Solo The Profanity in Solo: A Star Wars Story

One of the things I noticed that kind of broke from the usual Star Wars movie was the amount of expletives in this here film. I had never heard a Star Wars character say ass or crap or **** (Lando almost saying "****," which was of course his intent) (of course I don't regard "crap" as swearing) in a Star Wars movie. In Lucas's family friendly saga, damn was the only exception. Maybe its because we are seeing the seedy underworld of the Star Wars universe, were people have dirtier mouths.

Of course there is the other way of looking at this, did anyone feel taken out of the movie when such language was used? Perhaps it would have been better for Star Wars characters to stick to original swear words for the GFFA. Like sithspit or schutta or merglak. I kind of miss these and they feel more in universe.

 

As long as they don't say frack.

 

I was wondering when this would get brought up. Poe said "big-ass door" in The Last Jedi. It definitely has more profanity than any other movie, and in a series when for years we could count the couple of times someone said "damn" and the long-debated "hell." Now "hell" has been thrown around in the new movies more. It really stood out when Dexster Jettster said "damn good ones" about the Kaminoans.
Finn was the first to say the full "dammit," in The Force Awakens.

 

It was one of the few complaints I have about the film. But given the in-univese criminal context, it also seems appropriate and organic within the story.

The L3 line -- "get your presumptuous ass out of my chair" -- is the worst and most forced use of profanity.

In TLJ when "ass" was used by Poe, it also seemed forced. In TFA, Finn's "that's a helluva pilot!" line seemed forced just for purpose of saying hell. The ones in Solo weren't really like that, even though there was more of it.

I actually noticed it more on the second viewing, which reinforces my view that those "damns" and "hells" were believably placed within the story.

 

Yeah I definitely noticed it in Solo. I think some form of "damn" was said at least 3 times in the movie.

 

They say Hell several times in the saga
The other swears are as follows
Damn
Bastard
Ass

That’s it.

 

They bleeped it out in my post, but seriously did no one notice Lando was about to say the s-word? That is clearly what he was intending to say. I don't know about you. But I think that's going to far, specifically for a Star Wars movie.

Disallowed words are still disallowed. /TCF

 

Did anyone notice it sounded a bit more like the British "arse" than the American "ass"?

 

Amazing considering Samuel L. Jackson has already appeared in 3 earlier movies.

 

Moved thread to the Anthology (Released Films) forum.

 

But he didn't say it. So it's not going too far, it's almost going too far.

 

I noticed several Hells.

But this is a PG-13 movie. The "presumptuous ***" line was the only one I thought wasn't earned or needed. Better to have used some funny sounding reference to an alien or animal in the GFFA with a funny name instead of the expletive. The rest I was OK with, even the film cutting away from Lando before he says ****.

 

If never seemed out of place to me, and I thought Lando's oh sh-- was great. Using profanity in sci/fi fantasy is tricky, it's a very fine line to walk. Solo seemed to handle it well enough and I was glad they didn't invent new words, which is usually pretty corny. I'm glad they didn't try to squeeze in a "karabast".

 

The entire concept of curse words is nonsense.

 

I'm happy for them to go full Logan on it. This is the 21st century.

 

I've seen enough Martin Scorsese crime films that this stuff kind of just doesn't bother me. Also there was profanity even back in the OT. Not as much to be fair, but it was still there.

 

I beileve the word hell is said 2 or 3 times in the OT.

 

Han says 'Then I'll see you in hell' in ESB as he goes to search for Luke on Hoth.

 

Not a swear but I know a lot of people interpreted Qui’ra’s hyping up of Lando as a sexual inneneudo related to the size of a certain body part on Lando right before Han interrupts her and says “Alright, I get it.”

It was cleverly handled of course to ensure that anyone who thinks it was moving that way will think that and anyone who didn’t believe it was can just say that those who do need to get their minds out of the gutter but it felt like a slightly more mature joke there than what’s usually in Star Wars if that was the intent.

 

Yup, and Owen says "He'd better have those units on the South Ridge repaired by midday, or there'll be hell to pay."

Not sure if I can remember a third OT one.

 

Yeah, that's two.

 

Luke also yells "What the hell are you doing?" when Leia snatches away his blaster in the detention centre corridor, and she replies "Somebody has to save our skins".

So that's 3.

 

How are any of those forced? They sounded pretty natural to me.

 

No, Han said it.
Regarding people saying it's the 21st century, or they're use to profanity, that's not the point. It's just that it is something noticeable and can ride the line of being like other movies when Star Wars isn't really known for it. It would almost be like hearing it in a Disney animated film.