STEPHEN FRY

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0964587/

Stephen is the Quiz host... A big part?

I saw and loved all of the originals, but fail to see how they can re-make them. What was dreadful, wicked and naughty back then is mainstream now. I went to a Yorkshire grammar school, and would have loved a bit of the St Trinian's action, but the nearest my friend Andrea (a vicar's daughter) and I came, was sneaking off to a transport caff after school dinner, and filling up on bacon and egg butties. We were caught, carpeted, and accused of lowering the tone of the school. How tame! We never even got chatted up - well, we were hardly love's young dream, in brown gymslyps, sensible school shoes, and brown interlock knickers. In fact, looking back, i suspect we lowered the tone of the transport caff too.

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Neither can I, to be quite honest! I personally do not favour re-makes a lot, I never went to see "The Ladykillers" for example, because the original cast and their performance was outstanding, nothing that could be improved by special effects or "hilarious" gags And I like the special feel of black-and-white films.

There is just one exception to my "aversion" to re-makes: "You´ve got mail" with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. I think that was quite cleverly done by transferring it to present times and taking a sort of "history repeats itself" approach, even though it cannot really compare to the original "Shop around the corner" with James Stewart (I think...)

Norwegian: I have no idea, quite frankly. There was no quiz host in the original, as far as I remember But I doubt it, it´s probably a cameo as in "Gosford Park" - small but unforgettable X-D

Here's the trailer.

There will be a remake of this film with Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Richard E Grant and Stephen (and a few others whose names I don´t recall)

I didn't know Richard E Grant was in it. I knew Russell Brand was though, my mum and sister keep going on. *groans* They want to see it. They love Russell Brand. I cry.

Has anyone ever seen the original with the splendid Alastair Sim (in drag as the schoolmistress and doubling as her brother)? It is sooo funny.
Must be quite a challenge to do a remake !

I've never seen the original films, though my dad is getting them on dvd for christmas so I could watch them then if I wanted to.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0964587/

Stephen is the Quiz host... A big part?

I doubt it. In the trailer he only appears in the quiz he's hosting. It looks like he'll only be in that part of the film, so depending how long the quiz is...

EDIT - I stumbled upon this while on the Daily Telegraph's site:

"When the girls hear that the school is closing down, they're initially pleased," says Riley. "But then they realise that this would be awful for them, so the older girls set about saving the school, by stealing something from the National Gallery."

That something is Vermeer's famous portrait Girl With a Pearl Earring, and in order to get inside those hallowed halls, the girls must first win the School Challenge - like University Challenge, but with a pleasant Stephen Fry rather than a nasty Jeremy Paxman - which is being held inside the gallery.

"The girls have to get through several rounds of the Challenge," chimes in Amara Karan, who plays a girl called Peaches. "And one of the things they do is to have sex with the Eton boys in the toilets beforehand! To try and put them off. That sounds racy, I know, but it's not as bad it seems."

I'll be avoiding it like the plague. As far as remakes go, I Am Legend (formerly The Omega Man) looks to be right up my street.

Mine too. I'm totally going to go see that one.

Stephen's part was bigger than I thought it would be, as there were quite a few Quiz scenes.....YAY!

"Uh-oh, I'm being touched...Derick..Derick I'm being touched!!" *PANICZ*

I fell about laughing at that. X-D

So that's how you get to huggle Stephen or fondle his face. Get stoned or get him stoned. Got it. Hehee he was so cute when he was high and hyper.

Hey where'd my post from the other day go? I talked about the old films. I've been watching them over the holidays with my family (well the first four). I liked The Belles of St. Trinians and The St Trinian's Train Robbery best. ^_^ I love Flash Harry best, he's ace! Can't beat George Cole.

I saw the new film yesterday and I liked it more than I thought I would. There were a few faces in there I wasn't expecting to see among the school staff like Celia Imrie and Fenella Woolgar. I thought Rupert Everett made for a really good Miss Fritton. He was so much fun to watch. Did anyone else spot the painting from the original film in Miss Fritton's office? The one of her mother? It was the same one! As for the antics of the girls. There were a lot of things you'd recognise from the older films like chaining girls up on walls, charing en masse with hockey sticks but there's also stuff in there you'd see in pretty much any modern American teen comedy such as the whole
stealing the new girl's clothes while she's in the shower, secretly film her running through the corridors naked and upload it live onto youtube. They've also updated the girls by dividing them into different cliques - chavs, emos, posh totty and geeks. You mainly see the sixth-formers and first years.

Oh and I swear when that girl said chocolate in School Challenge Stephen did the cutest little sigh. ^_^ *melts*

Hee hee yeah! ....and he's dressed as a 1950s school teacher with a gown and mortarboard.

Spoilers ahead so don't read if you don't want to know loads of stuff that happen!
He's the host for the quiz show School Challenge (which is like University Challenge) which St. Trinians is competing in. In one round the girls give the opposing team magic mushrooms in their camomile tea and during one of the rounds one of the guys who's totally out of it wanders over to Stephen and starts touching his face. Later on it's the final show and they take a break and Stephen's moping feeling sorry for himself and where's his career is at so the receptionist from St. Trinians comes over and gives him some pills to give him both highs and lows. He obviously took some because when he comes back to the show he's all hyper. Then at the end when the game is won Stephen hugs the receptionist being all hyper again.