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** {{Surrealism}}
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* TruthInTelevision: ''Any'' ex-British public school pupil, even those who recently left school, will recognise elements of their own schooling in the film -- eccentric teachers (cycling into a classroom is ''mild''), baffling rituals and rules of precedence, merciless bullying (for those unlucky enough not to avoid it), school-boy crushes, masters ''volleying'' homework across the form-room etc.
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* AudienceSurrogate: Jute. Audiences unfamiliar with the particulars and traditions of British boarding school life are able to follow his bewilderment and subsequent crash-course in protocol as he starts the term at College House.
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* AudienceSurrogate: Jute. Audiences unfamiliar with the particulars and traditions of British boarding school life are able to follow his bewilderment and subsequent crash-course in protocol as he starts the term at College House. House.
** MetaGuy
** MetaGuy
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* {{Bishounen}}: Bobby Philips - a ''textbook'' example.
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* {{Bishounen}}: Bobby Philips - Philips, with his feminine features and wavy, [[HairOfGold flaxen hair]] provides a ''textbook'' example.
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* LongingLook: One of the more controversial scenes (at the 1968 release) involves Philips checking out Wallace as he performs on the parallel bars. The use of a young boy, shot in slow-mo to accentuate the sexual tension, was incredibly risqué for 1968.
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* LongingLook: One of the more controversial scenes (at the 1968 release) involves Philips checking out Wallace as he performs on the parallel bars. The use of a young boy, shot in slow-mo to accentuate his beauty and the sexual tension, was incredibly risqué for 1968.
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* NiceGuy: Wallace
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** BoysLove: Wallace, having clocked Philips watching him practice in the gym, eventually takes him to bed.
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* BullyHunter: Travis and Johnny Stephans, who never take any shit from the prefects.
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* BullyHunter: Travis and Johnny Stephans, Johnny, who never take any shit from the prefects.
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* BullyHunter: Travis and Johnny, who never take any shit from the prefects.
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* BullyHunter: Travis and Johnny, Johnny Stephans, who never take any shit from the prefects.
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* [[spoiler: BolivianArmyEnding: The film ends just as "The Girl" shoots the Head-Master through the head - it is never revealed what happened following Travis' uprising.]]
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* [[spoiler: BolivianArmyEnding: At the end of the film, in a surreal sequence, Travis' group discovers a cache of automatic weapons, and revolt against the establishment. On Founders' Day, when parents are visiting the school, they start a fire under the hall, smoke out the parents, staff and boys, and open fire on them from a rooftop. Led by the visiting General who was giving the speech, the staff and boys break open the Combined Cadet Force armoury and fire back. The film ends just as "The Girl" shoots the Head-Master through the head - it is never revealed what happened following Travis' the uprising.]]
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** StiffUpperLip: Tradition demands that he must then ''thank' Rowntree and shake hands for the above.....
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** StiffUpperLip: Tradition demands that he must then ''thank' ''thank'' Rowntree and shake hands for the above.....
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* AntiHero: Travis is Type IV....although arguably V.
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* AntiHero: Travis is Type IV....although arguably verging on type V.
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* AntiHero: Travis is Type IV....although arguably V.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: As the pupils return at the start of a new term, Travis arrives with a suitcase on his shoulder, wearing a black hat, with a black scarf across his face to hide his moustache. Stephans comments, "God, it's Guy Fawkes back again", hinting at the conclusion of the film....
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* BourgeoisBohemian: Travis (and friends) are arguably this in the making, with their strong counter-culture sympathies despite having clearly upper-middle class social backgrounds.
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** Tradition demands that he must then ''thank' Rowntree and shake hands for the above.....
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** StiffUpperLip: Tradition demands that he must then ''thank' Rowntree and shake hands for the above.....
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* [[spoiler: AxesAtSchool: The films surreal final scenes show Travis and his comrades taking up arms and attacking fellow pupils, teachers and parents during Speech Day]]
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* [[spoiler: AxesAtSchool: The films surreal final scenes show Travis and his comrades taking up arms and attacking fellow pupils, teachers and parents during Speech Day]]Founder's Day]]
* AudienceSurrogate: Jute. Audiences unfamiliar with the particulars and traditions of British boarding school life are able to follow his bewilderment and subsequent crash-course in protocol as he starts the term at College House.
** FishOutOfWater: Both Jute and any viewers who may find the boarding school environment of the late 60's totally alien.
* AudienceSurrogate: Jute. Audiences unfamiliar with the particulars and traditions of British boarding school life are able to follow his bewilderment and subsequent crash-course in protocol as he starts the term at College House.
** FishOutOfWater: Both Jute and any viewers who may find the boarding school environment of the late 60's totally alien.
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* ButtMonkey: Biles
--> '''Pass it on - "Biles, why are you a freak?"'''
