We all think it and we all say it. Whether you stub your toe on the corner of a table or you step on your kids Lego block, the profanity will sooner or later rear its ugly head and come spewing forth. Other occasions call for the celebration of winning at NoviBet UK casino games, the complimentary vouchers we won or the job promotion we have always dreamed of, this type of profanity is something akin to a ‘Hell Yes’ moment and sometimes requires something a little more potent.
With that being said, we have begun to accept the vulgarity used by others and have built an appreciation for the fellow heathen neighbour. They too, in all likelihood, regard us in the same manner and together we can all appreciate the dirty, oh so dirty, list of movies produced with the foulest language, intense scenes and most barbaric natures, everybody likes to get a little dirty from time to time.
Goodfellas
Topping our charts, Robert DeNiro and his crew have dropped the f*bomb 300 times during the film. Based upon a true life drama about a mobster who became an FBI informant. The movie is as intense as is sounds and the profanity has called for an adult rating. We highly recommend this.
Sweet Sixteen
Don’t let the movie title fool you, or do. Either way, Sweet Sixteen is a hardcore movie based on the youth in England Glasgow. The f*bomb, amongst many other ear gripping profanities, has been used 313 times and has proven to be a truly disturbing and eye opening movie which is still making movie news decades later.
Running Scared
If you are a family kind of guy or woman, your protective nature will appreciate the foul language used 315 times throughout the course of this highly disturbing movie. Running Scared is based on the unlikely events of a mother discovering a dark world of child abuse while her husband is dealing with a mob situation. The movie is action packed and intense, something unforgettable in terms of impacting movies to have left an invisible footprint in one’s mind.
Alpha Dog
As the name suggests, Alpha Dog is all about dominance. The story is based on a true life story about one of the FBI’s youngest most wanted criminals. After murdering the younger brother of a guy who owed a drug debt, the story touched the hearts of millions and the f*bomb, aptly used, has been repeated 367 times in this Nick Cassavetes’ production, the same director of the Notebook, who would have thought?
The Wolf of Wall Street
This one is a modern hit. The Wolf of Wall Street is all about money, drugs and profanities. The movie trumps our list with
One of the most flagged movies due to profane language is Swearnet: The Movie. This is one movie that sports 935 foul language words which would make a sailor blush. The movie is comical and certainly as colourful as the language used.
We have to admit, the list is as vibrant as the language used and these movies aren’t exactly for the whole family, unless you are a family of two…or one.
To celebrate Glass’ Number 1 achievement, Official Charts are revealing the UK’s Top 10 Biggest Films directed by M Night Shyamalan, based on sales across DVD and Blu-Ray formats.
The Sixth Sense leads with over 1.27 million copies sold on disc; now a classic, highly-referenced piece of cinema, the film famously features a huge twist at the end, capturing the public’s imagination and solidifying M. Night Shyamalan’s place as a filmmaker who knows how to keep audiences on the edge of their seats.
At Number 5 is The Last Airbender, the 2010 feature film based on the Nickelodeon animated series and one of a few examples of M Night Shyamalan turning his hand to child-friendly films. Glass’s predecessors, Split and Unbreakable also make the Top 10 at Numbers 8 and 3 respectively.
The Official Top 10 films directed by M. Night Shyamalan on disc
What qualifies as the “best” and “worst” films from possibly the two most unwavering, inventive, entertaining and provocative filmmakers of modern times? After a couple of White Russians, we attempted to rank the Coens’ crop of offerings in a highly subjective effort to get to the core of that Barton Fink fiendishness.
The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
After a remarkable streak of Coen successes, this dull tale of an emotionless drone (Billy Bob Thornton) was the first and worst of the brothers’ fin de siècle slump, ushering in a frightening period when it seemed the Coens had finally exhausted their bag of tricks. Neither funny nor particularly dramatic (despite the numerous murders that drive the plot), The Man Who Wasn’t There even managed to make an oral-sex scene involving Scarlett Johansson seem dull and unnecessary — a remarkably dubious accomplishment.
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
In the perverse ways of Hollywood, the second worst film of the brothers’ career was also their first to surpass $100 million at the box office, thanks to the star power of George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones as the duelling spouses in this run-of-the-mill divorce comedy. The directors were collaborating with a pair of screenwriters who would later pen the movie in which Tommy Lee Jones protects a houseful of cheerleaders. The Coens’ distinctive aesthetic was barely evident in this hunk of multiplex fodder. Still, what counts as a misfire in the Coen filmography would qualify as a career highpoint had it been directed by, say, Garry Marshall.
