The Breakfast Club is personally one of my all-time favorite movies. I have seen the movie on many occasions, the first time being probably while I was just a few years old. It has always been my mom's favorite movie, so I often come home to the sound of "Don't You (Forget About Me)" by Simple Minds playing from the TV, and it is quite an enjoyable sound.
I never truly understood the storyline of the movie until probably high school when the "cliques" became a lot more prominent in school. There are a few student stereotypes that are heavily played throughout the movie, including: the princess, the jock, the criminal, the brain, and the basket case. You often see these stereotypes in everyday life, but what I find most interesting is the way they've changed since this movie came out in the nineties [eighties].
The change is visible even at Metropolitan Business Academy, our stereotypes have combined into new categories, where jocks are nerds; nerds are criminals, and criminals are princesses. As times progress, movies do the same. Modern movies are now introducing characters that are smart sports players, that are middle class with parents of the same gender. I doubt John Hughes in the mid 1980s could have predicted where the world of film was heading, but The Breakfast Club was a perfectly aimed shot in the dark at a classic high school drama movie that people of all ages can enjoy in modern times.
Overall, The Breakfast Club may be the film that forever changed the industry; it is always interesting to look back in time to see the lifestyle of students in a different time. Social norms have changed and so has the film industry.
Breakfast Club. Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Judd Nelson (John Bender), Molly Ringwald (Claire Standish), Emilio Estevez (Andrew Clark), Anthony Hall (Brian Johnson), and Ally Sheedy (Allison Reynolds)
Universal Pictures, 1985.
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