--> '''Pass it on - "Biles, why are you a freak?"'''
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: In another highly controversial scene, Mr. Kemp sings a hymn as his wife accompanies him on the recorder; the matron, overhearing, is driven to near orgasm.
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* CovertPervert: The apparently meek Mrs. Kemp enjoys walking naked through the boys' dormitory and washroom while fondling soap, towels and other objects the boys have carelessly strewn about.
** ADateWithRosiePalms: In another highly controversial scene, Mr. Kemp sings a hymn as his wife accompanies him on the recorder; the matron, overhearing, is driven to near orgasm.
** ADateWithRosiePalms: In another highly controversial scene, Mr. Kemp sings a hymn as his wife accompanies him on the recorder; the matron, overhearing, is driven to near orgasm.
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* [[spoiler: AxesAtSchool: The films surreal final scenes show Travers and his comrades taking up arms and attacking fellow pupils, teachers and parents during Speech Day]]
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* [[spoiler: AxesAtSchool: The films surreal final scenes show Travers Travis and his comrades taking up arms and attacking fellow pupils, teachers and parents during Speech Day]]
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* [[spoiler: BolivianArmyEnding: The film ends just as "The Girl" shoots the Head-Master through the head - it is never revealed what happened following Travers' uprising.]]
* BrilliantButLazy: Travers.
* BrilliantButLazy: Travers.
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* [[spoiler: BolivianArmyEnding: The film ends just as "The Girl" shoots the Head-Master through the head - it is never revealed what happened following Travers' Travis' uprising.]]
* BrilliantButLazy:Travers.Travis.
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* BullyHunter: Travers and Johnny, who never take any shit from the prefects.
* CorporalPunishment: Horribly realised on a number of occasions - but especially graphic when Rowntree takes a ''running start-up'' to cane Travers.
* CorporalPunishment: Horribly realised on a number of occasions - but especially graphic when Rowntree takes a ''running start-up'' to cane Travers.
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* BullyHunter: Travers Travis and Johnny, who never take any shit from the prefects.
* CorporalPunishment: Horribly realised on a number of occasions - but especially graphic when Rowntree takes a ''running start-up'' to caneTravers.Travis.
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* LoveableRogue: Travers and his mates - Wallace and Johnny.
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* SexIsViolence: Travers and "The Girl" wrestle and writhe around snarling at each other during their highly surreal, animalistic sex-scene.
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* SexIsViolence: Travers Travis and "The Girl" wrestle and writhe around snarling at each other during their highly surreal, animalistic sex-scene.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: In another highly controversial scene, Mr. Kemp sings a hymn as his wife accompanies him on the recorder; the matron, overhearing, is driven to near orgasm.
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* AdultsAreUseless: The teachers, including the Head-Master, who seem fairly oblivious to the goings-on at College House.
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* MsFanservice: "The Girl" is ''HOT''
* SadistTeacher / SinisterMinister: The chaplain, who is also the geometry master, enjoys grasping at boys' nipples through their shirts while they recite their lessons.
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* SadistTeacher / SinisterMinister: The chaplain, who is also the geometry master, enjoys grasping at boys' nipples through their shirts while they recite their lessons.
** LightIsNotGood
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* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: The Year 13 "Whips" (prefects), lead by Rowntree, definitely rule the school.
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* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: The Year 13 "Whips" (prefects), lead by Rowntree, definitely rule the school. school and have a small army of younger pupils (the "Scum") who do fagging duties for them - making tea, running errands, warming toilet seats, shaving them....[[DepravedBisexual and probably other stuff too.]]
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* DawsonCasting: Played straight with the older pupils, who were mostly in their early to mid-20's at the time of shooting, but the younger First Years (the "Scum") all look to be of the correct age (11-12 years old) for starting secondary school.
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* TeensAreMonsters
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* SituationalSexuality: ''All'' of the sixth form prefects (and some younger pupils) show an effusive (or uncomfortable)
attraction to Bobby Philips, an extremely {{Bishounen}} First Year pupil.
attraction to Bobby Philips, an extremely {{Bishounen}} First Year pupil.
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* SituationalSexuality: ''All'' of the sixth form prefects (and some younger pupils) show an effusive (or uncomfortable)
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* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: The Year 13 "Whips" (prefects), lead by Rowntree, definitely rule the school.
* AdultsAreUseless: The teachers, including the Head-Master, who seem fairly oblivious to the goings-on at College House.
* BannedInChina: The film is noted for its ''highly'' controversial content (both at the time of release in 1968 and even in the present), including romance between male pupils, nudity, feral sex-scenes and [[spoiler: pupils gunning down their classmates, parents and staff in the surreal finale]] -- the film was X-rated upon its UK release.
