did he actually say 'Pig'?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Carnival of Souls
G_man2 — 12 years ago(November 04, 2013 04:08 PM)
the very good looking Steve Boozer played "Chip", the guy at the juke box. his scene was brief.
the audio quality of the copy i have of "Carnival of Souls" (acquired legally!) is poor. but i swear Chip says to Mr. Linden, about Mary Henry, "She's not like the pigs you bring in here"..did he really say "pigs"???
i think soi was floored. i just didnt expect that kind of misogyny, and in such an ugly way. i mean, 'pigs', really!
I am glad a lot of people enjoy this movie. i first saw it in the early 2000s, and again very recently as part of a 50 classic horror film collection a friend got for me as a gift. -
MystMoonstruck — 9 years ago(October 29, 2016 07:49 PM)
What's this craziness about?! He called the man a pig, too! It's likely a word they throw around, especially at each other.
Besides, nowadays, they routinely use much worse words~on TV, in movies, in music and in real life.
How can it be misogyny if the word is applied to females AND males (at least one male for certain)?!
What about the "police = pigs" that has been around for decades? So, it's OK to call males "pigs" but not females? The women he generally dated likely were the sleazy sort, which is why she was so uncomfortable with him.
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FilioScotia — 9 years ago(October 30, 2016 08:54 AM)
I grew up in the 50s and I can testify that we hormonal and stupid teenage boys would refer to girls we thought were overweight and ugly as "pigs". Yes we did, but never to their face. It was a "guy thing" just between us guys.
However, I've been to enough of my class reunions to see that many of those ugly ducklings grew up to be beautiful swans who don't want nothin' to do with the guys who called them "pigs". Serves us right. But, some are more forgiving than others, thank goodness.
And by the way, calling police "pigs" didn't start till the mid sixties, and the only people who used the word that way were hippies and other anti-establishment sorts with no respect for authority.
Most of my friends who have inferiority complexes are absolutely right.