wolf of wall street fword record scorsese film. Ive always found the mpaas battle with fuck to be incredibly weird, especially in how they allow it to be used once in a movie while still retaining a pg rating. It seems that hollywood is fascinated with the fword. At least three summer movies have taken advantage of what might be considered lax standards by slipping in a bunch of naughty terms.
Well, if recent anecdotal evidence is anything to go by, that has certainly changed. Uncut gems is apparently top 10 in alltime movie fbombs. The use of antigay slurs on the prolgbt fox show empire raises questions on whether such words should remain taboo on network television. Top 10 uses of the fword in non rrated films subscribe. Moves can only have someone say the fword once, any more than that and the movie could go from pg to a much more serious ranking.
Imagine a kids film has the c word and gets a pg rating, that is just wrong and it wont even be a kids movie, it would just have to be rated r, i never knew a pg rated movie would have the f word. The national reports that the heavy use of profanity, drug use and. Apparently, any pg film is allowed one usage of a nonsexual fword per script. Our friends at boxofficepsychics have pointed us to a listing of the films with the most instances of the f word. The most swearing in one film title was also previously held by gritty. Watchmojo presents the top 10 uses of the fword in non r.
Individual filmmakerswriters use the f word, and that would be for film that is going to receive a pg, r, or nc 17 rating. That is quite a lot of cursing, and now uncut gems joins that. Films with the most frequent use of the f word imdb. The film stars daniel radcliffe, zoe kazan, megan park, adam driver, mackenzie davis, and rafe spall and follows a pair of best friends who begin to have feelings for each other.
Roy clark says the fword is used hundreds of times in the film wolf of wall street, a sign of its growing acceptance in america. And at number one, the record holder for the most uses of the word fuck in a film is 2014s swearnet. The word is probably the most multifaceted word in our vocabulary, one that surprisingly holds. Tarantinos 1992 movie reservoir dogs actually takes the cake for the film with the most frequent use of the word fuck. Wolf of wall street sets a profane record usa today. The wolf of wall street almost has the most fwords in. The oscarwinning director has two other projects in the fword top 20, including casino 422 and. Heres a chart of movies that gave zero fcks about dropping the. The fword is uttered 506 times in the movie, variety reports. In contrast to the much ballyhooed use in first class, i found that one of the best uses of the fword in a 12a franchise movie isnt actually audible its just another of the rewarding. A brief fing history of profanity in the movies the fbomb is so commonplace in popular culture now that it barely even counts as a firecracker. Most use of the word fuck in a movie the movie blog. The wolf of wall street sets record for uses of the fword in a narrative feature. January 15, 2008 january 15, 2008 john campea comments.
Then you should stay away from jordan belforts memoir upon which the movie is based. Nil by mouth is gary oldmans directorial debut and probably the most unflinching british movie of the 90s. The word fuck has several meanings these days, it is not just a word to describe sexual actions but also to express anger, frustration, etc. They also knew they wanted to take advantage of their one opportunity to use the fword at the most pertinent point in the movie about a third of. Yeah, thats true, transformers 2007 and regular show does have curse words and they have a pg rating.
What i learned about using the fword in movies fun. Description of the uses for the f word this feature is not available right now. What is the first appearance of the fbomb in a movie. In the film, smith, tremblay and wells appear as themselves as they embark on creating a fully uncensored internet network. There are some words you just dont say out loud and the f word tops the list. Martin scorseses the wolf of wall street caused headlines upon release for its sweary, sordid content but did you know its not the film with the most uses of the f word. Swear words were muted, which made almost every sentence in the movie hard to understand, complained one disgruntled viewer. Here are four other films that would give censors a heart attack.
Experienced leaders have learned that mentioning the f word is. The 25 films that most frequently use the word fk pajiba. Leaders, in particular, are afraid to even think about the f word, much less say it in public. Seemingly, all that does is it prompts filmmakers to make their single use of it stand out as much as it can, kind of defeating. The wolf of wall street sets record for uses of the f. Sonoda, written, produced by and starring mike smith, john paul tremblay, and robb wells, stars of the canadian television series trailer park boys. Martin scorseses the wolf of wall street has set the alltime record for most fbombs dropped in a rrated film. The word fuck is thought to be the taboo term used most in american film.
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