As mentioned previously, there was a two day film festival at Björkhagens School last week and my son and all his schoolmates dressed us characters from the movies.
He chose to go as Heath Ledger’s version of The Joker from a film which he is not allowed to see but which he seems to know far too much about.
It could have been worse. He could have done like this Manchester schoolboy and gone as Christian Grey!
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/06/schoolboy-fifty-shades-christian-grey-barred-from-world-book-day-school
His teachers do sound like a dreadful bunch of humourless fuddy duddies!
Any other characters from books or films which are really not such a great idea for school fancy dress?
Alias says
This reminds me of a party I went to 30 something years ago. The host initially said that the dress code would be television themed. He then had second thoughts because he assumed that the blokes would just wear suits and say they were Eamonn Andrews. He scrapped that idea. The message got through to everyone except one person who turned up dressed as a Thunderbird.
Kaisfatdad says
Hilarious! He was really showing Brains!
Ralph says
I don’t think Humbert Humbert would be a smart choice
Wheldrake says
Leatherface?
Captain Haddock says
Piggy?
Baskerville Old Face says
Apparently the school urged him to say he was James Bond instead, a serial womaniser with a licence to kill!
Kaisfatdad says
The school were outraged and could not understand how an 11 year old could know about a book. With the mega advertising campaign for the film, it would be difficult for an observant child to not know about it.
James Blast says
“a film which he is not allowed to see but which he seems to know far too much about” I’d say that 50 Shades son is exactly like yours, Why feel outraged?
Kaisfatdad says
That 50 Shades lad is just like my mischievous son and I doff my hat to him. Very witty.
I’m certainly not outraged.
Locust says
At my school there was a tradition of fancy dress on the final day for the graduating pupils (9th grade), and no lessons.
I went as a fallen angel and my best friend as a prostitute. We met our very strict and rather religious head teacher in the school yard, she marched past us looking like she was sucking a lemon, angrily ignoring us.
Mission accomplished…we couldn’t stand her!
We got some strange looks on the train to school in the morning rush hour as well…and when we stopped by my friend’s mum’s work (a petrol station) before going to school, as we had promised, she was so embarrassed she more or less threw us out of there. Her dad was giving us a lift back, he was bending over double when we got out, to avoid being seen giving lifts to two very young ladies of disrepute…
Twang says
I am fairly sure it was the mother who was behind it. If an 11 year old is reading books about SM sex she want to have a look at her parenting skills to be honest. I thought it was completely inappropriate.
ganglesprocket says
I was reading some pure filth when I was ten. My mum used to leave her Jackie Collins lying around, ditto my dad and his Frederick Forsyths. So I hate to say this but an eleven year old these days is probably highly aquainted with the sort of bongo that would turn even Drakeygirl’s hair (50 Shades of) grey. I’m with the lad here, a brilliant bit of piss takery there.