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* When Damien asks Janis if she's bothered by the Plastics using her original choreography for Jingle Bell Rock, it's played for laughs. But it doubles as a tear jerking moment when you remember how much Regina's bullying actually changed Janis. She went from creating cute dances to holiday music with her best friend to being the brunt of homophobic jokes that forced her into home-schooling.

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* When Damien asks Janis if she's bothered by the Plastics using her original choreography for Jingle Bell Rock, it's played for laughs. But it doubles as a tear jerking moment when you remember how much Regina's bullying actually changed Janis. She went from creating cute dances to holiday music with her best friend to being the brunt of homophobic jokes that forced her into home-schooling. home-schooling for the rest of Eighth grade.
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* When Damien asks Janis if she’s bothered by the Plastics using her original choreography for Jingle Bell Rock, it’s played for laughs. But it doubles as a tear jerking moment when you remember how much Regina’s bullying actually changed Janis. She went from creating cute dances to holiday music with her best friend to being the brunt of homophobic jokes that forced her into home schooling.

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* When Damien asks Janis if she’s bothered by the Plastics using her original choreography for Jingle Bell Rock, it’s played for laughs. But it doubles as a tear jerking moment when you remember how much Regina’s bullying actually changed Janis. She went from creating cute dances to holiday music with her best friend to being the brunt of homophobic jokes that forced her into home schooling.home-schooling.



* When all the girls are fighting each other after seeing the pages of the Burn Book, there's a shot where the camera zooms out from Regina as she watches the chaos with glee. Everybody else in the shot is fighting each other... except for one girl, who's just sitting on the steps, crying — presumably about whatever she read about herself.

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* When all the girls are fighting each other after seeing the pages of the Burn Book, there's a shot where the camera zooms out from Regina as she watches the chaos with glee. Everybody else in the shot is fighting each other... except for one girl, who's just sitting on the steps, crying — presumably about whatever she read about herself. Also, in the background, another girl is crying while her friend hugs her.
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* The boy who calls his mum, asking her to pick him up, because he's scared. Unlike many of the characters in the film, his soft-spoken voice, nerves, and fairly understated appearance suggests that he was one of the gentler high school students, and certainly has done nothing to deserve the danger that's going on around him.

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* The boy who calls his mum, mom, asking her to pick him up, because he's scared. Unlike many of the characters in the film, his soft-spoken voice, nerves, and fairly understated appearance suggests that he was one of the gentler high school students, and certainly has done nothing to deserve the danger that's going on around him. His mom is likely one of the parents who called Duval asking if there had been a shooting.
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* The boy who calls his mum, asking her to pick him up, because he's scared. Unlike many of the characters in the film, his soft-spoken voice, nerves, and fairly understated appearance suggests that he was one of the gentler high school students, and certainly has done nothing to deserve the danger that's going on around him.
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* Gretchen just wants to be admired. Her boyfriend Jason seems to be friends with several girls, who he hangs out with to make Gretchen jealous. Gretchen always gets jealous and this is understandable. She never has the guts to end things with Jason, and her only confrontation at Jason is at Cady’s get-together and she ends up tripping up due to being drunk, humiliating herself. When Taylor Wedell, Jason’s friend who he is spending time with walks away with disdain Jason at least has the decency to help Gretchen up and console her, but this is likely just an attempt to wriggle out of the situation. He and Gretchen are later seen making out in Cady’s bathroom, showing he is attracted to Gretchen and will treat her well when he feels like it, but he takes making her jealous to an extreme level. As well as her bad boyfriend getting to her, Gretchen is also not given as much attention as Regina due to Regina being more confident. Regina makes fun of anyone she pleases, and nothing and nobody frightens Regina. But Regina can easily worry about other girls she views as rivals. As well as Cady being recruited to join the Plastics as Regina viewed her as a threat, it is possible that this was the case with Gretchen. Regina might have seen Gretchen as a threat to her status as Queen Bee, and so she made Gretchen the second most popular girl in exchange for Gretchen’s loyalty, and while Regina did this she also stopped Gretchen wearing hoop earrings as she looked good in them and possibly attracted more attention than Regina in them.
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** The little moments showing Cady's genuine confusion regarding normal teenager interactions, like when Jason asks her if she wants her muffin buttered and the table of boys sitting behind her snickers. Cady's clearly aware that there's something more to the question than what she's getting but it's obvious she doesn't know how to react to the situation. Shows just how confusing school must be for her.
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* When Damien asks Janis if she’s bothered by the Plastics using her original choreography for Jingle Bell Rock, it’s played for laughs. But it doubles as a tear jerking moment when you remember how much Regina’s bullying actually changed Janis. She went from creating cute dances to holiday music with her best friend to being the brunt of homophobic jokes that forced her into home schooling.

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** Depending on your interpretation, the "I don't hate you because you're fat. You're fat, because I hate you" apology could be viewed this way. Obviously, it is sad for the receiver that she has been binge-eating because of the other girl's intense bullying, but it also could be seen to be sad for the culprit, as she now realises what terrible things she has done, and the consequences.

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