Have you ever seen The History Boys? Well, you should! It's brilliant. It's one of those dialogue-heavy, category-defying British films that I adore so much. (Yes, that's an actual genre if you ask me. Consider it for a moment...You're thinking of a few right now.) The entire movie, in fact, is dialogue - Mainly musings about history, literature, and growing up. You can totally get how it was originally a Broadway play (which I'm now dyyyyying to see!). Here's the trailer:
And a few of my favorite lines:
History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on.
F**k the Ren-ai-ssance! And f**k literature, and Plato, and Michaelangelo, and Oscar Wilde, and all the other shrunken violets you people line up. This is a school, and it isn't normal!
Now, it's not some happy coming-of-age tale. There's dark moments, there are some uncomfortable realizations, there are some unsettling observations about the nature of education and, yes, history.
See what I mean? Rent it. Today. Now.
