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"I like it as an adolescent fairy tale," Wolfe said. (The basket case can make out with the athlete if she puts on the right Mary Kay gloss.) He likes it despite the fact that it reinforces gender stereotypes. Wolfe likes "The Breakfast Club." He likes it despite the fact it's just five suburban white kids.
He's from the generation of youth born with a cell phone in one hand and an energy drink in the other. He's 21 years old and a Drake senior who took Younger's teen film class. The trouble is, "The Breakfast Club" is like listening to Nine Inch Nails from the 1990s: I'm just not that angry anymore. It's all stays pretty close to the surface."įorty-year-old Finney knows Younger is right, but 15-year-old Finney wants to mount a defense. "But you never really learn what is beneath that stereotype. "He basically presents you with five stereotypes and says, 'There's more to these people than the stereotypes,' " Younger said. She says "The Breakfast Club" and Hughes movies in general don't have a lot of intellectual heft to them. They look at the classics, such as 1955's "Rebel Without a Cause" starring James Dean, probably the first teenage rebellion film, and newer flicks, such as "Elephant" from 2003, which examines a school shooting. That bodes well in any kind of justice system.īeth Younger, a Drake University English professor, teaches a class on adolescent films. The criminal wouldn't have been around to pull a fire alarm because he would already be in juvenile hall after the drug dog that routinely sweeps the school sniffed out his pot stash.Īnd the princess? Well, she probably wouldn't have had to go to detention at all. And he's probably under observation at the local children's psychiatric unit. In the age of zero tolerance, he's expelled. He brought a flare gun to school ostensibly to commit suicide. Today? He might well face assault charges, expulsion and he would almost certainly be kicked off the team. The athlete who taped the butt cheeks of a classmate together? In 1985, all he had to do was detention and then he could wrestle at a meet later that day. I doubt Ally Sheedy would even have been let in the building for Saturday detention.īesides, we take juvenile bad behavior a lot more seriously than we used to. Access to buildings is strictly controlled.
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If they made "The Breakfast Club" in 2015, the whole thing would take place as a series of text messages.Īnd where's the school security? This is post-Columbine, post-9/11 America. The almost physical integration of technology into the lives of 21st century youth cannot be understated.
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I watch the movie today and it seems dated. The princess feels burdened by her wealth and popularity.
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It's a room full of broadly drawn archetypes who get up to some shenanigans on a Saturday at school. I watch the movie and realize there isn't much too it. I listed it as my favorite movie well into my 20s. When I was a teenager, I loved "The Breakfast Club." It seemed so deep and introspective. I thought it made me sound tougher than I really was.
I was a pack-a-day kind of kid, you know, an f-bomb every other word. And when you're in middle school, profanity is always very funny and kind of rebellious.īack then, swearing was like smoking. I liked it because Nelson's character, Bender, swore a lot. Everybody did for about three years in the 1980s. I loved it as a boy because I had a crush on Molly Ringwald.
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She meets up with Andrew (Emilio Estevez), an athlete doing detention for taping a guy's butt cheeks together.Īlso in attendance: Brian (Anthony Michael Hall), a brain whose flare gun went off in his locker John (Judd Nelson), a criminal who pulled a fire alarm and Allison (Ally Sheedy), a basket case who didn't have anything better to do than go to school on a Saturday.įINNEY 5: The fickle fates of 'The Breakfast Club' gangįor people between the ages of about 40 and 50 today, this '80s film was a centerpiece of adolescence, whether it be in first run at the theater or later as a staple of cable TV movie channels. In "The Breakfast Club," Ringwald plays Claire, a high school princess who is sentenced to Saturday detention because she ditched class to go shopping. The movie was written and directed by John Hughes, a guy who specialized in teenage angst movies starring Molly Ringwald, including "Pretty in Pink" and "Sixteen Candles." To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the 1985 movie "The Breakfast Club," a couple of theaters in the Des Moines metro are showing the film Thursday night.