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    November 16, 2017 English 101 Section 17 Professor Redmond The Eighties The nineteen eighties were the most important and remembered decades; Ronald Reagan, MTV, cliques, fashion icons and Blockbuster. High school was different than today. “The Breakfast Club” (1985) by John Hughes was the most iconic movie to sum up the eighties; a movie delving into the different stereotypes and stigma of mental illness and bullying, in high school. Adolescence was the time of transition between childhood and adulthood;

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    The title of the movie I chose to watch is “The Breakfast Club”. This movie centers around five students; Andrew, Claire, Brian, John and Allison. They had to spend Saturday detention for 8 hours at Shermer High School library. They are all from different cultures and communities. In their own definitions, Claire was a princess, Andrew was an athlete, John was a criminal, Brian was the brain, and Allison was a basket case. Their teacher Mr Vernon asks them to write an essay, and they see that’s

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    The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club has multiple different types of people throughout the movie. In my case I thought I related to all of the students in a way. First I related to John Bender when things happened with his dad he has been a person to really defensive, and mean. I get really defensive and can act like a really rude person towards people sometimes, I saw that in him alot. John would also act up because of the relationship that he had with his father. I have to say me and my father's

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    The film The Breakfast Club (1985) by John Hughes is just one story of the many that were popularized by the teen movie craze of the 1980’s. The comedy follows five high school-aged adolescents as they navigate their way through a day of Saturday detention that is not only atypical but rather an experience which ends up changing the whole perspective on the lives that they have been living. What sets this film apart from other popular high school movies of the time such Fast Times at Ridgemont High

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    Culture can be found in many different areas of the world. I watched the movie "The Breakfast Club" which is only one of the many places that you can find culture. "The Breakfast Club" is a movie about five high school students that come from five different backgrounds. Each of the five students did something different to earn a Saturday detention under the watch of their unenlightened principal. The group of students includes John, Claire, Allison, Andrew and Brian. John who is the rebel of the

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    The Breakfast Club Essay

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    The Breakfast Club (Intercommunications)      John Hughes’ 1985 film, The Breakfast Club, gives countless examples of the principles of interpersonal communication. Five high school students: Allison, a weirdo, Brian, a nerd, John, a criminal, Claire, a prom queen, and Andrew, a jock, are forced to spend the day in Saturday detention. By the end of the day, they find that they have more in common than they ever realized.      I will begin by selecting

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    In the movie the “Breakfast Club” there were five main characters. One of them being a girl named claire. She's known as the princess of the group. Claire is very popular in their school, she's in all the clubs that make her popular. In the movie Claire is made fun of for a lot of things, the person making fun of her is a guy named Bender. Claire is very sensitive to a topic they all start to talk about. And she gets very defensive about it when they all start asking her about it. In the beginning

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    The Breakfast Club Essay

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    The breakfast club was to say the least a boring 80’s movie. But it was a good movie for the purpose of analysis. Simply put, it will not be on my list of movies to rent next time that I am at the rental store. I chose to explain the points of view of Andrew, the jock, and Allison the loner/quite person. I will also be making use of the key terms Clique Groups, and Identity Crisis. 	At the start of the movie, Allison was a person off in a corner by herself. She didn’t talk to anyone, she

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    John Hughes’ movie The Breakfast Club is a classic American film. It includes Hollywood’s famous Brat Pack that was included in most of John Hughes’ films. The Brat Pack included Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, and Anthony Michael Hall. There are multiple themes that run throughout the film itself. The one I would like to point out is “People aren’t always what they seem.” John Hughes uses mostly camera angles that either zooms in on a specific character to depict a feeling

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    Most people have been taught since a very young age to never judge a book by its cover. However, in the movie The Breakfast Club, judging seems to be occurring a lot. The Breakfast Club is about a group of teenagers who have received detention on a Saturday afternoon. While in detention, the students learn a lot about each other that they otherwise didn’t know before. After watching this movie an individual learns that they cannot judge a book by its cover- in other words, no one can judge another

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