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you don't have a father...


"Marion, your father hasn't seen you in 3 years and you want to know why, its cause he doesn't love you." I *beep* love that line, its so bad ass. Now I was a bully in school but I was never that mean.


I could have been meaner. Oh well next time. The movie would have been better, if Harriet was like that the whole time.



i told you not to stop the boat. Now lets go. Apocalypse Now

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bad ass.


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It really is. Very cold hearted. Doubt they would allow that in a kids movie nowadays.

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Yeah ur probably right. This is kind of bleak for a kids movie.
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The best part was her tone.I also love how she pushed those girls out of the way before she exited the bathroom. She was a true savage lol.

A bit of the old ultraviolence...

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I never noticed that before but your def right.


That was mad gangsta.




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I love how bad ass Harriet was in that scene. The conversation went something like this:

HARRIET: [WALKS INTO GIRLS' TOILETS] Hello, Marion.
MARION: Get away from me, Harriet.
HARRIET: Or what? You're going to tell your father? [RINSES HANDS] I heard my parents talking. You don't have a father. All those stories about respect and that garbage... You made them all up. Your father lives in Amsterdam. He hasn't seen you in three years and you wanna know why, Marion? [PAUSES] It's 'cause he doesn't love you! [PUSHES OTHER PEERS OUT OF THE WAY AND WALKS OUT] Move!

Harriet's tone is quite sharp here. She never intended to hurt her friends when she wrote that stuff in her notebook. Marion and Harriet's other classmates took 'revenge' on her. Harriet wanted to show that she wasn't going to be bullied, so she stood up for herself and gave something back to Marion here. Good on you, Harriet!

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Harriet's a dark character.

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