How accurate a portrayal of British boarding schools is it?
This is fairly liberal. It is a lot worse than this. I went to one of these schools. The one I went to in England they put everything in little compartments. It was a minor public school as opposed to a major public school, which means nobody had ever heard of it. It was small and insignificant. They never had any of the old boys from my school who ever did anything. In other words it was not like Eton and Harrow or Cheltenham, which indeed is where Lindsay went to school. Which was the school Lindsay went to and is in the film. He got permission to shoot. There’s an Old Cheltonian Headmaster and indeed, when the Headmaster a year later saw the film, Lindsay was very, very nervous. It was the first time I had seen him really nervous. I said, ‘What do you care?’. ‘For Gods sake, it is the Head of my school. What was he going to think about the shooting of all the parents?’ And of course you did doctor the script Lindsay, because you didnt want to show him the script where they all get s
