The brain, the princess, the jock, the criminal, and the basket case. It is such a diverse group of students and when you end up learning more about the characters you find out that in reality they are all the same, teenagers who are unhappy.
I can completely understand why the The Breakfast Club is so hyped up. I've never watched it and didn't think much to the film (since I haven't watched majority of the most well known films) but the movie was definitely well made.
High school is made up of cliques and stereotypes and John Hughes was able to capture what it was like to be a teenager in high school with this film. Everyone in high school belongs to a group. Nerds with nerds, preps with preps, emos with emos. People go to where they find they fit in, belong, or feel accepted. TBC portrayed that easily with Brian being with the nerds, Claire being the in the popular crowd, Andrew is with the jocks, Allison being with those who are loners (who tend to be alone), and Bender with the trouble makers. These groups aren't expected to mix in with other who aren't like them because it's social suicide or just because it doesn't happen.
TBC changed that. These people who were shown to be nothing alike talked. To each other. Deep conversations happened (the scene shown above which happened to be ad-libbed) and these separate people who never talked to each other before got to know each other in a new way. Four of the five even fell in love (Sorry Brian).
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