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Best cunts in film

Started by An tSaoi, March 30, 2011, 12:25:07 AM

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An tSaoi

I just watched the new Bad Lieutenant, and was reduced to tears of laughter (in a good way) at the scene where with Nicholas Cage pulls out the oxygen supply tube to an old dear in a wheelchair and says "You should drop dead you selfish cunt". It amused me for three reasons; it's somewhat rare to hear that word used in American films, the scene is wonderfully daft, and Nicholas Cage is a fundamentally funny actor.

So what do you think is the best use of 'cunt' in a film? I was going to nominate Junior's rant in The Sopranos that "Anthony is a cunt hair away from owning all Northern Jersey - and I am that cunt hair", but alas it's a television show and therefore not eligible.

Harpo Speaks

What about 'F star star CUNT' from In The Loop?

An tSaoi

^ Of course, the biggest laugh in the cinema when I saw it.

Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth


Queneau

Al Pacino in Glengarry Glen Ross. The one in Human Traffic got a huge laugh out of me as well - it was set up so well, and completely surprised me.

Harpo Speaks

A film that I like, but the worst 'Cunt' may be Mena Suvari's limp effort in American Beauty.

Doomy Dwyer

Jack Nicholson in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' delivers a nice one. He's being evaluated by a panel of doctors and they ask him his opinion of Nurse Ratched and he says "She's something of a cunt, ain't she, doc?". I don't know whether it was improvised, but it really seems to stop the other actors dead in their tracks.

Absorb the anus burn

Doesn't one of Hannibal's corridor companions in the S'lambs say to Starling "I can smell your cunt"?

Johnny Townmouse

I like the 'cunt' in Casino most of all because De Niro is in a public place and is trying to hold his anger back. It just makes the use of the word all the more seething.

Chutney

Some smashing cuntry from Hit Girl in Kick Ass.

phantom_power

Ken: Harry, let's face it. And I'm not being funny. I mean no disrespect, but you're a cunt. You're a cunt now, and you've always been a cunt. And the only thing that's going to change is that you're going to be an even bigger cunt. Maybe have some more cunt kids.
Harry: [furious] Leave my kids fucking out of it! What have they done? You fucking retract that bit about my cunt fucking kids!
Ken: I retract that bit about your cunt fucking kids.
Harry: Insult my fucking kids? That's going overboard, mate!
Ken: I retracted it, didn't I?

That's for John Lennon, you Yankee fuckin' cunt!



momatt

To me the word is almost synonymous with Ghandi screaming it at Ray Winstone in Sexy Beast.
God I love that film.

Ghandi: I gotta change my shirt, it's sticking to me. I'm sweating like a cunt.

Ghandi: Not this time, Gal. Not this time. Not this fucking time. No. No no no no no no no no no! No! No no no no no no no no no no no no no! No! Not this fucking time! No fucking way! No fucking way, no fucking way, no fucking way! You've made me look a right cunt!

Ghandi: [Being beaten to death] Cunt! Cunt! You murdering twat!

Whug Baspin

There's a great many in Deadwood, my favorite I think from Wild Bill Hicock, an insult at a poker table. 'When you talk, your mouth looks like a cunt' just so damn rude.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Harvey Keitel for no reason at all calling his girlfriend a cunt in Mean Streets. It has the definite shock factor as it comes out of nowhere and he's the good guy in it too.

lipsink

Quote from: An tSaoi on March 30, 2011, 12:25:07 AM
So what do you think is the best use of 'cunt' in a film? I was going to nominate Junior's rant in The Sopranos that "Anthony is a cunt hair away from owning all Northern Jersey - and I am that cunt hair", but alas it's a television show and therefore not eligible.

Yeah, The Sopranos has all the best 'cunts': when Junior falls in the shower and yells "Yer sister's cunt!", when Paulie calls someone a 'malignant cunt', Paulie saying his wrinkly muscles look like "an old ladies cunt", when Tony snaps at Melfi and yells "You fuckin' cunt!" (from another room, after storming out of her office), coldly saying to Christopher that Adriana betrayed him because "She's a cunt." and the funniest one where Tony snaps at a heartless nurse in hospital and says "Get out of my room, you sick cunt." And Larry David's 'cunt' at the poker game in CYE is also great. And Hank calling Larry's ex-wife a cunt in the Season 2 episode of The Larry Sanders Show was priceless. Sadly, these aren't eligible. So I'll go for the way Begbie's spits this out after he's glassed the girl in Trainspotting:

"Nae cunt leaves till we find out what cunt did it."

