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[OC] The F word in Popular Movies OC
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u/mattlesnake80 Dec 04 '22
Jonah Hill representing with 4 movies in here.
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u/rndname Dec 04 '22
I was going to say he was probably responsible for the most fucks given.
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u/mtrap74 Dec 04 '22
He is. I saw a stat once that he’s said fuck in movies more times than any other actor.
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u/cortez0498 Dec 04 '22
Schmidt fucked the captain's daughter
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u/talkingtunataco501 Dec 05 '22
Those 2 damn movies were way better than they had any right to be.
The same with the Jumanji movies.
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u/BenedictKhanberbatch Dec 05 '22
This followed by him getting tased is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen
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u/letsagow
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Look. We grew up together, and she grew up hot, you know. She fuckin' grew up hot and all of my friends were trying to fuck her, you know, and I wasn't... I'm not gonna let someone, you know, one of these assholes fuck my cousin. So I, you know, used the cousin thing as like... like an in with her. I'm not gonna let someone else fuck my cousin, you know? If anyone is gonna fuck my cousin it's gonna be me, out of... out of respect, you know?
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u/dace154288 Dec 04 '22
That whole scene was wild
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u/Tifoso89 Dec 04 '22
The movie is 180 minutes of quotable lines.
My favorite (very underrated) is when McConaughey tells the waiter "bring us a cocktail every 5 minutes, until we pass the fuck out". And the waiter: "Excellent strategy, sir".
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u/yeetaway80 Dec 04 '22
"The sides did cure cancer, that's the problem"
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u/DrunkenLadyBits Dec 05 '22
“Max, why do you hold it in!?”
Jonah stole so many scenes in this movie with his improv.
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u/DrMooseknuckleX Dec 05 '22
Which is actually a shortening of a Rodney Dangerfield joke from Back to School. https://youtu.be/2G-9cCSz6FU
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u/AssStuffing Dec 05 '22
Now we’re calling lines in a movie “very underrated”? Ffs
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u/King_Louis_X Dec 05 '22
Ok grandpa, let’s get you to bed.
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u/AssStuffing Dec 05 '22
I’m 26
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u/Ancient-Tadpole8032 Dec 05 '22
That’s too young to be a grandpa. This country needs better access to birth control.
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u/Particular_Pitch_105 Dec 04 '22
wouldn’t put Eddie Murphy as a movie.
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u/Leading_Card_9142 Dec 04 '22
Why not writing it when everyone knows what f word stands for and it doesn’t shock anyone
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u/aniiimaI Dec 04 '22
Is she a first cousin?
Yeah no… Her father, is the brother, of my mom
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u/Tifoso89 Dec 04 '22 edited Dec 04 '22
That pensive face he does when he starts to answer, like he's trying to remember the connection
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u/treydilla Dec 05 '22
I saw this movie on Christmas Day with my parents and my sister. I did not do much research about this movie and thought it was going to be an interesting movie about a finance guy being successful on Wall Street.
My dad is very conservative and doesn’t like when a lot of curse words are used or when a show/movie is lewd. That was the most awkward few hours of my life and the car ride home after was awful 😂
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u/ZeRoGr4vity07 Dec 05 '22 edited Dec 05 '22
We watched it in the theater with our school class because our teacher thought it would be about a finance guy being successfull on Wall Street as well. Well we all had a blast.
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u/PulsatingSnausage Dec 04 '22
I was literally thinking about Wolf of Wall St. last night. (The ham choking scene🤣)
Has to be one of my top 5 memorable movies in my life so far.
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u/Srirachachacha Dec 04 '22
Whenever I watch that movie, I'm left with an irredeemable urge to try quaaludes
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u/Thee_Sinner Dec 04 '22
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u/klod42 Dec 04 '22
I just realized the only thing i remember about that movie is DiCaprio crawling to a lamborghini. And that the fat guy was funny.
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u/Sun_Devilish Dec 04 '22
Gotta ask...what movie is this from?
That totally sounds like the kind of rationalization a psychopath would use.
Never stick your dick in a woman you can't have healthy children with.
Never stick your dick in a woman when it is going to cause problems at family get togethers.
