Breakfast Club Critique

In The Breakfast Club a criminal, a princess, a basket case, an athlete, and a brain all have Saturday detention. Each of the teenagers come from different backgrounds. They all have their own issues and problems that they never confront or deal with. For each person there is a therapy that would probably work best for them. John Bender “the criminal” is your basic bad boy.

The Breakfast Club Often times high school students align themselves with one set group of values or expectations causing a third party to assume one’s personality, otherwise known as a stereotype. These stereotypes whether a jock, a trouble-making jerk, a rich popular kid, a genius, or the weird student that that is very misunderstood; cause people to not take the time to get to know one another. Many people would fit into one of these social categories, as do the main characters in The Breakfast Club, produced and directed by John Hughes in 1984. Hughes argues that everyone is different and no one, not even adults, have the right to determine a person’s worth based on their looks or social status. His argument is effective for its intended audience due his use of exaggerated stereotypes and relatable teenage topics.

MIntroduction- The teen gene typically includes stereotypical characters, comedy and caters to a teenage audience. Ferris Bueller’s day off fits into the category of a teen comedy because it features coming of age, friendships and weak authority figures. The film centres around Ferris Bueller the protagonist, his best friend Cameron, his girlfriend Sloane and they enjoy an adventurous day ditching school.

The Breakfast Club challenges these stereotypes by showing that each character is more complex than their stereotype suggests. For example, Claire is shown to be intelligent and caring, Andrew is shown to be vulnerable and sensitive, and Allison is shown to be creative and thoughtful. The film also shows that stereotypes can be harmful and limit people's potential. For instance, Andrew's desire to be a wrestler is overshadowed by his father's expectations, while Brian's academic success comes at the cost of his social life.

Breakfast Club was a very interesting film to watch. It was funny, but at the same time it contained a lot of thinking questions that we have talked about in class. Looks can be deceiving because no one has is completely good or easy. This was proven in the film when all of the characters began talking about their lives, and they all realized they all had it very hard and challenging in their own ways.

INTRO: Iconic 80’s movie The Breakfast Club is our inspiration for this dialogue. When this group of high school delinquents was assigned to write an essay during detention on who they were, the group sparks up the conversation of personal identity, ultimately discovering themselves. The scene opens with the students serving their detention sentences in the Library.

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Overall, The Breakfast Club is a classic teen film by John Hughes that depicts the different perceptions of the five high school students who come from different sociological groups. The actors played the stereotypical characters well and it made it easier to understand the film. In conclusion, the breakfast club is one of my favorite movies because it explains accurately the various concepts such as stereotypes, peer pressure, family issues, and groupthink and those notions relate to the lives of many individuals during their teenage

Being a teenager can be difficult. Teenagers often experience new emotions that can become stress, anxiety, and even depression, if not understood correctly. The movie The Outsiders can be easily compared to the movie The Breakfast Club, because both pieces have a common theme of suicide. Johnny from The Outsiders hates his parents and struggles with life and the idea of suicide is constantly dancing around at the back of his head. In a similar way bryan from The Breakfast Club experiences suicidal thoughts, due to the pressure of his parents and the ability to keep up with life.

The film The Breakfast Club follows five students who must serve a school detention on a Saturday due to a various wrongdoing. Due to this behaviour, they are sanctioned through the means of a weekend detention in hopes that they will never go against the school’s rules, values and norms again. The five students are noticeably different and each represents a certain subculture within the school. John Bender is one of the five students and is defined as the criminal of the group.

The film “The Breakfast Club” exemplifies group dynamic because at the start of the movie they don’t know each other and they think that the personalities are the same as the stereotype linked to their social group, but when they get to know each other the stereotypes go away and they realized that they are very similar. B y the end of the film everyone in the group figures out that they aren't that much different and they are all struggling with being misunderstood, so they realize that they were judging the other people in detention when they weren’t so different. In the movie The Breakfast Club John Bender is the criminal, Claire Standish is the princess, Andy Clarke is the athlete, Brian Johnson is the brain, Allison Reynolds is the basket case. Mr. Vernon gave everyone in the group a piece of paper and a pencil and told them to write a 1,000 word essay on who each one thinks they are. The group responded to the assignment by writing one essay explaining that it was stupid to write who each person thought they were because each person was a basket case, criminal, brain, athlete, and a princess.

The Breakfast Club portrays elements of adolescent development very well. In this stage of our lives we are trying to figure out who we are. Some of us may explore different identities and there are others that just do what others tell them to do. The movie depicted role confusion in each of the characters. It also talked about peer pressure and how it influences how we act.

“It is now seven-oh-six. You have exactly eight hours and fifty-four minutes to think about why you're here” Vernon announces. The 80’s classic, The Breakfast Club, focuses on five students; Bender, Claire, Andrew, Brian and Allison who are in detention on a Saturday. Bender is an adolescent with an aggressive attitude whose goal is to be understood and have people see who he really is. Vernon, the detention monitor, hates Bender due to his refusal to listen, attitude and disrespect for him.

Adolescence: A Look at Adolescence in the Movie The Breakfast Club The 1985 movie written and directed by John Hughes, called The Breakfast Club looks at five very different students who are coming into adolescence and becoming their own people.

Hughes is known for producing and writing some of America’s best teen movies. Hughes produced Home Alone one and two and many other popular films. With the audience knowing who he is and the films he have produced, they trust that his work is credible. People will always remember who John Hughes is this will always have an ethos effect on the viewer’s sense of credibility. The Breakfast Club also appeals to ethos through personal experience.