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Movie Analysis And Character Analysis Of The Breakfast Club

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The Breakfast Club “We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all.” This is a quote from one of the main characters from this film. This film is an older one and came out in the year, 1985. It centers around five high school students who spend their Saturday in detention. Each of the five students signifies a stereo type, that are displayed in schools. The characters are John who is known as the criminal, Claire as the princess, Andrew known as the athlete or jock, Brian as the brain/nerd, and lastly, Allison is known as the basket case. We are also introduced to Richard Vernon the school principal and Carl the janitor. It helps us to remember that no matter how I may observe a student to be, there could be a very good chance, there will be some darker parts that are just waiting to be shared with others, they could be just waiting for someone to ask. Some approaches and strategies that I picked up from the movie is that students may classify themselves under a certain stereo type and they each have their own clique. In the movie, they realized they each belonged to a certain clique, but in the end, they found out they have a lot more in common they realized. Another approach, I witnessed in the movie is that the principal did classify them as the stereo type he thought they were, however at the end of the film we see changes within the characters. Each of them may also had different norms about them, but were able to succeed and accomplish

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