Era of profanity in movie scripts

Era of profanity in movie scripts

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Poster's comments:

1) At age 65 I can remember when there was little to no cursing or using bad language in a movie.

2)  To me, I remember when bad language was reintroduced to the movies in a routine way.  It was in a western movie with Burt Lancaster (as I recall), and I agreed with the idea as making sense because I believed most everyone spoke this way, like cursed now and then. The movie was around the late 1960's, and I was in college at the time.

3)  Now being an old Marine with a lot of Navy exposure, I think I know a "lot" about cursing...speaking for myself, of course.

4)  My sense is that a lot of cursing in today's movies is not typical of the population overall, but I really don't know for sure. It seems just too much and contrived, to me. And if some people really curse this much, they are probably a minority of the overall population, or so I hope.

5)  I remember one line about cursing. It implied I could not express myself otherwise. That always hurt my feelings.

6)  I still think movies are for my enjoyment.  So if there is too much violence, cursing, or even sex, then more often than not I won't enjoy the movie, and probably won't even attend the movie (like pay) if I listen to others, or even read the reviews. Plan B is to wait until it comes out on cable or satellite TV, and even then I will often "turn off" the objectionable scenes since I just don't enjoy them these days.

7)  If it takes some self-censorship, I'll probably understand. Heck we've done self-censorship in movies (at least while I've been alive) when it came to smoking, using seat belts, drinking and driving, and women are as strong as men, among other things.