b"TRGIWIITKOKINTI B Y B O B B O Z E B E L LA SHORT HISTORYOF SWEARING IN MOVIES Quite a few people today still believe swearing in movies started with Frankly, my dear, I dont give a damn, from Gone With The Wind, in 1939, but that is a popular misconception. Yes, it was scandalous and a big deal, but, as it turns out, actors had been swearing in films since the IS THEbeginning of the art form. For example, there is compelling evidence that deaf people complained about swearing in silent movies way back in the 'teens. Actors were swearing for emphasis and relying on the fact that no SWEARINGINone could actually hear them (but deaf people could read their lips!). - ,~ Read My Lips You Son of A Bees wax!When sound came along a decade, or so, later, swear words came With the rise of the new Taylor Sheridan hit show along with damn being uttered on film in 1929, son of a bitch in 1933 and the F-bomb in 1933. Subsequent watchdog groups squelched 1883 once again the question is raised: did the citizensthese early swearers until the above mentioned Gone With The Wind, scandal and that held sway until the volatile sixties when the F-bomb of the Old West really swear like they do on the show? reappeared in M*A*S*H (1970) and thenperhapspeaking in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), with 506, or 569, F-bombs depending on who If you are skeptical about all this potty mouth stuff, here is counting. So, the incidents of swearing on film are not new. Of course, prolific swearing in a Western is pegged to Deadwood (2004) where is someone who agrees with you. David Milch used swearing to connote lawlessness in an outlaw town. By the time we get to Yellowstone and 1883 the F-bomb has lost some of its power due to overuse. However, to longtime lovers of Westerns, it still sounds slightly jarring, like hearing your grandmother go toe to toe YOUTHFUL DEPRAVITY with a drug dealer. It could happen, it just doesnt quite ring true to our ears. But that probably says more about our history with popular culture The fact must come home to every observerwho allow their children to wander through therather than with the true history of cursing on film.thatDeadwoodsrisinggenerationisverycity, visiting haunts of iniquity where are exerted depraved. Go where we will our ears are greetedthose pernicious influences which sooner or laterLEARN EVEN MORE ABOUT 1883with profanity and obscenity from almost babydeaden the most acute sensibility, destroy all sensePick up your copy of True Westlips,whileourvisionisassailedbysightsofof right and morality and inspire to an emulation ofMagazines April, 2022 issue.the most lamentable character. These urchinsthe worst characters of the town.arenotallofthatpeculiarclassknownasORDER YOUR COPY TODAY!hoodlums for whom ignorance is some excuse, The Black Hills Daily Pioneer, as many of them receive the kindest and bestJanuary 26, 1881instruction at home, but from too lenient parentsTrueWestMagazine.comArizonaRealCountry.com March 2022 43"