P.S.:To Sir, With Love is one of my favorite movies.
JD DeLuzio > Richard WillisApril 2, 2025 at 7:21pm
I wrote a review of the novel, movie, and song back in 2007. Sorry about the ads interrupting it.
One of the things that changes between the novel/memoir is the historical context. The written Sir teaches in the post-war world. The neighbourhood retains damage from the Blitz and many of the kids have fathers or other family members who died in the war. The movie version embraces its 1967 setting.
To Sir, With Love (review) by JD - Everything2.com
The crowded red double-decker bus inched its way through the snarl of traffic in Aldgate. It was almost as if it was reluctant to get rid of the over…
JD DeLuzio > Richard WillisApril 2, 2025 at 7:19pm
I know why they do it, but I spent a significant part of my life working with young people and it looks stupid!
Also, Degrassi always used real teens. I was amused when one of the later-generation Degrassi girls, Shanae Grimes, went through high school on the show, graduated, I think reappeared as a recent graduate-- and then got a job on an American TV show playing a young high school student.
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P.S.:To Sir, With Love is one of my favorite movies.
I wrote a review of the novel, movie, and song back in 2007. Sorry about the ads interrupting it.
One of the things that changes between the novel/memoir is the historical context. The written Sir teaches in the post-war world. The neighbourhood retains damage from the Blitz and many of the kids have fathers or other family members who died in the war. The movie version embraces its 1967 setting.
I know why they do it, but I spent a significant part of my life working with young people and it looks stupid!
Also, Degrassi always used real teens. I was amused when one of the later-generation Degrassi girls, Shanae Grimes, went through high school on the show, graduated, I think reappeared as a recent graduate-- and then got a job on an American TV show playing a young high school student.
Many of the Sir teens were played by... teens.
Wall to wall coverage of the stormy weather
Ella.
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