Production company
Free Range Films
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) [UK]
DNA Films [UK]
Royal National Theatre [UK]
Distributor
Fox Searchlight Pictures [USA]
20th Century Fox Netherlands [Netherlands]
About the Film
The film was directed by 2004's Nicholas Hytner Turner's 2004 play of the same name, directed by Nicholas Hytner and written by Alan Bennett, which ran for a year at the National Theatre in London from May 2004 to April 2005 to sold-out houses. Because the play was so well received on Broadway, winning six Tony Awards for best director, best play, and best actor and actress, the movie adaptation also attracted a lot of attention, with British Prince Charles attending the premiere with his wife.
About the Script
When Alan Bennett first wrote the play "College Boys," he didn't put much effort into the nuances of British social life, instead focusing entirely on his grasp of fashion fads and exploring British issues of education, class, sexuality, homosexuality and ambition. After the film adaptation, director Nicholas Hytner also didn't change the script too much, following the creative mind of screenwriter Alan Bennett. Hardly any other movie concentrates the top British creative team as much as "High School Boys," which is practically a dream team.
Because it's a school drama, the movie opens with a playground as the main setting, conveying a sense of intimacy and proximity. But the dialog in the film is sharp and cold, witty and witty, a completely different creative mindset from previous school dramas. There are many passages in the movie that deal with the transfer of power between students and teachers, and ironically, it is often the teachers who are the more cowardly. In addition to the design of the school scenes, all the dialogues and story lines in the film are different from the traditional way of creating school dramas, opening up a new way of creating school dramas. The film touches on a number of issues that are worth discussing, including same-sex love between boys, sexual harassment of students by teachers, the interpretation of historical events, the development of education with a commercial mindset, and the true meaning of teaching and learning, to name a few. There have been many attempts at adapting a play into a film, but there are many difficulties in adapting the dialog from the play to a more realistic language in a film, as well as conveying the emotions of the teenage boys. The movie also features a full cast of actors from the play, and they do a much better job in the movie than they did in the play. The movie, like the play, was a great success from the beginning, attracting the attention of the public, critics, and even British politicians. Audiences were looking forward to seeing the actors make a successful transition from drama to movie acting. The film's screenwriter Alan Bennett and director Nicholas Hytner are both excellent first-line writers and directors, and the two work together quite well. The script itself is already very good, and the director made it into a film, not just following the original, let alone the so-called innovative pen to make major changes to the original, but to visualize it on the basis of the original, and with his excellent visual flair, created the "High School Boys", which has been the envy of countless moviegoers. The Boys" is a film that has been the envy of countless moviegoers. The screenwriter, Alan Bennett, is a British treasure, and the studio need not worry about the box office in his home country; the only question is whether the film will gain international attention, and whether its campus and social issues will resonate in other ideological countries. Fox intends to release the movie at the end of 2006, and thanks to its success on Broadway, it will also attract a large U.S. audience.
The film's central characters -- eight "college boys" starring Dominic Cooper, James Corden, Samuel Barnett, Jack Berglage and others -- are handsome and naive, making the audience laugh and shake their heads in disbelief, and the performances of the young boys in particular have made many young female viewers fall in love with the movie. Many of the young women in the audience fell in love with the show.
Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla came to the premiere with the stars of the movie "College Boys," based on the play of the same name. Nicholas Hytner was born on May 7, 1956 in Manchester, England, and has won several best director awards at the National Theatre in London. In addition to directing, Nicholas Hytner is also a scriptwriter, actor and other work, is a multi-faceted player in the theater and film industry. In addition to the creation of theater and film, is the operator and head of the National Theatre of London, the artistic product of the business approach is also comfortable. His representative works include: Center Stage (2000), The -bject -f My Affecti-n (1998), The Crucible (1996), and The Madness -f King Ge-rge (1994). The theatrical production of The Boys in High School (aka The History Boys) was an even bigger hit, winning six Tony Awards, including Best Director, and earning him many accolades, and Nicholas Hytner showed even more ambition when he struck while the iron was hot by adapting The Boys in High School into a film version.
Alain Bennett was born on May 9, 1934, in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, and graduated from Edsel College, Oxford, in 1957 with a B.A. in history.He won a Tony Award in 1963 for Bey-nd the Fringe, and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for Drama in 2005 for Bey-nd the Fringe. Alan Bennett is a rare talent in the world of theater and film, working as a writer and actor in the theater and film industry, participating in countless theater performances and film and television shows, and outstanding behind-the-scenes screenwriting work, is a famous British screenwriting talent, and is a valuable asset to the United Kingdom and the world. This collaboration with Alan Bennett will be a guarantee that the director will create a good work and the production company will be able to make a profit. According to rumors, in 1996, Alan Bennett had refused the title of honorary knighthood granted to him by the British royal family, and in 1997, he underwent a surgical operation for colon cancer and was predicted to have only two years to live. However, after all these years, Alain Bennett still creates countless good works and his health is not abnormal.
Alain Bennett and director Nicholas Hytner have been the best of partners, collaborating on many plays and films, most of which have won awards. Among the productions he has participated in are Wind in the Willows, a classic by British fairy tale writer Kenneth Grahame (voice actor), the satirical short play Bey-nd the Fringe, The Y-ung Visiters (2003), War and Love In L-ve and War (1996), and Julie Walters and Friends (1991). His representative works as a screenwriter include: The Madness -f King Georges (1994), A Questi-n -f Attributi-n (1992), 102 B-ulevard Haussmann (1991), Dinner at N--n (1966), The Late Afternoon. Dinner at N--n (1988) and Prick Up Y-ur Ears (1987). He won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for the movie "Crazy King George", and this "High School Boys" is even better, winning six Tony Awards. Alan Bennett, who received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005, is a true treasure. The entire cast of the movie was brought over from the cast of his play, which was a huge success, and the cast was excellent, no doubt adding a lot to the movie of the same name. Richard Griffiths and Frances de la T-ur took home the Best Actor and Actress awards for their performances in the play, and I'm sure they'll do well in the movie as well.
Richard Griffiths as Hector, a very brash and rude teacher, is the dominant character in the movie. Richard Griffiths' performance gives him a comedic edge, and even the passages in which Hector openly seduces a student of the same sex are very humorous rather than sinister. Richard Griffiths did a lot of work behind the scenes in order to successfully make the transition from play to movie.
Stephen Campbell Moore plays a young new teacher hired by the principal to support the traditional test-based teaching methods, to the love of innovation and do not pay attention to the test scores of Hector in the teaching of a greater conflict, of course, and Hector's character Richard Griffiths rivalry, and which is filled with many elements of humor, so that the two actors' comedic talents can be expressed. Since the movie reflects the lives of a group of young boys in the north of England in the 1980s, the images are mostly bright and simple. However, unlike a teenage campus drama, High School Boys does not reflect the students' main themes such as being healthy and upwardly mobile, but rather conveys their alternative emotional world. They are outspoken, arrogant, and somewhat humorous and innocent, plus the film also shows the wonderful relationship between teachers and students as well as the emotional problems between the same sex, so the image presentation is again very different from other campus films. Cinematographer Andrew Dunn added his own understanding of the movie based on the original drama sets and lighting effects, and the video effects made the director very satisfied.