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[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 2 days ago (3 children)

"I haven't been fucked like that since grade school." blew my young mind, at the time.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 63 points 2 days ago (3 children)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/trivia/?item=tr0755880

The original "pillow talk"-scene had Marla saying "I want to have your abortion". When this was objected to by Fox 2000 Pictures President of Production Laura Ziskin, David Fincher said he would change it on the proviso that the new line couldn't be cut. Ziskin agreed and Fincher wrote the replacement line, "I haven't been fucked like that since grade school". When Ziskin saw the new line, she was even more outraged and asked for the original line to be put back, but, as per their deal, Fincher refused.

Also, the actress didn't know grade school in the US is 6-12 years old as she is from outside the US. She didn't find out until afterwards and was very unhappy about saying it.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world -3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

She's not American. They use different terms for things around the world.

E: ducking autocorrupt

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago

i mean why would she care what she said in character, it's not like it's her as an actor who said it

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Fair point.

When I saw the flick, the internet was barely more than geocities & altavista, so 🤷🏼‍♂️

TMI: as someone who lost theirs at 12, I guess it resonated with me — but, I completely hear where she's coming from.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's 6 to 14 or so. First grade through eighth grade.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kindergarten to 6th grade (12 yoa) in the majority of the US. 7th and 8th are middle school.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Middle school is also grade school.

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Generally not understood as such though. I would say common vernacular is more accurate to the intended meaning than the technical truth

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I went to one school, K through 8. Called it grade school. But it was a private Lutheran church school.

I think it depends on if you are talking private or public schools.

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sure, but my point was general consensus. For the purposes of this discussion, I'll use the US. According to Pew (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/06/06/us-public-private-and-charter-schools-in-5-charts/) 83% of k-12 students went to public schools. Many of our parents couldn't afford to send it to private if they wanted to.

This of course varies by country, googling for a few countries (Japan, UK, Germany) actually all betrayed my expectations,with higher public school percentages for primary schools than the US. They generally do have different grade structures though. Edit: for those 3, primary/grade school went to 4th or 6th grade.

Personally elementary/grade school was up to 5th grade, 6-8th was middle, 9-12 high school. Technically I started school in Saint Vincent, in what I believe was a private school, but we moved back to the US when I was in 2nd grade going to third.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Helena Bonham-Carter, being British, didn’t know that “grade school” was much younger than one would expect from such a line until after the film was released.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They kept it in because it isn't inaccurate. 🤢🥲

coughpriestsarentafraidcough

[–] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think the original line was:

"I want to have your abortion"

But it was cut because it was deemed to krass.