...Masked Desires Actor parade around in fictitious demeanors in order to perform their given part. Comparatively, athletic jocks create false identities to fulfill their role as kings in the socially constructed hierarchy system of high school. In the iconic 80’s film, The Breakfast Club, John Hughes investigate the correlation between standardized stereotypes and internalized struggles through the Saturday detention of five students at the fictional Shermer High School. Andrew Clark, on of the students serving detention, is the typical jock stereotype. His physical prowess and mentality undeniably affirm his respective social standing. However, while Andrew is the king of the social order, he is unable to dictate his own actions, let alone...
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...Set on a Saturday morning of 1984 at Shermer High School, five students are present to serve their detention in the school library. Although they are not unfamiliar with one another, their outwards persona has led them in separate paths until this day. Their views of each other are limited and much easier to describe with high school stereotype-like categories. ‘The Athlete’ Andrew Clark, ‘The Basket Case’ Allison Reynolds, ‘The Princess’ Claire Standish, ‘The Brain’ Brian Johnson and ‘The Criminal’ John Bender. The characters that are similar to myself in ‘The Breakfast Club’ are Allison and Brian while the character least like myself would be John. I’ve noticed that I share numerous stereotypes associated with the most introverted characters out of the cast and I wasn’t surprised when Allison and Brian stood out to me personally. A character that I relate to is Allison Reynolds. She is labelled as ‘The Basket Case’ due to her questionable actions/comments. For a person with such a quiet demeanor, whenever Allison experiences occasional outbursts, her bold interjections are viewed as exceedingly uncharacteristic of her. She yearns for attention due to being neglected by her parents, compulsively lies and does not know how to handle social situations appropriately. Her artistic...
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...Teen films may characterize the female adolescents by having their personalities and story-lines directly reflect the film setting’s era and culture. In comparing Mean Girls (2004), Clueless (1995), and The Breakfast Club (1985), together, these films demonstrate and exemplify how the film industry has been influenced and altered by time, culture, and society in their portrayal of teenaged girls over the past 30 years. The Breakfast Club (1985) is a cinematic view on the struggles of adolescence wherein five troubled teenagers with adversely differing personalities spend a Saturday in detention and eventually grow to confess their fears and secrets and find their true selves outside their segregated stereotypes. Claire Standish is a spoiled,...
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...The movie deals with the cognitive, psychosocial, physical, and moral development of the characters throughout the film. The Breakfast Club is about people, personality types, human behavior, strengths and vulnerabilities. It is about stereotypes and breaking them down. It’s about prejudice and gaining greater understanding through communication. It’s about rebellion, and also about teamwork. Every character in the film contributed something unique in society which allowed them to learn something new about themselves and about others. The Breakfast Club is a norm in today society because many people go through the major developmental themes of that these characters experienced and many teenagers can relate to their stories. The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club, created in 1985, contained a wide variety of behavior cues and stereotypes. Five teenagers Claire, Andrew, Bender, Brian, and, Allison were from different social groups, didn’t know each other , and had to spend a Saturday in detention at the suburban school library. They were resistant on getting to know one another at the beginning but eventually let in. The stresses and strains of adolescence turned their inner lives into a minefield of disappointment, anger and despair. The movie used elements from many of the principle theories of personality development, which helped to better understand who these characters are and who they are likely to become in the future. The character I was most intrigued with...
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...“The Breakfast Club” Review Made by ivanbolt Teenage movie about mature problems. Saturday has always been the day of relaxation and having fun. But not for characters of “The Breakfast Club”, who ought to spend their day off to attend a Saturday detention for each of their mischief, and write an essay “Who you think you are?”. Along with the fact, that this group is so ill-assorted, you can’t even get how they all appeared to be in the same place, the Shermer High School library. This small mixed group consists of jock Andrew (Emilio Estevaz), who is insane about sports; nerdy Brian (Antony Michael Hall), whose aim is to get straight A’s at any cost; princess Claire (Molly Ringwald), who conceitedly trying to prove that she does not belong to the company; kook Alison (Ally Sheedy), that surprise everyone by her outstanding acting; and rebellious criminal John Bender (Judd Nelson), that demonstrates indifference and toughness. The movie, written and directed by genius of teen comedies John Hughes and produced with the help of Ned Tanen, represents a perfect mix of a joyful comedy and profound drama. To begin with, the situation represented in the film is quite realistic, except for the fact that such different people gathered together in the same place and at the same time. However, the viewer can consider that as a miraculous coincidence, which often happens in real life. Still, clear representation of youth problems, their behaviour and attitude to each other does...