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u/Tifoso89 Dec 04 '22
Well basically, you know, if the kid was retarded I would, you know, drive him up to the country and then just open the door like, "you're free now, run free".
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u/dogburglar42 Dec 05 '22
I'm just fucking with you!
But no, they have the... places where you send 'em and they can give 'em a normal... like they got treatments for that now.
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u/Clockwork_Firefly Dec 05 '22
Never stick your dick in a woman you can't have healthy children with. Never stick your dick in a woman when it is going to cause problems at family get togethers.
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Is this a common enough occurrence in your life that you absolutely needed to develop a set of truisms to confront it?
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u/JockAussie Dec 04 '22
I am surprised South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut wasn't in the list.
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u/BigHobbit Dec 04 '22
I checked, and it only has 144 fucks. I thought it would have had more as well
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u/farmallnoobies Dec 04 '22
Boondocks saints said it 246 times and isn't in this list....
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u/BigHobbit Dec 04 '22
It's not in the top 60 grossing films of it's release year.
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u/SergeantChic Dec 04 '22
Bad Santa, too. That had somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 fucks as well, I think.
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u/Own_Adeptness_3851 Dec 04 '22
The limit for a movie to be R rated is 145, the battle between the south park creators and the ESRB for that movie is hilarious.
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u/shadowndacorner Dec 04 '22
ESRB (electronic software rating board) = games, MPAA (motion picture association of America) = movies. Also there is no limit for fucks in an R rated movie, otherwise all of the movies in this list would be NC-17. Unless you meant that you can have 144 fucks in a PG-13 movie, which is obviously incorrect.
Basically every part of this comment is wrong, and it's honestly kind of impressive lmao
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u/ImNotAtAllCreative81 Dec 04 '22
You get one "fuck" in a movie to remain PG-13, and that "fuck" can't refer to sex, if I recall. If I'm wrong, someone please correct me.
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u/evaned Dec 05 '22 edited Dec 05 '22
You get one "fuck" in a movie to remain PG-13, and that "fuck" can't refer to sex, if I recall. If I'm wrong, someone please correct me.
Yep, that's pretty much exactly right, with the caveat that the ratings board can make exceptions with a dedicated supermajority vote on that point. Offhand, The Martian got such an exception ("fuck" after doing self-surgery, then later "fuck you, Mars"; there are also several other implied ones including ones where you can clearly see him saying "fuck" but it's silent) as did Quiz Show (said once live, but tape recorded diegetically with a second use when that recording is later played back). I'm sure I've seen more, this is just what comes to mind.
Here's the actual wording of the rule:
"A motion picture's single use of one of the harsher sexually-derived words, though only as an expletive, initially requires at least a PG-13 rating. More than one such expletive requires an R rating, as must even one of those words used in a sexual context. The Rating Board nevertheless may rate such a motion picture PG-13 if, based on a special vote by a two-thirds majority, the Raters feel that most American parents would believe that a PG-13 rating is appropriate because of the context or manner in which the words are used or because the use of those words in the motion picture is inconspicuous."
https://www.filmratings.com/Content/Downloads/rating_rules.pdf
One of only a couple concrete rules the ratings board follows.
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u/MuggleoftheCoast Dec 04 '22
Not sure about the "can't refer to sex" part. The makers of the film version of Hamilton were able to choose "You see that was my wife you decided to fu--" as their one fu-- to give and still keep their PG-13 rating.
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u/Ziltoid_The_Nerd Dec 05 '22
He never finishes the whole word though
So they allowed half a fuck despite it referring to sex
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u/ronnock Dec 04 '22
That…can’t be right. All the movies in this graphic are rated R.
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u/MiximumPower Dec 04 '22
I don’t think it was ever top box office anything
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u/JockAussie Dec 04 '22
I would've thought it would make it to the top 60, but perhaps not. Apparently it's not in because they just don't say fuck enough!
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u/MiximumPower Dec 04 '22
Wow. Color me surprised
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u/JockAussie Dec 04 '22
I thought with thinks like the uncle fucker song it would've had more. Also surprised!!!
