校园片的一个特点就是励志,肯定有一位春风化雨的老师,这是必需的,然后肯定还有一位代表顽固实力的校长或是训导主任之类的反派角色.而学生方面,肯定都是内心期望着变革,可是肯定是毫无勇气挑战传统的,直到那位老师来了之后,革命的暴风雨也为之降临,而结尾毫无疑问的是,那位优秀的老师在传统的势力下默默的离开,然而他却赢得了学生的心.
但是这部戏却恰恰相反,学生们居然是一群渴望得到高分的学生,对于原来老师的春风化雨式的教学方式很不买账.认为诗歌只类不过是一种浪费时间的课程,他们需要的,是可以让他们得到大学录取通知书的课程.这一点就是让人大吃一惊,还有这么势利的学生.
这里面的老师也是非常的奇怪,两个用来作对比的老师有一个同样的特点,都是同性恋.只不过,一个经常对男学生动手动脚,采取很明目张胆的方式,结果,被人起诉了.而另一个,却是掩饰自己的取向,让自己看上去没什么两样.而且,他的教学方式是激进的,是直接指向目标的,却和他的生活态度也有了很大的反差.
学生除了上面说到的势利之外,根本没有以往电影中那种对于传统的反叛,他们一个个的都很正常.知道什么时候该做什么,一心用功在学习上.一次次看他们从图书馆借了厚厚的一摞书,然后拼命用功的样子,真是让人感到振奋,自己的高中时代不也是一样.有一个不同的就是,他们的感情问题也是出了问题,其中一个居然爱上了自己的好朋友,当然了,也是男的.然后他向同样是同性恋的老师倾诉,当然了,没有俗套的爱上了老师,只不过老师让他从容面对而已.虽然少了情节上发展的空间,不过显得更加真实.
这群男生的组合也相当的多姿多彩,传统的小白脸之外,还有一个开朗的大胖子,简直就是那个老师的翻版,而且还很愿意学女生,真是别具一格;一个运动方面的专家,说萨特非常擅长高尔夫;一个犹太人,不能自慰,而且对于集中营的惨剧认识很深;还有一个穆斯林,却被人与印度人混为一谈;还有一个黑人...总之,不是传统的白人天下,这么多的男生,总有一款适合那些女观众吧.
最后的那个结尾,虽然我认为有点悲惨,一个皆大欢喜的结局难道不好?但是,当镜头慢慢的拉开,用一种回忆的语气谈论那些男生之后的生活时,一种沧桑感突然的涌上了心头,突然间,这部喜剧有了深度.它所说的不仅是大学录取前的补习课了,更变成了,一个优秀老师对于学生影响的很好的诠释.这点和其他的校园片没什么两样,可是,这样不好么?
还有,这部电影的台词真是太赞了.让我们顺便体验了一下英国诗歌的美.
有一个疑问,为什么同样是大学的入学考试,斯国的可以如此的多姿多彩,反身自顾,我操.真希望中国早日有这么一部影片出现,而且还是现实主义作品.
http://tin1016.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!49A79B57DDF65AA1!1238.entryQuotations and References: Act One
(Page numbers refer to the 2004 paperback Faber & Faber edition. List compiled by Tudor Economic Documents.)
p5
"All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use." - Hector
A.E. Housman
"Loveliest of trees, the cherry now." - Hector
A Shropshire Lad, A.E. Housman
p6
"Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire!" - Hector
Othello, Othello, William Shakespeare, Act V, Scene 2
"I have put before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live." - Hector
Deuteronomy 30:19
p7
"Look up, My Lord."
"Vex not his ghost. O let him pass. He hates him
That would upon the rack of this tough world
Stretch him out longer."
"O, he is gone indeed."
"The wonder is he hath endured so long.
He but usurped this life..."
"...I have a journey sir, shortly to go;
My master calls me, I must not say no." - Hector
"The weight of this sad time we must obey
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say."
- Edgar (Posner), Kent (Timms/Hector), King Lear, William Shakespeare, Act V, Scene 3
Hymns Ancient and Modern - a Church of England hymnal.
p9
Renaissance Man - answers.com: "A man who has broad intellectual interests and is accomplished in areas of both the arts and the sciences."
p12
Although the script does not make it clear, Posner here sings the chorus of L'Accordéoniste, a song popularised by Edith Piaf.
p13
La Vie en Rose - 1946 song, Edith Piaf's signature song. (lyrics)
p23
The Catcher in the Rye - a novel by J.D. Salinger.
