This Is England Page #2

Synopsis: This is England: Mods, New Romantics, and Skinheads are the major youth sub-cultures of this very English summer of 1983 and young 12-year-old Shaun is left wandering aimlessly alone and lost during the start of his school holidays, until his chance meeting with Woody and his fun and friendly Skinhead pack. Finding a new lease of life; girls, parties, Ben Sherman shirts, Doc Martin boots and shaven hairstyles young Shaun is welcomed, life during this summer holiday has got a whole lot better. That is until Combo arrives on the scene bitter, dangerous, racist, militant and psychotic life for young Shaun has just approached his first major crossroads. This is England is a look back at the early eighties of British working-class life through the eyes of young Shaun and his new gang, and dealing with the bitterness of outside influences such as racism and xenophobia, of mass unemployment and the fall out of the Falkland's War; Thatcher's Britain: Did we ever have it so good? When you see S
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): Shane Meadows
Production: IFC First Take
  Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 13 wins & 15 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Metacritic:
86
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%
NOT RATED
Year:
2006
101 min
$95,849
Website
9,743 Views


You're drawing a fine line.

You're drawing a fine line. Eh?

Bloody hell!

- Where the frig have you been?

- Bloody Ada!

Took me an hour

to get someone to go in for me.

You had to wait a bloody hour for that pie?

Give me that sh*t.

For God's sake.

- Who the f***'s he?

- What is your name?

I'm Shaun.

Shaun, I'm Woody, mate.

Nice to meet you.

That there's Milky, my main man.

Pukey's a nutcase. Don't wind him up.

That's Kez. He's pretty chilled out.

- And this fat idiot's Gadget.

- (Laughter)

You are, Gadget, you are.

Anyway, Shaun, move.

You're in my seat.

What?

Move.

Gadget, mate, out of all the places to sit,

you want to sit there?

- Yeah, I do.

SHAUN:
Shall I move?

What are you asking him for?

Move, now.

- He don't have to bloody move.

- F***ing does. Get out.

Oi, it's a free country.

You sit there if you want to sit there.

- Have you seen these?

- Woody, tell him.

Woody, tell 'em.

Get the f***...

Calm down.

Will you just calm down?

F***ing behave.

You need to learn when to chill out.

What...?

Get the f*** out of my seat now!

Out of this tunnel

or I'll make your life a living f***ing hell.

- F*** off!

- F*** out!

- You're a pain in my arse.

- You're all a bunch of bastards!

Oh, f*** off!

You prick!

Shaun, come back, mate.

- Sit down.

- Oh, bloody hell.

Shaun! Sh...

Oh, I feel bad. I feel bad now.

Well done, well done. Are you happy with

your f***ing pie now, you prick?

You're a frigging bully, Gadget.

TV:
...see what you can do with this.

What C is a fodder plant...

(Door closes)

- Hiya, love.

- Hello.

- You all right?

- Yeah.

Had a good day at school?

Shaun?

What's wrong, love?

Shaun, come here.

What?

Sit down.

I want to have a word with you.

Why?

Please, son, I want to talk to you.

What?

What have you done to your face?

Nothing.

You've got all scratches all over your face.

Have you been fighting?

No, I did it on the way home from school.

You didn't. You're lying to me.

How have you done it?

It was a boy at school.

He made a joke about Dad, so I hit him.

Well, what did he say about Dad?

I don't wanna say it, Mum.

It's disgusting.

Shaun, I want to know what he said.

I've been picked on three times today.

All because of my trousers.

What's wrong with your trousers?

Look at the f***ing size of them!

Stop swearing.

There's nothing wrong with them.

- Your dad bought you them.

- They're too big for me!

If you didn't want to wear them,

you should have put your school ones on.

It's non-uniform day, Mum.

What do you want me to do, Shaun?

I don't know what to do.

- We could move away.

- We can't move away.

We're not moving from anywhere.

We live here and we're staying here.

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Shane Meadows

Shane Meadows (born 26 December 1972) is an English filmmaker of independent film. He is best known for the British cult film This Is England (2006) and its three sequel series (2010–2015). His other films include Small Time (1996), Twenty Four Seven (1997), A Room for Romeo Brass (1999), Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002), Dead Man's Shoes (2004), Somers Town (2006), Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (2009) and The Stone Roses: Made of Stone (2013). more…

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