Stop swearing
“Can we stop this before you go ahead any further? We can’t have this kind of language in this film, to this degree.” — Warner Bros. honcho Alan Horn to Departed producer Graham King, having gotten a very clear idea from early dailies that no brakes were being applied whatsoever on the use of salty street patois (“ya muthah fucked me,” etc.). (Quote passed along by King during Sunday’s “Movers & Shakers” panel at the Santa Barbara Film Festival.)
A man who has obviously never seen even one single Martin Scorsese movie in his entire life.
Hell, even the first ten minutes of Scorsese’s 1974 chick flick, “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”, was full of choice nuggets like “Blow it out your ass” and “Don’t look back or else you’ll turn into a pillar of shit.”
What planet does Alan Horn live on? Has he even been to a movie any decade recently? He must have thought he was producing “The Queen”.
Is it safe to make a guess that Alan Horn probably had something to do with ALPHA DOG
going from New Line to Universal?
If they had a problem with language, why did they co-distribute the South Park movie?
So let me get this straight, he doesn’t like the words that are (sniff, sniff) mean.
But reenactments of brutal physical violence are fine.
….ooooo-kaaaaaaaaaaayy………that makes sense.