It was such a powerful scene for Montoya as well and the post by OP is missing the context.
Count offers him money and power at the request of him cementing that both of those mean nothing to him. It stresses how much he wants his father back.
Then you have the real world where Mandy pulled the emotion from his own father being taken from him (by cancer?)
Finally. This was a kids movie. You go through the whole movie with PG dialogue to be dropped that bomb. Less is more when it comes to swears.
“Son of a bitch” is pretty tame as swears go, particularly in the 80s where even G kids’ movies would probably be pushing PG-13 these days. I do agree having otherwise clean dialogue does increase the impact when it’s used, but I’d argue that it’s Mandy that really sells it. There’s a lot of real pain, loss, and anger behind that line when Mandy speaks it, and that gives it some serious weight.
It was such a powerful scene for Montoya as well and the post by OP is missing the context.
Count offers him money and power at the request of him cementing that both of those mean nothing to him. It stresses how much he wants his father back.
Then you have the real world where Mandy pulled the emotion from his own father being taken from him (by cancer?)
Finally. This was a kids movie. You go through the whole movie with PG dialogue to be dropped that bomb. Less is more when it comes to swears.
“Son of a bitch” is pretty tame as swears go, particularly in the 80s where even G kids’ movies would probably be pushing PG-13 these days. I do agree having otherwise clean dialogue does increase the impact when it’s used, but I’d argue that it’s Mandy that really sells it. There’s a lot of real pain, loss, and anger behind that line when Mandy speaks it, and that gives it some serious weight.