John Hughes

No one epitomizes the spirit of teenage rebellion in relatively-recent pop culture better than Ferris Bueller himself from the 1986 John Hughes movie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off; in a similarly sly fashion, an angst-filled Hamlet uses his skills as an actor to mask his true intentions. In a carefully orchestrated and highly successful attempt to ditch school for a day, Ferris convinces his parents of his alleged illness and finds himself laying in bed while the rest of his peers shuffle into class…

But what we found out is that in each and every one of us is a brain. And a jock, and a loser, a rich girl, and a nerd. Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club.” That's not necessarily how John Hughes chose to end his 1985 blockbuster The Breakfast Club (Hughes), but a 2016-2017 rewrite might follow suit in the same way. In each and every high school, subcultures and stereotypes are perpetuated unto students that seem to fit according to their peers, but are they…

Holden’s relationship and communication with the people around him. Similarly, the movie the Breakfast Club (1985), focuses on five high school students struggling to fit in and find their places in the variety of cliques. Of all of these students, John Bender is the one struggling to find his place in life and to fit in any of the norms that the society has set for him similarly to Holden, who is in search of his true self and his place in society. Both Bender from the Breakfast Club and Holden…

the director in any film. This usually becomes clear when multiple movies that they have worked on share distinct stylistic themes and designs. John Hughes’ movies clearly displays common features in several of his films such as the age and characteristics of his protagonists, the use of music and characterization and his use of Chicago setting. John Hughes began in the film industry as a writer and after several successes he was given the opportunity to direct three films. The first film he…

1986, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off premiered on the silver screen, telling the comedic story of a boy who skips school one day to spend a day with his best friend and his girlfriend in downtown Chicago, Illinois. Written, produced, and directed by John Hughes, this film is one of his most famous cult classics. In relation to the film’s plot, the title is as straight-forward as it can be. It includes the main character’s name and the activities he partakes in during the movie. The idea that “a boy…

Club, in which a group of high school students, all examples of different teenage stereotypes, begin sharing their life struggles and slowly become more comfortable with each other. The Breakfast Club, a movie written and directed The movie by John Hughes is the story of a jock, a nerd, a juvenile delinquent, a rich, popular girl, and a weird girl who transcend their respective stereotypes and learn to get along. The Saturday morning of detention stimulated a brew of symbolic concoctions.…

School Films- The Breakfast Club Intro For my film analysis paper, I chose The Breakfast Club, which is a suburban school genre of film. This movie was filmed in 1984, and in theatres by 1985. This movie was directed, written, and produced by John Hughes, who is responsible for many 80’s movies, such as Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and 16 Candles. This movie is about five high school teenagers, from different social ranks, who stay at school to serve Saturday detention. Bulman…

The movie The Breakfast Club may be just a film to some but to sociologists it can be looked at from interesting perspectives. Three main ones stand out specifically: Functionalism, Symbolic Interactionism, and Conflict Theory. Functionalism looks at the different parts of society and how they all depend on each other to make a society work. Next is Symbolic Interactionism, which focuses on how symbols and words shape people into who they are and how they depending on their interpretation on…

Ferris Bueller is the antithesis of an affirmative rebel. He has the power to travel out and do something that he wishes with none nice worry of the results. He will what every body dreams of doing. The film, "Ferris Bueller's day without work chronicles the events within the day of a rather rebellious young man... WHO offers into an awesome urge to chop faculty and head for downtown Chicago together with his lady and his best friend" (Spurr 1997). He manages to borrow his best friend's father's…

having their own identity knew nothing about each other before this day. They all came from different social economical groups. We have the jock, wrestling star Andrew Clark, Claire Standish the most popular girl in school, Brian Johnson the brains, john bender the catalyst the group with his rebellious nature, and last but not least Allison Reynolds the eccentric but yet the basket case of the group. Despite the fact that they all go to the same school, few of them seem to have anything in…