The Breakfast Club

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…

“You see us as you want to see us… brain, athlete, basket-case, princess, and a criminal.” This is one of the first and last sentences of the movie The Breakfast Club directed by John Hughes, and it is the most powerful sentence of the entire movie. This is not a sentence about one of the students, it is a sentence about the principal. These words, written by a student during detention speaks volume about the entire dynamic of the school. The principal of Shermer High School is Mr. Richard…

When asked which character I most identify with in the 1980’s film, The Breakfast Club, I can only think of one character that comes to mind -- Brian Johnson. Brian Johnson is portrayed by Anthony Michael Hall in the movie. The Breakfast Club is about a group of students that go to detention on a Saturday morning. At first, they don’t like each other but, in the end, they do like each other. The reason they liked each other by the end of the day is because they got really got to know each…

John Hughes wrote and directed the cult-like movie which is set in the 1980s called the Breakfast Club. The movie is about high school students that all do something wrong during school and end up in a day-long Saturday detention with an extremely strict principal that has them work towards a single goal. Throughout the movie the interaction among the different characters is very interesting and eye opening about how people can learn to get along and to communicate, The diversity of the group,…

A DEEPER LOOK INTO THE BREAKFAST CLUB The movie The Breakfast Club is a ninety seven minute teenage drama that was released in February of 1985. This movies major stars are Emilio Estevez as Andrew, Paul Gleason as Richard, Molly Ringwald as Claire, John Kapelos as Carl, Judd Nelson as John Bender, Anthony Michael Hall as Brian, and Ally Sheedy as Allison. The students are also known as “a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess…and a criminal.” These characters take the viewer along an…

The Breakfast Club Summary The Breakfast Club is about five different high school students in Saturday detention, and is supervised by a strict teacher (Richard Vernon).The movie covers issues from every social class and every angle of the social structure of high school giving it a variety of a sociological outlook. Each each student has a status in society: John Bender is a criminal, Claire Standish is a princess, Andrew Clark is a athlete, Brian Johnson is the brain, and Allison Reynolds is…

I recently watched The Breakfast Club written and directed by John Hughes, which stars Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy. The movie is a comedy-drama that takes place within a high school in Illinois and depicts the several different cliques of high school students through each individual character. In the beginning, the high school students reluctantly get dropped off by their parents on a Saturday to serve a detention together,…

The Breakfast Club This movie is about a day of Saturday detention and group of teenagers fitting in your typical high school stereotypes. It was brilliantly written with teenagers in mind. They could identify with each character and their portrayed stereo type. They all had at least one thing in common and that was that they didn’t get along with their parents. This is realistic for who really got or gets along with their parents in high school. You are in the process of finding yourself and…

The theory of social penetration is one that is defined as, "That as a relationship develops, communication moves from relatively shallow, non intimate levels to deeper, more personal ones." the Breakfast Club is a film that assesses the theory of social penetration and demonstrates that with time and exertion the anxieties about sharing one's actual self and emotions can be overcome. The motion picture is about a gathering of secondary school understudies who need to come to Saturday…

Greatest Movie Movement The Breakfast club. The Breakfast club is a story of five teenagers who were sentenced to Saturday detention in school. Each of them 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…