The Ladykillers (2004)
And then, three years into the brothers’ “slump,” this reimagining of the classic 1950s heist film suggested that maybe the Coens were finally getting their mojo back. Uneven and sluggish, The Ladykillers nevertheless gave the contractually bland Tom Hanks free reign to let his freak flag fly, resulting in the most interesting (and underrated) performance of the actor’s career as would-be criminal mastermind Professor Goldthwaite Higginson Dorr.
By Fergus Henderson. Wade in the Water, directed by Mark Wilson and written by Chris Retts, is like a 21st century Taxi Driver, examining all the pain and rage and emotional mayhem that leads to self-righteous vigilantism, then taking the examination several steps further.
Whereas vigilante revenge films typically let the cathartic violence serve as sufficient evidence of spiritual corruption, served explosively at the film’s climax, Wade in the Water instead deploys its violence early, where it caps off an acerbically funny first third.
In this first third you might mistake our schlubby protagonist ‘Our Man’ (played with wounded restraint by Tom E. Nicholson) for some new Falling Down-style angry man. Our Man is so put upon and beaten down by his miserable life that getting the wrong burger sets him off. He lives on his filthy sofa where he works, watches old Westerns, and masturbates.
Soon, however, he is in therapy, where he hints at childhood abuse that has never left him.
Our Man finds what seems to be the perfect target for his deep-seated anger after receiving a parcel meant for someone else that contains a disc of horrible images of abuse. Except once his rage has truly manifested the film switches gears hard. For its remainder it becomes both pensively redemptive yet emphatic in its judgement that the cycle of inherited violence takes real will to break.
Without giving anything away, Our Man finds himself making an uneasy, unlikely bond with his mark’s daughter Tilly (a magnetically intense Danika Golombek). They’re both coming to terms with the sins of their fathers, in their own ways. Golombek’s performance is a real feat, covering a wide, ambiguous, tricky emotional terrain that delivers judgement and forgiveness at the same time.
This film tells a heavy story, undercut by oddly sympathetic streaks of mordant humour. Our Man listens to gospel music because he believes that their religious expression (religious hypocrisy emerging as a strong theme) conveys ultimate pain. Pain is all Our Man has known. Wade in the Water uses its sly, offbeat humour and truly unique character arc to show us that pain can be transformed into forgiveness and acceptance.
Mersey Boys’ Steven G. Farrell: Interview – By Carlos Larriega A.
Mersey Boys is a novel about an american art professor, Al Moran , who met John Lennon in 1959. Gradually Lennon, Moran and a beautiful independent woman called Ginny Browne merge into a friendship that leads to the forming of The Beatles.
Based on this book director Paddy Murphy made a film (‘Mersey Boys: A Letter From Al Moran’). This movie had its premiere at Delray Beach as a part of the Beatles On The Beach Festival. Mundo Beatle could interview Steven Gerard Farrell, author of ‘Mersey Boys’ about his novel, the film, his Beatles experiences in England and how he lived the Beatles Festival in California.
CLA: Gerard, you have written about many interesting topics during your career (books, essays, articles). When did you decide to write a novel about John Lennon days at the Liverpool Art College? And how did you create your characters?
SGF: Carlos, I visited the wonderful city of Liverpool, England in the spring of 1989, and the idea came to me as I explored the many places associated with The Beatles like the Liverpool Art College, the Quarrybank School and the Cavern Club. I even stayed in a hotel that was across the street from the govcernment office where John Lennon and Cynthia Powell were married. I even went inside the pub where the two celebrated their marriage with a reception. I visited the church where Paul McCartney sang in the choir as a boy. The highlight was finding a greasy old fish and chip shop where John, Paul and George hung around when they were teenagers. I visited Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields: names that are featured in their songs.
Professor Al Moran is based upon a younger versión of myself. Ginny Browne is based on a beautiful but diffucult woman I dated briefly many years ago in Rockford, Illinois. Ginny is a the woman every man desires but can never hold for long. This woman becomes the creative muse for the artist.
CLA: The Mersey Boys novel, play and screenplay have all been published by Celtic-Badger Publishers. It must have been a difficult job writing the story in three different formats. Sometimes it takes more time to adapt the story from a novel to a script. What differences can a reader find among each of this three books?
SGF: There are four screenplays adapted from the Mersey Boys novel, including one written by myself. The novel has been published five different times. The play has only been published once. There was a stage reading here at my college (Greenville Technical College in Greenville, South Carolina) in the Winter of 2015. It was direcedt by Dr. Dan Robbins of my college’s theatre department; and it starred students who were studying acting under Dr. Dan. They did great jobs!
