Feb '18
I almost never see a normal high school bully in a movie. They're always borderline homicidal psychopaths who have an inexplicably intense hatred of their victims. Stephen King writes these types a lot. I dealt with my fair share of bullies, but I never once felt like my life was actually in danger. Did I just get off lucky?
A great movie that epitomizes your topic is Larry Clark's Bully. Excellent movie about youth gone wrong, that turns this topic on its head, because while there is a bully, he's just an asshole, and people set out to murder him.
When I was a kid, I loved the movie "Big Bully", where Tom Arnold picks on Rick Moranis all the time. Eventually, they're shooting nail guns at each other, but in the end, its still a children's movie, so it has a happy ending.