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has this film aged well?

― gareth, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it's bloody fantastic is what it is. not just the brian glover football bit. It does feel very located (if that's the right word) in a particular time, but that's part of its beauty. The lad who plays the lead is great.

― misterjones, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one of the best 5 films ever made, in my world anyway

― chris, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you guys are tlaking about the little dickwit with the bloody bird?

― Queen G, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Never seen it. The book wasn't bad.

― Ally C, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally!!!!!

― chris, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We actually acted bits of this out during English. I ended up remembeing the film more than the book, but reading the book again it is very definitely of its place and era. I think the film made it all the more vivid, however, in its use of children from the school they filmed it in (wasn't the lead a case of this as well?)

― Bill, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yup, he was at the school too, I think it was in Barnsley, or Wombwell. They didn't know they were going to get their hands slapped with rulers either so the reactions you see on film are real!

― chris, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Never seen it either. (sadly hands in his twee badge and goes to sit with the hard kids)

― Mark C, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's good. I don't consider it twee though - Billy is pretty hard for a wee scraggy boy.

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This stupid film got me into trouble at school with my English teacher and I NEVER got into trouble at school (see Teenagers thread). Plus when doing the book our project was that we had to pretend to be Social Workers responsible for Billy and write up a case file incl. school reports, interviews etc. How bloody awful is that?

― Emma, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hahaha!! We had to do that true and possibly even draw a picture of Billy and do a pretend interview with parentals - ghastly!

― Sarah, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Chris!!! Wha?

― Ally C, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

FIlm is better than the book. Ken Loach classiXor.

― Pete, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought the book was okay but meeting English guys for whom the book had been totally cathartic made me worry a bit about what life in England was like. By the time the movie came on telly I was over the whole thing. Now I'd like to see it again because I'm less inclined to be so snobbish about things.

― toraneko, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally, you will see Kes this week, I have seen to it.

― chris, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Uh? Don't tell me I'll get to yours tomorrow and be sat watching bloody birds the whole night? Mmmmm...birds.

― Ally C, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ten months pass...

is this really the last good british film?

and what of the music?

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 3 March 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw the soundtrack cheap in Virgin at the weekend, but bought other things instead. I seem to remember the soundtrack being flutey representations of the wind and the flight of birds. I didn't really pay much attention though (and sometimes the best soundtracks are the ones you don't notice).

I thought the book was terrific - as good as the film (I read it for the first time at school around the same time we watched the video, so I don't think one particularly coloured my opinion of the other). I read it again recently and, having seen the film several times in between, I realised that the film is extremely faithful to the book - much of the dialogue is lifted verbatim and you can match up some of the shots with passages of description from the book too.

At school, we didn't have to do anything more imaginative than a book review on Kes, but we did giggle at the bums in the film.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 3 March 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

yep the soundtrack is all flutes and very short; looking forward to seeing the movie one of these days

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

apparently jarvis cocker wrote a lot of stuff in the soundtrack's liner notes. it hadn't been available [much?] before recently.

cookie has still not seen it. I think.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)

yes jarvis rhapsodized in the liner notes, listening after that was a bit of a let down

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 01:44 (twenty-two years ago)

whilst i was suffering 1984, the return of the native and macbeth for O Level, the CSE english set did kes and lord of the flies. our school even went as far as to organize a display of falconry in the drama hall using birds from the nearby Newent Falconry Centre (http://www.nbpc.co.uk).

london zoo also do displays. or did, can't find any mention of it on their website anymore.

andy

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

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