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...“The Breakfast Club” The movie, “The Breakfast Club”, is a heartwarming story of 5 stereotypical teens that end up together for an entire day of Saturday detention. These students, the brain, the princess, the athlete, the criminal, and the basket case all come together and find friendships that they never knew could exist. In the beginning they all stayed to themselves because they thought they were all so different that they could never get along. Throughout the day, “the criminal” pushed everyone to his or her limits and brought out who they were as people. These not so different teens found that they all faced the same kind of issues and that they all were alike in some ways. They broke down the stereotype barriers of their high school society and accepted themselves as people they wanted to be. The whole movie is based around the attitude changes of these impressionable teens. In the movie the teens deal with stereotypes working against them. Each of them believes that the others have certain traits that are unappealing when the others are actually a lot like them. The stereotypes make it hard for them to change their attitudes about the others with them. Of course they believed that if you were a pretty popular girl that you didn’t have any problems and that if you were a successful athlete it was because you wanted to and that you were very cocky and conceited. Their time together showed how wrong those stereotypes can be and that they deal with problems like the rest...
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...Jack Fischer Comp 1 Jason Tillis April 19, 2013 Breakfast Club The plot follows five students at Shermer High School in Shermer, Illinois as they report for Saturday detention. (Fun fact about the high school where the movie was filmed, its called Maine North High School, it is a public four-year high school located in Northbrook, Illinois, that’s the high school my father attended for all four years of schooling). The five teens that show up for Saturday detention are all different in many ways. The first, of the teens is Bender a trouble making punk rock kid who likes to give everyone a hard time. The second is Andrew a wrestler jock who doesn’t like to take crap from anyone. Third, is Brian a nerdy kid just trying to fit in with the rest of the group. Fourth, is Claire the popular rich princess that has to have her way and puts herself on a pedestal. Lastly, is Allison the weird girl who doesn’t talk much. They all think they are totally different and in completely different social groups, and at the start of the movie they are right. Bender the troublemaker is messing with everyone including the principle and all the kids don’t understand why he is doing this. All the kids seem to start to get over the fact that Bender will be doing this the whole time. The movie starts to progress when they seek out of the library and are disobeying Mr. Vernon’s rules. All the kids have there fun, but when the movie really starts to get down to its true purpose...
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...The Surprising Way Teenagers Make Friends | Parenting - Yahoo Shine 11/19/13 5:52 AM Home Mail News Sports Finance Weather Games Groups Answers Screen Flickr Mobile Sign In More Mail Search Shine Search Web The Surprising Way Teenagers Make Friends By Elise Solé, Shine Staff | Parenting – 4 hours ago Watch a classic teen movie like “The Breakfast Club” or “Mean Girls,” and you may think you have high school life figured out: Kids make friends based on what group they identify with, be it the jocks, the cheerleaders, the geeks, the weirdos, or some other clique. However, a new study of 3,000 students published Saturday by Michigan State University smashes stereotypes about the way teens pair off in school. “People want to believe that high school kids are making friends based on what clique they identify with, but that’s not completely true,” Kenneth Frank, PhD, a professor at Michigan State University's College of Education, tells Yahoo Shine. “People may rely on these stereotypes as a reference point to make sense of how high school kids operate: however, the classes students take are also an important indicator of who they’ll be friends with." Universal Studios The study found that kids will seek out like-minded people within the pool of peers they have access to. In other words, if your child loves playing musical instruments, he won’t necessarily make an effort to meet musical kids from other classes, but if there’s...
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...First of all, females in rom-coms come from similar backgrounds. When society thinks of rom-coms, they regularly come to a similar thought. For example, society consistently thinks about females in rom-coms working as a journalist. A recent article published by Mindy Kaling, explains how movies stereotype females. Mindy Kaling says, “If you think about the backstory of a typical mother character in a romantic comedy, you realize this: when “Mom” was an adolescent, the very week she started to menstruate she was impregnated with a baby who would grow up to be the movie’s likable brown-haired leading man” (Kaling). Mindy has a compelling argument about the way female characters are displayed in rom-coms. The movie industry creates females...
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...Every change has a positive or negative impact on our lives, however, the majority of them teach us valuable life lessons. Melina Marchetta’s Looking for Alibrandi (LFA) and the film The Breakfast Club (TBC) directed by John Hughes, explores relational and personal changes through the experiences of central characters, therefore, increasing the audience's understanding of change. Relational changes often have major impacts on our lives, whether they are positive or negative. LFA conveys relational change most effectively through the Alibrandi family. The relationship between Josie and her Nonna is extremely important in LFA, as it is used to track her experiences involving change. Marchetta uses retrospective to give the audience an insight...
