History Film / MyOldSchool

* TokenBlackFriend: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Stefen was one of very few pupils of colour in the school and experienced racist bullying from other students, whereas Brandon was kind and friendly towards him, and the two of them bonded as outsiders within the school. [[spoiler: Unsurprisingly, Stefen is the one who seems the most cut up about Brian's deception.]]

** [[Spoiler:The younger]] Brian [=MacKinnon=] has a Whigfield poster next to his 2 Unlimited one.

* TokenBlackFriend: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Stefen was one of very few pupils of colour in the school and experienced racist bullying from other students, whereas Brandon was kind and friendly towards him, and the two of them bonded as outsiders within the school. [[Spoiler: Unsurprisingly, Stefen is the one who seems the most cut up about Brian's deception.]]

** In the animated sections, we see Brandon sharing tapes and records with Brian and Donald such as ''Everything Falls Apart'' by Music/HuskerDu and albums from Music/{{Television}}, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. This sequence is set to "Rip It Up" by Orange Juice, complete with an animation showing the Postcard Records cat on a vinyl record. Other album covers shown throughout the film are ''Unknown Pleasures'' by Music/JoyDivision, ''True Confessions'' by Music/TheUndertones, ''Milo Goes to College'' by Descendents, ''Kings of Oblivion'' by Pink Fairies, ''Live at the On Broadway'' by Black Flag and ''Pink Flag'' by Wire.

''My Old School'' is a 2022 [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Scottish]] documentary directed by Jono [=McLeod=] about Brandon Lee, a sixteen-year-old student at [[HighSchool Bearsden Academy]] in 1995 who seemed a little unusual to his classmates and teachers. This was because Brandon Lee was in fact Brian [=MacKinnon=], a thirty-two year-old man who had originally attended at Bearsden Academy in the 1970s.

* NamesTheSame: InUniverse, Brandon Lee was also the name of the actor and son of Bruce Lee who had died about a month prior to the start of the 1995 school year, which pupils commented on at the time.

* PovertyFood: The interviewees explain the concept of "Spam Valley", which is a Glaswegian term applied to typically posh areas like Bearsden or nearby Milngavie where many residents would allegedy subsist on a Spam-heavy diet in order to afford a house in the area.

''My Old School'' is a 2022 [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Scottish]] documentary directed by Jono [=McLeod=] about Brandon Lee, a sixteen-year-old student at [[HighSchool Bearsden Academy]] in 1995 who seemed a little unusual to his classmates and teachers.

* NamesTheSame: Brandon Lee was also the name of the actor and son of Bruce Lee who had died about a month prior to the start of the

''My Old School'' is a 2022 [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Scottish]] documentary directed by Jono [=McLeod=] about Brandon Lee, a sixteen-year-old student at [[HighSchool Bearsden Academy]] in the early nineties who seemed a little unusual to his classmates and teachers.

* NewscasterCameo: Many well-known newsreaders of the day, such as Jackie Bird, Shereen Nanjiani, Paddy Christie, Viv Lumsden and Peter Snow, appear in StockFootage.

* NewscasterCameo: Many well-known newsreaders of the day, such as Jackie Bird, Shereen Nanjiani, Paddy Christie and Peter Snow, appear in StockFootage.

* InSeriesNickname: The headteacher, Norman [=MacLeod=], was known as "Franchise/{{Batman}}" by the pupils as the school as he was never seen without his cape-like academic gown.

* EaglelandOsmosis: In some instances, it seems that the interviewees have been prompted to use more American school terminology, such as referring fifth year as "junior year" or [=MacLeod=] as the "principal" rather than the headmaster or headteacher. This largely falls away as the film progresses.

* {{Suburbia}}: Bearsden is an affluent suburb of Glasgow, although the interviewees point out that the population wasn't entirely made up of upper-middle-class professionals as its reputation tends to suggest.

''My Old School'' is a 2022 [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Scottish]] documentary directed by Jono [=McLeod=] about Brandon Lee, a sixteen-year-old student at [[HighSchool Bearsden Academy]] in the early nineties who seemed a little unusual to his classmates and teachers. [[spoiler: He was in fact 32-year-old Brian [=MacKinnnon=], who had already attended the school when he was a teenager in UsefulNotes/TheSeventies.]]

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The film closes out by combining photographs of the interviewees as teenagers with footage of them going about their present-day lives.

* {{Suburbia}}: Bearsden is an affluent suburb of Glasgow, although the interviewees point out that the population wasn't entirely made up of upper-middle-class professionals.

* {{Suburbia}}: Bearsden is an affluent suburb of Glasgow, although there interviewees who point out that the population wasn't entirely made up of upper-middle-class professionals.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The film closes out by combining photographs of the interviewees as teenagers with footage of them at their jobs in the present day.

''My Old School'' is a 2022 [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Scottish]] documentary directed by Jono [=McLeod=] about Brandon Lee, a sixteen-year-old student at Bearsden Academy in the early nineties who seemed a little unusual to his classmates and teachers. [[spoiler: He was in fact 32-year-old Brian [=MacKinnnon=], who had already attended the school when he was a teenager in UsefulNotes/TheSeventies.]]

* EaglelandOsmosis: In some instances, it seems that the interviewees have been prompted to use more American school terminology, such as referring fifth year as "junior year" or MacLeod as the "principal" rather than the headmaster or headteacher. This largely falls away as the film progresses.

* InSeriesNickname: The headteacher, Norman [=MacLeod=] was known as "Franchise/Batman" by the pupils as the school as he was never seen without his cape-like academic gown.

* NewscasterCameo: Many well-known newsreaders of the day, such as Jackie Bird, Shereen Nanjiani, Paddy Christie and Peter Snow, appear in StockFootage.

* InkSuitActor: The interviewees are portrayed in flashbacks using animation in a similar style to ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}]]''.

''My Old School'' is a 2022 [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Scottish]] documentary directed by Jono [=McLeod=] about Brandon Lee, a sixteen-year-old student at Bearsden Academy in the early nineties who seemed a little unusual to his classmates and teachers. [[spoiler: He was in fact 32-year-old Brian [=McKinnnon=], who had already attended the school when he was a teenager in UsefulNotes/TheSeventies.]]

* InkSuitActor: The interviewees are portrayed in flashbacks using animation in a similar style to ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}]]''

''My Old School'' is a 2022 [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Scottish]] documentary directed by Jono [=McLeod=] about Brandon Lee, a sixteen-year-old student at Bearsden Academy in the early nineties who seemed a little unusual to his classmates and teachers. [[spoiler: He was in fact 32-year-old Brian [=McKinnnon=], who had already attended the school when he was a teenager in UsefulNotes/TheSeventies]].

* InkSuitActor: The interviewees are portrayed in flashbacks using animation in a similar style to ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Daria]]''