Non-swear words

i ws under the impression that the MPAA allowed the use of one F word in a movie and it could still be PG-13. But if you look at "The Man" (also samuel l. jackson) they used the F word a few times but continued onto another word. "Fu*k, crying out loud" was used a few times. (supposed to be For crying out loud") Sometimes there was a pause though. So it seemed like it was used alot. So I guess there are some exceptions.
 
Assclown.

If anyone has a good link to swear words and mpaa ratings please link here.
 
http://www.mpaa.org/FlmRat_Ratings.asp
is the best I've found.

Part of PG-13's standards:
"A film's single use of one of the harsher sexually derived words, though only as an expletive, shall initially require the Rating Board to issue that film at least a PG-13 rating. More than one such expletive must lead the Rating Board to issue a film an R rating, as must even one of these words used in a sexual context"

So you can have one "F" word in a PG-13 but not in a sexual context, only if your stub your toe or are describing something non sexual.

For example Samual Jackson in 1408 (PG-13) "I'm saying it's an EVIL ... F'ING ... ROOM."

Someone tell me if I'm reading this wrong, sometimes when I read the way they word it it seems almost like they would rate the F word used in sexual context more leniently, but that doesn't make sense to me, so I'm pretty sure the way I explained it is what they mean.
 
I thought you could get 3 f's in a PG-13 (non-sexual)?

Thanks JDS, I'll read over that link.
 
maybe you can (have 3 f's)

I know that they recently changed

Do you have a source for the 3 f's thing?

I doubt there is a list that just says:
"17 fecal cusswords
20 involoving slang terms for body parts
3 harsher sex derived cusswords, but only as expletives"
but man it would simplify things :)

I know they don't want a list like that because they want to evaluate everything on a case by case basis, but it would help those of us with commercial aspirations that want to guarantee a certain rating.

Anyway let me know if you find such a clear set of guidelines.

And let me know if you read the findings the way I did. PG-13 is what I am mostly concerned with. For one thing it sort of defines PG and R since it is between them (less than = PG, more than = R) but also PG-13 is the limit on a couple of things I am working on right now.
 
I'll question my mate about it, he'll know more.

Have you seen 'This Film Is Not Yet Rated' ? It give some interesting insights into the MPAA's grading 'process'.
 
Anything ending in "hole" works great as long you avoid the obvious quasi-obscene ones. I also like dillweed, monkeyspank and chortleberry buttmunch.
 
Check this wiki page (all about the F word) under the CENSORSHIP section. I'm not sure if the info is still current but it's worth a look.
 
Interesting read, and a good find

hmm ... so the F word has been used up to 7 times in PG movies before there was such a thing as PG-13 ... hmmm

from your link:
(remember DVXuser posts the F word as poo poo, lol)
"In several PG-rated movies, however, the word is used, mainly because at the time there was no PG-13 rating and the MPAA did not want to give the films R ratings; for instance, All the President's Men (1976), where it is used seven times; The Kids Are Alright (1979), where it is used twice; and The Right Stuff (1983), where it is used five times. Spaceballs (1987) is an anomaly in that it was rated PG after the 1984 introduction of the PG-13 rating, yet it includes Dark Helmet's line, "'Out of order'?! ****! Even in the future nothing works!" In the PG-13 rated movie SoapdishSally Field, played an aging soap opera actress. Appalled that her costume included a turban, she complained to her show's producer "What I feel like is Gloria ****ing Swanson!" (1991),"

I've got an email from a friend that ran up against this while completing his feature, will look for it later, forget where he found out or if it was in the rating process from the MPAA but apparently it is stricter now (if I remember correctly) ... perhaps this explains the seemingly stricter guidlines in my MPAA link vs. the wikipedia link. - any way I'll look for that email and post it later, but gotta run now.
 
haha yeah,

that's mostly because they don't want people surfing for porn and coming up with DVXuser threads etc.

Don't play around with it too much though. When the system first went online Jarred gave us a week to play with the fun of having the "f" word come out as poo poo then he closed that thread.
 
If you are seriously looking at getting a rating I think there are some guidelines somewhere. I Know you get to sort of trade in light profanities. For instance a lot of the words above contain "ass", I don't think you get to use that more that a few times. I have around here a print out of the TV/airline swear word alternatives that are approved/ suggested. It's a few years old but I imagine they haven't changed much. They are pretty usless unless you are trying to do a comedy. If as I suspect you are more trying to get into the PG13 feel and not nec going for the rating you have a lot more freedom. It's actually surprising what gets flagged and what doesn't. They got away with calling someone "penis breath" in et and nobody blinked. It seems you can be rather explicit as long as it takes a second for the audience to "get it". I actually prefer insults that take a little though to get.
"did your mother have any kids that lived".
I would take a look at some old radio scripts from things like Fiber McGee and Molly, for comedy insults and screenplays from the screwball comedy films. In general think of shows and films that have the kind of things your looking for and go on line and look at some scripts, or just watch the shows.
 
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