The History Boys (2006)
Dominic Cooper: Dakin
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Quotes
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Timms : You've got crap handwriting, sir!
Tom Irwin : It's your eyesight that's bad, and we know what that's caused by.
Timms : Sir! Is that a coded reference to the mythical dangers of self-abuse?
Tom Irwin : Possibly. It might even be a joke.
Dakin : A joke, sir. Oh. Are jokes going to be a feature, sir? We need to know as it affects our mindset.
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Dakin : Don't think we're shocked by your mentioning the word "foreskin," sir.
Crowther : No, sir. Some of us even have them.
Lockwood : Not Posner though, 'cause he's, well, Jewish. It's one of several things he doesn't have.
Posner : Fuck off.
Lockwood : That's not racist, though.
Crowther : No?
Lockwood : It's race-related... but not racist.
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[Dakin is groping Fiona, using World War I as a metaphor for his "assault" on her body. He moves his hand up her thighs but she pushes it away]
Dakin : What's the matter?
Fiona : No-man's land.
Dakin : Ah, fuck. What do I do with this?
[he points to his erection]
Fiona : Carry out a controlled explosion?
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Dakin : I'm just kicking the tyres on this one but, further to the drink, what I was really wondering was whether there were any circumstances in which there was any chance of your sucking me off... Or something similar... Actually, that would please Hector.
Tom Irwin : What?
Dakin : "Your sucking me off". It's a gerund. He likes gerunds. And "your being scared shitless", that's another gerund.
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Dakin : How do you think history happens?
Tom Irwin : What?
Dakin : How does stuff happen, do you think? People decide to do stuff. Make moves. Alter things.
Tom Irwin : I'm not sure what you're talking about.
Dakin : No? Think about it.
Tom Irwin : Some do... make moves, I suppose. Others react to events. In 1939 Hitler made a move on Poland. Poland defended itself.
Dakin : ...gave in.
Tom Irwin : Is that what you mean?
Dakin : No. Not Poland anyway. Was Poland taken by surprise?
Tom Irwin : To some extent. Though they knew something was up.
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Dakin : Next week? Get this man - "You can suck me off next week"! I've heard of a busy schedule but this is ridiculous. God, we've got a long way to go. Do you ever take your glasses off?
Tom Irwin : Why?
Dakin : It's a start.
Tom Irwin : Not with me. Taking off my glasses is the last thing I do.
Dakin : Yeh? I'll look forward to it.
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[as Irwin prepares to get on Hector's bike]
Dakin : Do you want my Tudor Economic Documents?
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[Fiona walks past. Dakin and Scripps gaze lustfully at her]
Dakin : Lecher though one is - or aspires to be - it occurs to me that the lot of woman cannot be easy, who must suffer such inexpert male fumblings, virtually on a daily basis. Are we scarred for life, do you think?
Scripps : We must hope so.
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Dakin : [V/O] "How does history happen?" I asked Irwin. And he couldn't answer me. But now he knew. Nothing special.