# Best Use of Swearing in Movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 2, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894 "2011-04-02T00:58:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/21 "2011-04-02T03:38:32Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > [Kick Ass](http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/kick-ass/hit-girl-red-band-trailer?guid=ON): “Ok you cunts. Let’s see what you can do now.” Aw, **silenus** beat me to it. I laughed my ass off at that movie. Esp funny was The Banana Splits theme song being played during one of Hit Girl’s rampages. I heard complaints about it though - “what’s with the corny cheese song being played during the fight scene?!” I tried to tell them, “but it was the banana splits! Playing that song made that scene extra hilarious!” But much of the movie’s audience was/is too young to remember who The Banana Splits were - let alone any theme song. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/22 "2011-04-02T03:40:51Z")
I loved the use of pinyan Chinese in the ‘Serenity’ movie \. Always fun to have a dictionary on hand so you can tell just WHAT they’re saying, like this one… [http://fireflychinese.kevinsullivansite.net/](http://fireflychinese.kevinsullivansite.net/) I just enjoyed filling in the blanks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/23 "2011-04-02T03:49:03Z")
User name reflects my bias, and no disrespect to the great R. Lee Ermey, but the greatest swearing is below (cribbed, of course, from the first movie): [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/W-xKUU5sWS4/hqdefault.jpg "Jay's Rap") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-xKUU5sWS4) So endeth the lesson. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/24 "2011-04-02T04:15:24Z")
I get to be the one to mention [Pulp](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec-8mD_BhrU&feature=related) [Fiction](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-7f7vVCqvI&NR=1)? ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/25 "2011-04-02T04:17:53Z")
“You fuck my wife?” from **Raging Bull.** ---
**Author:** ![Suil\_Dubh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@Suil\_Dubh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suil_Dubh)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/26 "2011-04-02T04:19:19Z")
“How shall we f\*ck off, oh lord?” [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uMJYQ9LKGQ) ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/27 "2011-04-02T04:27:29Z")
_Full Metal Jacket_ wins the thread for all time, but I submit [this scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIvJHvaZO98) for 2nd place. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/28 "2011-04-02T04:29:18Z")
“Did you order the code red?” “YOU’RE GODDAMNED RIGHT I DID!” ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/29 "2011-04-02T04:49:30Z")
_Goodfellas_ for menacing swearing. _You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it’s me, I’m a little fucked up maybe, but I’m funny how, I mean funny like I’m a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I’m here to fuckin’ amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?_ ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/30 "2011-04-02T04:49:43Z")
Sometimes it’s not about vulgarity, as much as it is lack of class that wins the damn thread (with thanks to the OP for reminding me about it) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-6oxhLz9l5s/hqdefault.jpg "VEGAS VACATION") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6oxhLz9l5s) ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/31 "2011-04-02T05:00:08Z")
And Ken and Harry arguing in _In Bruges_. You just have to love why Harry is offended. Ken: Harry, let’s face it. And I’m not being funny. I mean no disrespect, but you’re a cunt. You’re a cunt now, and you’ve always been a cunt. And the only thing that’s going to change is that you’re going to be an even bigger cunt. Maybe have some more cunt kids. Harry: [furious] Leave my kids fucking out of it! What have they done? You fucking retract that bit about my cunt fucking kids! Ken: I retract that bit about your cunt fucking kids. Harry: Insult my fucking kids? That’s going overboard, mate! Ken: I retracted it, didn’t I? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Krebbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@Mr.Krebbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Krebbs)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/32 "2011-04-02T05:18:16Z")
Not a movie, but [this is a great scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQbsnSVM1zM) from HBO’s The Wire. (Homicide detectives investigating a murder.) ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/33 "2011-04-02T06:08:44Z")
