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I loved The History Boys. I do have some problems with it, though, which makes me different from every theater critic I've read so far. And I feel really silly, but who is Alan Bennett? Is he the author?

<---- ignorant American here.

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I enjoyed The History Boys very much, although I thought it was far from perfect.

Here's Alan Bennett on Wikipedia. I recommend his Talking Heads TV monologues if you can get hold of them.

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Agreed, it is far from perfect. Out of curiosity, what was your take on it?

Thanks for the link.

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Ah, sorry about the delay.

Well, I basically thought it had some very very good bits in it, but wasn't sure how well it all hung together. Although that's generally not a great problem for me. Also, it seemed to me very obviously made for the stage rather than the screen.

I loved the songs and the film clip recreations in the classrooms, and I loved Hector talking to Posner about poetry - about reading being like 'someone reaching out a hand', and I loved the Irwin/Dakin flirting. And I loved Mrs Lintott.

I did wonder how I might have reacted to this film if I hadn't known it was by Alan Bennett, being a fan and being familiar with his earlier work. Particularly the ending, with Posner's seemingly inevitable development into another Hector - the repressed gay teacher who 'doesn't touch the boys...'

That's as much as my brain can manage tonight - killed by NaNoWriMo. :)

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Hey, I'm late. Sorry!

Heh. When I asked what you thought of it, I thought you were talking about the stage play -- the only thing I'd seen at the time. Having seen the movie now, I would say I prefer it to the play. There were elements of the play that upset me, which they either changed or did away with entirely in the movie. Also, the character of Posner is treated much better in the movie than in the play.

Posner was my absolute, absolute favorite, and while in a way it makes sense for him to turn into another Hector, I'm sorely tempted to write fic where he makes peace with himself -- possibly after Lockwood's funeral, definitely before he's sixty -- and finds himself a nice boy. Possibly Scripps. Or maybe Will Stanton.

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I'm sorely tempted to write fic where he makes peace with himself -- possibly after Lockwood's funeral, definitely before he's sixty -- and finds himself a nice boy. Possibly Scripps. Or maybe Will Stanton.

Were you to actually do this, I should be forced to follow you to your house and take up residence under your bed in order to stalk you more effectively and just generally creep you out as reward for being brilliant.

So you'd better not.

:)

~~Do it!~~

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I have been trying all day to write out something, but the fact that I am not British and not Alan Bennett tends to get in the way. You might hate me if I wrote that story for my unending abuse, misuse, and neglect of British speech patterns.

Can I tell you the plot?

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