Confused about Moody and the others

Perhaps the girls and other students did not have a first hand idea of how mean and bully-ish Moody was and finally saw the light when Clifford stood up to him (with his bodyguard close by of course...lol)

The blonde girl that Moody was hitting on didnt seem interested in him. When he asked about her hair, she made that "K-Mart" remark and turned away from him.

Shelly was the only one that seemed to have a crush on him (she was the one that saved him the seat, then he sat somewhere else.)

Then later he humiliated her in that diner (or whtever it was) and that was when she turned against him.

she goes against him/ stops having a crush on him cause he asks if she wants to go to the movies and she says yeah! all excitedly but says something like well have fun than basically making fun of the fact she has a crush on him and she realizes hes a jerk, the blonde girl doesn't like him.

I don't think he would have bullied the girls too much. What would be the point in that? He had the whole Alpha Male thing going so he could be powerful, especially in front of the girls. Sure he was mean in that instance to that one girl, but he was trying to think of a funny way to brush her off. It was mean but I'm guessing if she hadn't said anything to Moody he would have ignored her. I also agree that he would need a certain amount of male "friends" to be as popular as he was. I also think he just targeted the kids that would be labeled "nerdy" anyways.

Peace is not the absence of affliction, but the presence of God. ~Author Unknown

Shelly and Moody fell in love with each other in 1997.....

In another movie "In & Out"

:D

Only Shelly saved him a seat. She had a bit of a crush on him but none of the other girls seemed that impressed. The blonde who tells him she got her beautiful hair "from K-mart" certainly didn't seem to like him.

I do not have attention deficit disor...Ooh, look at the bunny!

You have to remember that this was the late '70s and there was not much (if any) public awareness about bullying. Schools and parents had a more "let kids be kids mentality).

Thus if you think about it, Moody was a bully/punk to the smaller defenseless kids and a rake/rogue to the girls. Moody was probably making 5-10 dollars a day from his extortion racket which adds up quickly. This probably allowed him to spend freely at malt shop above and beyond the abilities of normal classmates. So perhaps many girls turned a blind eye because he could afford to do different things.

Just a thought.

In my mind's eye, two possible futures happened to Moody.

He continues on his path and he becomes a true punk who continues to engage in extortion rackets and petty crime. He marries, is a serial cheater, engages in domestic violence and escalates in criminal activity. Eventually he moves to higher forms of crimes such as distribution of narcotics and eventually either gets arrested or targeted by hard guys. His crew abandons him (again) and winds up doing prison time or offed by the hard guys.

The second and more likely scenario is that his beating at the hands of Clifford changes his life because his tuff guy rep is lost and he loses his crew. Without money, he loses his cache with the girls. He probably drops out of school and works a manual labor job such as plumber or electrician. Gets married, has a coupla kids and then one day reconnects with Clifford on Facebook. Clifford is a successful executive or professional. Moody will ask for forgiveness and his words will be tinged with regret.

Since Clifford won the fight, he will forgive Moody and then Moody will ask Clifford about Linderman so he can do the same. You vae to remember these events occurred 34 years ago and people do mature and seek absolution.

Moody would then seek out Carson and send him several gift certificates to his favorite fast food resturant "a year's worth of lunches."

The reason I say all of this is because I attended a sermon in which the pastor told an amazing story of bullying in which the bully was as bad if not worse than Moody. Eventually one victim retaliated and a fight ensued and the bully got his a** handed to him.

The pastor then revealed it was HE who was the bully and it opened his eyes and changed his life and lead him down the path of spiritual redemption. He had reached out to his former victims and had received their forgiveness.

So things do work out... it just takes decades.

I think that some of the girls were somewhat frightened of Moody, but then he had the "bad boy" thing going for him, too. My guess is that if Moody had a girlfriend that he most likely wasn't the most gentle of men with her.