Cluster F Bomb / Live-Action Films

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• Montgomery Brogan delivers one of the best examples of a cluster f-bomb in 25th Hour as he "fucks" every racial group and person in all of New York City. Notably, it's to himself.
  Mirror Brogan: Fuck me? Fuck you! Fuck you and this city and everyone else in it.
  • Which is followed up by a Precision F-Strike.
    Brogan: [to mirror] No... no, fuck you. You had it all and you threw it away, you dumb fuck!
• The documentary 101 Reasons Not to Be a Pro Wrestler has a trailer that starts with a clip from an interview with Sean O'Haire...
• The Abyss takes a different approach by combining the Cluster F-Bomb with Please Wake Up at the apex of the CPR scene.
  • The actual Cluster F-Bomb is punctuated with The Miraculous Bitchslap of Life.
    Virgil Brigman: Alright, breathe, baby! Goddamn it, breathe! GODDAMN IT, YOU BITCH, YOU NEVER BACKED AWAY FROM ANYTHING IN YOUR LIFE, NOW FIGHT! [slaps her] FIGHT! [slaps her] FIGHT! RIGHT NOW! DO IT! [starts shaking her] FIGHT, GODDAMN IT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIIIIIIIGHT!
• Paul Vitti in Analyze This uses profanity freely. Best bit is when he's talking to a rival over the phone, trying to control himself... and bursts into:
  You make one more move on me you motherfucker, I'll fucking cut your fucking balls off and I'll shove them up your fucking ass, I'll fucking bury you, I'll put fucking ice picks in your eyes, I'll chop your fucking eyeballs, I'll send them to your fucking family so they can eat them for dessert! You understand me?
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy: After telling San Diego to have a good night and then "go fuck [themselves]", Ron is ejected from his role as lead newscaster. As he's being lead away, he loudly proclaims that he never uses the f-word... while accenting every other word with "fuck" (only in the unrated version of the movie).
• Babylon (2022) lets the F-bombs fly in its depiction of early Hollywood in just about every scene - and not just in English, either.
• The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans has 97 instances of the word "fuck" applied in many bizarre ways.
  Terence McDonagh: What are these FUCKING iguanas doing on this coffee table?
• Bad Santa is a fucking prominent example. It seems that every other word is a curse, which is especially amusing seeing as the main character is a department store Santa.
• Bean: A variation. Upon seeing that Bean totally destroyed Whistler's Mother while he was gone, David lets out a horrified torrent of "Jesus", "Oh God", and other religious incantations/curse words.
• Beverly Hills Cop is an Eddie Murphy swear-a-thon.
  • Martin Brest's other works also feature copious swearing, notably Scent of a Woman and Gigli.
• The Big Short is filled with F-bombs, though not to the excess of The Wolf of Wall Street.
• In Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, when he wipes out at a modern San Dimas bowling alley, Napoleon repeatedly shouts "merde", French for "shit". In the TV Edit, it's changed to "zut", French for "damn".
• Mish-mash cussing became increasingly predominant for the dialog of the Blade trilogy. Made for some very entertaining exchanges in the second movie Blade II, just plain ridiculous in the third. Although Blade: Trinity did give the world the glory that is "cock-juggling thundercunt".
• The Blair Witch Project. Noteworthy because the dialogue was entirely improvised.
  • Dave Barry, in his review of the movie, gave his impression of the dialogue, except with all instances of "a very bad word that I cannot put in the newspaper" replaced with "darn":
    First Character: Darn you! You darned got us darned lost in these darned woods! Darn!
    Second Character: Go darn yourself!
    Squirrel: Will you darners shut the darn UP!?!
• In Blood Drips Heavily on Newsies Square, a majority of the film's dialogue contains copious amounts of swearing, especially from the killer.
• The Blues Brothers: The Penguin scene. Unfortunately for Jake and Elwood, the Penguin hits them every time they swear, and they swear every time she hits them.
  Curtis: Boys, you gotta learn not to talk to nuns that way.
• Frank Booth from the film Blue Velvet is (almost) the only character in the entire film to use the word. He makes up for it by saying (more like yelling) the F word in almost every line that he gives, often more than once. (The infamous line "Fuck you, you fucking fuck" comes from this movie.)
  • At Frank's insistence, Ben offers Frank the toast, "Here's to your fuck."
• Asia Argento in the movie B. Monkey also drops the infamous "Fuck you, you fucking fucker" line.
• Bon Cop, Bad Cop puts a Québecois twist on this one:
  Martin: Shit de fuck de shit de merde de shit de câlice de TABARNAK!
• The Boondock Saints has its protagonists engaging in this all the time, the most hilarious instance being Rocco's reaction to the Copley Plaza massacre used as the page quote.
• Boogie Nights and Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson. The script for the latter was so obscene that during auditions, George C. Scott reportedly threw his copy of the script at a wall in disgust.
• Bostock's Cup has a half-time team talk in which the titular team's manager, its top scorer, the team captain, and even the referee all get involved in the swearing:
  Bertie Masson: I'M the fucking manager! And god fucking help me, you'll do as I fucking say!
  Alan Hardy: We can't understand a fucking word you're saying!
  Bertie Masson: What the fuck's your problem lad?
  Mick Wallace: Yeah, what the fuck is your fucking problem?
