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    The Breakfast Club is a coming of age film about a group of high school kids that have been sentenced to a saturday detention. Each of these kids represents a clique or a stereotype within the average high school demographic. Throughout the film they learn that appearances are not everything and that they share more in common then they are aware. Under the eye of their principal this group struggles to sit through the detention without getting at each others throats, but they somehow manage to form

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    Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all (Andrew,The Breakfast Club) The Breakfast Club directed by John Hughes, has a plotline with several layers and characters that millions of teens identify with to this day. Pretty in Pink, also directed by John Hughes, consists of a cliche storyline and characters without a lot of depth. These two films helped define the 80s and their legacy will last for years to come. The Breakfast Club is superior over Pretty in Pink because the characters are more

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    Released in 1985, The Breakfast Club depicts five high school students from Illinois as they spend a Saturday together in detention. Prior to their arrival, John Bender, Claire Standish, Andy Clark, Brian Johnson, and Allison Reynolds had not met, nor would they have associated with one another on a typical day in high school. After spending nine hours together, however, the group of vastly different adolescents break down emotional barriers, manage to build a sense of intimacy, and some establish

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    difference and variation, development, and unity and disunity. Each of these five elements come together in The Breakfast Club to create one of the most well-known coming of age films to come out of the 21st century. The first principle is Function. Most films have many different characters and storylines that serve a certain function for the overall effect of the movie. The story of The Breakfast Club revolves around the five main characters, that are all from very different social circles, come together

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    In Sixteen Candles and The breakfast club we see so much in common as well as differences present. These 2 John Hughes movies were a big hit in the Directors career, as well as Pretty in Pink but we are not discussing that movie. In these movies we see a lot of themes crossed over that are explored in many different ways. One of the main characters for both these movies was Molly Ringwald; we really showed and expressed these ideals of her characters perfectly. There were many themes that we can

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    sports. But when you take a deeper look at his character, you can see that there’s much more to his story than what he shows. He’s constantly trying to prove himself to his father and be the best for him. This is the exact reason that he’s in the Breakfast club to begin with. To try to be like is dad, Andrew humiliated another student by duct taping his butt together, damaging them both physically and emotionally. Andrew is constantly trying to prove to his dad that he’s the best and live up to his

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    their social connections. In The Breakfast Club there are five students categorized into stereotypical groups in high school.Those groups are the popular students, the nerds, and the emo students. Sooner than later, these five students figure they all have something in common with each other; high school, and the pressure of their parents has molded them into the people they never wanted to become. Despite the differences between the students in The Breakfast Club, they share similarities that divides

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    pressure among their peers to be a specific way, and “Breakfast Club” depicts this point. In the movie, five kids of different high school stereotypes meet in Saturday School. Throughout the day the adolescents begin informing each other about their lives, talents, secrets, etc. By the end of their eight hours of detention, they realize they have much more in common and they actually become friends, or intimate partners (Hughes, 1986). “Breakfast Club” shows how environment, peer pressure, family life

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    In the critically acclaimed movie, “The Breakfast Club,” there are five very different cast members, a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. One of the five cast members, the criminal named John Bender, can be described as a selfish, parsimonious douche. Throughout the whole movie, Bender was constantly bullying, making fun of, or agitating every student. He would bully Claire because of her less than stellar sex life, he made fun of Brian for being a nerd, he would agitate

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    The film The Breakfast Club portrays classic examples from a culture and personality anthropological aspect. I will discuss the themes of the film such as teen rebellion and stereotypes, and how parenting and culture both can affect the personality of an adolescent. The film introduces five characters that each fit a stereotype that can be found in any American high school: the jock, the brain, the spoiled princess, the criminal, and the misfit. As the movie progresses we see each character unfold

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