Talk:Educating Rita (film)

Calling "Rita" a GIRL?
What's with this business of calling "Rita" a girl; I thought feminism ended junk such as this quite some time ago!

She's over 21 and she's married; that makes her a WOMAN.

Sheesh; certain prejudices, even in such a potentially politically-correct charged world as "Wikipedia" sure can take a long time to die!24.193.135.93 (talk) 03:13, 21 August 2011 (UTC) .

Undue weight
Should one of very few paragraphs in this article really be entirely devoted to whether the film fucked up its definition of assonance?


 * The paragraph to which you refer appears to have been deleted. That said, I would argue that the inclusion of it had merit, given how it is often quoted in relation to the film, and in many ways, how it defines one of its central themes: working-class frankness v. Ivory Tower pretension. "Assonance is getting the rhyme wrong" assumed mainstream cultural significance decades after the film was shot. It is often quoted, still. Please don't curse. These pages are bad enough. Hanoi Road (talk) 02:30, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Liverpudlian
I have removed the reference/link to 'Liverpudlian'. Nowhere in the film is this stated, or even implied. Rita speaks with an accent from roughly that area, but it could well be outside of Liverpool. Furthermore, it is possible that she moved from Liverpool to her present city. Other actors in the film (Godfrey Quigley, as her father, for example) speak with approximate northern accents, though not specifically Scouse. This is all further complicated by the fact that the film was shot entirely in Dublin, so there are no landmarks to support the case for Liverpool. Sources? Hanoi Road (talk) 17:31, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

Poster
Not that it matters (because it's not going in the article), but any guesses as to which college is featured in the poster? It's not Trinity, Dublin btw. We get but a foggy glimpse of the quad, but my guess is St John's, Oxford. For those of you who know for sure, fire away with better intel. Hanoi Road (talk) 02:36, 31 December 2020 (UTC)