Wednesday January 22 2020
One of the popular series on Amazon Prime is the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. It is the story of a 1958 house wife, mother of two kids, whose husband divorces her. She becomes a stand up comic. I love the period pieces, the clothes, the cars, the interiors, the props
but not the language.
Within eight hours of his announcement she is in a comedy club doing a faux Lenny Bruce routine complete with the four letter language. And it is not just her, everyone in the cast is talking this way,, all the time.
I am no prude but
Folks did not curse a stream back then and certainly not a Richard Pryor F bomb stream.
Yes I lived through that era and not people did not talk that way.
I rented a copy of IT Chapter II from the library. When the movie was announced two years ago, I bought a made for TV mini series off Amazon. While I had not read the lengthy book, it appeared to track the book and I Bought it a great job, especially on a low budget.
As the newer version progressed I could anticipate what would happen. But it was clear the first ten minutes this was a very different version of Derry, Maine. No one in the cast of now grown kids missed the chance to insert an F Bomb, usually multiple times, in their comments. Huh, this was not in the first movie and I doubt in the book. King the author states you can tell a lot more to the reader by letting your character talk than by describing the character.
Such talk is now common among so callled rappers. All of this goes back to Richard Pryor's act in 1973-74 at the bottom of the 1968-1982 bear market.
What say you, have we made vulgar language so common place it loses its meaning, and now that is the norm?