  Alan Hardy: Oh, it's a fucking joke! That's what this lot is! It's a fucking joke!
  [the referee opens the dressing room door]
  The Referee: Alright, come on. Time for the second half, you bunch of fucking cunts.
• Broker: So-yeong lets out a string of curses at a couple looking to buy her baby, because they tried to haggle down the price, saying the baby was ugly.
• Dreadful horror film Catholic Ghoulgirls is guilty of this frequently, but one particular scene becomes almost incomprehensible due to it; an edited version can be seen about 1:25 into this video. The character seen spouting it rarely says anything else.
• Not that Martin Scorsese was ever a stranger to swearing, but Casino has a whopping 438 F-bombs in the film. Yeah, it goes without saying that this film used to be a record holder for most uses of "fuck" in a movie.
• The film adaptation of Stephen King's novel Christine was famous for the number of F-bombs dropped (as well as other profanity used in general) at the time of its release (1983). It's far, FAR milder than many more-recent films, but upon release it actually set a record for most F-bombs in a single film.
• The Coen brothers seem to love this.
  • Fargo, especially Steve Buscemi's character.
  • As this relatively NSFW abridgment shall show, The Big Lebowski makes liberal use of the F-Bomb. "Do you have to use so many cuss words?"
    • What the fuck you talking about?
  • Burn After Reading, especially John Malkovich.
    Osbourne Cox: Why the fuck would they go to the Russians? Why the fuuuuck?
    • We're used to seeing Brad Pitt dropping the F-bomb all over the shop, but it's very refreshing to hear it coming out of John Malkovich, J. K. Simmons and Tilda Swinton.
  George Clooney: "What the fuck are you doing in here, you fucker?!?"
  • All the kids in A Serious Man love the word "fuck", but one kid, credited as "Cursing Boy on Bus" in particular says it in all but one line:
    Cursing Boy on Bus: What happened?
    Ronnie: Rabbi Turchik took his radio. Had money in it.
    Cursing Boy on Bus: That fucker!
    Danny: Yeah. I think he said he was confiscating it.
    Cursing Boy on Bus: He's a fucker! Where do you get your money?
    Ronnie: Mike Fagle's gonna kick his ass. Last week he pounded the crap out of Seth Seddlemeyer.
    Cursing Boy on Bus: He's a fucker!
    Ronnie: Fagle? Or Seth Seddlemeyer?
    Cursing Boy on Bus: They're both fuckers!
• The Commitments: 250 fucking times... although being set in working-class inner-city Dublin, pretty much Truth in Television.
• The Crank movies with Jason Statham are good at this, with many of the characters yelling at his character "FUCK YOU CHELIOS!" repeatedly through both movies.
• The protagonist of Cthulhu (2007) delivers an F-word filled diatribe to the silently watching townspeople when he's arrested for murder.
• Heavy amounts of profanity in Day of the Dead (1985), probably uttered during every sentence ever spoken by any character in the film.
• Nicolas Cage gets a glorious one in Deadfall. "Glorious" meaning using three variations of the word "fuck" as three different parts of speech consecutively. Not to mention that he shouts this sentence at the top of his lungs, thereby making it an ATOMIC Cluster F-Bomb.
• Death Proof: Pam realises she's about to be killed by Stuntman Mike, and unleashed a volley of curse words as threats to let her out of the car. But when that doesn't work, she switches to polite pleading.
• Demolition Man: Spartan is out of toilet paper.
• The Departed, as demonstrated here. The original Hong Kong version Infernal Affairs has even more instances of the three Cantonese words that translate into the English "fuck."
• The Devil's Rejects uses it around 175 times. It's safe to say Bill Moseley is responsible for most of those.
  • Rob Zombie's Halloween II (2009), features a sequence where an ambulance containing Michael Myers' supposedly dead body crashes into a cow. While the driver is killed instantly, the other coroner spends the next 45 seconds repeatedly yelling nothing but the word FUCK! while trapped in the wreckage before Myers reanimates and shuts the guy up by decapitating him.
• 3D Movie Maker gives us this wonderful example of the versatility of the F word in Will Maltby's Diabolical Delightment; "Shut the fuck up you fucked up fuck!"
• District 9's protagonist's vocabulary primarily consists of "fok" (fuck) and "fokken" (fucking). IMDB states that the F-bomb is dropped 137 times in the 112-minute film, which puts it in nearly the same category as Reservoir Dogs.
• Dogfight has the profanity-laden marine protagonist going out to dinner with a wholesome diner girl, who complains that "every other word out of your mouth" is a curse. But she then trolls him by ordering her food this way...
  Rose: Yes, goddammit. I'm going to have the fucking poached salmon, with the son-of-a-bitching rice, and a dirty bastard salad with a shitload of Roquefort dressing. Thank you. And um, who knows what this asshole wants.
  Eddie: (stunned) Ugh, I'll just take a fucking beer.
• Donnie Darko: After Donnie's English teacher loses her job, she runs outside the school and screams "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK" at the top of her lungs.
  Donnie: You are such a fuckass!
  Elizabeth: What?! (laughs) Did you just call me a fuckass? You can go suck a fuck!
  Donnie: Oh, please tell me, Elizabeth, how exactly does one "suck a fuck"?
  (...)
  Samantha: What's a fuckass?
