Hearty fudging crud, you guys! Isn’t cussing the gat-darndest most flipping fun you’ll ever flunking have in the whole farkin world? Some would disagree, but I believe swearing is an important part of any language. I consider it the seasoning of words and should be used responsibly. I’ve used this comparison before (in a similar article actually) but I look at swearing as salt in food. Too much and you run the risk of ruining what you’re making, but used correctly it can make all the difference to the “meal” of conversation or dialogue. However there is a time and a place for real cuss words and sometimes it doesn’t make sense to use real ones depending on the plot or characters. YouTube’s Burger Fiction compiled a super-cut of a whole bunch of non-curse words in movies in their latest, and aptly named, “Cursing Without Cursing.” The video starts off on a perfect high note with with one of the best examples of swear word replacement from Fantastic Mr. Fox.
In the film, the characters’ range of expletives was explicitly confined to only the word “cuss” which lends to the whimsical nature of the film and blurs the line of whether or not the film was intended for a younger audience. The rest of the super-cut is an all-star cast of nonsense cusses and it’s hard to pick a favorite. Ralphie’s “Oh Fudge” from A Christmas Story is in there although we all know he didn’t say “fudge” and you can’t beat the insult fights in Hook and The Sandlot. But if I’m being honest I have to let my nerd flag fly and go with the best movie swear that isn’t a swear and side with Han Solo being called a “scruffy-looking nerf-herder.” What are your favorite non-swear cuss words in movies? Lets discuss in the comments below! Image: MGM/UA Entertainment Co.Sign In or Create Account When D.C., a Siamese cat, turns up with a wristwatch instead of a collar, it could be just the clue the FBI needs to crack a kidnapping in Walt Disney's wild comedy, That Darn Cat!, starring Hayley Mills and Dean Jones.
It's added to your bag! Not eligible for in-store reservation. Magic in the details... The fur flies when a smart Siamese cat goes undercover and Hayley Mills and Dean Jones team up for mystery, adventure, and wild comedy in Walt Disney's original comedy classic. When the irrepressible and always hungry D.C. (Darn Cat) turns up with a wristwatch for a collar, it becomes a tip-off to an unsolved robbery and kidnapping. You don't know who's tailing who as nosy neighbors, jealous boyfriends, and a highly allergic FBI agent play a game of cat and mouse to crack the baffling case. Don't miss the spectacular supporting cast featuring Dorothy Provine, Roddy McDowall, Frank Gorshin, and Ed Wynn, plus 100 purr-cent feline family fun! Title tune written by the Sherman Brothers is sung by swingin' Bobby Darin. Directed by Robert Stevenson. Express shipping not available for this item. This item cannot be shipped internationally or outside the contiguous United States. It can only be shipped to a physical address, not to a P.O. Box, APO or FPO address.
Please allow 2-3 weeks for delivery. Tech Specs:Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Primary Language: English, FrenchSound: Dolby Digital Mono SoundRunning Time: 116 minutesFor Region 1 use (US and Canada) onlyRating: GThe Lego Batman Movie: New Trailer debuts at SDCC “You’re darn right woah!” Ever the throbbing hub of pop culture, the San Diego Comic Con is pinpointed in the calendar as one of those events that delivers for fans from the world of comics, movies, video games and animation. One particular gem that ticked most of those boxes was a new trailer for the hotly anticipated The LEGO Batman Movie. Capturing the bull-headed arrogance of Will Arnett’s Batman and the youthful enthusiasm of Michael Cera’s Robin, the dynamic duo are introduced as central to the plot as we take what looks like a bright and colourful gag filled interpretation of the classic origin story set in the playful world of the LEGO Movie. In the irreverent spirit of fun that made “The LEGO® Movie” a worldwide phenomenon, the self-described leading man of that ensemble – LEGO Batman – stars in his own big-screen adventure: “The LEGO® Batman Movie.”
But there are big changes brewing in Gotham, and if he wants to save the city from The Joker’s hostile takeover, Batman may have to drop the lone vigilante thing, try to work with others and maybe, just maybe, learn to lighten up. A poster and other screenshots have also been released for the film, including a look at the Joker, played by Zach Galifianakis. The film will have it’s UK release on the 10th February 2017.Click to tweet this article to your friends and followers! There are two right ways to build with Legos and there are also two right ways to build a film. There’s the purely organic way, where you just follow all of your instincts. And then there’s also the other way, where you sit down with a producer, manager, agent, writing partner, or director and you ask them, “what do you need?” And you find a way to deliver what they need. There are many different ways to build a movie. But we all eventually end up at the second way simply because all of us are eventually going to find ourselves in a notes meeting with a producer who needs something from us.
And we’re going to need to take their notes and integrate them without destroying our script. In order to do all this, there’s a dance that we need to learn, as screenwriters. It’s a dance between our wild creativity and the part of ourselves that wants to glue the darn Lego pieces together and make sure they don’t come apart. But, in order to create the movies and stories that we really want to tell, we have to be willing to break them. In today’s podcast, I’ll talk about The LEGO Movie as a metaphor for what it really means to be a writer. Click the photo below to listen to the podcast or click here. More articles by Jacob Krueger Balls of Steel: How Do Writing Partnerships Work? Meet the Reader: Narrative Structure – Building a Better Drama Get more career and writing advice in Jacob’s webinars!The Lego Movie begins long ago, in a world were everything is made of Lego bricks. One fateful day, the evil Lord Business stole the “Kragle”, the most powerful weapon in the universe.
