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I seem to recall Firefly or Serenity started with a sex scene, but since I zone those out I'm not sure. Firefly was a one-season tv show. Serenity was a follow-up movie.
Otherwise, I am a huge fan of the series and the movie. I like how they handled profanity in the series. There wasn't any, that I recall. Instead of "g-damn" they always said "gorram".
And they were constantly shifting to Chinese phrases, under the assumption that in the future, Chinese culture had integrated into society. Their pronunciation of the Chinese phrases was awful, though. My wife couldn't even understand half of what they said, and she's fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese.
There are actually some similarities between the lead character in Firefly (Captain Malcolm Reynolds) and Deadpool, which is one of the things that made the lead character so much fun to watch.
ADDED: A similarity I have in mind is just like the Bugs Bunny example, where Bugs pulls out a gun and shoots a man in the audience whose coughing keeps interrupting his concert.
One of my favorite moments in Firefly is when Mal (Captain Reynolds) decides not to do a job, because it would deprive needy people of their medicine.
So he tells a huge nasty thug to take the money back to his boss and tell him the contract is cancelled. The thug refuses and says he'll eventually find Mal and torture and kill him. So he casually kicks the thug into the ship's engine which obviously obliterates him. Then he moves on to the next thug and tells him to take the money back to the boss, etc., and the second thug is like, "Okay, okay, good, fine with me."
Otherwise, I am a huge fan of the series and the movie. I like how they handled profanity in the series. There wasn't any, that I recall. Instead of "g-damn" they always said "gorram".
And they were constantly shifting to Chinese phrases, under the assumption that in the future, Chinese culture had integrated into society. Their pronunciation of the Chinese phrases was awful, though. My wife couldn't even understand half of what they said, and she's fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese.
There are actually some similarities between the lead character in Firefly (Captain Malcolm Reynolds) and Deadpool, which is one of the things that made the lead character so much fun to watch.
ADDED: A similarity I have in mind is just like the Bugs Bunny example, where Bugs pulls out a gun and shoots a man in the audience whose coughing keeps interrupting his concert.
One of my favorite moments in Firefly is when Mal (Captain Reynolds) decides not to do a job, because it would deprive needy people of their medicine.
So he tells a huge nasty thug to take the money back to his boss and tell him the contract is cancelled. The thug refuses and says he'll eventually find Mal and torture and kill him. So he casually kicks the thug into the ship's engine which obviously obliterates him. Then he moves on to the next thug and tells him to take the money back to the boss, etc., and the second thug is like, "Okay, okay, good, fine with me."