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...Jason Y. Ng's article discusses how “Asian-American men across the country struggle to get noticed and get ahead.”194 This type of under-representation of American-born Asian males in a way both similar and different to the black racial stereotypes. While racist portrayal of African-Americans in the at least contemporary culture is associated with violence and other poverty-driven behaviours, Asian-Americans are represented very little. A familiar portrait of the Asian man is rather comical. Tasha Oren gives an example of Mr. Yunioshi from Breakfast At Tiffany's, who is hysterical Japanese neighbour of a beautiful American girl. Nevertheless, the anger of such a character is comical, rather than intimidating, as it would usually be in the representation of black man's...
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...Integration Paper Cultural Concepts Introduction Eight Strangers With Nothing in Common, Except Each Other It was Saturday morning February 4, 2012 the first day of Managing in a Diverse and Global World. Ironically, the class of eight students metaphorically resembled the 1985 John Hughes movie the Breakfast Club “five strangers with nothing in common, except each other” about high school students from completely different backgrounds serving Saturday morning detention and their quest to connect on some level as equals. In a graduate class that will focus on cultural diversity in business our classroom was comprised of eight students that resembled just that. The differences were visibly apparent to everyone immediately. We represented more than 5 countries and spanned multiple continents. The three Americans in the classroom were cross sections of American culture; an African American female working in the private sector, a Caucasian American female working in the government sector, and a Caucasian American male working in the non-profit sector. The next seven weeks showed promise for revealing and stimulating conversation that centered on our individual perspectives and approaches in life and business each one of us equally contributing our narrow perspective of the world. All sharing our ideas, our ideals, and our idiosyncrasies. The first day immediately revealed how much I did not know about other cultures. I was very unaware of the breadth of differences...
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...An analysis of generic conventions in the trailers for the movies ‘John Tucker Must Die’ & ‘Mean Girls’ An analysis in terms of generic conventions in the trailers for the movies “John Tucker must die” and “Mean Girls”. Genre is defined as ‘A large category of stories united by their particular settings, characters, themes and narrative conflicts’ (Worland 2007, pg15). This assignment will look at the generic conventions a coming of age/ teen film (what we expect to see), aspects such as typical situations, stock characters, style, icons and setting. In terms of themes in coming of age (teen films) (subjects that are dealt with within the text) they tend to focus around, first love, rebellion, and conflict with parents, teen angst or alienation. In terms of what we would typically see within the genre ‘teen/coming of age’ film it is in the interest of the target audience and making the plot relatable and focus on their interests. The first trailer to be analysed is “Mean Girls”, a teen movie released in 2004. The style of “Mean Girls” is glossy, the use of high key lighting creates an expensive look and the contrast of high/bright colours makes the film more vivid and eye catching the use of the bright colours encourages a cheerful and young audience. In the first shot we see ‘Kady Heron’ in class she looks bland and has no character and is introduced as the new ‘student’ which is typical for the plot of a teen (coming of age movie) and the non-diegetic sound tracking...
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...It was inspired by the study of aggressive teenage culture and the potential danger of cliques in the book Queen Bees and Wannabe. The movie is believed to have a strong influence from the movie The Breakfast Club (1985), because of the cliques’ strong determination on stereotypes. Although, it talks about more of the teenager’s perspective in life, it also portrayed and referenced a lot about homosexuality. In November 2003, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial ruled that barring gay and lesbians from marrying violates the states constitution. The Massachusetts Chief Justice concluded that to “deny the protection, benefits, and obligations conferred by civil marriage” to gay couples was unconstitutional because it denied “the dignity and equality of all individuals” and made them “second-class citizens.” Because of this movement, it may have given influence to the authors and directors to create this movie to have light on the subject about homosexuality and to give the audience more...
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...Breakfast Club film contained a wide variety of behavior and stereotypes. Each person had their on personality and taste at the beginning of the film. I believe that communication played the biggest part in the movie. It shows the way that people from totally different backgrounds can communicate and even agree on issues. The various types of communication and behaviors within the film will be discussed. Key terms will be pointed out and highlighted, as well as described in relation to the examples extracted from the film. To begin with the film started out with a communication climate that was both tense and without verbal communication. This was mainly due to the variance in membership constructs of the characters involved. The characters included the brain Brian, Andrew the athlete, the criminal Bender, the princess Claire, and the basket case Allison. There was a great deal of interesting nonverbal communication taking place between these people. As the story progressed, their reactions and responses to each other demonstrated perceptual errors, which would later be shown. The gender conflict styles also played a role. The girls both tended to listen, rather than hold the attention of the others. This was especially true in Allison's case, who never spoke. Allison was introduced in the movie as the basket case. Allison showed that she was obviously insecure, seating herself facing away from the rest of the room (avoidance). She would not speak out, was non-assertive, and when...
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