2. The film was released on October 13, 2006 (UK), and the original play was on May 2004 (Littleton Theatre, London) and April 23, 2006 (Broadway, USA). The play won six Tony Awards in 2006, including Best Play, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Best Actor, Best Art Design and Best Lighting Design. The Tony Awards are equivalent to the Oscars in the film industry, the highest award in the American theater industry.
3. Director Nicholas Hytner is the operator and drama director of the National Theatre of England. Playwright Alan Bennett Alan Bennett, a famous British playwright and cultural celebrity, is a household name in the UK and has won numerous awards. My father, a butcher, was a history student at Oxford University, and after a few years teaching medieval history, he switched to writing full-time. Since the 1960s, he has devoted himself to screenwriting, and based on his experience as a director and actor, he has written many excellent works. He won a Tony Award, the highest honor in theater, for "The History Boys" and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for "The Madness of King George." He also published a collection of essays "Writing Home" and autobiographical works "Untold Stories" and so on. When he was diagnosed with cancer in 1997, he started writing Untold Stories, writing with the spirit of passing away, his autobiography revealing his homosexuality for the first time (he also had relationships with women before). His cancer was later cured, and his autobiography was officially published. He has been with his male partner for 14 years and lives in London. His most recent collection of essays, "Non-Ordinary Readers," created a fictional story about the various crazy behaviors of the Queen of England after she became obsessed with reading.
4. The background of the film is set in 1983 at a boys' high school in Sheffield, England. Why should it be set in this era, it is related to the British college entrance examination system. In a nutshell, the British college entrance examination is called the A-LEVEL exam. There are dozens of subjects to choose from. Students study at least three courses. As long as they get E in the two courses, they can meet the admission standards of some ordinary universities. Universities require students to achieve a grade of C or higher in 3 subjects. The top universities such as Oxford, Cambridge and other prestigious schools require applicants to achieve AAA or AAB in 3 courses. In the era of 1983, Oxford and Cambridge had special entrance exams, and students who got 3 A's had to start a one-month, so-called seventh-term, mainly for further study in a certain subject, in order to cope with Oxford and Cambridge exams. Oxford and Cambridge changed their entrance exams shortly thereafter, abolishing the so-called seventh-term, so the film is set in 1983.
In this film, 8 students from the boys' school got 3 A's, and they went back to school to continue their studies, and their subject of choice was history. The principal, who is obsessed with the promotion rate of the famous school, is afraid that the original history teacher is not qualified and too conservative to meet the Oxford examination, so he hired a new history teacher. what kind of student. The headteacher hopes the dedicated tutoring of the new history teachers will help them ascend to the Oxbridge throne. This is where the story of The History Boys begins.
5. The actors of the movie version are exactly the same as those of the premiere of the theatrical version. The teacher camp includes the Headmaster of Sheffield Boys' School, history teacher Mrs Dorothy Lintott, language and general knowledge teacher Hector Griffiths, history teacher Irwin Owen (Stephen Campbell Moore), etc. The students mainly include Dakin, Posner, Akthar, Crowther, Lockwood, Rudge, Scripps, Timms.
Hector played by Richard Griffiths is a famous British actor who has played many Shakespeare harlequins and played Harry's uncle in the "Harry Potter" movie. The old man has high respect for drama. For example, in one performance, an audience member's cell phone rang 6 times. He couldn't bear it anymore, and finally stopped the performance and let the audience go out. In 2008, he was awarded the Queen's Medal in the New Year.
Dominic Cooper, played by Dakin, was born in 1978 and graduated from the London School of Music, Drama and Art. She starred in Mamma Mia and other dramas. I just broke up with my girlfriend in May this year. Currently living with the fat guy who plays Timms in HISTORY BOYS. He was featured on the cover of the July 2008 issue of Attitude, a famous gay magazine.
Posner's actor Samuel Barnett, born in 1980, has performed since childhood. He is also from the London School of Music and Dramatic Art. He likes to go to the National Theatre bar on weekdays and loves to read science fiction, such as Philip Pullman's "Dark Elements Trilogy", He also starred in the play. He is also a lover of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, and loves reading Dickens.
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