"Let each child that's in your care-"
"Have as much neurosis as the child can bear." - Hector and Mrs Lintott
W.H. Auden, Letter to Lord Byron
Hecatomb - like holocaust, a word associated with sacrifice. In this sense, 'holocaust' refers to an animal sacrifice by fire.
p24
"...since Wilfred Owen says men were dying like cattle, [hecatombs] is the appropriate word." - Dakin
Referring to Wilfred Owen's famous WWI poem, Anthem for a Doomed Youth.
Trench warfare - static lines of defence in war, with each side basing soldiers in trenches as a means of defence.
Haig - Field Marshal Douglas Haig, nicknamed 'Butcher of the Somme', one of the more controversial figures in WWI.
"The humiliation of Germany at Versailles." - refers to the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, a formal peace treaty with Germany at the close of WWI. It included that Germany take full responsibility for the war and imposed several restrictions of territorial, military and economic matters.
"Ruhr and the Rhineland." - refers to the Ruhr Crisis. France sent forces to occupy the Ruhr, an area in the north of the Rhineland, in an effort to force Germany to once again make reparation payments, which they stopped in 1923. Britain and the United States did not support this action.
"The collapse of the Weimar Republic" - in the late 1920s and early 1930s, towards the beginning of depression in Germany, the Weimar Republic saw the rise of the popularity of the Nazi party.
p25
The Cenotaph - The Cenotaph in Whitehall, London is where the national ceremony takes place on Remembrance Sunday (11th November, the day hostilities ceased in the First World War).
The Last Post - a bugle call used to commemorate those who have died in war. It is sounded on Remembrance Sunday following the two minutes' silence.
Passchendaele - refers to the 1917 battle of Passchendaele. Dakin is referring to Haig's controversial campaign, in which damage was inflicted to the German Army at great expense to the lives of British troops.
The Somme - refers to the 1916 Battle of the Somme. Exact casualty figures vary, but several hundred thousand were killed in battle, a large proportion of these on the first day. Again, blame was laid upon Haig's leadership.
The Unknown Soldier - the Unknown Soldier is an unidentified soldier killed in battle, buried with full military honours as a symbol of all the unidentified soldiers killed in battle. The British tomb dedicated to the 'Unknown Warrior' is found in London, and contains the body of an unidentified soldier killed in the First World War.
Siegfried Sassoon - an English poet famous for his anti-war poetry.
"If any question why we died,
Tell them because our fathers lied." - Irwin
Common Form, Rudyard Kipling
Rembrandt - Dutch painter, 1606 - 1669.
p27
"Those long uneven lines
Standing as patiently
As if they were stretched outside
The Oval or Villa Park,
The crowns of hats, the sun
On moustached archaic faces
Grinning as if it were all
An August Bank Holiday lark..."
"...Never such innocence,
Never before or since,
As changed itself to past
Without a word--the men
Leaving the gardens tidy,
The thousands of marriages,
Lasting a little while longer:
Never such innocence again." - Scripps, Lockwood, Akthar, Posner, Timms.
MCMXIV, Philip Larkin.
p28
Western Front - the term used in WWI and WWII to describe the frontier between the Allied Forces and Germany.
p29
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - 1940s song with lyrics by Lorenz Hart and Richard Rogers. Features in the musical Pal Joey.
p30
"O villainy! Let the door be locked!
Treachery! Seek it out." - Hector
Hamlet, William Shakespeare, Act V, Scene 2
The Trial - a novel by Franz Kafka, about a man arrested and charged with a crime he knows nothing about.
"The person from Porlock" - a reference to the story of the visitor to Coleridge during the writing of Kubla Khan, resulting in the poem's incomplete status.
"Don Giovanni: the Commendatore" - Don Giovanni is an opera by Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte. Il Commendatore is a significant character in the work.
"Behold, I stand at the door and knock." - Scripps
Revelation 3:20
p31
"Did the knights knock at the door of Canterbury before they murdered Beckett?" - Hector
Thomas Beckett, the Archbishop of Canterbury (1162 - 1170) was assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral. He was later canonised in 1173.
Now, Voyager - a 1942 film starring Bette Davis and Paul Henreid, about a woman who falls in love whilst in therapy after a nervous breakdown.
p32
"The untold want by life and land ne'er granted,
Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find." - Hector
Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman.
p33
The Carry On films - a series of British comedy films, parodies of famous historical and literary events or people. They are famous for their excessive use of double entendres in dialogue and slapstick comedy.
p34
George Orwell - an English author and journalist, who was famous for his political and social commentary in his essays and novels.
p35
Stalin - First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Part from 1922 to 1953, effectively becoming a dictator by the late 1920s.
Henry VIII - Second Tudor King of England, reigning from 1491 - 1547. Responsible for the introduction of Protestantism to England.
"Mrs Thatcher" - Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister from 1975-1990. She was the first (and, thus far, only) female Prime Minister in Britain.
