Recently‚ we watched the movie‚ The Breakfast Club. The character I chose to write about is Andy. Andy is a wrestler. He wins a lot because of the patch on his jacket. The patch said state champion. He is the athlete of the story and the jock. He bullied other people below him because they weren’t as good as him. Andy stood up for the others in the beginning of the movie. John was picking on Claire and he stopped him. He stood up for others in the beginning of the movie. Towards the middle of
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The film The Breakfast Club demonstrates how the identity of a person can be influenced by conflict he or she has experienced in life. Andy is one of the characters that whose identity is influenced by the pressure from his friends and more from his father‚ because his father wants him to always win no matter what‚ but Andy doesn’t like that because he thinks his father only likes him because he always wins‚ he says that he wishes for himself to get injured so he wouldn’t have to play the sports
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Helen Ashworth September 30‚ 2009 English 111 – 16PR Essay 2 ATTITUDES REGARDING EDUCATION IN THE BREAKFAST CLUB I know I don’t have much to see on this paper today‚ but basically in my eyes this movie was not about education so much as it was about the individual students and how their lives were from day to day. There were five different types of students‚ all of which were unique in their own ways. There was the “jock”‚ who lived his life trying to
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As we continue watching “The Breakfast Club”‚ a specific character has caught my eye‚ her name is Clare. At the beginning of the movie she seemed so innocent‚ she has the impression that her life was perfect. On the contrary‚ as the film started to proceed we saw a deeper side of Clare. As she tried to play off Saturday school like it was nothing so she could keep her reputation‚ “Most popular girl in school” I feel as though Bender was the main reason she opened up. As if he was almost harassing
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“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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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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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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Social Penetration Theory in The Breakfast Club The Social Penetration Theory‚ adapted by Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor‚ is based on the idea that people are layered like onions‚ (Griffin 133). These layers are made up by different things that hide an individual’s true self. One’s true self can include his or her hopes‚ fears‚ likes‚ dislikes‚ aspirations and other things that one thinks about. For individuals to become close‚ they must get past all of the facades and disclose their true
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Dear Mr Hughes‚ I am writing to you tell you about my opinions of your movie‚ The Breakfast Club. It is a movie classic which most people will see at least once in their lives. What makes The Breakfast Club so special is that the film was very different from almost every movie released at the time. It’s a movie made to target teenagers and the problems they go though. It directly talks about communication gaps‚ teen isolation‚ and the angst that teens experience during the years that function as
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The Breakfast Club (1985) Directed by John Hughes From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American teen drama written and directed by John Hughes. The storyline follows five teenagers (each a member of a different high school clique) as they spend a Saturday in detention together and come to realize that they are all deeper than their respective stereotypes. The film has become a cult classic‚ a defining film of the 1980’s‚ and has had a tremendous influence
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