• Ed Wood: A fan approaches Bela Lugosi, who's feeling down about being forgotten, and asks for his autograph. Lugosi gratefully agrees... but then the fan makes the mistake of claiming his favorite film is one where Lugosi played Boris Karloff's sidekick.
  Bela: Karloff? Sidekick? (crumbles the autograph) FUCK YOU! Boris Karloff does not deserve to smell my shit! You can tell that Limey cocksucker he can rot in Hell for all I care!
  • This gets a Call-Back when Bunny Breckenridge asks Lugosi's stand-in to "call Boris Karloff a cocksucker".
• The film El Norte, which is about a brother and sister from Guatemala attempting to sneak across the Mexican-American border, actually uses the Spanish equivalent of this (the verb "chingar" and its various conjugations) as a plot point. An older character advises the brother that if they get caught, he should use this word a lot so that the Border Patrol will assume they are Mexicans, and deport them back to Mexico instead of all the way back to Guatemala.
• Fallen: When Azazel realizes he was outfoxed by Hobbes, he starts dropping every f-word variant around.
• Forrest Gump: According to Forrest, Abby Hoffman enjoyed dropping these at the Vietnam War protest rally, and everyone at the rally enjoyed hearing him dropping them. As the film is rated PG-13, however, all but one of his F-bombs are censored by mike feedback.
• Four Weddings and a Funeral's first dozen words are all "fuck", as the main character attempts to reach a wedding after oversleeping and his car won't start, then drives past his exit. He oversleeps for another wedding and with him seeing no cabs and finding his car clamped, finally runs through London in an attempt to arrive in time.
  • Also this, when Charles makes an unpleasant discovery on his wedding day:
    Charles: (Looking upward) Please forgive me for what I am about to say in Your house. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. Fuck. Fuck. (He notices a priest watching him.) Sorry, I was just - I was warming up. I was doing some vocal exercises.
    Priest: Oh - oh yes. I do those myself.
    Charles: Ah.
    Priest: But with different words, obviously.
    Charles: Yes.
    Priest: Bit heavier on the alleluias.
  • They actually had to film large parts of the movie twice, once with the swearing toned down, so it could be played on American TV and on planes. Apparently executives even tried to get rid of a reference to a priest having an "enormous erection" as it wouldn't be allowed on US TV!
• Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter:
  Axel: Jesus Christmas! Holy Jesus goddamn! Holy Jesus jumping Christmas shit!
• The former record holder for the most instances of the word in any movie is a 2005 documentary named (guess what?) Fuck, which is about the word itself. It uses the word over eight hundred times, roughly nine a minute. In 2014, the record was broken by Swearnet.
• How the fuck can Get Shorty be missing here? Just about every fourth word Ray Barboni speaks is "fuck" or a derivative. Not that he's the only badly swearing character in the movie.
  Ray "Bones" Barboni: They say the fucking smog is the fucking reason you have such beautiful fucking sunsets.
  • Not to mention "Fuck you, fuckball."
• In Glengarry Glen Ross, the word "fuck" and its derivatives are uttered 138 times.
  • The cast sometimes referred to it as Death of a Fucking Salesman because of this.
  • After Kevin Spacey's character closes the door on Al Pacino during the middle of a conversation, Pacino's character lets off a huge string of the F-word.
• The Guard is probably a textbook example of this trope. Even if you can't understand the accents, the uses of "fuck" are easy to understand.
• Half Baked does this quite well with the calm quitting scene: "Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. You're cool. Fuck you."
• The titular character of Happy Gilmore. That is all. Something of a subversion, really; it's a PG-13 movie, so most of Happy's foul-mouthed tirades are covered up by network censors' frantic bleeping. This actually makes it more funny, though.
• Hard Core Logo. It's a fucking mockumentary about a fucking punk band doing a fucking final reunion tour. Fuck.
• In Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (a documentary chronicling the Troubled Production of Apocalypse Now), Francis Ford Coppola rants about news of Martin Sheen's heart attack spreading beyond the production team (Coppola's worried that the gossip will lead to production being shut down, screwing him over financially), dropping several F-bombs in the process.
• Courtesy of Mullins in The Heat.
  • Ashburn lets one rip when she finally gets a hang on cursing. Though like most of what she does, it's very awkward.
  Ashburn: You're just a... shit jerk dick fucker! A shit jerk dick fucker!
• Hoffa features the F-word 153 times. This scene sums up perfectly.
• Hopscotch has Ned Beatty's character delivers gems such as, "Now I know what the FBI stands for: Fucking Ball-busting Imbeciles!"
• In The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, District 7 Victor Johanna Mason delivers an epic (and censored) one on live-television when she's forced into the Third Quarter Quell. And interviewer Caesar Flickerman doesn't even know how to respond to it.
  Johanna: The deal was that if I win the Hunger Games, I get to live the rest of my life in peace, but now you want to kill me again. Well, you know what? [beep] THAT! AND [beep] ANYONE THAT HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT!
• Ralph Fiennes Everyone of In Bruges. As Colin Farrell (in real life, not averse to the occasional Cluster F-Bomb himself) puts it, "Geez, he swears a lot."
  • And that was just in the phone message he left!
  • The DVD has a special feature called "Fucking Bruges" that shows a montage of just the 'Fuck's in the movie. It lasts a minute and a half.
