The Wolf of Wall Street establishes fresh benchmark for the F-word
With 506 occurrences of the swearword, Martin Scorsese's Wall Street drama has set a new record for a non-documentary film
Martin Scorsese has broken a record. The Wolf of Wall Street contains 506 instances of the word "fuck", which is – as noted by Variety – a solid 71 more utterances than the previous non-documentary record holder, Spike Lee's Summer of Sam.
Based on the memoir by Wall Street trader Jordan Belfort (played in the film by Leonardo DiCaprio), Scorsese's film delights in excess. Trading takes a break for sex on the shopfloor, drugs in the toilets and lots and lots of foul language. Even the running time gets into the spirit: the film is 180 minutes long, which – divided equally – breaks down to Scorsese giving 2.81 fucks a minute.
The Wolf of Wall Street is in rude health, then. But it pales in comparison with the film that tops the list of the most fuck-filled movies. Fuck, a documentary in which director Steve Anderson tracks the history of the word and argues for its importance in the argument over censorship and free expression, chalks up 857 counts of the expletive. Scorsese classics Casino and Goodfellas come in fifth and 12th, with 422 and 300 instances respectively. The Wolf beats them, but still only manages to crawl into second spot. Better luck next time, Marty.
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