The story is always essentially the same. I made the screenplay and the play sexier to appeal to the audience. In later editions of the novel I have added additional materials such as photographs from the movie.
CLA: ‘Mersey Boys’ [the novel] has several editions so we can say that the book had a very good reception. Now if we talk about the film: can you tell us how you had your novel filmed as a movie? The film was directed and produced by Paddy Murphy. Wasn’t there an earlier attempt to film the movie?
SGF: Mersey Boys had been accepted by La Muse Theatre Group in New York City back in 2012. They were filming in the Brooklyn and Queens áreas of New York while using actors who were trying to make it on Broadway. Joanna Pickering, a British film and stage actor, had been hired to play the leading female role of Ginny Browne. The director made a very good two minute trailer for the film. Sadly, the Project came to a sudden stop due to a shortage of money. Joanna Pickering has moved on to other projects. She recently won an award at a film festival for a screenplay she wrote. Anna Shields, another fine actor, was in the first film.
Paddy Murphy, one of the founders of Celtic Badger Media Films in Limerick and Clare, Ireland, agreed to do a ten minute noncommercial short based upon my novel. I reached out to him because his film company and my publishing company are both called Celtic Badger. I think he agreed to do the film because his mother is a very big Beatles fan. Noncommercial means we’re not making a profit from the film.
CLA: The filming of ‘Mersey Boys: A letter From Al Moran’ was done in Ireland. John Lennon’s ancestors were from Ireland. So I think it was special to find actors and crew that developt the story in that country. Can you tell us your opinions about this.
SGF: John Lennon’s ancestors were indeed from Ireland, and he was proud of his Irish ancestry. Paul McCartney and George Harrison were also mostly of Irish DNA. Ringo Starr even had a little Irish blood inside of his viens. George had Irish aunts, uncles and cousins he had visited in Ireland before he joined The Beatles. My last name Farrell is an Irish name, and I have always been very proud of my Irish roots. I had been to my ancestral homeland of Ireland three times before I had gone over there to work on the film in Galway and Wicklow, Ireland. I travelled over to Ireland with my colleague Rachel Cobb, a profesor at my college. Rachel played the part of Moira Moran.
Courtney McKeon, casting director for Celtic Badger Media Films, had many fine Irish actors audition for the film. Fiach Kunz, an actor who had been on Game of Thrones, was selected top play Professor Al Moran because he was hansome, scholarly looking. He can also do an American accent. Robert Bourke (John), Mikey Casey (Paul) and Ben Collopy (George) were all selected because they were all handsome and because they could do the Scouse accent that the Beatles spoke in. They all acted like punks and they looked tough wearing black leather jackets and smoking cigarettes. Mikey Casey almost lost the part because he still had braces on his teeth. Luckily, the braces were removed from his mouth only days before the shooting schedule began.
Celtic Badger Media Films also employed two British film actors: Jessica Messenger as the female lead (Ginny Browne) and Graham Gill as the bartender (Squire Clancy). Graham had been on the televisión series Vikings. Jessica, who is a beautiful and talented actor with a long list of screen credits, was my favorite in the movie. I almost cried when she brought my Ginny Browne to life up on the screen.
I played the part Gerard Moran, the nephew of Al Moran, who discovers the old letter that Al wrote about meeting John Lennon in a Liverpool pub around 1959. Gerard doesn’t believe the letter until his niece Moira, played by Rachel Cobb, discovers a faded photographs of John and Al together inside of the pub. Gerard will find more letters that will be used to make a feature film.
CLA: I Heard that the film was submitted to the 71st Cannes Film Festival in 2018. Do you have comments about that?
SGF: Sadly, the film wasn’t selected by the Cannes Film Committee.
CLA: Please tell us about the film’s world premiere in Delray, Florida.
SGF: The film was part of Daniel Hartwell’s first International Beatles On The Beach Festival. It was a thrill. We had a crowd of about seventy people. My friend Lynn Wisenbaker took photographs and my friend Chris Wisenbaker sold books. Tony Bramwell, the former CEO of Apple Corp and a good mate of all four Beatles, sat in the front row. Afterwards, he gave me a big bear hug and we took our photograph together. It will always be a great memory for me.
CLA: You wrote an interesting article about the Magical Beatles Museum in Liverpool for the British Beatles Fan Club Magazine. In a few months The Museum has become in one of the main attractions in Liverpool. Any special memories of your interview or experience with Roag and Pete Best.
