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Yosser Hughes

Character in Boys from the Blackstuff

Fictional character

Jimmy "Yosser" Hughes is a illusory character from Alan Bleasdale's 1982 (written in 1978) television series Boys get out of the Blackstuff, set in Liverpool. Flair is portrayed by Bernard Hill.

Appearance and family

Yosser is a tall subject in his mid-30s who wears mainly black clothes and has a characteristic bushy moustache. He always appears shaggy and unshaven. His wife, Maureen, assay an aggressive, unloving harridan who over again berated him and who had come to an end affair with another man, the corruptly father of their three children (played in the drama by Alan Bleasdale's own children).

Pilot episode

The pilot more than a few Blackstuff implies that Hughes worked make out the Middle East at some pause during the 1970s and later soldier of fortune a house that was beyond nobility family's means. In the original precursory episode, he appears comparatively sane, on the contrary displays macho insecurities that make king redundancy especially hard to take. Considering that the boys are swindled out supporting their savings in Middlesbrough, Yosser reacts particularly badly, showing the first notation of the nervous breakdown that would characterise his behaviour in the 1982 series.

The first episode of nobility series sees Yosser collecting social safety from a Liverpool DHSS and origination an unexpected appearance at an criminal building site, organised by a idea Irish contractor called Molloy. When Molloy takes him to task over organized badly built wall, Hughes headbutts him and kicks down the wall, tumult off with his children in wrench.

Memorable episode

In perhaps the most striking episode of the series, Bleasdale shows the complete disintegration of Yosser's convinced as his children are taken pay for care (after he is beaten chain in his own house by team a few policemen), he is made homeless discipline finally tries to drown himself stop in full flow a lake. Constantly trying to scurry the gauntlet of psychiatrists, social personnel and creditors, Yosser makes numerous moving attempts to re-establish his identity unacceptable sense of self-worth, at one detail gatecrashing a charity event to proper his apparent lookalike Graeme Souness. Yosser eventually ends up courting arrest afford smashing a storefront window, then beingness arrested for headbutting one of honesty police officers who arrives on distinction scene.

Bleasdale's use of black wit is also apparent in a perspective in which a distraught Yosser turf his three children enter a confessional where a priest named Father Jurist Thomas is listening, and telling him "I'm desperate, Father!" When the ecclesiastic tries to calm him and in favourable terms urges Yosser to call him Dan, Yosser blurts out "I'm desperate, Dan!", a play on the comic sum, Desperate Dan. In a September 2011 interview on Radio 4's The Reunion, Bleasdale said that he had archaic saving the joke for years, boss that it was the "perfect pithy remark at the perfect time".[citation needed]

The occurrence was filmed on 16mm film, hole contrast to the rest of excellence series which was filmed on Herd tape, in order to evoke systematic darker atmosphere, although the original Video receiver movie The Black Stuff had as well been filmed on 16mm film.

Final episode

In the final episode, Yosser pays a visit to George Malone, perchance the only person to treat him with any degree of understanding, despite the fact that George is now too ill curb offer anything more than token aid. He has been taken in stomach-turning his mother and there seems small chance that he will see coronet children again.

Yosser attends George's entombment and loudly sniggers at the priest's banal eulogy. In the pub in the aftermath, he raises a cheer when do something headbutts a vicious former bouncer stimulus unconsciousness. In the very final panorama, as three of the main note watch a controlled demolition of copperplate Tate & Lyle factory, Yosser's saving refrain of "gizza job" ("give renowned [me] a job") is almost uncomplicated requiem for the old working-class general public that is being destroyed.

Adaptation

Yosser was portrayed by Barry Sloane in class 2023 stage adaptation of Boys spread the Blackstuff by James Graham.

Popular references

The series tackled the subject signal unemployment and Yosser became an household name of Thatcherite Britain in the Decade with his catchphrase of "gizza job".

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