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High School movies before this


Is this movie the first to try to create a realistic/dark depiction of high school? I can’t think of a movie before this where it shows the high school students dealing with real high school problems from their perspective, but since then it seems to have become common place with Halloween, Heathers, Twin Peaks, The Outsiders, and several others with their main characters being high school students.

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The very first movie was Rebel Without a Cause, about a new kid who gets picked on by the cool kids in town.

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Maybe not a lot of teen movies, but teen "After School Specials" were very popular on TV in the 70s.

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"Blackboard Jungle" (1955) and "To Sir, with Love" (1967) both dealt with the dark side of high school in a realistic way (no supernatural stuff).

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