{"id":303,"date":"2006-09-25T19:15:48","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T19:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2006\/09\/25\/the-f-word-in-film\/"},"modified":"2006-09-25T19:15:48","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T19:15:48","slug":"the-f-word-in-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2006\/09\/25\/the-f-word-in-film\/","title":{"rendered":"The F-word in Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting Wikipedia entry, a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_films_ordered_by_uses_of_the_word_%22fuck%22\">list of films that most frequently use the F-word<\/a>. Most of the data comes from sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familymediaguide.com\/index.html\">Family Media Guide<\/a>. I&#8217;m sure the intention is to warn parents about unsuitable content for younger viewers but they can also be a source of unintentional hilarity.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this analysis of the &#8220;sexual content in context&#8221; in <strong>Casino<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Man has sex with a married woman on a hotel bed; they move on the bed together, their faces are contorted in pleasure and we hear their moans. A man and woman get into a car, the woman then ducks her head into a man&#8217;s lap.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is also worth noting that a lot of the films in the top 20 of the list are actually really good (<strong>Nil By Mouth<\/strong>, <strong>Goodfellas<\/strong>, <strong>Narc<\/strong>, <strong>The Big Lebowski<\/strong>, <strong>Pulp Fiction<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Does this suggest some kind of strange correlation between swearing and quality cinema? (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/movies\/List_of_Films_Ordered_By_Uses_Of_The_Word_F_ck_2\">Digg<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_films_ordered_by_uses_of_the_word_%22fuck%22\">The full F-list at Wikipedia<br \/>\n<\/a>> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/ots\/2005\/11\/dispatch_from_l.html\">An indieWIRE interview with director Steve Anderson who made a film exploring the F-Word<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting Wikipedia entry, a list of films that most frequently use the F-word. Most of the data comes from sites like Family Media Guide. I&#8217;m sure the intention is to warn parents about unsuitable content for younger viewers but they can also be a source of unintentional hilarity. Check out this analysis of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}