This is England

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Título original: This is England

Título no Brasil: ---

Gênero: Drama de Cultura Skinhead da Inglaterra dos anos 80's

Ano: 2007

Formato: Avi

Tamanho: 701 MB

Legendas: Inglês e Português

Hello everybody...

I hope these films are helping you all in some way to improve your accents as well as the British way of speaking and expressing yourselves. The film I am posting today is a very good one, and shows the skinhead subculture of England in the 80's. This happened when Mrs. Thatcher was the Prime Minister, the well-known "Iron Lady"...

This is England

The film begins with Shaun (Thomas Turgoose), a 12 year-old schoolboy from Cleethorpes, whose father died in the Falklands War. On his way home, unhappy, Shaun runs into a group of young, non-racist skinheads led by Woody (Joe Gilgun), who feel sympathy for Shaun and invite him to join them. The group accepts Shaun as a member and he finds a big brother in Woody, while developing a romance with Smell (Rosamund Hanson), an older girl who dresses in punky new wave style. The film closes with Shaun throwing his St George's Cross flag, a symbol of his friendship with Combo, who came from prison with a nationalist spirit against the ruling government of Mrs. Margareth Tatcher, the “Iron Lady” into the sea.

Much of the film was shot in residential areas of Nottingham, including St Ann's, Lenton and The Meadows, with one section featuring abandoned houses at the former airbase RAF Newton, outside of Bingham, Nottinghamshire. The opening fight was filmed at Wilsthorpe Business and Enterprise College, a secondary school in Derbyshire. Additional scenes were filmed in Grimsby, Turgoose's home town.

Turgoose was 13 at the time of filming. Turgoose had never acted before, had been banned from his school play for bad behaviour, and demanded £5 to turn up for the film's auditions. The film was dedicated to Turgoose's mother, Sharon, who died of cancer on 29 December 2005; while she never saw the film, she saw a short preview. The cast attended her funeral.

The film won the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film at the 2007 British Academy Film Awards. It also won the Best Film category at the 2006 British Independent Film Awards, Thomas Turgoose winning the Most Promising Newcomer award.

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