teenage viewers but after time “The Breakfast Club” has shown to be very entertaining for adult audience. The cast and characters of “The Breakfast Club” (In no particular order) include John Bender “The Criminal” (Played by Judd Nelson)‚ Claire Standish “The Princess” (Played by Molly Ringwald)‚ Andrew Clark “The Athlete” (Played by Emilio Estevez)‚ Brian Johnson “The Brain” (Played by Anthony Michael Hall)‚ Allison Reynolds “The Basket Case” (Played by Ally Sheedy)‚ Principal Richard "Dick"
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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
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introduce the John Hughes movie The Breakfast Club; they suggest the central themes explored about teenage issues. Hughes portrays five different sub cultural school groups: “the geek” – Brian Johnson; “the jock” – Andrew Clark; “the princess” – Claire Standish; “the criminal” – John Bender; and “the sensitive artistic type” – Alison Reynolds. The Breakfast Club deals with many issues which high school students are faced with over their high schooling years‚ such as peer pressure and parental expectations
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culture of high school influences the characters into who they are and who they hangout with giving them the certain clique name and stereotype of the students in the movie. Also a division of class is show they bring up the topic of money and how Claire and Andrew might have more money than the
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film all violated a rule at Shermer High resulting in a Saturday morning detention. The five students having to report for the Saturday morning detention do not share the same interests and are somewhat familiar with one another. Andrew Clark‚ Claire Standish‚ Allison Reynolds‚ Brain Johnson‚ and John Bender are the five students. Shermer High’s assistant principal Richard Vernon is supervising the three males and two females in the library. Obedience to these gender roles is enforced by each of the
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The Breakfast Club is very different from almost every other entry into what was (at the time) a burgeoning genre. Instead of relying on the staples of bare flesh‚ crass humor‚ and brainless plots‚ this movie focuses on five dissimilar characters‚ is almost entirely dialogue-driven‚ and doesn’t offer even a glimpse of a breast or buttock. It’s a story about communication gaps‚ teen isolation‚ and the angst that everyone (regardless of how self-assured they seem) experiences during the years that
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I have seen the breakfast club three times before taking this class and then saw it for a fourth time during class and I must say that it is defiantly one of my favourite movies. Before this class‚ I loved it because it was a fun movie depicting teenage school life in its simplest form and it was more or less something I could relate to. I noticed only the funny quotes; close calls and random scenes that made me say “Ha! It’s funny because it’s true.” Such as the scene where all the characters are
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is very paranoid about what others think of her. Theresa is another character in the novel that is overtaken by the acceptance of others. We can also look upon characters such as Claire from The Breakfast Club who is afraid to stand up to her own feelings around her friends. In the movie A Cinderella Story‚
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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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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 that can be compared to one another. The main characters are Claire Standish (played by Molly Ringwald) and Sandy Olsson (played by Olivia Newton-John) and John Bender (played by Judd Nelson) and Danny Zuko (played by John Travolta). The girls are your typical high school “girlie-girls” and the guys are your typical high
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