When Schoolkids Go Rogue The uniformed terrors of the big screen
Muddied-kneed and high enough on sweets to panic even Betty Ford, schoolkids can be a deeply unruly bunch. If you're looking for proof, cinema's cradles of learning are filled with the unruliest. For every Tracy Flick, preening her way into her teachers' good books, there's a Mick Travis standing on the school roof with a Bren gun, ready to end them. With Cracks' precocious Di Radfield (Juno Temple) soon to be scheming her way onto our screens, we've poked our nose into cinema's naughty corner to report on ten of the most troublesome tykes... WORDS PHIL DE SEMLYEN
When Schoolkids Go Rogue Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) If...
Term Report: The man who lent his name to Taxi Driver, Mick Travis is not exactly a model student. He steals bikes, picks up local girls, sneers at prefects, and arrives for the term with a pocketful of Nietzschen slogans and the bushy 'tache of a Bolivian coke baron. The battle of Waterloo may have been won on the playing fields of Eton, but Travis goes one better, re-enacting the entire Russian Revolution from the school roof. It's an object lesson in not ignoring the voice of the young (and locking the armoury door open).
Future Prospects: When we leave him, he's merrily mowing down schoolmates and looking set for about a gazillion years in detention.
Posted on Wednesday December 2, 2009, 12:49 by woozuk79
Already been mentioned a couple of times, but it's such a glaring ommission, it has to be mentioned again - JD in Heathers! 'They seem to have an open-door policy for assholes though, don't they?' Read More
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Catch me if you can
Posted on Tuesday December 1, 2009, 17:39 by smithcity
What about Frank Abignaile from Catch me if you can? He definitely belongs on the list Read More
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Posted on Tuesday December 1, 2009, 14:11 by Youshouldberunning
Posted on Tuesday December 1, 2009, 10:57 by DANGEROSS!
slater in heathers should be number one. psycho kills practically everyone. i would say that is quite rogue, much more than arterton in trinians. then again future prospects - none. Read More
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Draco Malfoy from Harry Potter?
Posted on Monday November 30, 2009, 20:57 by dayboy76
He might've just started out as a greasy little get with a dad whose hairstyle must surely have been the most embarrassing at parents' evening, but by film 6 he was killing cute little birds in enchanted wardrobes, handing out poisoned necklaces in the ladies toilet at the local pub, and trying to off the loveable old headmaster. Whilst wearing a polo neck!!! Read More
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What about Val?
Posted on Monday November 30, 2009, 20:12 by LeonCru
How could you omit the (really bad/Good) Val Kilmer in Real Genius? Read More
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Posted on Monday November 30, 2009, 17:56 by Pipkin3
Posted on Monday November 30, 2009, 12:59 by hi charlie
the kids from Elephant or more specifically the gun totin homo repressed hell raisers now there's some serious rule flouting. Read More
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A noteworthy omission
Posted on Monday November 30, 2009, 12:35 by jcallan
Surely the cast of Elephant are due an appearance? Read More
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Erm...Heathers
Posted on Monday November 30, 2009, 11:51 by windsor666
Why isn't JD from heathers on this list, he tried to blow up his entire school, killed other students...you can't get any more rebelious than that Read More
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