Use of the N-word
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leyenda61 — 10 years ago(January 26, 2016 10:14 AM)
I wasn't offended by it, i just didn't understand its use in the context. It didn't add to the mental perversion/seduction cuz there was nothing hateable about the character. Why strike that nerve when there was already so much else existing to snare Jack? However, it is Kubrick so i am fine with not agreeing or understanding cuz the guy's attention to his craft focused on a level not everyone can grasp. Wxcept 2001. That was poo.
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Mr_Ectoplasma — 10 years ago(February 23, 2016 07:56 PM)
I'm pretty sure it was used to cement in the audience's mind the fact that Jack was talking to someone from a past generationthat he was talking with a ghost.
Was it necessary? Probably not. It's been years since I read the book, so I can't rememberwas O'Halloran's race ever mentioned in the novel? -
Diss — 10 years ago(March 03, 2016 10:08 AM)
I don't think it was necessary. The film takes place in 1980, not 1950. I was a kid during those years, and we never said that word in the Western part of the U.S. Maybe down South they say that word, but not out West. My dad didn't use it either, and he was from California. My best friend didn't use it, and he was originally from Missouri.
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conedust — 10 years ago(March 04, 2016 08:20 AM)
wishful thinking. i lived in spokane, wa (way out west) during the 80s, and i heard it all the time. tons of very open, outspoken racists in western US, then and now.
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