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Anyone got a copy of Alan Bennett's The History Boys?
I watched this on Saturday and tried to remember a specific word in it, but ended up forgetting it. The scene is when the younger teacher (in a future point) is speaking to a camera while in the ruins of an Abbey. He mentions the word that is "a thing of beauty".....
Anyone got a copy of the script and time to look it up for me?
Thanks in advance.
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Finding a book - a particular book - in here? You're having a laugh! There are books everywhere being read or just put down anywhere - I can cope with that, a working filing system, until 'er indoors has a blitz.
Irwin, the younger teacher says, "...it was thanks to the villain Henry VIII that the monasteries achieved their purpose and their apotheosis."
Thanks for that my friend, I can no add a title to my new ten minute film script. Boy was that bugging me.
Thanks to all those who offered help.
Paul
Keep us informed, my antennae are twitching with interest
I have picked up this thread just as it seems closed but I've just joined the group. Allowances please for a newbie to the pages.
My input.
1. When was The History Boys screened, and where? Somehow I missed it.
2. I'm puzzled by the reply to the question about the quote. I have a copy of 'The History Boys. The Film' which includes the shooting script and I cannot find the quote that Neil came up with in it anywhere in the Abbey scene. Chapter (sorry - no pun intended) and verse would be welcomed.
3. I picked up my copy (as a hardback remainder) in Poundland, Yeovil - how much? Have a guess. They still have copies.
Regards to all,
Aitch
You don't sing, do you?
Sing? Yes, like a piece of coke caught under a door.
I've done an intro for myself. Hope it is in the right place.
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.solarnavigator.net/music/music_images/Steps_buzz.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.solarnavigator.net/music/steps.htm&usg=__VBxwiTN53mYczbnwMoMIbvh-NXs=&h=450&w=450&sz=26&hl=en&start=20&itbs=1&tbnid=XCcLj_PjthITWM:&tbnh=127&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3DSteps%2Bpop%2Bgroup%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1
You're the one in the middle (of the main picture)! See, it mentions your name. :)
Found it. D'you know, I'd forgotten about that pic. It doesn't really do me justice. Mrs Aitch is on it too - at the front.
I've just renewed my passport and the new photo I needed frightened me when I saw it. Some ugly old codger I didn't recognise staring at me.
Like my bus pass picture- who is that awful woman? (I was ill at the time and the grey hairs were showing through...)
Not for the first time the film script is probably very different from the play script. The bit I quoted is from the play version: Act Two, page 63 in the Faber (Plays) paperback.
I'm sure you're right about the difference in the scripts.
No-one has answered my question about the screening of the piece that I missed. Can you help?
H