The Breakfast Club Essay

The 80’s was a time for the teens to be teens. The 80’s saw a huge wave of teen flicks having not only to be known to have the most of them, but to have them in spades. I just did some research to look at a list of all the 80’s teen movies there were and it was at about 62, where I had stopped looking. I then decided to look at the other decades. The 70’s era of teen movies had maybe an average of one a year, while the 90’s and 80’s had at most 2 a year. The 80’s sure was a time of excess. So, looking through all of these movies, trying to decide which one to watch, I came across John Hughes’ “The Breakfast Club”. “The Breakfast Club”: a widely popular ten drama/comedy about a group of estranged teenagers from different clicks meeting together for detention on a Saturday; yep, a Saturday. While this follows a sort of similar formal as most teenage movies of the 80’s: characters brought together based on circumstance, then find common interest when introduced with conflict, ultimately to be lead into a moral of each of the own stories, and throw in a montage somewhere in there; even Rocky had a montage. I’ve come to find that this movie stands out based on its theme …show more content…
This did not come to pass due to the volatile relationship between John Hughes and Judd Nelson. John Hughes stated that he would never work with Nelson again. Also, it was unclear whether or not Hughes still held ill will against his oft-cast starlet, Molly Ringwald. They had a falling out in the late eighties after Ringwald decided to move on from the teen film genre to pursue more adult roles, thus severing her relationship with Hughes.
• The scene in which all characters sit in a circle on the floor in the library and tell stories about why they were in detention was not scripted. John Hughes told them all to