He clearly didn't try to stop him other than saying, "Ace, come on, man."

Well I would think if Gordy hadn't shot the gun, he probably would have stepped in and stopped him, if things got really bad and he was really going to kill him, the guy must have some human decency, atleast to save his own brothers life.

Eyeball (in the movie) certainly wasn't thrilled that Ace was about to stab/kill his brother, but I don't know if he would have actually done anything to stop him.
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The beating a girl with a baseball bat scene is from Hearts in Atlantis,

in which Stephen King films does a little brother get stabbed in the nuts?
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So does anyone know the other Stephen King movies with the scenes mentioned earlier in the thread?

in which Stephen King films does a little brother get stabbed in the nuts?
Sometimes they come back?
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The nerd's car destroyed is in Christine. Gay kid is in It i believe. Don't know the baseball bat one.

Keep in mind. These are Stephen King bullies. they are a special kind of sociopathic. More sadistic than the average movie bully or even real life bullies. they stab little brothers in the nuts, beat girls with baseball bats, dump pigs blood on prom queens, destroy a nerds car because it's nice, murder the neighborhood gay kid, with in Stephen King stories is standard bullying.

OK so dumping the pigs blood on the prom queen is from Carrie, but in which Stephen King films does a little brother get stabbed in the nuts? Also, in which Stephen King film do girls get beaten with baseball bats, in which Stephen King film does a nerd's car get destroyed, and in which Stephen King film does a gay kid get murdered?

I like the theory as well, which makes sense for Gordie to only threaten Ace's life by saying "no Ace, just you".

I think it was also a way of showing how off the path Ace actually is in contrast with the rest of the gang. They are all these sort of loud-mouthed bully types but in this moment and the one where Ace plays chicken with the car, we see that he really is not acting this way for show.
I think Eyeball was playing along until that point because he expected his brother to back down and then Ace pull back but at that moment, he realized neither one of them was going to stop and there was nothing he could do about it.
I like this theory. Eyeball, Billy, Charlie and those guys were punks, even juvenile delinquents, but they weren't legit psychos like Ace. I imagine that Chris had always ended up backing down before, so Eyeball hadn't even considered the idea that he wouldn't this time as well. So he had no "plan B". But I don't think he wanted his brother dead or would have been OK with Ace killing him, any more than Billy would have been had it been Vern instead of Chris. Eyeball was just a coward - he was afraid of Ace (as I think it was implied that Billy and Charlie were too), so maybe wouldn't have done as much to stop it as he could have.
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I think it was also a way of showing how off the path Ace actually is in contrast with the rest of the gang. They are all these sort of loud-mouthed bully types but in this moment and the one where Ace plays chicken with the car, we see that he really is not acting this way for show.
I think Eyeball was playing along until that point because he expected his brother to back down and then Ace pull back but at that moment, he realized neither one of them was going to stop and there was nothing he could do about it.
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Eyeball indeed would've let it happen. Infact when Eyeball says "Ace, come on, man" it was King's way of showing that he didn't want Ace to kill Chris, but he was too much of a coward to do anythingother then the simple pleato stop him.

Didn't Eyeball say something to Ace? I haven't seen the movie in a while but I'd swear that when Ace started toward Chris with the knife, Eyeball said something like "Ace, come on, man", like he was trying to reason with him. Or am I totally off?
Yes you remembered right. Eyeball tried to stop Ace, briefly and with not much effort though.

Didn't Eyeball say something to Ace? I haven't seen the movie in a while but I'd swear that when Ace started toward Chris with the knife, Eyeball said something like "Ace, come on, man", like he was trying to reason with him. Or am I totally off?
I need to watch it again, I guess.
Saying "I apologize" is the same as saying "I'm sorry." Except at a funeral.

I don't think Eyeball gave a s**t about family.
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I think the relationship between chris and eyeball didn't really exist eyeball treated chris as an enemy to keep his status alongside ace,chris i think tried to remain indifferent towards his family but i think chris had too much feelings of affection and sympathy towards people and therefore i believe he loved his brother and even though he wasn't a good role model like younger siblings oftenly do they try to seek awareness off there older siblings.If your question is would eyeball let ace kill chris if the senario was real i think because eyeball did say "come on ace." he would probably intervene but none the less ace may have still killed chris with his friends holding eyeball back probably this is speaking so without gordie with the gun.I understand how you would be disturbed i would be too but i guess i didn't really think much of it,thanks for highlighting the point.

I wouldn't even call these kids bullies, just psychopaths.

It's weird, I never noticed that but you're right. Stephen King does tend to create these hyperbolic villains who kind of view killing and permanently maiming people as a casual Saturday evening activity.

Keep in mind. These are Stephen King bullies. they are a special kind of sociopathic. More sadistic than the average movie bully or even real life bullies. they stab little brothers in the nuts, beat girls with baseball bats, dump pigs blood on prom queens, destroy a nerds car because it's nice, murder the neighborhood gay kid, with in Stephen King stories is standard bullying.

Eyeball broke his own brothers arm and not Ace.

This was an interesting scene because Ace was going to slit Chris' throat with his switchblade. The thing is, a switchblade has a pointed tip for stabbing, not a sharp edge for slicing, cutting, chopping, dicing, etc.
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Ace broke his own brothers arm in the book. Can't expect much from a guy like that.
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I'm gonna say no.
Eyeball eventually would've stepped if the situation had escalated to such a point

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