# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/61 "2011-04-02T23:41:01Z")
Every [single](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJP31ZiUgeM) use of the word “cuss” in The Fantastic Mr Fox. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/62 "2011-04-02T23:48:46Z")
My favorite is Mr Spock learning how to swear in Star Trek 4: Spock: They like you very much, but they are not the hell “your” whales. Dr. Gillian Taylor: I suppose they told you that. Spock: The hell they did. Spock: The Your use of language has altered since our arrival. It is currently laced with, shall we say, more colorful metaphors, “double dumbass on you” and so forth. Kirk: Spock, where the hell’s the power you promised? Spock: One damn minute, Admiral. Speaking of Swearing in Star Trek, also there is[this.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9hg0uMwUrI) ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/63 "2011-04-03T02:37:08Z")
Phoebe Cates in the TV movie, Lace, “Which one of you bitches is my mother?” ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/64 "2011-04-03T04:49:29Z")
Mother Pus Bucket! (Ghostbusters) Post #12 beat me to my favorite: “Two words: Shut the FUCK up!” (Midnight Run) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/65 "2011-04-03T05:37:43Z")
> [@digs](#): > > We have a pastor who (though he’s in his 60s and quite classy) sneaks a Lebowski line into almost every sermon, “to use the vernacular of the day…” he’s been up at the (WI) Capitol protesting. So I made him a big red sign: \*\*I do mind. The dude minds… THIS AGGRESSION WILL NOT STAND, MAN. © 2011 Little Lebowski Urban Achievers\*\* ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/66 "2011-04-03T05:55:36Z")
From Burn After Reading, The scene where Brad Pitt and John Malkovich meet to exchange the disk for money. The whole scene is brilliant, but when Brad Pitt gets punched in the face by John Malkovich, looks at the blood coming from his nose, and utters the great line, “[You Fuck](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrKT3dOpLVk&feature=related)!” Malkovich uses Fuck in this scene perfectly, and I really love the expression and reaction on his face when his car is rear ended. Also - “I thought you might be worried about the security of your SHIT” [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnkGwPuQco8) is a nice compilation for some of Pitt’s funnier moments in that movie. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/67 "2011-04-03T06:01:33Z")
Just thought of my favorite exchange from Donnie Darko. Donnie: You are such a fuckass. Elizabeth: Did you just call me a fuckass? You can go suck a fuck. Donnie: Oh, please, tell me Elizabeth, how exactly does one suck a fuck? ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/68 "2011-04-03T06:06:09Z")
This has always been my favorite. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/a_fwz62LoP8/hqdefault.jpg "Tremors - awesome scene #1") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_fwz62LoP8) ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/69 "2011-04-03T14:48:04Z")
Not a movie but the t.v. series Deadwood had some excellent swearing. Not verbatim… “When I see you, I see a cunt, when you speak you sound like a cunt” and so on. Spoken by Ian McShane. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/70 "2011-04-03T15:22:26Z")
Just saw **Paul** last night. They make extensive use of the Character Who Never SWore Before Who Doesn’t Know How To Do It Right trope, which previously I’d only seen in **The Last Nudie Musical**. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/71 "2011-04-03T16:11:04Z")
Others have already mentioned some of my favorites, but I’ll toss in one in my Top Ten: [Wanted Dead Or Alive - head explosion](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIzCUhafhSQ&feature=related) where Rutger says, “Fuck the bonus” to an evil-incarnate Gene Simmons. You might even enjoy the set-up (minus the good cussing) in [Gene Simmons - Wanted Dead or Alive (head explosion scene) with God of Thunder](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egMbK7ORlv8&NR=1) I concur with the OP in that the GWTW line is the boss, mostly because it was so pace-setting and risque’ in the day. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/72 "2011-04-03T16:22:46Z")
1970, MASH used swearing very well. It opened a few doors. ---
**Author:** ![quixotic78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3ab097/32.png) [@quixotic78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quixotic78)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/73 "2011-04-03T16:49:52Z")
Samuel L. Jackson in _Pulp Fiction_: “I’m a mushroom-cloud laying motherfucker, motherfucker!” Double profanity but it’s awesome instead of redundant! ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/74 "2011-04-03T18:33:40Z")
> [@Lust4Life](#): > > “When I see you, I see a cunt, when you speak you sound like a cunt” and so on. > > Spoken by Ian McShane. Nope, that one was [Carradine](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcm4hq_vUOo). Now here is some fine [McShane](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3JJA-OruYw). ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/75 "2011-04-03T18:58:17Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > [I humbly appreciate your giving me the opportunity to win the thread.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUc62jD-G0o) 🆒 You beat me. I love the comment on IMDB: > [@](#): > > Former US Marine Corps Drill Instructor R. Lee Ermey was not originally hired to play Gunnery Sgt. Hartman but as a consultant for the Marine Corps boot camp portion of the film. He performed a demonstration on videotape in which he yelled obscene insults and abuse for 15 minutes without stopping, repeating himself or even flinching - despite being continuously pelted with tennis balls and oranges. Stanley Kubrick was so impressed that he cast Ermey as Hartman. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/76 "2011-04-03T19:11:24Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > The entirety of _South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut_. [This scene in particular](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQN5-FtvjfA) is fucking hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/77 "2011-04-04T14:24:55Z")
Nobody wields the word [fuck](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ry0g4W0_ZI) quite like Dennis Farina. Fuck you, you fucking fuckball. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/78 "2011-04-04T14:32:07Z")
78 posts to get to Samuel L. Jackson’s most often repeated and parodied line? I mean, that is the only thing memorable in the whole movie. > [@Agent Neville Flynn](#): > > Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/79 "2011-04-04T14:33:08Z")
Not a nomination, but [these](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSEYXWmEse8) [two](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHWEZ_IjcSk) videos are filled to the gills of some of the best swearing in movies. Warning: Some of them really use extreme, graphic language so it’s definitely NSFW (unless you turn the volume down low or have a headset). ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894/80 "2011-04-04T14:52:35Z")
Perhaps not in the same class as some of the other nominations, but I enjoyed Will Ferrell’s cameo in _The Wedding Crashers_. “Ma, the meatloaf! Fuck!”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-use-of-swearing-in-movies/576894.md?page=3)