[PenultimateManStanding]

I'm enjoying the HBO production, directed by the great Walter Hill, of Deadwood. If you haven't seen it, it's about a gold mining town in the 1870s. Marvelous acting and directing. I've noticed that each episode is written by a different writer. The actors shift and change subtly. The English bad guy who runs the saloon is slowly changing. He starts out as a Limey Bastard C**ksucker who murders at a whim and is slowly changing into something else. It started in 2004, but I'm just checking it out now on DVD. Very nice if you don't mind the swearing. Every other word is f**king this and f**king that. Did they talk like that on the frontier in 1870?

[topcat]

We like Deadwood A Lot. Heard a rumor that it may be on it's last season, which would be a shame.

Sorry, cannot provde info on it's accuracey. Great show.

Gotta have the stomach to watch and listen to it.

[Zardoz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'E')very other word is f**king this and f**king that. Did they talk like that on the frontier in 1870?

[nemo]

I thinks they were foul mouthed back in the day, but by our modern standards their language would probably not raise any eyebrows due to swearing inflation. "Damn" doesn't have the impact it used to, for example. I think of the Deadwood dialogue as "adjusted for inflation".

Deadwood Pancakes - kinda funny youtube spoof.

[Aaron]

Big DW fan here... I heard no more to come though... Just a big movie length "ending" is being shot.

Pity

Very authentic...they do a marvelous job of highlighting the differences between the rough frontier language & the language used by the East Coast immigrants.

You can see some characters who struggle to maintain "a civil tongue", but lapse into vulgar language when stressed... like the Dr.

Others like Swearingen are rough, foul mouthed criminals.... who evolve like Penn notes.

Excellent production.

Typical HBO.

[jesus_of_suburbia_old]

I've seen a few episodes. One scene that really struck me involved one of the characters passing a kidney stone.

Yikes.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'E')very other word is f**king this and f**king that. Did they talk like that on the frontier in 1870?

[PenultimateManStanding]

Pretty good writing. The fanciest line yet, regarding the "tit-licker", spoken by the Mayor, "I begrudge that pervert his capacity for happiness." Straight out of Freud's book, "Three Essays on the Theory Of Sexuality"