Film Analysis Paper: The Breakfast Club “To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others”. -Anthony Robbins All living beings are, in one way or another, drawn towards each other. We, as humans, strive to “communicate” with individuals who are in our environment. Communication is literally defined as: “the sending and receiving of verbal and nonverbal messages
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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
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The Breakfast Club In the movie The Breakfast Club it depicts the different types of social groups in high school by using five teenagers as the main characters. It explores the different pressures put on teenagers to fit in their groups, as well as the expectations from parents and authority figures. The five teenagers start to realize that although they all have different social groups they are more similar than different. The movie is based on five students stuck in detention together. The
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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
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The Breakfast ClubFive teenagers who don't' know each other spend a Saturday in detention at the suburban school library. At first they squirm, fret and pick on each other. Then after sampling some marijuana, a real encounter session gets underway. The stresses and strains of adolescence have turned their inner lives into a minefield of disappointment, anger and despair. The catalyst of the group is Bender (Judd Nelson), a rebellious working-class punk who seethes with rage and attacks his peers
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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
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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
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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
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The character I chose for the breakfast club was John.He was a guy who had a tough family life. He talked ab0ut how his dad said he was no good in everything he did and that his dad would beat him as well. That is a terrible life to. He was kind of the gangster of the school and everyone knew him because he was a gangster. You can't really blame him though because he had a really tough life at school and at home. John thinks he can do whatever he wants and it doesn't matter who it is he will still
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What are the kinds of parenting styles that are portrayed in The Breakfast Club? Fortunately, John Hughes was able to implement most of the styles and assign them to every character in the motion picture. Some of the characters share the same style of parenting, but some differ. In this essay, all of the parenting styles and what character(s) it fits will be discussed. The characters are as follows: Brian Johnson, Claire Standish, Andrew Clark, John Bender, and Allison Reynolds. The parenting styles
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