# Movies where a well-known actor uses the "c" word **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 18, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-well-known-actor-uses-the-c-word/361214 "2006-06-18T22:16:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-well-known-actor-uses-the-c-word/361214/21 "2006-06-19T03:46:55Z")
Richard Gere called David Keith’s girlfriend a cunt in **An Officer and a Gentleman**. Looked at her square in the face and said “You cunt” with extreme disgust. ---
**Author:** ![Peg\_Leg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90db22/32.png) [@Peg\_Leg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peg_Leg)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-well-known-actor-uses-the-c-word/361214/22 "2006-06-19T04:18:57Z")
David Carradine in _Kill Bill Vol. 2_ “You’re not a bad person. You’re a terrific person. You’re my favorite person. But every once in a while, you can be a real cunt.” Ryan Phillippe in _The Way of the Gun_ (this was only a $9m film so I suppose it doesn’t really fit the OP, but I love it anyways) “Shut that cunt’s mouth or I’ll come over there and fuckstart her head” ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Logan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Don\_Logan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Logan)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-well-known-actor-uses-the-c-word/361214/23 "2006-06-19T12:58:40Z")
As a reference point, one of the volumes of\*\* The Book of Lists \*\* states the first utterance of the word “fuck” in a motion picture was in the 1967 film **I’ll Never Forget Whats’is’name** , by none other than Marianne Faithful. ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-well-known-actor-uses-the-c-word/361214/24 "2006-06-19T13:49:34Z")
Two other early usages: _Pink Flamingos_ (1972) and _The Exorcist_ (1973). ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-well-known-actor-uses-the-c-word/361214/25 "2006-06-19T14:04:05Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Captor] I believe “cunt” is in the process of becoming an archaic term in the US. It’s not so much that it’s terrible, it’s just kinda old-fashioned nowadays. I believe the “in-term” as the young people call it is, “lovely lady lumps.” [/QUOTE] :eek: Pretty sure that refers to tits and ass, dude. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-well-known-actor-uses-the-c-word/361214/26 "2006-06-19T14:28:24Z")
Kiefer Sutherland in **Freeway** yelling at Reese Witherspoon. ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-well-known-actor-uses-the-c-word/361214/27 "2006-06-19T16:26:30Z")
In **The Exorcist** , Linda Blair with head turned backwards says something along the lines of: “Did you see what she did? Your cunting daughter?” Clive Owens calls Jude Law a c\* in **Closer**. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-well-known-actor-uses-the-c-word/361214/28 "2006-06-19T18:28:23Z")
Simon Callow as Schikaneder in _Amadeus_. He calls Constanze by the “c”-word when demanding to know why Mozart hasn’t finished scoring _The Magic Flute_. I’d seen the movie at least a dozen times and had never caught it until I turned on the subtitles one day. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-well-known-actor-uses-the-c-word/361214/29 "2006-06-19T18:35:00Z")
Alan King in Just Tell Me What You Want (1980). ---
**Author:** ![Imasquare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Imasquare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imasquare)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-well-known-actor-uses-the-c-word/361214/30 "2006-06-20T00:23:06Z")
[QUOTE=Don Logan] Can anyone provide other examples, and perhaps the earliest example?.. [/QUOTE] I watched Taxi driver for the first time last night and was very surprised when Robert De Niro’s character uttered the ‘C’ word. I think it was made in the early 1970s. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-well-known-actor-uses-the-c-word/361214/31 "2006-06-20T05:11:12Z")
Nobody remembered “Porky’s”? Wendy Williams was working behind the counter at a restaurant, when Pee Wee phoned in, using a phony voice, and asked her to page “Mike Hunt.” WHich she did, repeatedly. “Has anybody here seen Mike Hunt?” ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-well-known-actor-uses-the-c-word/361214/32 "2006-06-20T07:53:57Z")
[QUOTE=Imasquare] I watched Taxi driver for the first time last night and was very surprised when Robert De Niro’s character uttered the ‘C’ word. I think it was made in the early 1970s. [/QUOTE] Not hard to look up. _Taxi Driver_ was released in 1976. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-well-known-actor-uses-the-c-word/361214/33 "2006-06-20T08:07:24Z")
So far, Jack Nicholson in _Carnal Knowledge_ (1971) is the winner for earliest use by a well-known actor. According to the book _Film Facts_, by Patrick Robertson, “the permissive Danes led with the first on-screen use of a four-letter word in reference to female genitalia in _Quiet Days in Clichy_.” _[Quiet Days in Clichy](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0066407/)_ was adapted from the novel of the same title by Henry Miller, and was released in Denmark and the U.S.A. in 1970. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-well-known-actor-uses-the-c-word/361214/34 "2006-06-20T16:21:54Z")
Blade: Trinity Ryan Reynolds calls someone a “cock-juggling thunder-cunt” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-well-known-actor-uses-the-c-word/361214.md?page=1)