Perhaps you were a girl.
I was a girl. We did not swear. I was shocked and so were my children, at the language of the film. I kept on waiting for the characters to somehow redeem themselves. It didnt happen.
Since we're all adults here, would you mind giving us an example of the language you found so offensive?
I am mystefied at your speaking of the profanity in the movie. I can't remember any, except for the muffled noises of the Old Man, and none of it was real swearing.
What on earth are you talking about? Are you talking about the same movie we are? There are no curses in "A Christmas Story". The only allusion to a curse is when Ralphie "says" the F word and has his mouth washed out with soap, though of course it's not said in the film. "Fudge" is substituted. And the father apparently yells at the dysfunctional furnace but all you hear is gibberish like "rackafracka dadgum". "A Christmas Story" is just about one of the most wholesome movies I can think of. I'm truly puzzled.
Gosh, I am surprised to hear this...people during the 50s used 'colorful' language, I heard it often...
I really dont understand why you wanted the characters to redeem themselves or redeem themselves for what?
This is a wonderful movie, and the colorful language used, was not done to shock or anything like that...people of that time, especially many of the men, did talk like that...my dad did, and I never thought that he should redeem himself for it...
Sorry, but I just dont see this the way you do...
Girls during that time simply didn't swear. Boys did. We were taught our lessons by having our mouths washed out with soap. Swear words weren't invented in the 20th century. The movie captures life as it was fairly accurately, swear words and all. We all wanted a BBgun. I got one and proceeded to use my sister's record collection as targets. Don't try that at home.
What movie did you watch? It couldn't have been this one because there was absolutely NO bad language in it. The reference to the f-word is an absolute movie classic and you have to be outrageously sensitive to have taken anything in this movie as vulgar. It is a wonderful family film.
As an aside, I was brought up in a pretty strict Catholic home and school and all of the boys of Ralphie's age would swear just because of the taboo of it. The girls in school never, ever swore nor would a boy swear around them. But that is the reality of little boys (in general) growing up in the fifties and sixties and pretending to do what they think men do.
** We did not swear. I was shocked and so were my children, at the language of the film. I kept on waiting for the characters to somehow redeem themselves. It didnt happen.**
I like this movie because it is so real! Language and all!
I learned the queen mother of all dirty words in the 3rd grade, 1956.