I agree but would like to add this; Dominic Copper was very subtle is his squirming and James Corden was both appreciative and homophobic at the same time. It helped to make this scene very effective!
@@annamari7863n’t know about James Corden specifically (although the role he played in the recent musical “Prom” was an affront to gays everywhere lol) but the character “Timms” that he portrayed in this movie/play frequently referred to people as “nancies” and such
"The History Boys" is both an immeditely enjoyable and on another level richly subtle piece of work. Alan Bennett is British through and through, and one of the piece's most important subtexts is the rehabilitation of gay British writers like Noel Coward and Terence Rattigan.
And historicall inaccurate. In 1988, if a gay boy flirted like that with a straight boy, there would have been a classroom fight. No straight boy would have put up with that in the North in 1988.
Believe me I've been in this situation before and you would rather think twice before wishing such a thing. Unrequited love is one of the most painful experiences one can have and it's many times dangerous as it leads to suicidal thoughts and so on. At the very least most friends I loved were very respectiful to me, unlike the guy in the movie that treats him like shit.
Every time I watch this movie I fall a little more in love with Jamie Parker! *sigh* And of course he's the only one of the Boys whoo;s married! Grrr. And is it me or does he have the most beautiful hands?...
ahh.. how beautiful. sometimes I wish I was gay when I see how loving and wonderful you guys are. a lovely song. . the young man's voice is rather captivating, I say.
I just love the lack of PC banter and clouting round the head with rolled up exercise books. lol, great movie and exact reproduction of the times. Bye bye blackbird in assembly is quite moving.
He Went For Most Virile And Most Unavailable - He Could Have The Lovable Pianist or The Simpleton Athlete or Tall Milkman... He Could Have The Asian or Blackman or Loud Chubby Ones... The Pianist For Me...
A gay teen singing "Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered," in the middle of class to the, apparently straight, school heartthrob in front of all his peers is an "exact reproduction of the times?" He'd get the shit kicked out of him! History Boys is a lot of things, most of them great, but realistic it is not.
