...THE BREAKFAST CLUB Overview According to the movie, “The Breakfast Club”, it began on Saturday morning at the Shermer High School where five high school students from different social groups met for a detention of eight hours. They were asked to each write an essay by their principal Mr. Vernon on the topic “who do you think you are?” Mr. Vernon only saw them as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal (“The breakfast club,” n.d., para., 4). They saw themselves like what they had been stereotyped to be by the principal and also by the outer world. But at the end of the day it was not the case. During the morning period of the detention, they did not talk much to each other. But as the day went by, they ague and hated each other, believing that each of them were completely different and unique in the problems and tribulations they faced. As the movie unfolds, they open themselves to each other as they shared their deepest fear, emotions, and problems. They become friends irrespective of their cliques as they exploited their physical cognitive and sociology-emotional levels of development the (‘The breakfast club, 1985”). Narrative The movie begins on a Saturday morning at about seven o’clock. Their parents drop them off at school and they all meet up in the library. Then Mr. Vernon comes in and congratulates them for being early. As Mr. Vernon paused, Claire quickly puts up her hand, stands up, and tells Mr. Vernon that she knows it is detention but she...
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...The Breakfast Club is a cult classic from the eighties about five teenagers from all different stereotypes, who have to serve Saturday detention together. As each character evolves and learns more about their own self, the audience changes and grows as well, because everyone can relate to someone in The Breakfast Club. One of these relatable characters is John Bender and he is labeled a criminal. Of all the characters, the stereotypical rebel is the one with whom I can relate to the most. Like John, I had a bad attitude and was sarcastic, but unlike him, I was a good student academically. John Bender and I both had an attitude problem. He could care less about anything, clashed with authority, and looked down on the “popular crowd.” I absolutely...
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...Jack Fischer Comp 1 Jason Tillis April 19, 2013 Breakfast Club The plot follows five students at Shermer High School in Shermer, Illinois as they report for Saturday detention. (Fun fact about the high school where the movie was filmed, its called Maine North High School, it is a public four-year high school located in Northbrook, Illinois, that’s the high school my father attended for all four years of schooling). The five teens that show up for Saturday detention are all different in many ways. The first, of the teens is Bender a trouble making punk rock kid who likes to give everyone a hard time. The second is Andrew a wrestler jock who doesn’t like to take crap from anyone. Third, is Brian a nerdy kid just trying to fit in with the rest of the group. Fourth, is Claire the popular rich princess that has to have her way and puts herself on a pedestal. Lastly, is Allison the weird girl who doesn’t talk much. They all think they are totally different and in completely different social groups, and at the start of the movie they are right. Bender the troublemaker is messing with everyone including the principle and all the kids don’t understand why he is doing this. All the kids seem to start to get over the fact that Bender will be doing this the whole time. The movie starts to progress when they seek out of the library and are disobeying Mr. Vernon’s rules. All the kids have there fun, but when the movie really starts to get down to its true purpose...
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...Film Analysis Paper: The Breakfast Club “To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others”. -Anthony Robbins All living beings are, in one way or another, drawn towards each other. We, as humans, strive to “communicate” with individuals who are in our environment. Communication is literally defined as: “the sending and receiving of verbal and nonverbal messages between two or more people”. When pondering on what film I should base my essay on, many factors came in to place; such as, “How many different types of communication are taking place? What is the predominant type of communication? And how many characters are communicating at the same time? After much thought, I decided on the world-famous cult-classic, The Breakfast Club. The setting for the film is Sherman High School; Sherman Illinois on a Saturday morning. Five very different students gather to serve their sentence of Saturday school under the careful hawk-like watch of the school’s vice principle Mr. Vernon. They are classified as a jock, a princess, a brain, a basket case, and a criminal. After arriving and selectively taking seats in the library, they are assigned an essay of, “no less than a thousand words, describing who [they] think [they] are.” After a short time the students completely ignore the assignment and begin interacting with one another. As time...
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...“The Breakfast Club” Review Made by ivanbolt Teenage movie about mature problems. Saturday has always been the day of relaxation and having fun. But not for characters of “The Breakfast Club”, who ought to spend their day off to attend a Saturday detention for each of their mischief, and write an essay “Who you think you are?”. Along with the fact, that this group is so ill-assorted, you can’t even get how they all appeared to be in the same place, the Shermer High School library. This small mixed group consists of jock Andrew (Emilio Estevaz), who is insane about sports; nerdy Brian (Antony Michael Hall), whose aim is to get straight A’s at any cost; princess Claire (Molly Ringwald), who conceitedly trying to prove that she does not belong to the company; kook Alison (Ally Sheedy), that surprise everyone by her outstanding acting; and rebellious criminal John Bender (Judd Nelson), that demonstrates indifference and toughness. The movie, written and directed by genius of teen comedies John Hughes and produced with the help of Ned Tanen, represents a perfect mix of a joyful comedy and profound drama. To begin with, the situation represented in the film is quite realistic, except for the fact that such different people gathered together in the same place and at the same time. However, the viewer can consider that as a miraculous coincidence, which often happens in real life. Still, clear representation of youth problems, their behaviour and attitude to each other does...
