Is it Jackass or Asshole?

Ismael 2022-05-18 18:37:50

I've been following this movie for a long time before it came out, and I've watched the trailer many times. What impressed me more was the very cute little boy who turned his head back and said "Jackass." When I

went to the cinema to watch it, the Jackass became an Asshole, which was a little strange. But later I found out the reason, because everyone inside called our Hancock asshole. In order to highlight the depth of its asshole, the director unified the lines in the script as asshole.

This film not only talks about the large number of asshole people, but also the age span. What's more, there is also the multilingual version of asshole, which is the asshole spoken by the French kid with a strange accent.

According to a rough statistics, there have been at least 20 assholes in this film, and the highest frequency is as many as 5 times a minute (French kids). It can be seen how much the director of this film loves assholes, and even put the subtitles at the end of the film. In the small ending, the director also uses asshole to make the ending.

If you want to talk about the word asshole, I have come into contact very early. What impressed me more deeply was that in the meeting with the father-in-law, Ben Stiller helped people look after the house. As a result, the first word of the little baby who taught the owner was asshole. Such an evil word from the little baby's mouth is also very cute.

I found that Lao Mei is always very concerned about her ass, and there are quite a few words related to ass. What kiss my ass, move your fat ass, kick one's ass, smart ass, hard ass, hual ass, etc.

Why not change jackass to asshole? Let's take a look at the word asshole, the most straightforward understanding can be broken down to see, it is ass+hole, I don't need to say more about what it means. However, this word is generally not the most straightforward meaning, but a vulgar and annoying person, just like our protagonist Hancock's initial impression of everyone. The level of jackass is not as deep as asshole. Jackass refers to the stupidity and boring of people. It is obviously inappropriate to use Hancock. It can be seen that Comrade Director has worked hard on using accurate words.

For asshole, Will Smith also explained the term in When happiness comes knocking on the door. In the film, the fat man who asked Will to restore the Rubik's Cube in a taxi, after Will was interviewed, heard that he might not be ready to continue working, saying that if he did that, others would treat him as an asshole, but that's it. Said: an ass-A[ei]-hole. This is equivalent to an euphemism, that is, euphemism. In Chinese, it is the same as saying that silly B is silly boyi, which makes people sound a little more comfortable. It seems that asshole's argument has many variations.

Because this is a film made in the United States, almost all asshole is pronounced [ˈæshəul]. However, in British films, the pronunciation is [ˈɑ:shəul], and the more I listened to is the asshole of Steve's standard British pronunciation in the British drama Coupling.

In addition to the different pronunciations of asshole in the United Kingdom and the United States, the spelling is also slightly different. British asshole is generally changed to arsehole. According to Webster’s dictionary, arse is a variant of ass, just like the word fennel of fennel bean has four ways of writing, fen, 回, 回, 回. And ass comes from the Old English assa, which in turn comes from the Old Irish asan, and it comes from the Latin asinus. For ass, another common meaning is donkey, while in arse, only ass and stupid are left.

But I was puzzled. How could our great SARFT not harmonize such a vulgar language film? Let it erode the pure hearts of our young compatriots? There may be one reason, that is, they are all assholes.

PS: The director actually asked Hancock to put one prisoner's head close to the other's asshole, it's super evil.

PS2: There is a scene where Hancock screamed when shaking hands with Ray's son. It was very interesting. Find a chance to practice it.

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Hancock quotes

  • Hancock: The way you deal with bullies - you take your right foot, bring it right up and catch him in his little piss pump.

    Mary Embrey: You don't have to do that, honey. Okay? Seriously.

    Aaron Embrey: It's a good idea.

    Hancock: You aim straight, make sure he can't use that thing for nothin' but a flap to keep the dust out of his butt crack.

  • Hancock: [on Aaron's learning to deal with bullies] Ah the whole turn the other cheek thing huh?

    [pats Aaron's butt]

    Hancock: Just never turn this cheek. Don't let them punk you.