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To Sir, with Love

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To Sir, with Love	comment	To Sir, with Love is a 1967 British drama film starring Sidney Poitier that deals with social and racial issues at a secondary school in inner-city London. James Clavell both directed and wrote the film's screenplay, adapted from the semi-autobiographical 1959 novel of the same name by E. R. Braithwaite.Poitier plays Mark Thackeray, a teacher originally from British Guiana, now Guyana, who has recently moved from the United States. The plot centers primarily around Thackeray's idealism clashing with his teenage pupils' cynicism.Poitier also starred in the 1996 made-for-TV sequel To Sir With Love II, in which a retired Thackeray returns to the U.S. to teach in an inner-city high school in Chicago. It was directed by Peter Bogdanovich and featured brief cameos from actors Judy Geeson and Lulu reprising their original roles.
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To Sir, with Love / int_161f1ebf	type	Relationship Upgrade
To Sir, with Love / int_161f1ebf	comment	Relationship Upgrade: Inverted. Braithwaite's courtship of and eventual engagement to Gillian is downgraded to him being oblivious to her obvious interest in him. Though a line from the sequel indicates that they married.
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To Sir, with Love / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
To Sir, with Love / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Thackeray is given a coffee cup (an unidentified object in the novel) with the title on the side, as Lulu performs the song in character for him.
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To Sir, with Love / int_1decf141	type	HotForTeacher
To Sir, with Love / int_1decf141	comment	Hot for Teacher: An example where the teacher is somewhat disturbed to learn that his student has a crush on him.
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To Sir, with Love / int_20d6f4ea	type	Photo Montage
To Sir, with Love / int_20d6f4ea	comment	Photo Montage: When Thackeray takes the kids to a museum, set to the Title Theme Tune by Lulu. The scene made a virtue out of necessity; the British Museum would only permit still photography.
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To Sir, with Love / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
To Sir, with Love / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: After trying their damnedest to kick Thackeray out of school as their teacher and get him to resign throughout the film with their resistance, the class finally looks up to him by the end of the movie.
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To Sir, with Love / int_24e82330	type	Inner City School
To Sir, with Love / int_24e82330	comment	Inner City School: The British version of one, working-class kids with a few minorities. The one in the sequel was located in Chicago with a mix of Black, White and Hispanic kids.
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To Sir, with Love / int_2565ac2	type	Save Our Students
To Sir, with Love / int_2565ac2	comment	Save Our Students: Thackeray's goal.
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To Sir, with Love / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
To Sir, with Love / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: Denham and his classmates after finally giving Thackeray the respect he should be given.
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To Sir, with Love / int_42839f8b	type	Sound-Effect Bleep
To Sir, with Love / int_42839f8b	comment	Sound-Effect Bleep: There is one point where one of the students curse and get drowned out by the noise of a passing train.
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To Sir, with Love / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
To Sir, with Love / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: Even when he loses his temper, Thackeray remains eloquent and doesn't resort to cursing, which surprises his students.
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To Sir, with Love / int_6849cc47	type	Where da White Women At?
To Sir, with Love / int_6849cc47	comment	Where da White Women At?: Inverted. It's one of Thackeray's students who develops a crush on him. Meanwhile, he's oblivious to the similar feelings of one of his fellow teachers. Which is even more of an inversion, as in real life, Braithwaite married her.
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To Sir, with Love / int_77d826c7	type	Stern Teacher
To Sir, with Love / int_77d826c7	comment	Stern Teacher: Thackeray takes this stance at times.
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To Sir, with Love / int_7a08e8d1	type	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
To Sir, with Love / int_7a08e8d1	comment	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: Thackeray insists on the students calling him "Sir", but returns the favor by call them "Miss" or "Mr" and insisting that they do the same when talking to each other.
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To Sir, with Love / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
To Sir, with Love / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Thackeray finally gets fed up with the students' behavior after the incident mentioned above and proceeds to give the female students an epic rant about how disgusted he is with their sluttish and unladylike behavior.
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To Sir, with Love / int_84e289b8	type	Apathetic Teacher
To Sir, with Love / int_84e289b8	comment	Apathetic Teacher: Mr. Weston.
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To Sir, with Love / int_895ec17	type	Only in It for the Money
To Sir, with Love / int_895ec17	comment	Only in It for the Money: Thackeray only applies for the job because he can't get a job as an engineer.
