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One of the major themes of the show is mankind's attempt to bring order out of chaos, and the language plays an important part in conveying this, with people speaking quite elegantly against the backdrop of a rough, dangerous town in the Black Hills. And for the most part it is quite authentic.
Milch has explained in several interviews that the characters were originally intended to use period slang and swear words. Such words, however, were based heavily on the era's deep religious roots and tended to be more blasphemous than scatological.
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Sep 30, 2021 · Theme, Character, and Language in 'Deadwood'. September 30, 2021. When discussing Herman Melville’s classic novel, Moby-Dick, David Milch opines that the book is hard to get through (“the impossibility of getting through the f— book”). Indeed, after the story builds at shore and the ship sets sail, the book takes long divergences to ...
Feb 10, 2024 · Deadwood is inspired by the real annexation of small towns in American territories during the 1870s, in which “manifest destiny” had swept the nation. The series focuses on the new sheriff, Seth...
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Dec 22, 2013 · From its debut, Deadwood drew attention for its extensive profanity. It is a deliberate anachronism on the part of the creator with a twofold intent. Milch explained in several interviews that the characters were originally intended to use period slang and swear words.
“It’s called ‘Profanity in Deadwood,’ and it has like 50 sources.” The two main ones he says he used are Richard A. Spears’s Slang and Euphemism (1981) and Ashley Montagu’s The ...
Mar 19, 2004 · As to how he arrived at the precise mix of terms, Milch has a detailed explanation involving Chaucer, 17th century dictionaries of slang, old legal proscriptions against certain words, and the way ...
