The trailer for Bad Words, the 2013 Jason Bateman movie about a guy who exploits a loophole in national spelling bee rules that allows him to compete against a bunch of fifth graders, goes in hard on its one-joke idea: that swearing is funny. “Auto-fellatio” Bateman uses as the prerequisite lesson to teach a nine-year-old how to say “fuck”. As in Ted, Deadpool and a thousand Bad Santa, -type movies before them, the joke only works if there’s tension between the film’s liberal premise – that bad language does not, in fact, do any harm – and it’s the new age status quo.
There has never been a better time to be foul mouthed in public. Ask my average classmate what their favorite movie is, and many will say Martin
Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall
There has never been a better time to be foul mouthed in public. Ask my average classmate what their favorite movie is, and many will say Martin
Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall