Dr. Lindsy Lawrence
English 1213
29 Aug 2011
A Time to Remember
Do you remember how high school was for you? High school is a hard time for most teenagers. This means, for high school students, a time for maturity and growing up to face the world on your own one day. Your parents become harder on you for your academics abilities and to prove yourself worthy. Your peers also put a lot on the table and you struggle to prove your worthiness of them as well. You’re either in or you’re out!
Take these five high school students from the movie, “The Breakfast Club,” that meet in detention. Each character portrays a very unique personality that gives their ready-made identity, but you will also see how Claire, Brian, Andrew, Allison, and Bender come together and talk about how much their lives are very similar to one another
“The Breakfast Club” provided by JohnnyStryker.com
The students are gathered in a group telling different stories about themselves.
John Hughes was an extraordinary director of many films. Some of his great movies are: Home Alone (1992), Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), Uncle Buck (1989), and Sixteen Candles (1984). “I stumbled into this business, I didn’t train for it. I yelled “Action!” on my first two movies before the camera was turned on,” quoted John Hughes. Hughes was known as a great director because not only did he direct but these movies were a large part of his life. He interacted with each person so he could better identify their character being portrayed in the movie.
1984 Universal Pictures
Here, John Hughes working with Molly Ringwald in the set of “Sixteen Candles”
Molly Ringwald (Claire Standish), Emilio Estevez (Andrew Clark), Anthony Michael Hall (Brian Johnson), Judd Nelson (John Bender), Ally Sheedy (Allison Reynolds) all have to spend detention together one Saturday afternoon. The students do all they can to surpass the unpleasant time they have to spend on their Saturday like dancing, smoking pot, telling sobbing stories of their unpleasant lives, eating lunch, laughing, and even arguing with one another.
Paul Gleason (Principal Richard Vernon) is the principal of the school and has to watch the students. He portrays himself as this hard-ass that’s trying to earn the respect of his students. Principal Vernon gives each student an assignment of writing an essay no less than 1000 words about who they think they are. This is showing his authority figure to the students
by Heinesight
"Don't mess with the bull, young man, you'll get the horns."
Insert Video Clip “The Essay”
Picture by imdb.com
The Brain, The Princess, The Basketcase,
The Jock, and The Rebel.
Brian has an interesting character. He’s a comedian even when he’s actually not trying to be funny. Brian got into detention due to an instance in shop class and him failing it. This affects Brian because his parents expect nothing less than an A in his classes. He feels as though he wouldn’t be worthy of their love and affection if he brought home anything below a B.
The Brain
While sharing their own stories, Brian asks; how will Monday be when we all see each other again? Can they be friends outside of detention after finding out about each others’ inner identities and how they are all truly alike in many ways?
Claire was skipping class and this is how she received detention. Even during the first part of the movie, when Principal Vernon is speaking to them, she tries to tell him that she does not belong in detention. almost as if she thinks she’s too good to be put into detention. Claire is the High School Princess and her father basically gives her what she wants when she wants it. She has to keep up her so-called image with her friends as well in school.
The Princess
Andrew is the wrestler “the jock” who’s father is extremely hard on him because he wants andrew to do well with wrestling and get a scholorship to college. Andrew is looked up to and everybody wants to be him. During his time in detention you truly see the inner person come out of andrew and he really wants to stop trying to be someone that he isnt just for his dads sake. The reason he is sent to detention is because after practice, Andrew tapped a fellow wrestlers ass cheeks together.
The Jock
Allison is the Loner, and she doesn’t speak the whole first half of the movie. Nobody knows anything about her. Allison did absolutely nothing to get into detention, she basically had nothing better to do. Allison longs for attention from anyone because her parents don’t give it to her and neither does anyone else for that matter.
The Basketcase
Last,but not least, there is the rebel, Bender. Bender is the pot smoking grunge that cares for no one or does he? He’s always in detention just because he fails his classes, doesn’t listen to his teachers, and constantly acts out. His dad is an alcoholic and beats him, so therefore bender feels like nobody cares and nor does he. Why should he?
The Rebel
I truly enjoyed this movie because it brought back so many memories from being in High School. I know what its like being a part of a sub group and having others look differently towards you because of your certain interests. Stereo typing sub groups and actually being a part of that group vary in many ways. For instance, high school is a tough time for most teenagers, especially for girls, and as i say that, i know its sexist, but in my own opinion i feel like girls have it a lot harder in high school than guys do. There are many different “cliques” of students that join together in their common interests whether that may be Science Club, A Cheerleader, A Football Player, etc... Be who you truly are and not what others want you to be.
by: Heinsight
Never Forgotten: Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy and Emilio Estevez taking a break from detention in 1985
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