Flickographics
Who swears more? Tarantino or Scorcese films infographic

The Swear-Off

The genesis for this graphic was some A-level English coursework I did back in the day. In this I studied how swearing was used in different ways in Pulp Fiction. So when I started making flickographs I thought, just how sweary *is* Pulp Fiction? I found this rather good list on Wikipedia of the films that use the word ‘fuck’ the most. And it turns out Pulp Fiction only comes in at 23.

What struck me more was just how roundly beaten Tarantino has been on the fuck front by Scorcese with films at number four and 10 in the list. So I thought I’d look a bit deeper into the comparison between these two heavyweight sweary directors and here are their records compared across how sweary they are, how much they blaspheme and how racially abusive they are. So whilst Tarantino loses out on the f-word, he does take the prizes in the lord’s name and n-word categories. Incidentally there’s only one c-bomb in all four of these films and Casino has it.

Data for each film from familymediaguide.com

Published on

22 July 2012