The iconic line from Gone With the Wind wouldn't make anyone bat an eye today, but it sure made waves in 1939.
The Big Picture Isn't swearing fun? As much as it offends your grandparents and teachers, there's no better feeling in the world than letting out a big four-letter word when stubbing your toe or eating a good meal. There's something so gratifying, funny, and familiar about swear words. Of course, context matters, and there is a time and place to use course language, and like anything else is best when used appropriately.
For all we know, there could be a film released in 1922 that drops an F-Bomb right in the beginning. Since tracking the history of swearing is a study that gives you a degree I don't have, and wading the murky waters of early film history is mostly speculation, what this writer can do is tell you a story of one of the most iconic curse words in classic cinema history, and the fallout that came from it.
How One Line Changed Censorship Rules Gasp! Such course language. Certainly the most shocking and offensive part of a movie with whitewashed slavery, sexual assault, a miscarriage caused by domestic violence, and a child getting thrown off a pony and killed on-screen.
How the story usually goes is that Selznick decided to stick it to the censors, cop the fine, and put the word in the film anyway. That's not quite the truth, Selznick did still end up having to pay a $5,000 fine, $100,000 for inflation, to put the word in the film, but instead appealed to the censors through a letter you can read here. According to the book Hollywood v.
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