• Korhaka
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    6 hours ago

    Were they not allowed 1 swear word in each film to keep the same age rating in the US? Of course probably different for other languages, but I think this would be a good case to make use of it.

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      4 hours ago

      The actors who played Merry and Pippin discussed this in a video once, and went back and forth on where they’d put it. I particularly liked a suggestion in Moria: “I’m so fuckin’ sorry.”

      But the best reply to this idea is Boromir at the council: “The trilogy has no f-bomb. The trilogy needs no f-bomb.”

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      5 hours ago

      Traditionally, the PG-13 rating allows for one f-bomb. I don’t remember if these films were PG-13 or not.

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        4 hours ago

        It was PG in the UK, think they raised it to 12 more recently. But the US rating was PG-13.