'Wolf of Wall Street' sets a profane record (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSteclDGudhmeE_mrszTSmEMR4Sf0RuQwDeGr1EYArpx-Z38drThDzeRosMDcJ8YFkl2oL4ewXwFeC8O84O0gtz1JCJIVXU0NJtxDgmTpiydTZDFO99NER8ylKGs-UkySKKcZad-AjT4A/s1600/1387904430000-XXX-TWOWS-06309R-60686622.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSteclDGudhmeE_mrszTSmEMR4Sf0RuQwDeGr1EYArpx-Z38drThDzeRosMDcJ8YFkl2oL4ewXwFeC8O84O0gtz1JCJIVXU0NJtxDgmTpiydTZDFO99NER8ylKGs-UkySKKcZad-AjT4A/s320/1387904430000-XXX-TWOWS-06309R-60686622.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Here's another accolade for Martin Scorsese's <i><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/12/22/the-wolf-of-wall-street-review/2941331/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/12/22/the-wolf-of-wall-street-review/2941331/">The Wolf of Wall Street</a></i>– it appears to have set a record for the most uses of the f-word in a U.S. feature film.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><i>Variety </i><a href="http://variety.com/2014/film/news/wolf-of-wall-street-breaks-f-word-record-1201022655/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://variety.com/2014/film/news/wolf-of-wall-street-breaks-f-word-record-1201022655/">reports</a> that the profane word appears a staggering 506 times in the space of 180 minutes, besting a record set by Spike Lee's 1999 film<i><khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Summer of Sam" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(104, 217, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Summer of Sam</khlink></i> (435 f-bombs in 142 minutes).</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">If you've been to the movies in the past 40 years, you know that Scorsese is no stranger to colorful language. Three other films directed by him -- 1995's <i>Casino</i>(422), 1990's <i><khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Goodfellas" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(104, 217, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Goodfellas</khlink></i> (300) and 2006's <i>The Departed</i> (237) -- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_that_most_frequently_use_the_word_%22fuck%22" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_that_most_frequently_use_the_word_%22fuck%22">appear on a Wikipedia list</a> of movies with the most uses of the curse word.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><i>Wolf of Wall Street</i> might not be the most f-bomb-laden non-documentary movie ever, though. <khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Film School Rejects" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(104, 217, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Film School Rejects</khlink> <a href="http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/7-misguided-claims-leveled-against-the-wolf-of-wall-street.php" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/7-misguided-claims-leveled-against-the-wolf-of-wall-street.php">says that a Canadian horror movie</a>, <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1087853/?ref_=nv_sr_1" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1087853/?ref_=nv_sr_1">Gutterballs</a></i>, uses the profanity 625 times.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">However, the all-time cinematic f-bomb champ is a 2005 documentary that uses the word 857 times in just 93 minutes. (The title of the film? The f-word.)</div></div>

'Wolf of Wall Street' sets a profane record (BLOG)

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