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4. Tennant and Eccleston in Jude
Christopher Eccleston has reflected on Michael Winterbottom's 1996 film Jude as "the one that I'd stand by, the one I'd like people to come back to." It's a deeply moving adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel about class inequality and the inherent snobbery and gatekeeping within higher education. Eccleston has spoken in his autobiography of how much he related to the character, and it shows in his performance.
However, if all you want from it is to see two future 21st century Doctors in a pub together, then this is also the film for you. It's a brief, but integral scene, which sees Tennant's drunk undergraduate student goad Eccleston's working-class Jude into reciting Latin to a pub full of smug students. After giving a rousing reading of his Nicene Creed, he looks around the pub and questions which of the "bloody fools" know if he got his pronunciation correct. Everyone turns back to their drinks.
It encapsulates the themes of the film in less than two minutes, powerfully portraying that academia is wasted on the wealthy. It's also a scene that perfectly encapsulates the type of odious villain that David Tennant used to excel at before he became TV's nicest man.