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[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

"I haven't been fucked like that since grade school." blew my young mind, at the time.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/trivia/?item=tr0755880

The original "pillow talk"-scene had Marla saying "I want to have your abortion". When this was objected to by Fox 2000 Pictures President of Production Laura Ziskin, David Fincher said he would change it on the proviso that the new line couldn't be cut. Ziskin agreed and Fincher wrote the replacement line, "I haven't been fucked like that since grade school". When Ziskin saw the new line, she was even more outraged and asked for the original line to be put back, but, as per their deal, Fincher refused.

Also, the actress didn't know grade school in the US is 6-12 years old as she is from outside the US. She didn't find out until afterwards and was very unhappy about saying it.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fair point.

When I saw the flick, the internet was barely more than geocities & altavista, so 🤷🏼‍♂️

TMI: as someone who lost theirs at 12, I guess it resonated with me — but, I completely hear where she's coming from.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

It's 6 to 14 or so. First grade through eighth grade.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Kindergarten to 6th grade (12 yoa) in the majority of the US. 7th and 8th are middle school.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 0 points 1 week ago

Middle school is also grade school.

[-] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago

Generally not understood as such though. I would say common vernacular is more accurate to the intended meaning than the technical truth

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

I guess it depends on your region because it was definitely considered grade school when/where I grew up.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago
[-] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

She's not American. They use different terms for things around the world.

E: ducking autocorrupt

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 points 1 week ago

Helena Bonham-Carter, being British, didn’t know that “grade school” was much younger than one would expect from such a line until after the film was released.

[-] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

I think the original line was:

"I want to have your abortion"

But it was cut because it was deemed to krass.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
  1. crass*, FFS. (and too*, while I'm at it)
  2. If by "cut", you mean "not included", then that's a whole other can of worms re: your comprehension of this shared reality we live in.
[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 week ago

You might want to make sure your comment has perfect grammar if you're gonna be "that guy"

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 week ago

Feel better about yourself, kitten? 🤣

[-] CMonster@discuss.online 0 points 1 week ago
[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 week ago

The fuck do you think? Are you?

[-] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 week ago

Krass is German.

Yes, "not included" like you when people want to have fun and form friendships.

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Krass is German.

That doesn’t change that the English spelling is crass.

Also, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crass says crass made its way from Latin via French to English, not German. Always with a C, btw.

[-] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

If you could stop smelling your own farts for a second you would see why that doesn't matter.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/krass

The spelling krass has been the prescribed spelling since the German spelling reform of 1996 (the Rechtschreibreform).

Get fucked.

[-] nanoswarm9k@lemmus.org 0 points 1 week ago

c not as fun as k. no one cares. spelling is for comand line. The rest is jazz. Talking by the numbers is for the coffin-hearted.

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 week ago

If spelling doesn't matter, why then are all your other words properly spelled in their English form.

And you used proper capitalization and spaces.

Don't be disingenuous.

[-] nanoswarm9k@lemmus.org -1 points 1 week ago

I am a fully genuine fiction writer. I am fully candid about the neccesity of fun.

Language is a conductive medium that behaves bizzarely depending on environmental conditions.

Spelling matters for comandline, translation.

My tongue nor typewriter are region-locked. They are drunken and given to singing.

No need to mind. :3 Fortunately plants look great in bauhaus.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago

Sheiße. 😭

Entschuldigung. It's a risky day for sanity out here in the soon-to-be-wasteland of a nation. I could've been kinder instead of acting like one. ^(Wortspiel^ ^ftw?)^ 🙇🏼‍♂️🥲

[-] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

What are you trying to say?

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 week ago

What part are you not parsing?

[-] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

The whole thing.

What nation? Act as what? What is that Wortspiel ftw thing supposed to mean with that formating?

You seem to already have lost your sanity because this reads like something you find written in feces on a asylum wall.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 week ago

Ohhh, you are an asshole. My bad. You can kindly fuck off now, cupcake. 🤣

[-] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Nah, Marla was real. PM members physically brought her to Jack at the end. Even PM wouldn't be able to pull off bringing an alter ego to Jack, she must be real.

Also, in the film the thrift store cashier LOOKS at Marla during the conversation.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

She's probably real in the novel as well, but I don't think you can definitively say it's an impossible interpretation in either.

It's a bit more clear in the novel for a few reasons but you can still wave away a lot of the points against it simply by pointing to how extremely unreliable the Narrator is.

I watched fight club for the first time in 10 years recently. I’ll tell you that movie hits different when you’re 20, 30 or 40. I remember in my 20s it all seemed so cool and badass, now that I’m 40 I see now that they’re a bunch of incel losers with toxic masculinity and a lack of self awareness.

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

They are a bunch of losers, but their plights are very legitimate. That's how a charismatic cult leader swoops in and radicalises them.

We have a number of real world examples of that. The most current one being Andrew Tate.

[-] psion1369@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The point was to not worship these people. The point was driven better in the book, the movie was more anti-capitalist than the book.

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Chuck P was a gay man. The movie takes the homoeroticism to levels that would have been laughable if Palahnuik had written them.

Why does the narrator ignore Marla? BECAUSE HES GAY

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It would funnier if he disappeared.

[-] notso@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Marla... the little scratch on the roof of your mouth that would heal if only you could stop tonguing it, but you can't.

[-] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
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