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* OvershadowedByControversy: ''The Basketball Diaries'' is more notorious these days for allegedly inspiring several school shooters, including the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} shooters, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. The controversial part in question involves the main character walking into his classroom in a BadassLongcoat and mowing down everyone he hates with a shotgun while his friends cheer him on. A school rampage wasn't even the main subject of the movie; this scene was actually a ''fantasy'' that the character has as his [[DrugsAreBad drug addiction]] starts spiraling out of control.

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* OvershadowedByControversy: ''The Basketball Diaries'' is more notorious these days for allegedly inspiring several school shooters, including the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} shooters, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. The controversial part in question involves the main character walking into his classroom in a BadassLongcoat and mowing down everyone he hates with a shotgun while his friends cheer him on. A school rampage wasn't even the main subject of the movie; this scene was actually a ''fantasy'' that the main character has as his [[DrugsAreBad drug addiction]] starts spiraling out of control.
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This isn't a controversy, nor does it overshadow the rest of the movie (as far as I know)


** An [[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/basketball-diaries-bridge-suicide/ urban legend]] has creeped up in recent times stating that a suicide can be captured in the background of one scene.
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* OvershadowedByControversy: ''The Basketball Diaries'' is more notorious these days for allegedly inspiring several school shooters, including the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} shooters, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. The controversial part in question involves the main character walking into his classroom in a BadassLongcoat and mowing down everyone he hates with a shotgun while his friends cheer him on. A school rampage wasn't even the main subject of the movie; this scene was actually a ''fantasy'' that the character has as his [[DrugsAreBad drug addiction]] starts spiralling out of control.
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* OvershadowedByControversy: ''The Basketball Diaries'' is more notorious these days for allegedly inspiring several school shooters, including the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} shooters, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. The controversial part in question involves the main character walking into his classroom in a BadassLongcoat and mowing down everyone he hates with a shotgun while his friends cheer him on. A school rampage wasn't even the main subject of the movie; this scene was actually a ''fantasy'' that the character has as his [[DrugsAreBad drug addiction]] starts spiralling spiraling out of control.
----** An [[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/basketball-diaries-bridge-suicide/ urban legend]] has creeped up in recent times stating that a suicide can be captured in the background of one scene.
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* OvershadowedByControversy: ''The Basketball Diaries'' is more notorious these days for allegedly inspiring Columbine co-conspirators Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris to go on the infamous school rampage. The controversial part in question involves the main character walking into his classroom in a BadassLongcoat and mowing down everyone he hates with a shotgun while his friends cheer him on. A school rampage wasn't even the main subject of the movie; this scene was actually a ''fantasy'' that the character has as his [[DrugsAreBad drug addiction]] starts spiralling out of control.

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* OvershadowedByControversy: ''The Basketball Diaries'' is more notorious these days for allegedly inspiring Columbine co-conspirators Dylan Klebold and several school shooters, including the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} shooters, Eric Harris to go on the infamous school rampage.and Dylan Klebold. The controversial part in question involves the main character walking into his classroom in a BadassLongcoat and mowing down everyone he hates with a shotgun while his friends cheer him on. A school rampage wasn't even the main subject of the movie; this scene was actually a ''fantasy'' that the character has as his [[DrugsAreBad drug addiction]] starts spiralling out of control.
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* OvershadowedByControversy: ''The Basketball Diaries'' is more notorious these days for allegedly inspiring Columbine co-conspirators Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris to go on the infamous school rampage. The controversial part in question involves the main character walking into his classroom in a BadassLongcoat and mowing down everyone he hates with a shotgun while his friends cheer him on. A school rampage wasn't even the main subject of the movie; this scene was actually a ''fantasy'' that the character has as his [[DrugsAreBad drug addiction]] starts spiralling out of control.
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