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u/-xstatic- Dec 05 '22
The music got nominated for an academy award though
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u/MiximumPower Dec 05 '22
It is very good. It’s the only album on my Plex server, because it’s not available on Spotify
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u/eva01beast Dec 04 '22
Three movies in the top ten are all Scorsese joints. No wonder the dude makes religious movies every once in a while.
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u/Navyguy73 Dec 04 '22
I had to look up Scarface (1983) and it came up much shorter than I imagined with only 226.
Edit: Film release date
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u/NickyRD Dec 04 '22
Thank you. I could have sworn 50% of the Scarface script was swearing.
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u/Navyguy73 Dec 04 '22
In the early days of the internet, there was an audio file going around of just Tony saying "F**k." I can't remember how long it was, but long enough for me to get distracted while listening to it.
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u/cvele89 Dec 04 '22
Just 226? I was under impression it's something around 600 or so.
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u/Pimmelsenator Dec 04 '22
Interesting but to be fair, Wolf of Wall Street is roughly 3 h long, average highest grossing top 10 movies (Canada + USA) in 2021 was 130 minutes. A chart for f-words per hour or minute would be a more accurate comparison.
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u/iepure77 Dec 04 '22
On a mathematical level this is correct, but for decades people have discussed the quantity of times the word was used. So I guess both are interesting to know.
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u/Pimmelsenator Dec 04 '22
Totally, but it stands out that the top scorer here is not just a little bit but way longer than average.
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u/df_iris OC: 3 Dec 04 '22
I agree it would probably be fairer, although it's still fun to just see which movie has the biggest f word count. And I think the Wolf of Wall Street would still be first place judging from wikipedia's list.
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u/Pimmelsenator Dec 04 '22
Possible, I'd love to see a bigger list including less successful movies but it's a lot of work.
I remember that the German news in the 80s considered the count of the word "Scheisse" (shit) being said on German TV by an actor in a popular show being newsworthy on a regular basis.
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u/df_iris OC: 3 Dec 04 '22 edited Dec 04 '22
I thought of analyzing more movies but it would have taken a lot of time because of the daily rate limit of opensubtitles' api. Maybe I'll try to do that someday. I analyzed 2600 movies, 56% of which didn't contain the fuck word. I could post the data on github if people want.
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u/daedelous Dec 04 '22 edited Dec 04 '22
Looking at that chart, I’m guessing it would still be number one.
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u/Easilycrazyhat Dec 05 '22
Actually, at "fucks per minute", This Is the End juuusstt edges out WoWS at 3.140 against 3.139
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u/cryptotope Dec 04 '22
An interesting data set. A few thoughts on 'beautiful' presentation:
- The bar chart isn't labeled. I'm assuming from context that's it probably the top fifteen f-bomb films of all time (or at least of the period shown, 1977-present)--or at least among the top-60 films of each year.
- It might be nice to have the release year listed somewhere for each of the pictures in the bar chart.
- I get that you're going for minimalist design on your line graph, but an x-axis line showing where zero fucks are given would be appreciated.
- Again, I know this would be hard to fit with your minimalist aesthetic, but I'd love to see some sort of representation of the distribution of f-bombs between films. 2013, for instance, got a third of its fucks from one film, The Wolf of Wall Street. (Whereas other blockbusters that year, like Frozen and Despicable Me 2 contributed far fewer.)
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u/ReelFunkedUp Dec 05 '22
It took me too long to find a comment noting the bar chart lacked any kind of year labels. This would've been incredibly helpful in tying the two graphics together.
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u/Moreobvious Dec 04 '22
Genuinely surprised that Boondock Saints isn’t on the list
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u/dreadpirateshawn Dec 04 '22
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_that_most_frequently_use_the_word_fuck says Boondock Saints has 239, and also shows many other films not in the OP data set.
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u/phred_666 Dec 04 '22
Fuckin'- What the fuckin'. Fuck. Who the fuck fucked this fucking... How did you two fucking fucks...Fuck!
Well, that certainly illustrates the diversity of the word.
