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Quote by: Plasma Snake[D] Yeah, one movie I saw on TV had one character saying "you mother-loving idiot...", the motherloving part was dubbed over the familiar phrase on hears, which is motherfucker(duh). Sometimes they get ridiculous with the censorship. |
Are you sure it was dubbed? How old was the movie? The reason the age matters is that because of heavy censorship in the 40's no one would say certain things anyway. Films like war movies done back then are funny now, to see tough men in bad situations sound like librarians.
Older movies were often written that way because the studio KNEW the line would not have been allowed and "mother lover" was an accepted way of saying the banned word that could appease the censors.
If you're interested, read up on the Hays office regarding movie censorship. There was a good book on it titled, "See no Evil" some years back.