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I have no dog in the hunt where the accuracy of Deadwood's language is concerned because I agree that the poetry is more important than the accuracy.
It took me an episode or two to adjust -- during the first episode, I just sat and blinked (and I swear like a longshoreman when the kids aren't around). Now, it's such a part of the show's lexicon, I can't imagine the dialogue without it. No idea what the accuracy is, but also don't really care.
When Bing Crosby would screw up a take while recording a song, he would habitually use blue language, including "fuck," not just in reaction to the mess-up but also by continuing singing with the words laced into the lyrics, so that the recording guys would destroy that take instead of keeping it and making bootleg copies of the botched version.
Oh man, somebody should have bootlegged them anyway. That would be hysterical to hear now.
Well, I'm sure, whether they said "cocksucker" or not in mining camps, it still wouldn't sound like "Deadwood" "Puerile" and 'cocksucker" together is something a writer would think up. In a good way.
All this "cocksucker" talk brings to mind another great use of the word in a movie: "Crash must have called him a cocksucker."
(waits for Bull Durham quotefest.) That should *so* be on the list with...cilantro and forks, and the other shit we always talk about. Not that I'm sorry...I love that movie. IJS.
Women, they do get wooly.
Don't make me get nostalgic for Bull Durham! Respect for Kevin Costner belongs to another period in my psychological development, like the belief that pulling the covers up past my eyes would keep me safe from monsters under the bed.
Respect for Kevin Costner belongs to another period in my psychological development, like the belief that pulling the covers up past my eyes would keep me safe from monsters under the bed.
What do you mean? Kevin Costner never made another movie. He died young or vanished into the hills or somesuch, leaving behind a fan base that's always wondered what else he might've done. Some cynics would say that at least his mysterious disappearance kept that "post man" movie from ever being made, but I always figured the leaked script had to be some kind of sick spoof. And not even a very well done one.
Curiously, given my almost-bulletproof love for Sports Comedies With Romance (see: The Cutting Edge, Men With Brooms, A Knights Tale, and, yes, Tin Cup), my dislike of Bull Durham confuses even me.
I think it's the baseball.
I really don't like baseball.
Kevin Costner never made another movie.
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Ron Shelton really did get the best out of Costner. It's a shame the same couldn't be said of Sam Raimi.