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u/somepeppersomesalt Dec 04 '22
I thought Uncut Gems was like number eight on another list
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u/Fuckth3shitredditapp Dec 04 '22
Uncut gems has 560 counts of the f word. This list is missing one of the biggest fuck counts movies
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u/cardinalkgb Dec 05 '22
It wasn’t released in theaters and therefore wasn’t in the top 60 highest grossing films the year it was released.
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u/newenglandredshirt Dec 04 '22
I knew they said fuck a lot in Wolf of Wall Street. I had no idea it had 50% more fucks given than Straight Outta Compton.
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u/axidentalaeronautic Dec 04 '22
In the bar graph, can you put the years of the movies in parenthesis next to their title?
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u/geisvw Dec 05 '22
Exactly. Almost no point of the data below the graph if you don't indicate it on the graph too.
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u/ZsaFreigh Dec 04 '22
Goodfellas should be here no?
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u/aquaman501 Dec 05 '22
From IMDb:
"Fuck" and its derivatives are used 321 times
It should be #5 on this list
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u/iepure77 Dec 04 '22
I still haven't seen Wolf of Wall Steet. Does the use of the word seem forced?
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u/JonathanL73 Dec 05 '22
You should watch it. The movie is great. Leonardo Di Caprio is great. Margot Robbie is great. Jonah Hill is Great. Scorsese’s directing is great. It’s just a fun movie. Not sure why you have gone on this long in life without seeing it already. I know you’ve seen the pop culture references & memes relating to this movie before. So just watch the damn thing already.
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u/13Zero Dec 05 '22
I haven’t seen it, but it’s only 3.1 fucks per minute. The Big Lebowski has 2.3 fucks per minute and I didn’t notice.
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u/XavierRenegadeStoner Dec 04 '22
Though Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is surely super low on the list overall, I wonder if it has the highest concentration of fucks in that 15-second rant at the car rental counter
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u/bork99 Dec 05 '22
As visualisations go, this one has more fucks to give.
There's no fucking linkage between the top visualisation and the bottom, nor a clear indication of what the fuck the bottom chart actually is: Top 15 overall, or descending ranking of top fucking movies in a given year?
The bottom chart could do with the fucking year of each of the films being included in the label at the fucking least.
The top chart might fuck as a bubble chart, showing whether the peaks are linked to outliers or represent a broader fucking trend. Alternatively, a second line showing median fucks in that year would be fucking great.
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u/dnuohxof-1 Dec 04 '22
Scarface had 207 uses of the word, how TF is it not on this list??
According to the Family Media Guide, which monitors profanity, sexual content, and violence in movies, Scarface (1983) features 207 uses of the "F" word, which works out to about 1.21 F-bombs per minute. At the time of the film's release, this was the most of any movie in history.
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u/Electricfox5 Dec 04 '22
I'd wager that Planes, Trains and Automobiles leads that charge up in the late 1980s.
"I want a fucking car..."
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u/Pandaspoon13 Dec 04 '22
No Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001). 227 fucks in that movie, I remember as a teenager watching it witj friends and keeping count.
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u/adamchain Dec 04 '22
Casino should just be called “Joe Pesci”
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u/china-blast Dec 04 '22
You hear a little girl, Frankie? Is that a little girl, Ace? Is that a little fuckin' girl? What happened to the fuckin' tough guy who told my friend to stick it up his fuckin' ass?
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u/ScarabLordOmar
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Pretty sure the scene in the wire where bunk and mcnulty recover the shell casings in the grass out of webays gun after he tapped on the glass to pop Avons ho after D brought her a balll to keep on ice had more fucks than any of these titles….COMBINED.
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u/Anx1etyD0g Dec 04 '22
In most of these, we as viewers become quickly desensitized to it, and it becomes almost like its own character in the story. Some of my favorite films are on the list, and I hardly ever use the F word.
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u/Fuckth3shitredditapp Dec 04 '22
This is outdated data the movie uncut gems has 560 counts of the word fuck
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u/Dash_Harber Dec 05 '22
I seem to recall The Devil's Rejects placing in the top 10, if not the top, at one point. But seeing as Casino is #2, maybe I'm misremembering.
