Deadwood

OLS · 03-28-2010, 06:28 PM

Quote of the evening....Calamity Jane to Mose.."She no more needs a watchman than she does a fu$%ing ballonist."

As for the cursing, I am sure it struck everyone the same. In watching the special features, it seems that there were
foul-mouthed people and regular people back then as today, and words like $hit, bltch, son of a bltch and a$$ were
plenty bad for victorian times. The reason the words in Deadwood are taken up a notch (bam) is that Milch wanted
to shock and deliver the same feeling that the previously mentioned words did in that time. Except that now the
words that were so foul THEN are common in prime time TV and in common usage in these coarser times. So the words
chosen for the Deadwood teleplay are the "shocker" words of OUR day, to deliver the proper intensity and shock effect.

03-28-2010, 06:28 PM	#28
OLS Suck It Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Brad Location: TN Posts: 7,912 Trading: (19)	Re: Deadwood Quote of the evening....Calamity Jane to Mose.."She no more needs a watchman than she does a fu$%ing ballonist." As for the cursing, I am sure it struck everyone the same. In watching the special features, it seems that there were foul-mouthed people and regular people back then as today, and words like $hit, bltch, son of a bltch and a$$ were plenty bad for victorian times. The reason the words in Deadwood are taken up a notch (bam) is that Milch wanted to shock and deliver the same feeling that the previously mentioned words did in that time. Except that now the words that were so foul THEN are common in prime time TV and in common usage in these coarser times. So the words chosen for the Deadwood teleplay are the "shocker" words of OUR day, to deliver the proper intensity and shock effect.