“Grease” v. “The Breakfast Club”: Finding Yourself The films “Grease” and “The Breakfast Club” feature the same strong theme: finding your identity. This theme is universal through many books‚ movies and even real life. The fact that these two films were filmed so far apart‚ “Grease” being filmed in 1959 and directed by Randal Kleiser and “The Breakfast Club” in 1985 directed by John Hughes‚ shows that this is a strong theme that sticks throughout the industry. These films have many characters
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The Breakfast Club The "Breakfast Club" is a teen-comedy‚ released in 1985 and was directed and produced by John Hughes - who was best known for scripting or directing the most successful films of the 1980’s and 1990s‚ for example: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off‚ Sixteen Candles‚ the three Home Alone installments and 101 Dalmatians. This film also stars five of the most well-known actors and actresses of this time‚ who had starred in similar productions throughout the 1980’s. "The Breakfast Club"
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Neima Prabhakar English 8 CP Period 2 5/19/05 A Misleading Exterior In the film‚ The Breakfast Club (1985)‚ John Bender‚ the slovenly rebel at Shermer High School in Chicago‚ is serving a Saturday detention with four very different students. Right from the beginning‚ Bender exhibits the qualities of a destructive and thoughtless criminal‚ i.e.‚ he taunts everyone else in order to hide his personal inadequacies. Whenever Bender is questioned by his peers about a personal issue‚ or whenever
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‘Hair’ by Marcia Aldrich In Marcia Aldrich’s short story ‘Hair’‚ she used one of the most defining aspects of our physical appearance to show how the efforts to tame our hair reflect upon the construct of our identity. This is evident in the line: “But don’t you think hair should reflect who you are?” (p. 55). Throughout the story‚ the obsession (or the lack thereof) of the characters does reflect upon them in many interesting ways. The author says of her mother: “but‚ in my lifetime‚ she never
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In the movie Fight Club you see the main character played by Edward Norton comes to understand his true identity. Instead of taking responsibility and control of his own dull life‚ Norton allows his subconscious to create an identity to live the way he can’t and that is where we get Tyler Durden. Norton the narrator unconsciously conformed to societies idea of the modern man trying to fill the void that he felt inside. As Tyler Durden‚ the main character is able to deny his lackluster self‚ and is
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Fight Club: a Search for Identity Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club is a revolutionary‚ cynical novel that portrays the need for identity in life and Palahniuk explains‚ through the narrator’s personality disorder‚ that the desire for meaning is the sole internal incentive of civilization. The protagonist is powerless and his consequent struggles include emotional troubles‚ homophobia as well as his inclination towards aggression. The narrator created by Chuck Palahniuk in the novel Fight Club was that
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Identity Crisis Every person comes to a point in their life when they begin to search for themselves and their identity. Usually it is a long process and takes a long time with many wrong turns along the way. Family‚ teachers‚ and friends all help to develop a person into an individual and adult. Parents play the largest role in evolving a person. Amy Tan‚ author of the Joy Luck Club‚ uses this theme in her book. Four mothers have migrated to America from China because of their own struggles
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Essay The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club is a story about five teenagers put in Saturday detention. Each character gives a face to most of the high school stereotypes. The brain‚ the athlete‚ the basket case‚ the princess and the criminal. Each are given their own seat and the instructions to sit for eight hours and write an essay on who they think they are. Each of them‚ having very strong personalities‚ will fight‚ cry‚ laugh and learn from each other‚ making friendships that would have
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Yanni Thomas 4 December 2013 Professor Stanley COMM 1375-60 Mis-en-scene and Cinematography in The Breakfast Club This film written and directed by John Hughes follows five students at Shermer High School in Shermer‚ Illinois as they report for Saturday detention in 1984. While not complete strangers‚ the five are all from different cliques‚ there’s John Bender "The Criminal‚" Claire "The Princess‚" Brian "The Brain‚" Andy "The Athlete‚" and Allison "The Basket Case." The school’s disciplinary
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I have decided to do a review on The Joy Luck Club‚ rather than Lost in Translation as I feel that the movie has more substance and touches on things that are closer to home. The Joy Luck Club is actually based on a book by the same name‚ a bestselling novel written by Amy Chang. The "Joy Luck Club" actually refers to the four Chinese American immigrant families that got together to form a club to play Chinese mahjong and also to have a good meal. As such‚ the plot is stylised in a way similar to
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