The Breakfast Club directed John Hughes is in my opinion one of the best movies of all time. It stars five high school students from very different ends met each other in detention. "In the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions" this movie stars Brian Ralph Johnson (Anthony Micheal Hall) as the brain, Andrew "Andy" Clark (Emilio Estevez) as the athlete, Allison Reynolds (Ally Sheedy) as the basket case, Claire Standish (Molly Ringwald) as the princess and John Bender (Judd Nelson) as the criminal. These student met in library for detention Saturday more as complete strangers to each other. The assistant principal, Richard Vernon (Paul Gleason) was there to watch over them for the day, giving them strict rules not to talk and to write a 1,000-word essay describing themselves. Bender, who spends many of his Saturdays in detention and is known throughout the school as a criminal does the exact opposite. He creates conversation with the other students and starts making noise, earning himself several more detentions from Vernon. As the hours pass, the students talk, laugh, argue, and even smoke marijuana from Benders with each other. This for me was one of the many highlights of the movie. Every one of them decided to sneak out of detention, risking the fact that they could get caught in order to a package in Benders locker. They begin to make there way back to detention without the principal seeing them. The end up all around the school avoiding being caught. Bender decides that the only way for them to get back is for him to create a distraction and get himself in trouble. Which he does and the rest of the students make it back to the library while Bender is stuck in trouble.
The ending scene of the movie and swear the students learning about each other. Learning that they have much more in common than they thought. The most iconic scene in my is when they are sitting in a circle and Brian aka the brain brings up a question. He ask if they will speak to you the next time they see him in school or will they just keep walking. It took a minute for them to answer but they all agreed to speak to each other from now on.
The last scene is what the club is all about a group of students who may have never talked to each other in school, meet and learn that they have much more in common then they though. The detention brought them together and created lasting friendships that they may have never had if they didn't get detention that Saturday.
"Don't you forget about me don't don't don't"
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