Lindsay Anderson's film If …, meanwhile, dramatised the idea of the public school rebel as a sort of violent dream.
He was no public school rebel at Sedbergh and it wasn't until he was in the army that his "quite conventional patriotic line" was challenged.
The role of Igby is even richer than Tim Sullivan, the Catholic school rebel whom Mr. Culkin played in "The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys".
In North Dakota, for instance, many of the state's 218 districts, many of them with only one tiny rural school, rebelled after Department of Public Instruction officials spent $2.4 million on a system that teachers and administrators found clumsy to use.
In him, we see the prototype for darker, more alienated, contemporary anti-heroes of coming-of-age fictions whose rebellions turn fatal, from Malcolm McDowell's boarding school rebel in the 1968 film If... to murderous young Kevin in Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk About Kevin.
There, he met the director Karel Reisz, who asked him to be an assistant director on the offbeat 1966 film comedy "Morgan!" He also worked as an assistant director for Lindsay Anderson's movie "If," which starred Malcolm MacDowell as a boarding school rebel who foments a violent uprising.
Starring Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan and Isla Fisher as three women who are invited to the wedding of a girl they bullied in high school (Rebel Wilson), the film is a largely unapologetic look at a sex-filled pre-wedding weekend.
It wasn't because I wanted to be some sort of art school rebel, it was the fact that I was just painting with colors I liked (so it's no surprise to me that all my prints are vivid electric colors).
And those old-school rebels always burned through a lot of fossil fuels.
That protest era might have passed him by, but the punk wave that struck the high-school rebel in the late 1970s has never lost its force for him.
