The Riot Club
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The Riot Club is a film, released in 2014, based on the play Posh, which, in turn, was based on the bad behaviour of members of the Bullingdon Club.[1][2] The Bullingdon Club is a club formed by students at the University of Oxford, originally to promote and celebrate members participation in sports, like cricket. However, by the late 20th century, members like future Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, David Cameron and Boris Johnson, had made the club notorious for elitism, vandalism, and whoremongering.
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- ↑ Mark Kermode. The Riot Club review – Laura Wade’s Bullingdon Club-style bullies, The Guardian, 2014-09-21. Retrieved on 2022-09-07. “While the 2010 Royal Court hit was clearly an incendiary affair (some toffs reportedly couldn’t stomach the satire and walked out), Lone Scherfig’s film seems uncertain how far to push the vileness of its over-privileged protagonists, torn between engaging our sympathies for new recruit Miles (Max Irons) and exposing the awfulness of these Bullingdon Club-style bully boys.” mirror
- ↑ Harriet Sherwood. Sexism, vandalism and bullying: inside the Boris Johnson-era Bullingdon Club, The Guardian, 2019-07-07. Retrieved on 2022-09-07. “Now new light has been shed on the outrageous antics of the Bullingdon Club – the Oxford University group that may be about to produce its second British prime minister – by someone intimately connected to it during Boris Johnson’s membership.” mirror