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Wed 5 Sep, 2018 08:09 pm
Here's the context: "warts and all" is the name of a movie that they are producing. The main character want to show the life of a corrupted Secretariat. The director doesn't agree with the main character and he said this sentence to him:
"warts and all" don't pay bubkes. That's why the took all the gay staff out of a beautiful mind.
I don't understand what does he mean.
Thanks a lot,
@Michael George,
That's because it doesn't mean anything in English.
@Michael George,
It doesn't make sense. The original quotation is attributed to Oliver Cromwell. He had a number of facial warts and when his portrait was painted the artist left the warts out. Cromwell was not happy and asked for it to be repainted "warts and all." Since then the term has been used to describe honest description of something including all the ugly stuff.
@Michael George,
They are making a movie for profit, which means they want to attract as wide an audience as possible. So they leave out things that might be offensive to certain people, the "warts and all" or the "gay [stuff].
Thank you all for your useful replies. Every answer is really appreciated. Special thanks to coluber2001 for giving me the meaning.
A Beautiful Mind = movie.
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