• I ♡ Huckabees begins with Jason Schwartzman firing off a cluster f-bomb.
  • So does Sideways.
• In the Loop has the honour of being the sweariest screenplay ever to be nominated for an Oscar. One IMDB user counted 135 F Bombs, with around 90 coming from the foul mouth of Malcolm Tucker alone. To quote Malcolm himself:
  "What do you think this is a fucking Regency costume drama?! This is a government department, not a fucking Jane fucking Austen novel! Allow me to pop a jaunty little bonnet in your purview and ram it up your shitter with a lubricated horse cock!"
• Into the Wild. Chris goes on a profanity-laden rant after he fails to find any animals to hunt.
• Vivian Wagner in Iron Sky has a hard time speaking without saying "fuck" every other word, unless, of course, she's talking to the President. And she's supposed to be in charge of the President's re-election campaign. She can't even say "United States of America" without putting the F-word in there twice. This is, probably, to compensate for the fact that almost no other character swears. The President herself might say "shit" once or twice, but that's all.
• Most modern fucking war movies in general, including Jarhead.
• Jagged Mind: While there are many instances of Alex swearing like a sailor (both in real time and in flashbacks of previous loops) when she gets angry, she lets out an especially loud string of F-bombs driving away in her car after she inadvertently revealed to Billie her involvement in Rose's death.
• Joe Pesci in his roles in Casino, JFK, and Goodfellas makes extremely prolific use of the word. In Casino he drops the F bomb over 208 times by himself.
  • Also, the rants of Leo Getz in the second, third and fourth Lethal Weapon films:
  Leo (in 2): They FUCK YOU at the drive-thru, okay? They FUCK YOU at the drive-thru! They know you're gonna be miles away before you find out you got fucked! They know you're not gonna turn around and go back, they don't care. So who gets fucked? Ol' Leo Getz! Okay, sure! I don't give a fuck! I'm not eating this tuna, okay?
  Leo (in 3): Well, you know what I say? They FUCK you in the hospital! First they drug you, then they FUCK you! And when they're done FUCKING you, along comes the insurance company and FUCKS you some more! Ten dollars for a FUCKING aspirin and it's not even covered.
  Leo (in 4): They FUCK you with cell phones. That's what it is. They're FUCKIN' you with the cell phone. They love it when you get cut off. Y'know why, huh? You know why? 'Cause when you call back—which they know you're gonna do—they charge you for that FUCKIN' first minute again at that high rate.
• Pretty much any movie produced by Judd Apatow is guaranteed to have this.
  • Jonah Hill is particularly notable for his Cluster F Bomb rants. An example from Knocked Up:
  Jay: Man, my balls are shaved, my pubes are trimmed, I'm ready to fuckin' rock this shit!
  Jonah: What the fuck, man? If I go in there and see fuckin' pubes sprinkled on the toilet seat, I'm gonna fuckin' lose my mind! Last time I went to the bathroom, Jay, I took a shit and my shit looked like a fuckin' stuffed animal!
  • Ben Stone (Seth Rogen) himself has one:
    Ben Stone: Hey Doc Howard, Ben Stone calling, guess what the fuck's up? Allison is going into labor and you are not fucking here, you know where you're at? Your at a fucking bar mitzvah in San Francisco you motherfucking piece of shit, and you know what I'm gonna have to do now? I'm going have to kill you, I'm gonna pop a fucking cap in your ass. You're dead, you're Tupac, you are fucking Biggie you piece of shit, I hope you fucking die or drop the chair and kill that fucking kid... I hope your plane crashes, peace fucker!
  • While we're on the topic of Jonah Hill, Superbad, also.
  • Less common in later movies, though. Bridesmaids and This Is 40 actually have fairly manageable levels of swearing.
• In Jumping Jack Flash, Whoopi Goldberg says fuck and shit almost every fucking goddamn shitting sentence.
• Jurassic Park has "SHIT!!! SHIT!!! SHIT!!! SHIT!!!" Of course, this would generally be anyone's reaction to a gigantic T. rex chasing down your vehicle like a locomotive.
• Jay from The View Askewniverse (home to Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and other Kevin Smith movies) is infamous for this. The most famous expression is his rap from the beginning of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, which features eight (creative) uses of the F-word and one shit.
  • And check out Jay's collection of fucks here.
    • The flashback at the beginning of that very movie demonstrates that his mother did the same thing, to the extent that Jay's first word ever was "fuck".
  • In Dogma, the 13th Apostle even tells Jay:
    Rufus: And if you clean up your language, I just might put in a good word for you, too.
• Kick-Ass has a hellacious amount of F-, S-, and even C-words. Many of them are uttered by a 12-year old girl. Cue frothing Moral Guardians.
• In Kingsman: The Secret Service, given Eggsy hails from a London crime scene not far from Matthew Vaughn's usual ilk, the characters swear like it's nobody's business.
• The film The King's Speech has Colin Firth say fuck 42 times. In one single scene^note It is for this and this alone that the movie is rated R. If not for this one scene, the movie is a PG at worst.
  Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit. F-fornication. Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck fuck and fuck. Fuck, fuck, and bugger! Bugger, bugger, buggety buggety buggety fuck! Fuck — ass! Balls! Balls! Fuckety shit! Shit, fuck and willy! Willy, shit and fuck!! And ... tits.