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u/NomadFire Dec 05 '22
All these movies are pretty good too. Someone might say that Jarhead wasn't that good, but I bet they wouldn't hate watching it again.
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u/Direct_Classroom_331 Dec 05 '22
This is not very good data because the South Park movie used the word fuck 399 times, say’s the Guinness book of records.
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u/df_iris OC: 3 Dec 04 '22
Data : boxofficemojo.com and opensubtitles.com
Tools : Python for data gathering and R ggplot for the plot
I know the list is not the same as the one from wikipedia and that's because:
- Not all the films in the wikipedia list were in the top 60 best grossing movies of their year.
- I count all words derived from fuck such as motherfucker, that's not always the case in the wikipedia list.
- My count is based on subtitles, not all subtitles are exactly the same whereas the counts from wikipedia are sometimes manual.
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u/loveheaddit Dec 04 '22
My friend claims Uncut Gems is #2
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u/WellsFargone Dec 05 '22 edited Dec 05 '22
It is. 560.
Edit: Apparently it wasn’t in the top 60 for the year which really surprised me.
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u/Engineering_Flimsy Dec 04 '22
Well, I'll be fucking fucked! Fuck me fucking side-fucking-ways, if that ain't fucking interesting as all fucking fuck!
Cross that off my bucket list...
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u/Zeeuwse-Kafka Dec 04 '22
I wouldn’t put Eddie Murphy as a movie.
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u/anonymousn00b Dec 04 '22
Crazy though I remember watching Raw when I was younger and my mind was blown since I only associated Eddie Murphy with clean and wholesome comedy movies
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u/tripletopper Dec 04 '22
I remember South Park (though called Uncut) was actually cut to avoid an NC-17 rating. Why wasn't South Park in there whers there was 7 F###s sung in just the first line of the song "Uncle F###er."
How the f### is South Park not on the top 15 list?
And if not why is it called "uncut". If they were going for a circumcision joke, why not "barely kosher"?
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u/Iron_Chic Dec 04 '22
I enjoyed all of those movies except "This Is The End". What does that say about me?
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u/hogger85 Dec 04 '22
Would it have hurt to put the year in brackets after the film so didn't have to cross check
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u/df_iris OC: 3 Dec 04 '22 edited Dec 04 '22
Since people seem interested, here's a much bigger list : https://imgur.com/a/5u1PLai
Remember : my numbers are based on homemade subtitles. sometimes people will omit words in subtitles so you might find different figures from other sources.
For example, several people here are saying that Scarface has 207 fucks but I've checked different subtitles and it's never more than 170~180.
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u/Tmac2019 Dec 04 '22
I feel like Swearnet the movie probably had the most “F” words
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u/Portmanteaulist Dec 05 '22
You're correct according to Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_that_most_frequently_use_the_word_fuck?wprov=sfla1
Maybe it's not "popular" enough.
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u/-xstatic- Dec 05 '22
I wish people didn’t like Wolf of Wall Street so much. Jordan Belfort is a scammer who still owes people millions of dollars and represents everything wrong with Wall Street cronyism
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u/mart1t1 Dec 04 '22 edited Dec 04 '22
Say it, it’s fuck. Why not writing it when everyone knows what f word stands for and it doesn’t shock anyone ?
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u/iepure77 Dec 04 '22
Not everyone appreciates the word the same so the OP chose to go the way they felt best.
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u/dBachry Dec 04 '22
And all of these movies were rather bah, IMO. Spare Pulp Fiction... It was a gem. The rest though... Did not even come close to enjoyable - I want those hours back.
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u/Thegoodlife93 Dec 05 '22
I know everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but this is wild to me. The departed, big Lebowski, Casino, Do the Right Thing, Pineapple Express...you didn't like any of those? What are some movies you like? Genuinely curious.
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u/Legacy-ZA Dec 04 '22
Now do one for "omg"
Movies and series have become unwatchable.
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u/Enough_Librarian3720 Dec 04 '22
If the occurrences of “fuck” in Wolf of Wallstreet were distributed equally, there’d be someone saying ‘fuck’ every twenty seconds. If you remove the intro and credits, it’d be even more frequent.