The original “pillow talk”-scene had Marla saying “I want to have your abortion”. When this was objected to by Fox 2000 Pictures President of Production Laura Ziskin, David Fincher said he would change it on the proviso that the new line couldn’t be cut. Ziskin agreed and Fincher wrote the replacement line, “I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school”. When Ziskin saw the new line, she was even more outraged and asked for the original line to be put back, but, as per their deal, Fincher refused.
Also, the actress didn’t know grade school in the US is 6-12 years old as she is from outside the US. She didn’t find out until afterwards and was very unhappy about saying it.
This of course varies by country, googling for a few countries (Japan, UK, Germany) actually all betrayed my expectations,with higher public school percentages for primary schools than the US. They generally do have different grade structures though. Edit: for those 3, primary/grade school went to 4th or 6th grade.
Personally elementary/grade school was up to 5th grade, 6-8th was middle, 9-12 high school. Technically I started school in Saint Vincent, in what I believe was a private school, but we moved back to the US when I was in 2nd grade going to third.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/trivia/?item=tr0755880
Also, the actress didn’t know grade school in the US is 6-12 years old as she is from outside the US. She didn’t find out until afterwards and was very unhappy about saying it.
Fair point.
When I saw the flick, the internet was barely more than geocities & altavista, so 🤷🏼♂️
TMI: as someone who lost theirs at 12, I guess it resonated with me — but, I completely hear where she’s coming from.
why? she’s an actress ffs
She’s not American. They use different terms for things around the world.
E: ducking autocorrupt
i mean why would she care what she said in character, it’s not like it’s her as an actor who said it
It’s 6 to 14 or so. First grade through eighth grade.
Kindergarten to 6th grade (12 yoa) in the majority of the US. 7th and 8th are middle school.
Middle school is also grade school.
Generally not understood as such though. I would say common vernacular is more accurate to the intended meaning than the technical truth
I guess it depends on your region because it was definitely considered grade school when/where I grew up.
I went to one school, K through 8. Called it grade school. But it was a private Lutheran church school.
I think it depends on if you are talking private or public schools.
Sure, but my point was general consensus. For the purposes of this discussion, I’ll use the US. According to Pew (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/06/06/us-public-private-and-charter-schools-in-5-charts/) 83% of k-12 students went to public schools. Many of our parents couldn’t afford to send it to private if they wanted to.
This of course varies by country, googling for a few countries (Japan, UK, Germany) actually all betrayed my expectations,with higher public school percentages for primary schools than the US. They generally do have different grade structures though. Edit: for those 3, primary/grade school went to 4th or 6th grade.
Personally elementary/grade school was up to 5th grade, 6-8th was middle, 9-12 high school. Technically I started school in Saint Vincent, in what I believe was a private school, but we moved back to the US when I was in 2nd grade going to third.