  • As funny as it is the scene is a bit tragic since he's just realized he can only speak coherently when he's angry.
  • Doesn't stop it from being a CMOF though.
  • What really clinches it is when he ends the rant with the milder "TITS!"
    • In a completely conversational voice, after shouting the other stuff loud enough to make Logue's kids wonder what Dad's doing in there.
• Kissing A Fool has David Schwimmer's character retorting to Jason Lee's comment about something being fair: "Fair? You're telling me that the girl I wanna marry is thinkin' about fucking my best friend?! Fuck fuckin' fair! Fuck you! Fuck her! Fuck everybody fair!"
• Kopps: The Swedish police officer Benny likes to talk to himself in English like that.
  Benny: I am the driver! Okay! You're fucking with me, you're fucking with Benny the cop! I'm going for the left! Don't ever fuck with Benny the cop! Motherfucking driver! Don't fuck with me 'cause when you're fucking with me you're fucking with Benny the cop!
• Parodied in Kuffs:
  • Ted Bukovsky, after narrowly avoiding a near-death catastrophe, unleashes one of the most glorious Cluster Bombs in cinematic history on his 'partner' — with each instance being bleeped out by a different sound effect.
  • This is followed up with an uncensored Strategic F-Bomb.
• Hal Ashby's The Last Detail (1973) is one of the earliest examples of a mainstream Hollywood film featuring virtual wall-to-wall profanity. Appropriately enough, it stars Jack Fucking Nicholson.
• Little Miss Sunshine has this a few times.
  • Grampa's rant about chicken being most notable.
  • And Dwayne breaking his Vow of silence.
  • and then there is...
  Dwayne: You know what? Fuck beauty contests. Life is one fucking beauty contest after another. School, then college, then work... Fuck that. And fuck the Air Force Academy. If I want to fly, I'll find a way to fly. You do what you love, and fuck the rest.
• ''Lord of War:
  • Vitaly after Yuri ruins his drawing of a detailed outline of Ukraine with cocaine on a table: "Fuck you, you fucking fuck! Fuck!"
  • Yuri while trying to encourage a pilot to land a cargo plane on the middle of a road in Africa: "You're the shit, Alexi! You're the shit, you're the shit, you're the shit!"
• The titular character of Marilyn manages to drop 7 F-bombs in the first 45 seconds of the film, an almost hilarious contrast to Allison Mack's previous, more well-known role.
• The original script for The Matrix was toned down from this to a Cluster S Bomb (Storm?), with Trinity's sixth or seventh line being a heartfelt utterance of the word.
• Every scene involving Jim Carrey's "sons" in Me, Myself & Irene. The hook being that the foul-mouthed triplets have genius IQs, but swear like gangsta rappers.
• Midnight Run: 120+ F-bombs in a two hour movie.
  Jack Walsh: If I hear any more shit outta you, I'm gonna bust your fuckin' head, put you back in that fuckin' hole, I'm gonna stick your head in the fuckin' toilet bowl, and I'm gonna make it stay there!
• Misery: The first thing Paul Sheldon writes down when he's forced to work on his newest novel:
  fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck
• According to IMDB, Mutilation Mile has an estimated 664 uses of "fuck".
• Mystery Team: Do NOT fuck with Jordy's bread.
• Mads Mikkelsen's character in The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman. When Gabriela says he was her husband:
  "Honestly, fucking was? No, not fucking was, fucking is. Fucking meaning that I fucking am until death do us fucking part."
• Gary Oldman directed a movie in 1997, Nil By Mouth, which uses the F-word 428 times, plus the C-word in a record 82 times.
• Cluster N-Word Bomb in the 1950 film noir No Way Out starring Sidney Poitier and Richard Widmark. When Widmark, who plays the villain, oddly enough, has a Villainous Breakdown in the finale, he screams "NIGGER!" at the top of his lungs about 10 times in succession. This being a movie about racism, the film is laced with "nigger," "dinge," etc., which was quite shocking for a time when racial epithets were not allowed to be used in movies.
  • Sidney Poitier and Richard Widmark were actually good friends in real life, and Widmark later stated he had a really hard time playing that role because he hated racism and racists in real life.
• A slight twist occurs in the Amazing Yen from the Ocean's Eleven trilogy. Almost all of his speech is in Mandarin Chinese, but the few English lines he does have are nearly all swear words.
• In Ocean's Twelve, when Benedict is tracking everyone down, there's a scene where Basher is in a studio with a guy, listening to the final of a song. The song is full of bleeps, and Basher and the guy start arguing, their speech full of bleeps, especially the bit where the guy goes,
  "Well, if you want a * bleep* single on the * bleep* radio, you'll have to make some changes!"
  (and then Basher goes)
  "Well that's * bleep* , isn't it? That's really * bleep* ."
  (then Basher notices that Benedict's mooks have entered the studio)
  "Oh, * bleep* ."
• Four-letter words are used constantly and by everyone in An Officer and a Gentleman.
• Once Were Warriors. Jake 'The Muss' takes the word fuck to a new level in one scene.
• In The Original Kings of Comedy, Bernie Mac ends his routine with a monologue that demonstrates the many and varied ways that one can use the word "motherfucker".
