How does hollywood make young actors swear?

I don’t think so. I think it is society that is causing kids to swear

They pay them.

And they’re just words.

That’s the whole point: It’s acting. If the parents of the little boy don’t think he knows the difference between reality and being the character of someone in a movie, it’s up to them to keep him from acting the part, not “Hollywood”.

If I was 12 years old and in a movie and the director told me to call someone a fuck-stick, I’d say “How loud?”

Kids curse up a storm in elementary school, but they don’t do it around adults, so when they see it on TV its completely new to them.

“Fuck-stick” always makes me laugh.

hey hey. let’s keep it G-PG here Astro. lol jk

If my child were an actor, I’d much rather they had a role calling for them to say ‘fuck-stick’ than a role in which they had to be victimized (ie: die or be molested or see violence). All acting is fiction, but it seems like the latter types of roles could actually cause mental trauma, while the former seems like a great excuse to cuss around grown-ups!

PS: ‘Fuck-stick’ may become my new favorite word!

The real question should be ‘WHY does Hollywood make young actors swear’. Parents and TV is where most kids learn such language so imagine a child going onto the set, accompanied by a parent and told to swear. Hmmmm….

Hollywood is all about pushing the social boundaries in order to maximize profit. F-words weren’t allowed in PG-13 but now they can have 1 (i’ve seen a few with 2 and I think one with 3). As the times change, Hollywood tries to numb our sense of what’s acceptable for people to say and do. Pre-marital sex used to be heavily frowned upon, and now it’s in every movie and TV episode we watch.

The majority of people feel as though children aren’t supposed to have terrible language, but the point of showing a kid curse so much is to try to make people accept it. The more children start cursing, the more acceptable it comes, the more F-words PG-13 movies can have, the worse the language in PG gets, and it continues down the line until all audiences can be ok with watching every movie that gets put out. This makes the most money for the film companies.

Since fewer people will see an R-rated movie because of it’s content, the movie won’t make as much money. The only way to change that is to make everyone accept the content.

To answer your question though, they didn’t make him say those things because if he wasn’t OK with it, they would have chosen another 10 year old that was OK with saying them. So most likely he chose to memorize and recite them.

@joni

Its all about comedy. A child calling someone a fuck-stick is a hell of a lot funnier than an adult calling someone a fuck-stick.

Fuck-stick. There’s that word again. Stop it, you’re cracking me up!

I could use a PANCAKE on a fuck-stick, right about now.

Sorry, I can’t help it. I broke it out of the vault and now I can’t get it back in.

that is damn funny, lmao!

FUCKSTICK!!!! I love it, haven’t heard it before, and now it is in danger of becoming a favorite dare I saw an overused favorite?!!!

ROFLMFAO

And as others here have said Hollywood gets them to swear by paying lots of money. I don’t think it hurts them really, and from the movies that I’ve seen where children are swearing, they are usually old enough to know that it isn’t something a child (or an adult) would or should say in general, everyday conversation.

The movie Role Models is funny, I’m not sure how they get away with the swearing but I’m glad they do.

@augustlan: Pancake on a fuck-stick. Just fyi, they film all scenes with children in potentially traumatic scenes with supervision from CPS or whatever nowadays. Not like when Brooke Shields was a baby hooker. They’re also filmed with a lot of camera trickery, most of the time the child doesn’t hear anyone’s dialogue, just their own.

@queenzboulevard, Hollywood is not about “pushing boundaries,” really: more about “pushing censors to more closely match public opinion.” Censorship is ultraconservative, and prevents the arts, all media, from being able to effectively portray and entertain.

And also, WTF re: “has hollywood lost all of its morals?” That is about as ineffectual as, “Won’t someone please think of the children?!”

we think its funny, and all kinds want to do is please.

Watched the original “Bad News Bears” this weekend – I remember it being scandalous when it came out (‘76?). Still shocking today, probably the inspiration for this line of comedy.

i have a 12 year old daughter and she is so into Chloe Grace Moretz and she recently made a movie called Kick Ass however i have recently seen some video’s
http://io9.com/5329156/kick+ass-clips-revel-in-the-messiness-of-real-superhero-violence

now i am not a well what you would consider a very strict parent but i am firm with her but in a kinda leanient sort of way i am not as strict with her like my mother was with me now watching those video clips there is a scene where Hit Girl enters the room she is impaling people with spears etc legs being cut off i didn’t realise how violent this movie was going to be infact i have never seen anything like it in my life you see 11 / 12 year old Chloe Moretz it sounded like she used the word ‘CUNTS’ now i had to watch it again because the sound isn’t perfect and it still sounded like she used this word i am not sure this film is suitable in a way that i want my daughter to watch i have actually heard her swear i didn’t smack her i sat her down and explained to her that it is wrong to say what you said why would you use language like that she replied i heard it on TV she had picked it up from TV so now i am wondering whether to let her see this Kick Ass movie especially when her favourite Actress in it i myself want to see it because i love Nicholas Cage but i ain’t sure whether i want my daughter seeing this Hit Girl running about like some psycho killer usin bad language when me and my husband have talked to our daughter about swearing we dont swear well we do but we do not do it in front of our daughter you might think i am being a bit harsh but i am a mother and i do not want my daughter learning stuff from this and doing stuff she shouldn’t