That In Bruges one from Brendan Gleeson is one of my favourites too.


katzenjammer

Quote from: Absorb the anus burn on March 30, 2011, 12:41:34 AM
Doesn't one of Hannibal's corridor companions in the S'lambs say to Starling "I can smell your cunt"?

Yes but in the 'for TV' version it's edited to 'scent'.... which in the following dialogue with Lector has no point and makes no sense whatsoever.  It's been a while since I saw it but I think he asks Starling to repeat what was said to her, as some kind of test of her honesty, and then he says that he can't smell it.... but then goes on to describe in detail her perfume.

Marty McFly

"It was fuckin' obvious that that cunt was gonnae fuck some cunt."


holyzombiejesus

Quote from: momatt on March 30, 2011, 10:41:09 AM

Ghandi: I gotta change my shirt, it's sticking to me. I'm sweating like a cunt.

Ghandi: Not this time, Gal. Not this time. Not this fucking time. No. No no no no no no no no no! No! No no no no no no no no no no no no no! No! Not this fucking time! No fucking way! No fucking way, no fucking way, no fucking way! You've made me look a right cunt!

Ghandi: [Being beaten to death] Cunt! Cunt! You murdering twat!

When I just scanned this I thought you were talking about the Richard Attenborough film.


lipsink

#20
Ryan Reynold's character in Blade: Trinity calling Parker Posey's baddy a "Cock juggling Thunder Cunt" is one of the best swears ever. Awful film, mind.

Also, in Deconstructing Harry I think Woody Allen calls one of his ex-wife's interfering friends a cunt. It's quite a shocking moment as you never hear Woody swear (plus the character who's called it is played by Mariel Hemingway who played the sweet Tracy in Manhattan).


Being John Malkovich has two marvellous and subtle cunts in close proximity. So much so, I missed them in the cinema and only picked them up on DVD.

VegaLA

Quote from: lipsink on March 30, 2011, 11:40:28 AM
"Nae cunt leaves till we find out what cunt did it."

That CUNT double bill has always stuck to me.

kidsick5000

Kill Bill vol2.
At the end, David Carradine semi-affectionately says  Uma Thurman could often be one.
It's lone use was possibly the most shocking thing in the films. Despite these being ruthless killers, and many many deaths across the films, it was still a case of "I can't believe he said just that." Again, it's rarely heard in US films.
But also its out of nowhere, and weird to be used so warmly.

Queneau

I have this vague recollection of Cameron Diaz using the word but I can't think which film it was in. I tried Googling 'Cameron Diaz cunt' but that didn't really help. Perhaps it was Very Bad Things. Perhaps I made it up.

An tSaoi

I just watched Gangster No. 1 for the first time. There's a great moment after Malcolm McDowell gets some piss in his champaign glass at the urinal, holds it up as if to drink it, then looks directly at the camera and asks: "What do you take me for, a cunt?"

Bingo Fury

It's either got to be Begbie or Withnail. For some reason, American actors just can't say that word as convincingly as Brits, particularly Scots.[nb]I know Grant's from Swaziland[/nb]

It's such an ineradicable part of the Scots vocabulary that we're used to using it casually: as a pronoun, an exclamation, a greeting to one's male buddies, a way to distinguish one inanimate object from another or to emphasise that what we've just said is really important, ya cunt. There's almost a jollity to it. English actors, like Kingsley and McDowell, clearly relish delivering it as a word they can really get their teeth into.

But personally, I find when it's delivered by American actors they express the nastiness without any of the poetry. They're spitting the cunt out rather than rolling it around their mouths, if you will. It doesn't help that in American films and TV shows, it's so often used towards women, which, as far as I'm concerned, is sheer misuse.

Brundle-Fly

Veteran London geezer actor, Alan Ford (Lock, Stock...Snatch, Armando Iannucci Shows) has a way of saying 'cunt' that is unmatched in cinema.

Queneau

Quote from: An tSaoi on March 31, 2011, 12:21:24 AM
I just watched Gangster No. 1 for the first time. There's a great moment after Malcolm McDowell gets some piss in his champaign glass at the urinal, holds it up as if to drink it, then looks directly at the camera and asks: "What do you take me for, a cunt?"

Right at the start, isn't it? I rather like that film.