The Breakfast Club; Overcoming Stereotypes Visually
The Breakfast Club; Overcoming Stereotypes Visually The central theme of this poster is overcoming stereotypes. 5 students spend their Saturday in detention. At first they all succumbed to their stereotypes but as time passed, they all got to know each other and realized that they're not as different then they originally thought. The central theme/message of this movie is overcoming stereotypes and it becomes evident to viewers throughout the movie. This theme develops throughout the movie, starting with posture of the characters, then the dialogue, and finally their net performance in the overall movie which leads to the final scene of the movie. These are the 4 specific elements I will analyze in order to support my central theme. Lets begin with posture, a specific way the character walks and interacts with the environment around him/her. One example is the scene where the 5 students enter the library. Each has their own way of walking as well as interacting with one another without the use of words. One example is John, the stereotypical criminal. He walks in with his own "hip" style, starts throwing pencils/pens all over the place and steals a notepad and bookmarkers. He walks up to the brain of the gang, Brian, snaps his fingers and sits in his seat. He slouches in the chair and seems to project the feeling that this is his natural state, that this environment is home him. This example is situational irony because as viewers, we expect John to be the bad guy that somehow screws everything up in the end of the movie but John is actually a guardian angel in disguise. This fact was discovered when the gang was running away from the principal but ran into a dead end, literally. John tells them how to get back to the library and starts running and screaming in the opposite direction. He sacrificed himself so that the rest of them would not get in trouble. This is an act that shows he is not the stereotypical criminal but rather a mistreated underachiever that