  "You seen that motherfuckin' Bobby? That motherfucker owes me 35 motherfuckin' dollars! He told me he gone pay my motherfuckin' money last motherfuckin' week. I aint seen this motherfucker yet! I'm not gonna chase this motherfucker for my 35 motherfuckin' dollars. I called the motherfucker four motherfuckin' times, but the motherfucker won't call me back. I called his momma the other motherfuckin' day; she gonna play like the motherfucker wasn't in. I started to cuss her motherfuckin' ass out, but I don't want no motherfuckin' trouble. But I'll tell ya one motherfuckin' thing: the next motherfuckin' time I see this motherfucker, and he ain't got my motherfuckin' money, I'm gonna bust his motherfuckin' head!" And I'm out of this motherfucker!
• The Paper has this wonderful example:
  Henry Hackett: Really? Well guess fuckin' what? I don't really fuckin' care. You want to know fuckin' why? Because I don't fuckin' live in the fuckin' world, I live in fuckin' New York City, so go fuck yourself! [slams down telephone]
  Janet: You handled that well.
  Henry: Thank you.
• Paul has many uses of the words "fuck", "shit", "cock", etc., most notably from the used-to-be-religious chick, who strings together many swear words in her sentences.
• In Phone Booth, the word is used a notable multitude of times, particularly by Colin Farrell’s Stu Shepard.
• Although Planes, Trains and Automobiles as a whole is fairly tame, one scene of one "cluster bomb" was the sole reason the movie received an 'R' rating. In his review of the movie, Ebert described it as a "verbal symphony for the f-word."
  Car Rental Agent: How may I help you?
  Neal: You can start by wiping that fucking dumb-ass smile off your rosy fucking cheeks. Then you can give me a fucking automobile. A fucking Datsun, a fucking Toyota, a fucking Mustang, a fucking Buick. Four fucking wheels and a seat!
  Car Rental Agent: I really don't care for the way you're speaking to me.
  Neal: And I really don't care for the way your company left me in the middle of fucking nowhere with fucking keys to a fucking car that isn't fucking there. And I really didn't care to fucking walk down a fucking highway and across a fucking runway to get back here to have you smile at my fucking face. I want. A fucking car. Right. Fucking. Now.
  • Of course, don't forget the priceless rebuttal to this in the same movie...
    Car Rental Agent: May I see your rental agreement?
    Neal: I threw it away.
    Car Rental Agent: Oh boy.
    Neal: Oh boy, what?
    Car Rental Agent: You're fucked.
• Planet Terror, of the Grindhouse double-feature:
  El Wray: I like how you say "fuck".
  Cherry: Good. Fuck you.
  (later)
  Cherry: You were being an unbelievable dick. I was walking out on you. I was cold, I took your fucking jacket. So if you're going to go on one of your psycho-obsessive controlling rants about a fucking jacket, then fucking take it because I'd rather fucking freeze than fucking hear about it one more time.
  El Wray: (long pause) Did you find what was in the jacket?
  Cherry: Fuck, no.
• Precious has at least 75 uses of the F-word, mostly from Precious' mother Mary.
• While the first two Predator movies have their share of F-bombs (after all, in both the creature is described as "one ugly motherfucker"), Predators is the most fucking profane, mostly in the first 15 minutes.
  We killed it! We fucking... We fucking killed it. We killed it. Whoo! We fucking killed it. Huh? Who's your daddy now, motherfucker? Who's your daddy now, motherfucker? Hunt my dick, bitch!
  • The Predator also has characters who swear profusely, most of whom have a reason for it: soldiers a bit touched in the head. One of whom even has Tourette's as an excuse.
• Although The Proposition has loads of swearing, it's only Sam Stoat, in his desire to be cool, who truly overuses it, although Arthur occasionally comes close, with "Help! Your! Fucking! Self! Help! Your! Fucking! Self! Help! Your! Fucking! Self! Help! Your! Fucking! Self! Help! Your! Fucking! Self! Copper." Ironically, the interviews on the DVD reveal that the foulest mouth on set wasn't Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, Nick Cave, Tom Budge, or Guy Pearce, but Emily Watson.
• Quentin Tarantino and his imitators are very fond of dropping the F-Bomb constantly in their movies. Reservoir Dogs, which runs 99 minutes, uses it approximately 230 times. Also, Pulp Fiction.
  • Although this is partly the actors' fault, because if you compare the screenplay as originally written to a transcript of what they actually say in the film, the usage of "fuck" increased by some 400%. It would seem that if the actors were having trouble remembering their exact lines, the general solution was to swear more to cover it up.
  • And Reservoir Dogs also tends to use the form "fucking", which makes it just funny after about the fifth time.
  • Then comes Django Unchained with a Cluster N-Bomb. The word "nigger" is used 113 times, both by black and white characters. Being as the film is set during the era of slavery in the American South, just two years before the American Civil War, it is quite justified — that word got thrown around a lot in those days. The actual F-Bomb only gets dropped around 31 times.
  • In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Rick Dalton drops F-bombs liberally, but a standout moment is the tirade he delivers in his room after he messes up a shoot by forgetting his lines.
• Simultaneously inverted AND played straight in Ramona and Beezus. No actual curse words are used, but Ramona does unleash a cluster G-bomb. ("Guts! Guts Guts GUUUUTTTTTTTTS!")
