Favourite School CP Movie Clips: 16
Spud is a film set in
South Africa in the early 1990s and features a group of 14-year-old boys at
boarding school. It comes in at number 16 in
my personal all-time favourite school corporal
punishment scenes from mainstream movies.
A group of boys are
caught having an illegal midnight swim and next morning they line up outside
the housemaster’s study for a caning. The clip is mostly about anticipation and
is played a little light-heartedly.
The film is based on
a book written by John van de Ruit.
We met the book here
where you can read how this scene was originally written
Look out for more of my favourite top 20
movie clips in coming weeks.
Pictures and movie credits: Pinnacle
Films
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Spud Milton was played brilliantly by Troye Sivan, now more famous as a singer-songwriter. In the extras on one of the movie DVDs he talks about how he and the other early teen members of the "Crazy Eight" became close friends on the movie set. John van de Ruit talks about how the canings were seen as normal in his day but would be beyond the pale at the time the movie was filmed (25 years later, and now nearly the same distance again from the present day), and also about how the school asked, with concern, about the bullying and nudity scenes but did not ask for changes (other than making the uniform look different). I had the privilege of chatting with Troye around the time the movie was made, when he was live streaming from his family's garage with his sister, but I didn't ask his opinion on canings because that wouldn't have been appropriate.
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