How about poetry? Evidently Chickentown - though again, we have the problem of whether this is gratuitous or not. (And I didn’t know until now that this was used in The Sopranos - lordy).
Personal opinion: I’m not sure poetry gets better than (NSFW):
The fucking clocks are fucking wrong
The fucking days are fucking long
It fucking gets you fucking down
Evidently chicken town
Here’s something filmic which I would have said was gratuitous, but actually comparing versions for the first time, I’m not so sure any more. During the filming of Blade Runner, certain scenes were shot in duplicate because a “TV version” was required, so that
were both shot, for the scene where Batty confronts his maker. After 25 years of being able to think about it, Ridley Scott chose Father for the definitive Final Cut; but (I think) that doesn’t make Fucker gratuitous, it just means that Father is better (YMMV).
I think you both must live in a convent or something. Bail bondsmen talking about a half million dollar bail? I have zero problem believing they talk like that. I hear worse walking through downtown Boston every day.
Next you’ll be complaining about the “Fuck you, pay me” scene in Goodfellas.
In 1981, my brother and I took our cousin (who was in elementary school at the time) to see On the Right Track, starring Gary Coleman (who was still doing Diff’rent Strokes). Coleman was 13 at the time, and playing a much younger character. In one scene he cut loose with a string of profanity.
There is some value in having a movie’s rating be a “match” for its intended audience. When I saw The Straight Story, which is rated G, there were several families with young children in attendance. The kids were bored out of their minds. Some people assume that a G rating means “kid movie”. Many also think that animation implies “kid movie”. When South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut was in theaters I saw it twice. Both times there were several families with young kids. I tried to be nice and warn them about what they were about to see. To a one, they told me that I should mind my own business. And to a one, they left as soon as the song “Uncle Fucker” started. The ratings board tried to help with these issues by adding detail about why a movie achieved its rating, but people don’t seem to pay attention.
