GROS MOTS AND CURSES IN ASGHAR FARHADI’S MOVIES

People use gros mots and curses in their everyday life in order to express their feelings of anger, dissatisfaction, frustration, and even their humor. In this study we provide an insight into the gros mots and curse utterances in the Iranian cinema. For this purpose we have chosen the most iconic movies of Asghar Farhadi (About Elly, A Separation, The Salesman), then we have extracted the gros mots used in the movies and classified them into tables based on the characters’ utterances. A literal translation and its equivalent in English are also provided. The aim of the study is to present some gros mots used in Iranian culture and to prove whether female or male characters make more use of this kind of language in Asghar Farhadi’s movies and also if the same amount of swear words is used by different social class members or not.