# Movies with Bully Scenes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 13, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-bully-scenes/380282 "2006-11-13T18:56:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-bully-scenes/380282/41 "2006-11-14T02:24:26Z")
A really great, classic, Disney film that deals with many themes, including bullies and using your wits in defense, is [Song of the South](http://www.songofthesouth.net/). Uncle Remus’ tales of Brer Rabbit and the Tarbaby might be what she is looking for. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-bully-scenes/380282/42 "2006-11-14T02:33:24Z")
Your daughter is 12, right? [Angus](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112368/maindetails) might be an appropriate movie. The whole movie is about a rather large, smart kid who gets picked on a by pretty much everyone, especially Rick Sandford. Rick sets him up to look like a fool at a winter ball thing, which is where the climax happens. It might work for her. ---
**Author:** ![gredbioz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6a8cbe/32.png) [@gredbioz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gredbioz)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-bully-scenes/380282/43 "2006-11-14T03:07:37Z")
The Simpons comes to the rescue: In _Lisa’s Date With Destiny_, Nelson, on a date with Lisa, is taunted by Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney (“You kissed a girl! That’s so gay!”). After the confrontation, Lisa congratulates Nelson on getting rid of the bullies without resorting to violence. ---
**Author:** ![aristotle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce73a5/32.png) [@aristotle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aristotle)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-bully-scenes/380282/44 "2006-11-14T03:59:02Z")
I recommend the movie _Powder_, about the bald teen who is ghostly white and has various supernatural powers. Toward the end of the movie, the boy is being bullied by about 5 guys. Then strip him naked (this part might nix it for a 12 year old audience, but if I recall right not much nudity is shown) and throw him into a pool of mud. He reacts by reading the mind the ringleader and learns that the bully is behaving this way because his own father bullied him as a little boy. This screws with the bully’s head and I think they leave him alone after that. (Then again, they may proceed to kick the crap out of him - it has been at least 10 years since I saw the movie). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-bully-scenes/380282/45 "2006-11-14T04:13:41Z")
[QUOTE=Walter Windchill] She wants one that actually illustrates the point she hopes to make, though, which is that talking is better than confrontation, so can you think of any good ones that are easy to find and have the victim standing up to the bully verbally instead of using water balloons or just beating the crap out of him? [/QUOTE] Has it never occurred to you – or your daughter – that IRL just standing up to a bully verbally is a good way to get thoroughly pounded? Even if you’re a girl? The popular wisdom that bullies are cowards might be true, but what difference does it make, if they consistently choose victims smaller and weaker than themselves? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-bully-scenes/380282/46 "2006-11-14T04:16:41Z")
Of course, there’s always [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_for_a_Reality_Show) episode of _Drawn Together._ ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-bully-scenes/380282/47 "2006-11-14T04:23:36Z")
How about _Mask_? (The Cher one - not the Jim Carrey one). > **[Mask (disambiguation)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mask_(film))** > > A mask is a covering worn on the face, or an object depicting a face. > Mask may also refer to: Rocky has Elephant Man disease - he’s tormented by bullies throughout the movie and always takes it; however, in the end he confronts a bully, with words, and I suppose has some satisfaction. It’s a pretty sad movie, but I really liked it… ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-bully-scenes/380282/48 "2006-11-14T04:44:23Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] What part of Karate Kid? As I remember it, Daniel didn’t get anyone’s respect 'till he got good at hitting people. [/QUOTE] _Looks at OP_ > [@](#): > > talking is better than confrontation :smack: Never mind. None of the movies I mentioned apply. ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Windchill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Walter\_Windchill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walter_Windchill)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-bully-scenes/380282/49 "2006-11-14T12:49:35Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Has it never occurred to you – or your daughter – that IRL just standing up to a bully verbally is a good way to get thoroughly pounded? Even if you’re a girl? [/QUOTE] No, never. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-bully-scenes/380282/50 "2006-11-14T13:48:07Z")
I agree with **Stranger on a Train** s sentiment. In **Million Dollar baby** there is a scene where a black guy is harassing Hilary Swank. She retorts wittily, and he backs off. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-bully-scenes/380282/51 "2006-11-14T14:23:50Z")
Well, there’s always the Yahoo email [Butt toucher!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDFYrYe928s) commercial… ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Windchill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Walter\_Windchill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walter_Windchill)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-bully-scenes/380282/52 "2006-11-14T14:33:22Z")
Heh, that one will be great. Nothing like underwear jokes to win the hearts and minds of sixth graders. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-bully-scenes/380282/53 "2006-11-14T18:37:45Z")
Sorry not applicable, but the bully scene in The Cowboys is the best one on film. Steven ---
**Author:** ![freewill39](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d2c977/32.png) [@freewill39](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freewill39)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-bully-scenes/380282/54 "2006-11-20T18:47:33Z")
[QUOTE=Moe] Well, first thing I thought of when I read your subject was [Bully](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242193/), but then I read the OP so forget that one (since they kill the bully in question). **Can’t Buy Me Love** has a scene at the end where the jocks are bullying the geek and Patrick Dempsey comes to his defense with an impassioned monologue that seems to bring about peace between jocks and geeks everywhere. [/QUOTE] That’s the best example I’ve read her thus far. However, in said impassioned monologue, Dempsey’s character also wields a baseball bat and threatens to break a guy’s arm. So it may not be the very best example of someone using pure reason, devoid of all violence. ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Windchill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Walter\_Windchill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walter_Windchill)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-bully-scenes/380282/55 "2006-11-20T18:55:01Z")
In the end, the teacher forbade the use of such props and aids, no doubt to compel students to actually talk. I got some interesting movie recommendations though. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-bully-scenes/380282/56 "2006-11-20T20:03:05Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] What part of Karate Kid? As I remember it, Daniel didn’t get anyone’s respect 'till he got good at hitting people. [/QUOTE] But he only hit people in the context of organized matches, or maybe if he was attacked (I don’t know, I haven’t seen all the movies). That’s different from just beating on someone who’s weaker. ---
**Author:** ![cookeze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@cookeze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cookeze)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-bully-scenes/380282/57 "2006-11-20T20:21:28Z")
In “Revenge of the Nerds” the nerds resort to democratic means to beat the bullies. R-rated, though. Then the bullies have a tantrum and trash the nerds’ house and in the end the nerds win everyone onto their side with a rousing speech. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-bully-scenes/380282/58 "2006-11-20T21:46:53Z")
[QUOTE=Walter Windchill] She might end up showing scenes from The Accused and then screaming at the boys, because it’s made her upset and emotional. [/QUOTE] I’d say so! :eek: I can barely watch that and I’m 38; I guess if she’s watching that at 12, she can probably handle The Roxanne nose like a penis reference. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-bully-scenes/380282.md?page=2)