"They were five total strangers with nothing in common, meeting for the first time. A brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel and a recluse".
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Watching The Breakfast Club, it was hard to suspend my disbelief regarding some characters. Maybe it's the fact that the movie centers around 5 teenage stereotypes from the 1980's. Were teens really like that? did they speak and dress an act in such an over the top fashion? or is it just Hollywood overcompensating for "realism"? I think the answer, like always, lies somewhere in the middle.
What was nice was exactly this, that the stereotype characters come full circle and become more than their stereotypes by the end of the film. The cheerleader is not just a cheerleader the jock is more than a jock they slowly all become one. There is a little jock in the princess a little princess in the rebel a little of each in each other, and so on.
But, It's hard for me to imagine high school kids like that, especially when I remember my own high school years, where people were much less defined by a single all consuming characteristic. Although we also had our stereotypes. Like the guy we called chicken, or the guy we called thief or the guy we called football master or the guy that was mr cause he was grown up or the stoner or the surfer……
Having said that, The Breakfast Club does deliver an entertaining story. The performances are great, especially Molly Ringwald, whose character is perhaps the most interesting and three dimensional of the bunch. Teenagers will always struggle to be understood by adults and themselves, and this is a central theme that is well represented in the film, and will certainly resonate with people who have faced similar situations. Just thinking of that moment in the beginning of the film when the parents are dropping of their kids who hasn't been in that situation arguing with your parents in the car before a big something.
Such a shame to have lost John Hughes so young. I hate heart attacks. This movie just doesn’t hold up for me as much now as in high school. John Hughes has better material out there like Lampoons vacation, Uncle Buck, Planes Trains and Automobiles, even Bethoven is worth watching again it’s pretty good, and John Hughes wrote the screenplay for it.
The Breakfast Club was filmed in Chicago like most of John Hughes movies. The poster is by Annie Liebowitz.
What was nice was exactly this, that the stereotype characters come full circle and become more than their stereotypes by the end of the film. The cheerleader is not just a cheerleader the jock is more than a jock they slowly all become one. There is a little jock in the princess a little princess in the rebel a little of each in each other, and so on.
But, It's hard for me to imagine high school kids like that, especially when I remember my own high school years, where people were much less defined by a single all consuming characteristic. Although we also had our stereotypes. Like the guy we called chicken, or the guy we called thief or the guy we called football master or the guy that was mr cause he was grown up or the stoner or the surfer……
Having said that, The Breakfast Club does deliver an entertaining story. The performances are great, especially Molly Ringwald, whose character is perhaps the most interesting and three dimensional of the bunch. Teenagers will always struggle to be understood by adults and themselves, and this is a central theme that is well represented in the film, and will certainly resonate with people who have faced similar situations. Just thinking of that moment in the beginning of the film when the parents are dropping of their kids who hasn't been in that situation arguing with your parents in the car before a big something. Such a shame to have lost John Hughes so young. I hate heart attacks. This movie just doesn’t hold up for me as much now as in high school. John Hughes has better material out there like Lampoons vacation, Uncle Buck, Planes Trains and Automobiles, even Bethoven is worth watching again it’s pretty good, and John Hughes wrote the screenplay for it.
The Breakfast Club was filmed in Chicago like most of John Hughes movies. The poster is by Annie Liebowitz.
Grade: the movie 4:3, but John Hughes gets a Widescreen from us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYQzQcVuof0
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