‘The
Breakfast Club’ is a teen movie where 5 teenagers get detention on a
Saturday and are locked in the school library for 8 hours. From 8am
until 4pm. You have each one of the stereo types of an American high
school. You have, Claire, the spoilt-princess, Andrew, the school jock,
john the badly behaved, rude boy who comes across at first as not having
any feelings. Brian is the nerd, the brainy boy who is in the physics,
maths and many more academic clubs and lastly Allison, who is a
compulsive liar and doesn’t speak at all in the first half of the film.
Throughout the movie you learn a lot about the characters. They all have
something in common, at first they deny these factors but as the movie
progresses they become much more open and tell each other about their
home life and why it is so bad. It all comes down to the parents. The
principal is a nasty, bully who takes his power of authority to another
level. He threatens John secretly and tells him no one will believe him,
hes alone and who would take his word over his. The principal’s nasty
behavior brings the students together, they all become very interested
in John and why his behavior is like it is.
Teen
movies usually use problems that teenagers in the audience will face,
this is to help them relate to the characters and become emotionally
involved. Conflict with parents is a common factor in a teen film but
instead of presenting it in a very serious way there is humor throughout
the film but they still get their points across, which brings the
audience emotionally attached. This is a very cliché teen movie although
it was instrumental in setting the clichés. They include illegal
substances, such as marijuana but there is no peer pressure in the
characters taking part in it, they join in on their own. Although the
idea of virginity was made very pressured. Claire the princess and prom
queen was repeatedly taunted about whether she was or not.
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