Stereotypes In 'The Breakfast Club'

I was in eighth grade the first time I watched The Breakfast Club. My cousins and I had gone to our local video store and were trying to pick something out. I was looking at Harry Potter and The Hunger Games, anything that had strong special effects and a huge plot. My cousins on the other hand went to look at the classics. That is when they found it, The Breakfast Club. I was skeptical at first, due to the age and how simple it looked, but they ended up convincing me. We went back to my house and piled onto the couch under a mountain of blankets and with what seemed like gallons of popcorn. We pressed play and I soon fell in love with the simplistic story line and humor behind this movie. Lately, I have began to notice that people today only seem interested in movies with extreme special effects and large action filled plots. Although these movies are good, sometimes it is better to sit back relax and watch something simpler. The Breakfast Club is a movie with a simple plot that will not only grasp the audiences attention, but also make the audience think with the message it portrays. The
The first point I came across during my research was that the stereotypes of the teens were too obvious. This comment caught my eye in this article, “While meticulously drawn, the film's characters are so stereotypically representative that only the lamest of moviegoers will not determine their respective backgrounds and problems long before the plodding movie does.”(Duane). I was interested in this statement because of the underlining message in this movie. This message was, to break down high school stereotypes. The most though out way to do this is to overdramatize the characters. This makes it easier to distinguish each stereotype from the next. Being able to guess the characters issues or choices, was just an easier way to portray their stereotype. This enhanced the film’s