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...stereotype-like categories. ‘The Athlete’ Andrew Clark, ‘The Basket Case’ Allison Reynolds, ‘The Princess’ Claire Standish, ‘The Brain’ Brian Johnson and ‘The Criminal’ John Bender. The characters that are similar to myself in ‘The Breakfast Club’ are Allison and Brian while the character least like myself would be John. I’ve noticed that I share numerous stereotypes associated with the most introverted characters out of the cast and I wasn’t surprised when Allison and Brian stood out to me personally. A character that I relate to is Allison Reynolds. She is labelled as ‘The Basket Case’ due to her questionable actions/comments. For a person with such a quiet demeanor, whenever Allison experiences occasional outbursts, her bold interjections are viewed as exceedingly uncharacteristic of her. She yearns for attention due to being neglected by her parents, compulsively lies and does not know how to handle social situations appropriately. Her artistic...
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...What are the kinds of parenting styles that are portrayed in The Breakfast Club? Fortunately, John Hughes was able to implement most of the styles and assign them to every character in the motion picture. Some of the characters share the same style of parenting, but some differ. In this essay, all of the parenting styles and what character(s) it fits will be discussed. The characters are as follows: Brian Johnson, Claire Standish, Andrew Clark, John Bender, and Allison Reynolds. The parenting styles are authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and neglectful/uninvolved. Firstly, I will include short descriptions of the characters in the movie to give insight to the reason for the parenting styles. Brian Johnson is considered the brain. He...
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...system of high school. In the iconic 80’s film, The Breakfast Club, John Hughes investigate the correlation between standardized stereotypes and internalized struggles through the Saturday detention of five students at the fictional Shermer High School. Andrew Clark, on of the students serving detention, is the typical jock stereotype. His physical prowess and mentality undeniably affirm his respective social standing. However, while Andrew is the king of the social order, he is unable to dictate his own actions, let alone...
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...Breakfast Club Everybody has certain type of personality and problems in their life. They also have different ways of dealing with there problems some normal some bazaar. Yet we all are bazaar in certain ways without even knowing it. The way we behave is also categorized or stereotyped into certain groups that almost or never talk to each other but we try so hard to want our group to like us because that’s how we were made we like to be liked. I will be analyzing 5 people and what makes them tick. Andy also known as Sporto has a very athletic personality to him. You can tell also by what he eats he eats like a wrestler who eats lots and lots of carobs. He loves to compete and has to win. He is also very protective of Clare (Princess). He protects her from bender and his antagonizing. He is also very unsure of himself like when him and the strange girl where walking he was saying that the only reason he is not suspended because he get treated different because he is strong and fast and it think he doesn’t think that’s a good reason. Andy has many different stressors in his life. Everyone thinks he should be the best. In the beginning of the movie his father even tells that he need to shape up or he will blow his ride. That he has to be the best he has to WIN. Even the dean said “I expected more from a varsity letterman.” Another problem is that he can’t think for himself that he does everything people tell him to do. He wants his father to respect him and not to be disappointed...
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...significant. The notion of seeing authority figures such as our parents arguing in front of adolescents and fearing the family will split is one fear no adolescent can brush off. Even if a family doesn't break off, parents can still neglect their children in many ways, causing external and internal problems with themselves. In the film, The Breakfast Club, Bender and his highly non-functioning parents have molded how Bender thinks and acts around people. As he crosses the threshold into adulthood, Bender will always act violent and impulsive towards others. He lacks that belief that people actually care, and this renders him emotionless at times. Bender has this inability to show affection and kindness, all because of his neglectful and abusive parents. In one of the scenes, he tells the rest of the group how his typical conversation with his parents goes. John Bender, imitating his father, says, "Stupid, worthless, no good, goddamn, freeloading son of a bitch. Retarded, big mouth, know-it-all, asshole, jerk." Then imitating his mother, Bender says, "You forgot ugly, lazy and disrespectful." The vulgar conversation continues along and eventually Bender shows a cigarette butt burn on his arm and...
