Horseshit

Everybody has a favorite swear word.  Some people like the f-bomb.  I’m partial to the classic “Damn/dammit/etc.”  I have a friend who strings together words that I won’t even refer to, so as not to offend the particularly classy Nic Cage fan.  However, Mr. Cage has possibly the greatest favorite swearword ever.  Horseshit. (As said on Inside The Actor’s Studio)

Honestly, I don’t know if I’ve ever used that.  I’m just not man enough to.  Fuck?  Sure.  Damn?  Why not.  Even shit is okay.  But it takes a different breed of man than myself to use horseshit and not look a fool.  Picture, say, Justin Timberlake saying horseshit.  Doesn’t work does it?  Makes him sound like a boy who read a book with dirty words in it once upon a time.  Now try Humphrey Bogart.  Makes him sound like a total badass.  Same with Clark Gable, Sean Connery, and Vin Diesel.  This is the sort of man who says horseshit.  But Nic doesn’t just say it.  He likes it.  He’ll say it with conviction.   Can’t you just picture him turning to the camera in his Academy Award winning performance in the Wicker Man and saying “Horseshit” for no reason and resuming his acting?  Maybe the lack of that scene is why that movie failed to succeed at the box office.

In the flip side of the coin, his favorite non-swear word is grace.  In fact, I’m sure if he ever uttered it to you, you would be blessed for an entire day.  To be honest, I don’t know how to use grace outside of religious or philosophical talk, but Nic Cage does, that’s for sure.

~ by Arik on August 27, 2008.