• In Revenge (2017), Richard drops an atomic one when he's forced to realize that his buddies have fallen victim to Jen's Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
• The Rules of Attraction: Technically a Cluster MF-Bomb. A drug dealer goes on a tirade against protagonist Sean, who owes him money, and he manages to utter Motherfucking / Motherfucker 8 times in 16 seconds (plus, a "fuck" and a "shit"). Probably helped by the fact that he was high on cocaine himself.
• "Satan Claus", a highly obscure, ultra-low-budget slasher about a Bad Santa who enjoys serial killing. Besides being So Bad, It's Good for its glaring technical problems from the film crew, it features an NYPD Captain who drops a hammy fuck-bomb.
  "FUCK, FUCK-SHIT-FUCK!"
• People in the Saw franchise don't shy away from swearing, but the most effective instance of this trope is invoked during the climax of Saw, where Lawrence delivers a litany of swears after having kept himself completely squeaky-clean until that point.
  Lawrence, trying to attack Zep: You bastard! I'll fucking kill you! I'll fucking kill you! YOU FUCKING BASTARD! I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!
• Ditto for Scarface (1983). See here (NSFW by a longshot!) The special edition DVD even has a counter in the special features that tallies up how many F-Bombs Tony or one of the other characters let loose in the movie, along with how many bullets are fired. Several videos like this have since become an internet meme.
  • One example of this is "You wanna fuck me? You're fucking with the best!"
  • The Polish dub has to be heard to be believed, as it quite noticeably doesn't feature any swearing stronger than the equivalent of "bloody hell".
• Se7en was reeeeeally bad with this. The F-word and its derivatives were said over 70 times, mainly by Mills.
  Detective Mills: Fuckin' Dante! Goddamn poetry-writing faggot, piece of shit! FUCKER!!!
• See No Evil, Hear No Evil has a hilarious scene in which the two main characters, one deaf and one blind, have a misunderstanding with a police officer. This results in her repeating "shit" some twenty times in rapid succession.
• Spoofed in Shaun of the Dead:

  Pete: It's four in the fucking morning!
  Shaun: It's Saturday!
  Pete: No, it's not. It's fucking Sunday. And I've got to go to fucking work in four fucking hours 'cos every other fucker in my fucking department is fucking ill! Now can you see why I'm SO FUCKING ANGRY?
  Ed: Fuck, yeah!

  • Amusingly, they were mandated to do a different version of this scene for the airplane version. After some wondering of how in the world they were going to do this, they just replaced every use of the word "fuck" with the word "funk". The name of the special feature on the DVD with this? "Funky Pete".
• An early shootout in Shoot 'Em Up takes place on the roof of "FAULK TRUCK & TOOL". The hero shoots out letters in the neon sign until only "F_U_K __U__" is left, "TOOL" being temporarily covered. The camera lingers on this for a moment... and the hero says "Fuck you, you fucking fuckers." (The villain replies by shooting out the final L.)
• Parodied in The Smurfs, with "smurf" as its substitution.
  Patrick: Smurf! Smurfity smurf smurf smurf!
  Gutsy: There's no call for that kind of language, laddie!
• "I have HAD it with these mother-fucking snakes on this mother-fucking plane!!"
• The Guy Ritchie films. The Snatch. DVD has an Easter egg: when opened, it asks "Are you easily offended?" If no is picked, this shows up. With "yes" instead, the video is shown with profanity BLEEPing censored (turning it even more hilarious).
  • For Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, see this.
• Samuel L. Jackson + Bernie Mac + gratuitous use of motherfucker = Soul Men (2008).
• Spirtokouto (English translation: Matchbox) by Yannis Economides is essentially a gamimeno [=fucking] dictionary of swearing in the Greek language. The movie is good, too.
• Spy has multiple scenes where the main character decides to insult someone and doesn't stop until she's interrupted. These rants involve about ten or twenty F-bombs apiece. Most of the other characters do their share of swearing as well.
• Possibly parodied in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, in which Kirk explains how in the late 20th century, "Nobody pays attention to you unless you swear every other word. You'll find it in all the literature of the period." He cites the works of Jacqueline Susann and Harold Robbins as examples, to which Spock replies "Ah, the giants."
• Step Brothers. The film is unnecessarily littered with these. Justified, due to the fact that Brennan and Dale are refusing to grow up.
• Strippers Vs. Werewolves: Carlos lets loose a lot of f-bombs in excitement after he and the others take out a rival werewolf pack.
• The Stunt Man. Director Eli Cross (Peter O'Toole), when a cameraman says "cut" because there were only 22 seconds of film left.
  "In 22 seconds, I could break your fucking spine. In 22 seconds, I could pinch your head off like a fucking insect and spin it all over the fucking pavement. In 22 seconds, I could put 22 bullets inside your ridiculous gut. What I seem unable to do in 22 seconds is to keep you from fucking up my film!"
• The 1999 Spike Lee film Summer of Sam contains this for example.
• Am amusing subversion of this trope happens in Summer School, when the students realize their (unwilling) teacher isn't going to punish them for cursing, so commence to rattle off an avalanche of words like "shit", "dick", and even "jizzumhead" ... but no "fuck", because it's PG-13.