> [@Mr.Krebbs](#): > > Not a movie, but [this is a great scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQbsnSVM1zM) from HBO’s The Wire. (Homicide detectives investigating a murder.) Well if we’re going to expand to TV series, then any fucking 2 minute stretch of Deadwood will kick any of these cocksuckers’ cunt smelling asses any motherfucking day of the cocksucking week. But that is a pretty cool scene from The Wire. ---
**Author:** ![gone2thedogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@gone2thedogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gone2thedogs)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/34 "2011-04-02T06:41:33Z")
Chevy Chase from the OP IMHO what a pitiful use of profanity, not funny at all. must be a Y chromosome thing. ---
**Author:** ![gone2thedogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@gone2thedogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gone2thedogs)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/35 "2011-04-02T06:48:30Z")
What Tangent said Sometimes you just gotta say “What the fuck.” (Risky Business) Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker. (John McClane - Die Hard) one of my best friends, since passed, used to say, “just put it in your fuck it file” best advice i’ve ever gotten ---
**Author:** ![SecretaryofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SecretaryofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretaryofEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/36 "2011-04-02T08:02:34Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > [I humbly appreciate your giving me the opportunity to win the thread.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUc62jD-G0o) 🆒 You win. I read that Ermey’s boot camp scenes were some of the very few times that Kubrick would let an actor improv. > [@Superdude](#): > > I get to be the one to mention [Pulp](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec-8mD_BhrU&feature=related) [Fiction](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-7f7vVCqvI&NR=1)? A close second. > [@zoog](#): > > Well if we’re going to expand to TV series, then any fucking 2 minute stretch of Deadwood will kick any of these cocksuckers’ cunt smelling asses any motherfucking day of the cocksucking week. > > But that is a pretty cool scene from The Wire. “Wu, say ‘cocksucker.’” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/37 "2011-04-02T08:13:21Z")
[It’s hard to beat this for swearing excellence.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MSScBIopM8&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/38 "2011-04-02T08:24:09Z")
I forgot about this one, Betty White in Lake Placid. Here’s some excerpts: Sheriff Hank Keough: Ma’am, your husband Bernie, you didn’t by any chance lead him to the lake blindfolded? Mrs. Bickerman: If I had a dick, this is where I’d tell you to suck it! Mrs. Bickerman: Murders and rapes in the city, people bomb planes, can the police stop 'em? No! But feed one little cow to a crocodile… Sheriff Hank Keough: You’re gonna stay right here until the police show. You’re under full house arrest. Mrs. Bickerman: Thank you, officer fuck-meat! Mrs. Bickerman: You can’t take a cow by eminent domain! Sheriff Hank Keough: We just did. Jack Wells: We won’t let her get hurt, Ma’am. Mrs. Bickerman: You’re all cocksuckers! I knew it first, I just didn’t want to say it! ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/39 "2011-04-02T08:27:22Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > _Goodfellas_ for menacing swearing. > > _You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it’s me, I’m a little fucked up maybe, but I’m funny how, I mean funny like I’m a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I’m here to fuckin’ amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?_ I like the(often forgotten) story Pesci’s character tells that makes Liotta’s character say “you’re a funny guy”. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/E84VqqCPI7w/hqdefault.jpg "Goodfellas - "I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown?"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E84VqqCPI7w) ---
**Author:** ![bleach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bleach/32/3106_2.png) [@bleach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleach)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/40 "2011-04-02T08:38:55Z")
_Falling Down_, 1993 \*\*Reporter: \*\*What cooperation was there between Pacific Division and Downtown? \*\*Captain Yardley: \*\*Not to denigrate the Venice Police, but it was one of our fellows that put this together. Yardley sees Sgt Prendergast, played by Robert Duvall. \*\*Captain Yardley: \*\*Prendergast! \*\*Captain Yardley (to reporters): \*\*This is Sergeant Prendergast. Damn fine work, Prendergast. **Prendergast:** Fuck you, Captain Yardley. Fuck you very much. \*\*Reporters: \*\*I can’t believe-- Did he just say that? \*\*Captain Yardley: \*\* You’ re welcome. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894.md?page=3)