Jed on Nostr: It drives me nuts. I think profanity is increasingly used in substitute for good ...
It drives me nuts.
I think profanity is increasingly used in substitute for good screenwriting and a cover for wooden acting. If they cuss enough, then the audience will understand their emotion without actors having to put facial expression and feeling into it.
The juxtaposition of a nerdy character that sounds like a sailor is jarring. That’s probably why you noticed it. Conversely, The Expanse (both the book and the show) are completely filled with all manner of foul language. However!! there are characters that don’t cuss at all, there are characters that have pet words that they sprinkle into casual communication, there are characters that cuss in foreign languages, there are characters that use made up cuss words, and there are characters that snap and cuss. This creates many diverse voices, and is good writing/screenplay.
What’s the iconic quote from Gone with the Wind “I don’t give a damn” that’s not exactly Shakespearean level prose. It’s uninspiring and cheap.
The thing that annoys me the most though is cussing that doesn’t exist in a movie or book’s canon. In Star Wars, Solo is saying things like hell, but the subject of an afterlife for bad people isn’t tackled in the Star Wars universe. There’s no spirit of palpatine floating around, and there’s no bad place for the Sith to go when they die. Lucas criticized Harrison Ford for out of place cussing, but he couldn’t get him to stop and some scenes never did get a non-cussing take, so it’s in the movie. Just shows that Ford is pretty low intelligence and doesn’t understand his roles.
I think profanity is increasingly used in substitute for good screenwriting and a cover for wooden acting. If they cuss enough, then the audience will understand their emotion without actors having to put facial expression and feeling into it.
The juxtaposition of a nerdy character that sounds like a sailor is jarring. That’s probably why you noticed it. Conversely, The Expanse (both the book and the show) are completely filled with all manner of foul language. However!! there are characters that don’t cuss at all, there are characters that have pet words that they sprinkle into casual communication, there are characters that cuss in foreign languages, there are characters that use made up cuss words, and there are characters that snap and cuss. This creates many diverse voices, and is good writing/screenplay.
What’s the iconic quote from Gone with the Wind “I don’t give a damn” that’s not exactly Shakespearean level prose. It’s uninspiring and cheap.
The thing that annoys me the most though is cussing that doesn’t exist in a movie or book’s canon. In Star Wars, Solo is saying things like hell, but the subject of an afterlife for bad people isn’t tackled in the Star Wars universe. There’s no spirit of palpatine floating around, and there’s no bad place for the Sith to go when they die. Lucas criticized Harrison Ford for out of place cussing, but he couldn’t get him to stop and some scenes never did get a non-cussing take, so it’s in the movie. Just shows that Ford is pretty low intelligence and doesn’t understand his roles.