Pearl Harbour - the attack on Pearl Harbour took place in 1941, when the Japanese attacked the American naval base at that location. Franklin Roosevelt, the President at the time, delivered the Infamy Speech condemning the attack.
Francis Bacon - English philosopher, knighted by James I in 1603.
p36
"Turner, then, or Ingres." - Irwin
J. M. W. Turner was an English painter in the Romantic movement. Jean Ingres was a French painter working in the 1880s.
"About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters...
how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window..." - Timms
Musée des Beaux Arts, W. H. Auden.
p37
"Breaking bread with the dead, sir. That's what we do." - Akthar
- from the statement "Art is breaking bread with the dead", by W. H. Auden.
The Mikado - an opera by Gilbert and Sullivan, first opening in 1885.
"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing."
Pensées, a philosophical work by Blaise Pascal.
p38
"We're not just a hiccup between the end of university and the beginning of life, like Auden are we, sir?" - Lockwood
Auden was a schoolteacher.
"Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm." - Dakin
Lullaby, W. H. Auden
"England, you have been here too long,
And the songs you sing are the songs you sung
On a braver day. Now they are wrong." - Lockwood
Voices Against England in the Night, Stevie Smith
Not Waving But Drowning - a poem by Stevie Smith, published in 1957.
p40
Brief Encounter - a 1945 film starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, telling the story of a couple, both married, who meet in a railway station and soon fall in love. This scene takes place at the end of the film, when Laura (Celia Johnson) returns to her husband, rather than the man she has just fallen in love with.
p44
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross - a hymn written by Isaac Watts.
p45
Matins - Early morning or late night prayers, a feature of many Christian denominations.
"A painter of the Umbrian school
Designed upon a gesso ground
The nimbus of the Baptized God.
The wilderness is cracked and browned
But through the water pale and thin
Still shine the unoffending feet
And there above the painter set
The Father and the Paraclete." - Scripps
Mr Eliot's Sunday Morning Service, T. S. Eliot
Piero della Francesca - an Italian Renaissance artist.
p47
Nietzsche - a German philosopher, writing in the 1800s.
p51
"After such knowledge, what forgiveness?" - Hector
Gerontion, T.S. Eliot.
p52
"The tree of man was never quiet:
Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I." - Hector
On Wenlock Edge, A. E. Housman
"To think that two and two are four
And neither five nor three
The heart of man has long been sore
And long 'tis like to be." - Hector
A Shropshire Lad, A. E. Housman
p53
Plato - an ancient Greek philosopher, who wrote about the teachings of Socrates. The notion of Platonic love is found, in one example, in his discussion of the relationship between Socrates and the young Alcibiades.
Michelangelo - Italian Renaissance artist. He is famous focus upon the aesthetic of male beauty and the homoeroticism which may be found in his work.
Oscar Wilde - English playwright and poet of the nineteenth century. He was famously tried and sentenced for his homosexuality.
p54
Rupert Brooke - an English poet, most famous for his First World War poetry. Posner here quotes the opening of his poem The Soldier.
p55
"The Zulu Wars" - a reference to the war between the Zulus and the United Kingdom in the 1870s.
"The Boer War" - refers to either the first or the second Boer wars, fought between the British Empire and the Boer Republics in the late 1800s.
p57
"The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo." - Hector
Love's Labour's Lost, William Shakespeare, Act V, Scene 2
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http://www.subjunctive-history.co.uk ,是这部剧的专门网站
"The best moment in reading are when you come across something...a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things that you'd thought special, particular to you, and here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And...it's as if a hand...has come out...and taken yours."-- From Hector.
一个六十岁的老男人,是一所中学的老师,和八个年轻的男孩在一起念诗歌读文学。唯一的安慰,可能就是每次借带他们回家的名义,给他们自己的“benedictions".
他原本想有一辆装满书的车,环游世界。却最终在一次车祸中离开人世。或许,这就是他的一生。
求而不可得,漫无边际的孤独,唯有书本能给自己安慰。
可是,那始终不是柔软的,有温度的,真实的手,不是吗?