* {{Bishounen}}: Bobby Philips - a ''textbook'' example.
* AdultsAreUseless: The teachers, including the Head-Master, who seem fairly oblivious to the goings-on at College House.
* BannedInChina: The film is noted for its ''highly'' controversial content (both at the time of release in 1968 and even in the present), including romance between male pupils, nudity, feral sex-scenes and [[spoiler: pupils gunning down their classmates, parents and staff in the surreal finale]] -- the film was X-rated upon its UK release.
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** OneGenderSchool: All boys.
* BrilliantButLazy: Travers.
* BritishStuffiness
* BullyHunter: Travers and Johnny, who never take any shit from the prefects.
* CorporalPunishment: Horribly realised on a number of occasions - but especially graphic when Rowntree takes a ''running start-up'' to cane Travers.
** Tradition demands that he must then ''thank' Rowntree and shake hands for the above.....
* BrilliantButLazy: Travers.
* BritishStuffiness
* BullyHunter: Travers and Johnny, who never take any shit from the prefects.
* CorporalPunishment: Horribly realised on a number of occasions - but especially graphic when Rowntree takes a ''running start-up'' to cane Travers.
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* GuileHero: Travers
* LongingLook: One of the more controversial scenes (at the 1968 release) involves Philips checking out Wallace as he performs on the parallel bars. The use of a young boy, shot in slow-mo to accentuate the sexual tension, was incredibly risqué for 1968.
* LoveableRogue: Travers and his mates - Wallace and Johnny.
* SexIsViolence: Travers and "The Girl" wrestle and writhe around snarling at each other during their highly surreal, animalistic sex-scene.
* SituationalSexuality: ''All'' of the sixth form prefects (and some younger pupils) show an effusive (or uncomfortable)
attraction to Bobby Philips, an extremely {{Bishounen}} First Year pupil.
* ToneShift: The first half of the film presents a ''fairly'' normal exposé of British boarding school life in 1968.....but things get much more [[MindScrew surreal]] in the second half, following the Café scenes.
* TheVamp: "The Girl"
* LongingLook: One of the more controversial scenes (at the 1968 release) involves Philips checking out Wallace as he performs on the parallel bars. The use of a young boy, shot in slow-mo to accentuate the sexual tension, was incredibly risqué for 1968.
* LoveableRogue: Travers and his mates - Wallace and Johnny.
* SexIsViolence: Travers and "The Girl" wrestle and writhe around snarling at each other during their highly surreal, animalistic sex-scene.
* SituationalSexuality: ''All'' of the sixth form prefects (and some younger pupils) show an effusive (or uncomfortable)
attraction to Bobby Philips, an extremely {{Bishounen}} First Year pupil.
* ToneShift: The first half of the film presents a ''fairly'' normal exposé of British boarding school life in 1968.....but things get much more [[MindScrew surreal]] in the second half, following the Café scenes.
* TheVamp: "The Girl"
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* DeliberateMonochrome: Some sequences are in black and white. Accounts vary as to how much this was for artistic reasons and how much was down to technical difficulties and budget restrictions.
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* BoardingSchool
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* BoardingSchoolBoardingSchoolOfHorrors
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''if....'' is a 1968 film written by David Sherwin, directed by Lindsay Anderson, and starring [=Malcolm McDowell=], in his film debut, as Mick Travis.
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''if....'' is a 1968 film written by David Sherwin, directed by Lindsay Anderson, and starring [=Malcolm McDowell=], MalcolmMcDowell, in his film debut, as Mick Travis.
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''if....'' is a 1968 film written by David Sherwin, directed by Lindsay Anderson, and starring [=Malcolm McDowell=] as Mick Travis.
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''if....'' is a 1968 film written by David Sherwin, directed by Lindsay Anderson, and starring [=Malcolm McDowell=] McDowell=], in his film debut, as Mick Travis.
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''if....'' is a 1968 film written by David Sherwin, directed by Lindsay Anderson, and starring [=Malcolm McDowell=] as Mick Travis.
The film is set at a BoardingSchool, and is best known for the climactic sequence in which conflicts between the students and the school authorities escalate into outright warfare with automatic weapons.
Sherwin, Anderson, and [=McDowell=] collaborated on two further films, ''O Lucky Man!'' and ''Britannia Hospital''; both also feature [=McDowell=] as a character named Mick Travis, but they do not constitute a series except in BroadStrokes.
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The film is set at a BoardingSchool, and is best known for the climactic sequence in which conflicts between the students and the school authorities escalate into outright warfare with automatic weapons.
Sherwin, Anderson, and [=McDowell=] collaborated on two further films, ''O Lucky Man!'' and ''Britannia Hospital''; both also feature [=McDowell=] as a character named Mick Travis, but they do not constitute a series except in BroadStrokes.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* BoardingSchool
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