[HPFGU-Movie] Re: HP swears

[Lucy Austin]

>> Okay, I'm confused here. Is "bloody" considered profanity in the 
UK? 
>> Granted, I'm from Texas (we speak another language than the rest of 
>> the US) but I never thought "bloody" was that bad. (Written by the 
>> girl who uses the phrase "fixin' to" on a regular basis.)
>> Did anyone else picture Malfoy with dark hair? I was surprised to 
see 
>> a blond.

So was my fiance, I've just found out - he says it's obviously a girl thing to notice hair colour as he didn't realise Lockhart was blond either! BTW, why is 'fixin to' a rude thing to say?


>Well I'm British and quite frankly I'm not insulted by the 
word "Bloody", Kids use far worse words. I'm not insulted by "Arse" 
either, I think that both these words are evident in everyday 
language whether considered vulgar or not. The use of both these 
words for me actually adds a bit of reality to the movie as most kids 
are not so well spoken as we would hope. I know that people will say 
that the film is not supposed to reflect reality as such but in a way 
we still have to believe in it, otherwise it would be a pointless 
exercise.
Funny you should say that about Malfoy, at first I thought he was 
dark haired too, it was not until the fourth book that I realised he 
was not dark haired but indeed blond like his mother and his father. 

No, I'd have to disagree on that one. It doesn't offend me too much in context, like when you realise you've forgotten something and say 'bloody hell', but I was brought up in a quite old-fashioned family (I'm 27, BTW) and I find unneccessary F's and B's etc very offensive indeed. I know bloody and arse are mild swear words, but I think it was unnecessary to put them in when JKR didn't have them in the book. I particularly cringed at the 'bloody brilliant miss' - as I said in a previous post, it is unbelievable that an 11 year old would swear right in front of a very strict teacher like that - at least I would have found it unbelievable! We always were rude about the teachers, but almost never to their faces. Maybe I'm just hopelessly out of touch! Actually, he wouldn't have said 'miss' either - they always say 'professor' in the books, don't they?

Lucy, suddenly feeling very old and a bit sad about how rude people are nowadays!


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