The History Boys,根据剧情,与其说是“历史系男生”或是“高校男生”,不如翻译成“学习历史的大学预科男生”。英国人的校园电影果然好美国人的《美国派》之流完全两样,高中校园里的美国孩子们似乎都是些被牛肉汉堡催熟的发育过剩整天满脑子只想找个大胸MM上垒的单细胞动物;而The History Boys里的高三男生们,个个修养良好,精通文学历史艺术音乐法语等等,都是牛津剑桥都迫不及待要将之招致麾下的精英。当然,有青春少年的地方就有青春的萌动和憧憬。显然,美国派中的美国孩子们个个都是毋庸置疑的异性恋,天天想着大胸MM就是最好的证明么;而The History Boys的英国精英男孩们,则几乎都带点偏阴柔的“玻璃”倾向,恩,可能这和他们的老师有关,那个身体庞大的像一艘航空母舰的胖老头HECTOR,最大的爱好居然是将手伸向坐在他摩托车后座上的男孩的EGG,像他这样体重的老家伙竟然也骑摩托,倒也是一大奇观。貌似温文尔雅的年轻教师Irwin,其实也是一个隐藏的同性恋者,但面对英俊男学生DAKIN的热烈挑逗,他终究还是胆怯的退缩了。由话剧改编的痕迹还是很明显的,男孩们的表演也带有极强的话剧腔。
美少年多啊~~
跟他们一比,我们跟白痴有神马两样,这种课堂、这种教学方式我们连想都不敢想,这差距,他们在想什么,我们在想什么,真是浑身冷汗.........PS:英国男生唱歌都这么好听吗?本·巴恩斯在《水性杨花》里的歌声也是把我萌翻了~~~~还有这英音............啊啊啊~~~
“死亡诗社”的另一诠释,英美差异显露无遗。英国人的高人一等幽默风趣僵硬严谨智慧闪耀,Hmmm……我更喜欢英国制造。女教师关于“历史无女人”那段太犀利了。我爱Rudge直板板的抛弃牛津去铺地毯的气质,我爱小受老师僵硬的举止闪烁的眼神苍白的嘴唇,我爱色老师浪费生命的教学方法,我爱小天使 posner的眼神和歌声,念诗那段太美了!最后——换掉男主!受不了一群天使围绕着一个自大白痴丑男主!我要舞台版的Jamie King!
男孩子们滔滔不绝的精彩对白让我慌了神
这是一部会让中国高中生郁闷致死的片子,大致是这样的。
记得一篇介绍上有这么一句话:这里有英国最好的两样东西,同性恋和男校
history is just one fucking thing after another
Why does Hector have to die at the end? to make the movie look 'deeper'? oh well, it'll fly out of my brain in six months anyway, never mind
如此大胆勾引老师,不愧是立志考牛津剑桥的小朋友。
就在我沉醉在随时从他们几位即将自由开展人生使用身体的年轻人嘴里冒出的诗句反观自己不说英国文学就是在中国古典文学面前也只有跪舔的份儿时,Hector在Posner这个少年时的自己背诵哈代一首关于“正名与归宿”的诗结尾后讲出了真正的文学意义——不在于你记住了多少诗句,而在于它是否抓住了你的手。
英语被他们说得口齿留香。
无聊到我看一半睡着了
这简直就是腐国的精华啊,诗歌与搅基双管齐下。对白犀利,语速惊人,信息量让人目不暇接,言语之物也是那般深刻,宗教信仰、身份和性格带来的小幽默还都是点到即止,那种只有过来人才懂,会心一笑之后当成一个荤段子,比如基督小哥自告奋勇坐上胖老师的摩托车享受同性按摩。★★★★
“恰同学少年,风华正茂,指点江山,激扬文字!”国情决定了我们只有羡慕的份儿~~
7/10。虚拟语态、文学互动下确凿的史实被颠覆和解构,学生戴金用虚拟时态向欧文表示,哈利法克斯去看牙医的决定影响了二战英国的胜败,就以一个偶然的因素表达历史和人生的无常,而当赫克托向学生讲述哈代反映祖鲁战争的诗歌里的鼓手的时候,他把自己的遭遇同那个被埋于无名荒野的鼓手联系在一起,同性恋的赫克托在学校中始终被剥夺话语权,也是历史话语的偏见的受害者。历史无正解,它是一件接一件狗屁事,也是女老师愤愤不平谈论历史是男人的无聊论调,截然不同的两人也难以给出明确答案,赫克托独特教学方式不会空谈知识的乐趣,天马行空地借历史教授诗歌、戏剧和电影桥段,欧文则拘泥于名校的规则,面对学生赤裸裸的表白求欢也不敢逾越出界,完全没有课堂上教授学生逆向思维的离经叛道,假冒牛津毕业的声誉,实际上摧毁了自己非名校毕业的知识潜力。
读诗歌,读文学,读历史,读所有看似奢侈无用的东西,都是为了有一天,当一切发生在自己身上时,当别人感觉天崩地裂时,你已经手握着解药。
珠连妙语很多,但还有很多没看明白
好像很久很久前看的,只记得看完后,我突然用功了几天~汗
关于英国最美好的两样事物:男校和同性恋。
自然发光的男孩们把我的心都萌化了~~~~