Steve Taylor, director of the someday-upcoming Blue Like Jazz movie (based on the Donald Miller book of the same title), wonders just how many bad words to include in the film. Since the story is set on what the book calls “the most godless campus in America,” Taylor and his co-writers–including Miller–believed that truthful storytelling would include at least a bit of bad language, leaving some to wonder just how “blue” the script might be.
Writes Taylor on the BLJ website: “While the CussCount for Blue Like Jazz is lower than Al Pacino’s shootout scene in Scarface, it is considerably higher than all the Pixar movies combined.
“For most of you reading this — No Big Deal. . . . [You] expect, in a movie like ours, to hear a certain number of ****s, ****s, ***es, and possibly even the judicious use of ******* when spoken solely as an adjective.”
Taylor went on to write that his posting was an “olive branch” to fans who want the language “scrubbed,” adding, “We’re open to your suggestions. Really. Please post a reply with your favorite non-curse word or phrase, use it in a sentence, and we’ll try out the best ones as alternate takes.”