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To Sir, with Love / int_92420773	type	Thematic Theme Tune
To Sir, with Love / int_92420773	comment	Thematic Theme Tune: Recorded by Lulu, who plays Babs in the film, it's notable for being the only recording by a British artist to become a #1 hit in the U.S. while failing to chart at all its home country (where it was relegated to a B-side).
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To Sir, with Love / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
To Sir, with Love / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: The class after Thackeray blasts them for their behavior.
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To Sir, with Love / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
To Sir, with Love / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: When the students ask what he could know about being poor, Thackeray says that he's been flat-broke, and reveals that he didn't always have a posh accent either.
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To Sir, with Love / int_add931af	type	I Choose to Stay
To Sir, with Love / int_add931af	comment	I Choose to Stay: The film ends with Thackeray ripping up his acceptance letter for an engineering job, choosing to remain a teacher.
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To Sir, with Love / int_bdf0640e	type	You're Not My Father
To Sir, with Love / int_bdf0640e	comment	You're Not My Father: Annoyed at the students insistence on using foul language to provoke him, Thackeray asks one if she's speaks like this when talking to her father. She name-drops this trope, adding "bleeding" for emphasis.
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To Sir, with Love / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
To Sir, with Love / int_c819533b	comment	Rage-Breaking Point: After calmly enduring all the disruptions and disrespect, Thackeray unleashes his anger when he sees that the smoking classroom heater is because of a "disgusting object" the female students put in it. (It's not identified in the film, but in the novel it's a used sanitary napkin.)
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To Sir, with Love / int_c972d624	type	Slut-Shaming
To Sir, with Love / int_c972d624	comment	Slut-Shaming: Literally in the example cited above, when Thackeray tells the girls how sickened he is by their "sluttish behavior" and that "only a filthy slut would have done such a thing". He never uses the word again but later, there are milder examples as he gently, but firmly urges the girls to pay more attention to their personal hygiene and manner of dress. It should be noted that while that is the exact quotation of the book, in British English (especially of the era), slut was a synonym for slob, and thus to be sluttish would also commonly be understood to be slovenly. This meaning isn't as ubiquitious today, however.
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To Sir, with Love / int_cf231d54	type	Cool Teacher
To Sir, with Love / int_cf231d54	comment	Cool Teacher: The class eventually sees Thackeray as this.
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To Sir, with Love / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
To Sir, with Love / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Thackeray has one of these after finding the "disgusting object." He heads into the staff room, rants angrily about his students to the female teacher, and halfway through realizes that the lessons he's been teaching them are absolutely useless for preparing the class for adulthood.
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To Sir, with Love / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
To Sir, with Love / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: ER Braithwaite becomes Mark Thackeray.
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To Sir, with Love / int_dd050410	type	Defeat Means Respect
To Sir, with Love / int_dd050410	comment	Defeat Means Respect: Denham remains stubbornly opposed to Thackeray even after the other students have accepted him. Then he goads Thackeray into a boxing match and gets knocked down with a gut punch. After that (and after Thackeray suggests getting a job teaching the younger students to box), Denham openly expresses his admiration to the rest of the class.
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To Sir, with Love / int_e4c0b2b6	type	Primal Scene
To Sir, with Love / int_e4c0b2b6	comment	Primal Scene: Pamela's mother sheepishly admits that she and her daughter are estranged because Pam walked in on her with one of her boyfriends.
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To Sir, with Love / int_ef255df8	type	High Turnover Rate
To Sir, with Love / int_ef255df8	comment	High Turnover Rate: Thackeray was the latest in a long line of teachers to attempt to teach the class.
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To Sir, with Love / int_f91d1d4f	type	Darkest Hour
To Sir, with Love / int_f91d1d4f	comment	Darkest Hour: After his advise towards Pamela on giving her mother another chance, it only caused him and his race to be a Broken Pedestal towards Pamela, finally completely ostracized Thackeray from his class to a point he now thinks there is no future for him as a teacher and prepares to resign from his occupation and give up trying to connect with the youths as he accepts to move on to his original goal of becoming an engineer. However, when Denham attempts goad Thackeray into a boxing match to hurt him out of spite and to convince him to resign from teaching earlier, Thackeray manages to defeat him in both self-defense and having enough of Denham's antagonism, which in turn causing the class to finally look up to Thackeray again as a Rebuilt Pedestal.
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To Sir, with Love / int_fa6bfde9	comment	It should be noted that while that is the exact quotation of the book, in British English (especially of the era), slut was a synonym for slob, and thus to be sluttish would also commonly be understood to be slovenly. This meaning isn't as ubiquitious today, however.
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