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...In the movie, The Breakfast Club, John Hughes alludes to many psychological development theories to develop his characters. After watching the movie and playing more attention to details, I have discovered that each character is unique and are different stages of development. Not only at the end of the movie do they become friends, they find themselves. When evaluating Piaget's Theory, a character like Andy really comes to mind. Andy seems to be in the concrete stage in development. As the audience and the characters in the movie get to know him, they discover that he cannot think for himself. He understands the concept of right and wrong, but he lets his father control all of his decision making and reasoning skills. Andy believes that it's either his father's way or no way which shows the audience that he does not think abstractly enough to where he could solve the problem. He is mature enough to understand cause and effect, but his isn't able to comprehend that it is not all black and white....
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...Thru the movie you see the main characters struggle with their parents, and their acceptance causing them to have social issues with their peers and struggling to find who they truly are as individuals. Zach can’t tell his father he doesn’t want to go to the school of his father’s choice. Until, his father finds the letter and questions him and Zach: finally, tells him, “No Dad that is where you want to go,” (Abrams & Iscove, 1999). This situation influences his interest in Laney because of her freedom to choose her passion in life because of the support of her father and brother. Despite, the support given Laney feels withdrawn and incomplete due to the loss of her mother at a young age. Laney can’t relate to the other teens because she feels she has to care for her father and brother. This movie is an example of how teens in teen movies are ultimately influenced by roles of authority like parents causing...
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...1985 and the John Hughes movie The Breakfast Club. In this movie, if your 1980’s pop culture memories have been fogged over by the passage of time, is about a group of students who are sentenced to Saturday detention “to ponder the error of (their) ways” because of misdeeds during the school week, and end up (spoiler alert) with a better understanding of themselves and each other. In other words in can be inferred that they found themselves, and during the Saturday detention, assisted others in finding themselves. I’m in no way implying that and entire Introduction to Liberal Studies class can be taught by locking students in a library for nine hours on a Saturday. With all Hollywood productions you need to suspend some of your disbelief. The question that I will answer is: What does Liberal Studies mean to you? I will touch on question two, which was to explain my goal for this program, but I feel it does not apply to me as I am graduating now. I instead will explain what Liberal Studies will mean to me going forward. An outstanding Professor at University once introduced me a notion, and I believe that I have grasped the concept he so elegantly explained. To be a successful leader is to allow others to find their voice. That leader will inspire and connect with his team on a spiritual, mental, emotional and physical level, and inspire others to find their voice. Getting back to the movie mentioned above. The question asked of the “breakfast club” students was...
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...ONCE UPON A TIME IM HOLLYWOOD In the beginning of 21st century, there was a place where the young ones are being controlled by a power called “the FATHER”. That guy is really complicated to understand, sometimes he lets you go out and stay at your friend but sometimes he gets mad and fires the place where he controls, which is called HOUSE. You can never know if you really want to escape from the house, not just because of you economically need him, you know you love that guy but you cannot know if you want to live in the same house. In this piece of writing, you’ll read my journey of escaping from this hell and the results of that getaway. After this journey is finished, nothing is going to be the same. The Father was “the Architect” of the house and system of my life, but hope was with me and I, I let the force be with me. If I took the blue pill, the story would end. I’d wake up in my bed and continue to live like a slave, but I took the red pill, to fight for my independence, to fire my ropes. That afternoon, I arrived next to the Father, I just wanted him to let me go out for one night, and I just said him: Father, please give me my freedom for one night. He asked me: What will you use your freedom for, are you going to study and bring me higher grades? I stopped and said: No, father. He asked: So what you’re gonna do? Save the world? Then something exploded in my heart like something. I said: No daddy, I’m gonna smoke, listen to music, and at the end of the night, after...
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...beauty and fitness shape how we will live (and look)—and even take note of how the industry will help people address dying, illness and major life changes. And finally, there is a trend we forecasted in 2013 that continues to capture our imagination: mindfulness. We feel strongly that it is important to watch how this is evolving, and you’ll see a short synopsis of this “über trend” in the report. Spafinder Wellness 365™’s Trends Forecast reports on what is happening in our industry, but we also strive to present a true forecast of what lies ahead. Some ideas are still on the horizon, but we think you’ll see much more about them in the not-too-distant future! I’d like to thank Spafinder Wellness, Inc.®’s new Chief Brand Officer Mia Kyricos, who has joined our trend-tracking team, as well as thank our research and editorial teams, led by Beth McGroarty, for their many contributions in making this report so robust. Together, we remain passionate about the spa and...
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