SGF: I didn’t have the opportunity to have any direct contact with Pete Best, the original drummer for the Beatles. Roag Best is a true British gentleman. Last summer, Roag and I worked on a 15 second radio comercial that aired several times on Brooke Halpin’s wonderful program dedicated to the songs of the Beatles (Come Together with the Beatles) that is broadcasted from Malibu, California. Roag is Pete’s younger brother and the two still play in bands together.
Carlos, please encourage Beatles fan from Latin America to visit Roag Best at the Magical Beatles Museum in Liverpool. The place is something wonderful and special. Roag Best has put on display many Beatles ítems that he has collected over the years. Roag’s mother Mona gave The Beatles their first paying gig inside of a coffee shop she ran in the basement of their family home. Roag’s father also worked with the Beatles for many years.
Al and the lads
CLA: You had some special moments at Beatles On The Beach Festival in Delray Bay, you met Tony Bramwell and he was with you in front of the audience in the premiere of ‘Mersey Boys: A Letter From Al Moran.’ What Beatles secrets he shared with you?
SGF: I asked Tony who was his favorite Beatle and his response was “the one I was with last.” Tony met George when they were small boys. Tony still has a scar on his neck where he was wounded when the lads were playing at a game of cowboys and Indians. Tony met Paul a few years afterwards because they lived near one another in Liverpool. He said all four Beatles were good guys, but he had some fights with al lof them. Tony is a very cool and classy man. I wish he would be the executive producer of the Mersey Boys feature film.
Did you know that Tony used to carry George’s guitar so he could get into nightclubs free? Later on, John asked Tony to if he would carry all of their equipment for them and to become their roadie. He was amazed when Brian Epstein, the Beatles manager, said he would pay him to be in charge of the equipment for all of the Beatles’ performances. Tony later went on to produce the songs Strawberry Fields Forever and Lady Madonna.
CLA: Tell us something about your experience in Florida with The Beatles On The Beach Festival.
SGF: Daniel Hartwell, the promoter of the event, did a great job by inviting cover bands of the Beatles from all over the world. There were great musicians such as The Norwegian Beatles, The Falling Doves and True McCartney. Christopher Leyva, lead Singer of The Falling Doves, is now a good friend of mine. I want him to work with me on the feature. Estefy Lennon and her band of female musicians from Argentina were superlative. The main act was The Edgar Winter Group, who had hit songs like Free Ride and Frankenstein in the Seventies. Edgar is a friend of Ringo Starr Carlos, encourage all of the Beatles fans in Latin America to attend the second International Beatles on the Beach Festival. Daniel Hartwell puts on a great show.
CLA: Do you have any plans for a Spanish edition of ‘Mersey Boys’ ?
SGF: I would love to have my novel translated into Spanish because it is such a beautiful language. It would be very difficult because in the book The Beatles and the other characters speak in their Liverpudlian accent. This dialect may not translate well from one language to another. Carlos, if you have an amigo down in South America who would like the job, it would be okay by me.
Mersey Boys’ Steven G. Farrell
CLA: It would be great to see you with your novel and film in Mexico or Sudamerica. Could that be possible in the future? Do you have plans to go the Beatles Week in England?
SGF: Carlos, it would be a thrill to visit Mexico and the rest of South America with my film and my novel. I’m always eager to travel to other countries. I won’t be able to attend the Liverpool Beatles Week Festival Convention this year because I am teaching four classes at my college during the summer, so I am too busy.
CLA: Is there any plans for the film in the next months?
SGF: I want to have it aired on television in my home town of Kenosha, Wisconsin, so my Friends and family can see it, especially my older sisters (Joan, Pat and Barb). Brett McNeil and The Junto Club are doing a podcast with me about the film and movie on June 9th, at 1pm. Paddy Murphy intends to screen the film in Limerick, Ireland sometime this summer. I will fly over to see it. Would you like to come with me, Carlos?
Ronnie Almani, an actor and producer from New York, and I are trying to attain funding for a feature-length film. I am trying to get permission from Apple Corp before I move forward with Project. I hope Paddy Murphy and Celtic Badger Media will also be a major part of the project. I’ll have to convince Tony Bramwell to be our leader. Carlos, if you know anybody who wants to invest in the film please let me know.
CLA:Thank you very much Gerard for this interview. I’m sure our readers from Latinoamerica will visit The Magical Beatles Museum in Liverpool so they can enjoy that wonderful and special place with a vast collection of Beatles items. Besides they can attend the second International Beatles On The Beach Festival next year. It’s sure Daniel Hartwell will put again an interesting show with many attractions. Good luck with your future projects. I know some good fans will support them.