On that very same day, the guru Vitruvious pronounced a prophecy that one day a “special one” would discover an object called the “Piece of Resistance” and defeat Lord Business and save the world. Eight and a half years later, Emmet, a generic construction worker, stumbles upon this “Piece of Resistance” and is promptly captured by Lord Business who assumes that Emmet is the “special one” the prophecy refers to. But before Lord Business (who now goes by “President Business”) can get his hands on the “Piece of Resistance”, Emmet is rescued by a pupil of Vitruvious’, a strong willed young woman who calls herself “Wyldstyle”. She tells Emmet that he is the one destined to stop Lord Business’s plans for world domination and that the prophecy states he is “the most important, most talented, most interesting and most extraordinary person in the universe.” Only one problem: Emmet is not important, talented, interesting, or extraordinary.
He’s not even a “Master Builder” like Wyldstyle and Vitruvious, people who can create just about anything out of anything. Could the prophecy have been wrong? Do they have the wrong guy? And what does Batman have to do with any of this? Let me be honest with you: I love Legos! I have been building with Legos for as long as I can remember, so I am very familiar with the Lego building experience. When building with Legos, I’ve observed that there are two kinds of people (or kids in most cases). The first group is the creatives. They go absolutely nuts, sticking satellite dishes on racecars and building their rocket ships with lime green and other outlandish colors. Creativity practically drips from their hands as they scan the plethora of Legos before them, their brains buzzing with the potential at their fingertips. The second group is the structured and organized builders. They are the ones who ask, “Where are the instructions?” They gather up all the yellow and black bricks, because they are building a school bus and they meticulously assemble their creation based on how a school bus should look.
Everything must be perfect, well designed, with no frills or crazy, out-of-the-box stuff. The essential theme of the Lego movie is that both these lines of thought are ok, but they are perfected when used together. Lord Business wants a perfect world. Everyone should follow the instructions. But this thinking by itself leaves a sturdy, yet dry world that eventually pushes Lord Business into taking absolute totalitarian control in order to achieve his goals. Master builders, on the other hand, want to do their own thing. They use crazy colors and out of the box designs to create some pretty amazing stuff. But teamwork can be lacking when everyone has their own ideas. This is evident when they build a submarine together (each Master Builder doing their own thing) and then it promptly falls apart. Emmet comes along and, at first, does not appear to be very special. But he soon realizes he is specially equipped to bridge these two viewpoints. He may not have a lot of ideas, but he knows how to follow the instructions and if they combined the Master Builder's creativity with teamwork and organization, they could build even greater things and defeat Lord Business.
This theme of teamwork is woven throughout the film and even sneaks it’s way into the film’s iconic song (“Everything is awesome! Everything is cool when you’re part of a team! ...everything is better when we stick together…”). Another strong theme in The Lego Movie is that everyone is special. “The only thing anyone needs to be special is to believe that you can be,” says Vitruvious to Emmet. On first watching the Lego Movie I thought that this statement was what Lord Business would call “a bunch of hippy dippy bologna”, but upon my most recent re-watching, it occurred to me how true this statement is. I’ll elaborate on this in the conclusion. The theme of choosing to “believe” despite what you may initially think is strong throughout. Emmet must choose to believe he can make a difference, not for himself, but because others depend on it. He is willing to sacrifice himself in order to help others, a theme that Christ Himself is the benchmark for.
If this film were live action it would be extremely violent. But in a world where everything is made of Lego, the craziest explosion and most terrible carnage is no different than what we did when we were kids and smashed our own creations for the sake of our made-up stories. It turns out that the Kragle is actually a tube of Krazy Glue. Lord Business’s plans are to "Kragle" the world into submission, essentially freezing everyone and everything in place. Bad Cop/Good Cop, Lord Business’s main henchman, has a split personality represented by his two faces that change when he spins his head. In an effort to make Bad Cop fully submit to his evil will, Lord Business erases Good Cop’s face with a Q-Tip and nail polish. Another character has his head knocked off and “dies”. He later shows up as a ghostly Lego person suspended by a string. Vitruvious puts Emmet in a “trance” and he, Emmet, and Wyldstyle enter Emmet's mind. There is talk of the “man upstairs”.
This is later revealed to be not quite what you would expect and makes for a twist that may make you wish you were 10 years old again. Being a “kid” movie their are a few uses of “dang” “darn” “gosh” and so on, as well as a few butt jokes thrown in. As a running gag, a character repeatedly appears in his underwear. Remember those two groups of kids I mentioned? I was always in the first category and I had a lot of friends who were of the later. A lot of times, as I struggled to be more structured in my designs, they struggled to be more out of the box. When presented with a challenge to our building styles, we were both apt to say, “I can’t. I don’t know how.” The thing that makes Legos great is that the only limit is your imagination and the bricks in front of you. To say “I can’t” is really saying “I don’t think I can”, but if you bite the bullet and believe that you can make something, you will be more likely to try it and expand your creative horizons.
In other words: never say you can’t until you have tried. How does this principle apply to the Christian walk? Well of course just believing you can do something doesn’t mean you can do it. If I believe I can fly, I will be very disappointed when I jump off my house. But in the context of believing that amazing things can happen when you have faith, more specifically faith in God, this concept holds more water. When we feel God is calling us to something and we often say “I don’t think I can.” If we are more honest with ourselves, would we acknowledge that we are actually saying, “I don’t think God can?” Even Jesus said that the first step was to believe and that He will do the rest (Acts 16:31). Despite what we think we can’t do, if we depend on God, He can do great things through us. The Lego movie is an extremely fun roller coaster of an adventure story that will leave kids and grownups laughing and the Lego nerds pinching themselves, unable to comprehend the level of awesome that has reached critical mass in their brains.