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Topic: The History of the F-word
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Leo Enticknap
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Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 05-03-2004 06:40 PM
quote: If I ever used that word when I was a teenager, my parents would have made sure I was 'grounded' for a month!
Which suggests that if Quentin Tarantino had grown up in 1950s Hawaii, he'd still be incarcerated now!
Content aside, the simulated film 'scratches' and 'dirt' used to suggest age and authority made me fucking mad!
My favourite f-word anecdote happened at a screening at the National Film Theatre in London, in, I would guess, '95 0r '96. The director Roy Boulting was introducing a screening of his 1943 WWII propaganda film Desert Victory, about the Battle of El-Alamein. The audience consisted of about half-and-half regular NFT members plus a couple of school parties, who quickly got pretty bored at Boulting's somewhat rambling recollections.
Things perked up when he described how he was 'embedded' with a US Army tank crew who were retreating ahead of Rommel's troops to gather intelliegence and allow Boulting to film. The tank broke down in the middle of the desert, whereupon one of the soldiers worked against the clock to try and repair the engine before the Germans caught up with them. After looking under the bonnet, recalled Boulting, the soldier looked up from the engine '...and do you know what he said?' [cinema full of half-asleep schoolkids] '...He said, 'the fucking fucker's fucking fucked!'' Needless to say, this octogenerian film-maker had the kids' total attention from then on in.
I later heard from the National Film and Television Archive person who had organised the screening that Boulting had put away the best part of a bottle of whisky before taking the stage.
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