Tom Brown's Schooldays (2005 film)

Tom Brown's School Days is a British TV film adaptation of David Moore from the year 2005. It is the fifth adaptation of the novel by Thomas Hughes.

Content

Tom Brown arrives as a new student at the Rugby School and soon learns to know the unwritten rules of the school. The younger students have to submit to the older and them to be at your service. Each newcomer has to endure rituals about himself, he must sing in front of all students while holding two lighted candles, while the bystanders pelt him with garbage. Goes one of the flames, he must drink salt water.

By Tom Brown and the ambitious teacher Dr. Thomas Arnold has come as the new headmaster after rugby. He will again make a presentable school from boarding school and prohibits horse betting, the secret distilling alcohol and hunting on the go, especially older students as Flashman. Flashman is the son of a wealthy patron of the school and the meanest bat of the boarding school. Tom Brown turns him over and over again in the way and is therefore most severely bullied by him. The more Tom gets bullied by Flashman, the more he defends himself. Without even realizing it, Tom Brown changed and is, the older it is increasingly self to a thief and harassed younger classmates. He is repeatedly punished, among others, Thomas Arnold for his behavior, but sent to a particularly violent attack flash Mans for his own protection home to his father. Tom Brown, who feels to be treated unfairly by Thomas Arnold, Arnold learns only through a letter to his father that the support of the head teacher it is certain that thinks he is an intelligent and courageous boy. Tom Brown returns to rugby. Thomas Arnold is the young and fragile George Arthur in his care - Tom Brown is the newcomer in school life support and protect them.

While Tom Brown with his best friend Harry East is on the way, George Arthur is tormented by Flashman and his friends let him down headlong into a fountain and dip it again and again into the water. Tom Brown is alerted by friends, but comes too late to prevent the assault. In the subsequent battle with the Flashman wins only because he secretly used brass knuckles against Tom Brown in combat. George Arthur falls while in the sleeping room of the boarding pass out. In the hospital room, a weakness of the heart is determined at him.

Flashman has in the meantime an employee of the school, Sally pregnant. Although he has promised to marry her, he refuses to marry her, whereupon Sally almost dies in a clandestine abortion. After this incident, and the torment of George Arthur and the subsequent duel with Tom Brown Thomas Arnold Flashman throws from boarding school. George Arthur dies shortly thereafter. His coffin is carried by his four best friends, including Tom Brown and Harry East, in the church.

Production

The shooting took place among others in the Aldenham School in Hertfordshire and in the Rugby School in Rugby instead. They began on 10 May 2004 and ended on 26 May 2004.

The film partly deviates from the original novel from so survived George Arthur in the novel Flashman and is not over thrown because of his behavior Sally, Tom and Harry from the boarding school, but because of his drunkenness. Simultaneously, the film relates facts from the life of the real Thomas Arnold in the film, which are not mentioned in the book, so his ban on hunting at the beginning of the film.

Tom Brown's School Days is the fifth film adaptation of the novel by Thomas Hughes and after the TV series from 1971, the second film adaptation, which was filmed for television. The film had its television premiere on 1 January 2005 on ITV 1 and was released on 10 January 2005 on DVD.

Reviews

The Daily Mail rated Tom Brown's School Days "one of the best TV adaptations of an English classic, that I have seen ," while Hollywood Reporter the film described as "outstanding family viewing experience".

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