• The 2009 remake of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three has John Travolta's character saying "Motherfucker" seemingly every 5 minutes. Granted, it's not as bad as some of the other examples, but it's enough to warrant a response of "what the fuck is he doing up there?" due to the simple fact that he does it for no reason. Also, the number of birds flipped at people that characters either can't see or do not necessarily exist (to the character's knowledge) is excessive.
  • The ever-amusing Spill Review crew comments on this in their review, at the very end.
• Team America: World Police:
  • "AMERICA! FUCK YEAH! COMING AGAIN TO SAVE THE MOTHERFUCKING DAY, YEAH!"
  • Kim Jong-Il's rant when he dumps Hans Blix in the shark tank.
• Virtually every song in Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny features creative and varied use of swearing, mostly 'fuck'. And yes, they rhyme "rock" and "cock" at least thirty times across the whole movie.
• Tropic Thunder: Les Grossman's response to getting a ransom demand from the Flaming Dragons.
  Les Grossman: Okay, "Flaming Dragon". Fuckface. First, take a big step back... and literally FUCK YOUR OWN FACE! I don't know what kind of pan-Pacific bullshit power play you're trying to pull here, but Asia, jack, is my territory. So whatever you're thinking, you'd better think again, otherwise I'm gonna have to head down there and I will rain down an ungodly fucking firestorm upon you! You're gonna have to call the fucking United Nations and get a fucking binding resolution to keep me from fucking destroying you. I am talking scorched earth, motherfucker! I will massacre you! I WILL FUCK YOU UP!
• Twin Town. 318 "fuck"s in 99 minutes. Well, it is set in effing Swansea.
• Uncut Gems doesn't start dropping them until 5-10 minutes in the movie, where it gets so profane that it's currently ranked 4th in the "most f-bombs dropped in a movie" category.
• In United 93, a truly epic and heartbreaking one is triggered by two military aircraft being launched in the completely wrong direction. Not even one minute later, American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon. These are also the Real Life reactions of military personnel and air-traffic controllers to the September 11 hijackings, word for word.
  Major Kevin Nasypany: What's the ETA on those Langley birds? Foxy!
  Major James Fox: Spiders are airborne at 0930, but they brought them out on an eastbound heading rather than our northbound. We're gonna get them turned as soon as possible.
  Major Kevin Nasypany: What the fuck? They're what? They're heading east?
  Military Liaison: What the hell is wrong out there? Why are those planes off course?
  Major James Fox: It looks like they came out on a standard scramble heading instead of the one I gave. We're trying to get clearance to turn them now.
  Major Kevin Nasypany: How the fuck did they get out there?
  Major James Fox: I don't know, sir!
  Major Kevin Nasypany: What the fuck are they doing out over the water? I don't care, goddamn it, if they break windows, you turn them back over land!
  Later, a passenger aboard United 93 can be heard exclaming, "Shit. Shit. Shit." when one of the terrorists begins yelling and threatening the plane's occupants in order to scare them into submission.
• The opening scene of The Way of the Gun features a particularly memorable speech from Sarah Silverman.
  Raving Bitch: Hey dickless, get off the fucking car! Hey fucksuck, get your slippery fucking ass off the car! Listen to me, get off the fucking car with your fucking ass!
  • Then they answer her back, and she gets really abusive.
• We're the Millers: Comes from Kenny when he gets bitten on the testicle by the tarantula.
• The first spoken words in Wham Bam Thank You Spaceman are "Aw, shit" and we like to say it gets better from there, but we'd be lying.
• What We Did on Our Holiday
  Mickey: Mum and Dad swear all the time. Tell that to your poxy effing c word of a solicitor, you effing b word.
• Whiplash:
  • Terence Fletcher mixes insults, curses and racial slurs into a gumbo of hate for any student offering anything less than his standard.
  • Andrew eventually breaks and tackles Fletcher, before being dragged away while screaming "Fuck you!" at Fletcher over and over.
  • The film's R rating comes almost exclusively from the characters' foul mouths.
• You wouldn't expect a biopic about a famous Victorian author to feature one of these, but Wilde begs to differ. In a scene where Oscar has fallen ill, Bosie comes to visit him and starts flipping out, dropping the F-bomb in just about every sentence and even throwing Oscar's water basin to the floor.
  Bosie: NOW WILL YOU SHUT UP ABOUT THE FUCKING WATER!
• Wilt: In one scene, a construction worker who witnessed a woman's body it's really an inflatable sex doll being dumped into a hole and covered with concrete is talking to a cop:
  Construction worker: You could see her fucking limbs... all fucking twisted... it were fucking horrible.
  Cop: (to his subordinate) Make a fucking note of that.
• Windigo
  [Kwekon shoots Dean]
  Kwekon: Fuck...
  Reese: Fuck!
  Kwekon: Dude are you okay?
  Reese: Fuck!
• The Wolf of Wall Street has 569 fucks spread across three hours, averaging three fucks a minute. To put things in perspective, the world-record holder for most uses of the word fuck in a movie is the above-mentioned Swearnet, and it is also behind the documentary Fuck. Wolf of Wall Street has third place
• Robert Duvall gets to deliver a pretty great one in Widows after he finds out his son has fired the campaign manager who's worked with his family for 30 years.
  Tom Mulligan: Well, fuck me and fuck him and fuck you and fuck the fuckin' horse you came in on, you fuckin' asshole! What a fuckin' asshole you are!

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