Deadwood Language

[Kinman]

As a big fan of the entire series from HBO and one not too happy with the movie already a couple years old I learned that the producers sat down and read letters written back in the period and put together what they liked to refer to as "Period Correct" spoken word. One thing folks forget about those days, even though education was pretty sparse with folks even in my grandfather's day (Born in 1901) only getting an 8th grade education. That 8th grade education was pretty danged good, with emphasis on reading, writing and rithmatic. I loved the way the grammer might be correct and even seem a bit flowery the use of profanity just added for color. Swearingen had the best part and Ian did a bang up job...

 

[Rustyt1953]

There are many movies and tv series that would not work if the scripts were sanitized.

Deadwood is one of them.

 

[Muss Muggins]

Blazing Saddles is another . . .

 

[Xfuzz]

Ozark...could have used considerable sanitation.
But good series.

 

[Venom6]

I understand the theory behind the graphic language; that it has been updated to current norm to reflect the contemporary reality. But I've tried to watch that show numerous times. The story and the costumes intrigue me, and I love nothing more than a good Western. But the constant, unceasing, unrelenting onslaught of the foulest and most offensive language is a complete turn-off, and prevents me from watching more than the first minute regardless of where I start. I'm hardly a prude, having spent my entire career in law enforcement; but this disgusts me.

 

[Bald1]

Yeah I watched it with my son every Sunday night after Sopranos. It was the same profanities in both shows. I know people used vulgar language in that time period but it felt like they were using modern day slang. It didn’t quite fit sometimes. But still never missed an episode.

 

[wood714]

I couldn't imagine a sanitized version of Pulp Fiction.

 

[Kevin J.]

Deadwood is an interesting town. Last town to hold onto its wild west past.

 

[rockquarry]

I watched the movie recently and was disappointed. Not much to recommend. The foul language is overdone.

Someone mentioned the Sopranos. The foul language in that series seems much more appropriate for the low class poorly educated gangsters that appear in it more than it does in a western for some reason, even if your dealing with an earlier group of basically low class swine characters in Deadwood.

 

[Smoke]

I watched maybe 5 minutes of Deadwood it was the very beginning. Two guys were talking in the jail and between them they dropped three "F" bombs in 5 minutes and I found something else to watch.

 

[erikpolcrack]

As a big fan of the entire series from HBO and one not too happy with the movie already a couple years old I learned that the producers sat down and read letters written back in the period and put together what they liked to refer to as "Period Correct" spoken word. One thing folks forget about those days, even though education was pretty sparse with folks even in my grandfather's day (Born in 1901) only getting an 8th grade education. That 8th grade education was pretty danged good, with emphasis on reading, writing and rithmatic. I loved the way the grammer might be correct and even seem a bit flowery the use of profanity just added for color. Swearingen had the best part and Ian did a bang up job...

My maternal grandfather, born in 1898, left the local one-room schoolhouse in the sixth grade to drive a wagon for a local meatpacker. When I was in high school, he could help me with geometry problems that stumped both my college-educated parents.

 

[30-30remchester]

They don't curse. They speak fluent truck driver, with a sailor dialect and a construction accent.

 

[Golddollar]

I used to be very active in community theater. One day I went to an audition for a show, and the audition information sheet had a warning across the top in RED LETTERS that the show would involve a lot of smoking and profanity. As I was filling out the information sheet, that warning kept tugging at me. Finally, I decided that if the theater group felt they needed to put this kind of a warning on the audition information sheet it must be pretty bad. So I ended up tossing the audition information sheet and leaving the audition.

 

[LVSteve]

With me being fluent in Billingsgate I would have fit right in.

 

[2tall79]

"Hitman's Bodyguard" must be seen uncut

 

[smoothshooter]

As a big fan of the entire series from HBO and one not too happy with the movie already a couple years old I learned that the producers sat down and read letters written back in the period and put together what they liked to refer to as "Period Correct" spoken word. One thing folks forget about those days, even though education was pretty sparse with folks even in my grandfather's day (Born in 1901) only getting an 8th grade education. That 8th grade education was pretty danged good, with emphasis on reading, writing and rithmatic. I loved the way the grammer might be correct and even seem a bit flowery the use of profanity just added for color. Swearingen had the best part and Ian did a bang up job...

The literacy rate in the US 100 years ago was much higher than it is now.
Even in one-roomed country schoolhouses 8’th graders in general were better educated them most high school graduates are now.

 

[kamloops67]

I really enjoyed the dialogue in the deadwood series
I do not believe it was entirely accurate but close enough to be entertaining
There was an old Wyoming rancher that moved to Canada after WWII ,he owned land down the road from us , close enough that we shared work at harvest time and round ups etc
That old fella would have you in stitches with his “cussing” , it was almost poetic but with very few actual swear words
Still too colourful to share here but goes to show there can be more to off colour language that dropping F bombs

 

[chief38]

I am certainly no saint when it comes to cussin, but watching Deadwood was more than even I could handle! I watched a couple of episodes and got turned off! Accurate or not, it was pretty abrasive, especially for my wife to deal with. Once in a while when appropriate of course, but not every few seconds.

 

[kmyers]

I watched maybe 5 minutes of Deadwood it was the very beginning. Two guys were talking in the jail and between them they dropped three "F" bombs in 5 minutes and I found something else to watch.

We did watch the show and thought it was good. Neither of us are prudes but it would have been excellent if they had toned the language down a bit. I doubt there were two sentences without the use of at least one if not two carnal verbs and when not that word or a variant it was calling someone a word with the initials of c.s. A bit for emphasis, yes, but that much of the words as dialog to us degraded the show.