Film/The Breakfast Club Plot summary: The Breakfast Club displays various peer group interactions, while demonstrating main stereotypes of five adolescents in high school on a Saturday morning of detention. We have the princess, the jock, the brain, the loner and the rebel (druggie). This group of teens learns and discusses their lives, feelings, needs and why and how they are in Saturday detention. The beginning of the movie shows the adolescents being dropped off on Saturday morning at school by their parents. Giving the viewers a glimpse of what each characters home and family life may consist of. The principal Vernon who portrays himself as a hard ass and he is better than the students by telling each of them to write a 1000 word essay …show more content…
on “who they think they are”. Claire is the popular; princess that is rich and nicely dressed, Claire’s social status is that of an elite crowd. Claire cannot believe her father can not get her out of detention, his response is “I will make it up to you” She is a daddy’s girl. Her reasoning for being in detention is that she got caught skipping school to go shopping. Claire states her parents use her against each other. Claire’s parents use money instead of love Andrew is the jock, he is part of the larger crowd of adolescents that participate in sports but also has crowd connections to Claire and her popular crowd, although they may frequent the same parties, Andrew would not hang out with Claire’s elite social clique. This shows there is social class segregation, “peers of the same social class associate with other peers from the same social class Steinberg p.165”. Andrews’s dad seems to be overbearing and living up to his fathers expectations is exhausting and stressful, his father only cares about Andrew winning wrestling matches (“There are no losers in our house”). Andrew wanted his dad to think he was cool because his dad used to mess around in school, so Andrew beats up a frail skinny classmate and taped his buns together in gym class. Andrew is emotional and soft hearted. He continuously thought about his schoolmate and how humiliated the boy would be to have to explain to his own father what had happened to him in school. Andrew hates his dad Brian is a nerd or geek.
He is tall skinny and dressed proper his mom drops him off and explains he better figure out some way to study. Brian receives an “F” in shop class, his parents place an enormous of pressure on him to get “A” so that he can become something in life, no matter how smart he is it is not good enough for his parents. Brian brings a gun to school to try and takes his own life. The gun ends up being a flare gun that went off in his locker that is why he is in detention. Allison is dropped off and when she goes to the passenger window they drive away. She is dressed in dark clothes and hangs her head as she walks. She is a loner and has no friends. She takes things and is a compulsive liar that lives out of her purse. She is weird and bizarre and her reasoning for being in detention is she “had nothing better to do” Her parents ignore …show more content…
her Last is John “Bender” he is the druggie/criminal, however, he is not very book smart but has street smarts that help him understand individuals in a deeper level.
Bender is the only adolescent that isn’t dropped off by his parents. He strolls in loudly with baggie clothes and combat boots touching all the books and papers on the desk of the library. Bender seeks attention, is unhappy and has violent tendencies that are caused from “problematic parent-child relationship, as he indicates in the movie, his father beats his mother verbally and physically abuses him, he illustrate this abuse in the form of cigar burns on his arm to Andrew when Andrew calls him a liar about his home life. Relationships with parents that are coercive and hostile lead to development of antisocial behaviors Steinberg p.169”. Throughout the movie Bender clearly has no patience or sympathy towards Claire or Brian’s so called horrible life. His harassment towards Claire is also because he has a crush on her. Bender is in detention because he pulled the school fire alarm. Throughout various parts of the movie the five adolescents have a chance to understand that each has felt alone, vulnerable, pressure and sadness. Together they share common feelings of wanting acceptance, love and friendships. Towards the end Brian states that he sees the others as his friends and what would happen on Monday when they saw each other at school? Claire asked, do you mean will we continue to be friends? The answer is no.
Claire explains that it would is difficult to stand up to her friends and would not socially be expectable for them in a social atmosphere to hang out. Brian write’s the 1000 word essay for all five of them: Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you're crazy for making us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us, as you want to see us, in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal. Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, The Breakfast Club. The adolescent experience develops social and psychological changes, beginning with forming one’s own identity, roles and relationships. Cliques and crowds are clearly defined and most of the time has rigid boundaries. The Breakfast Club defines various stereotypes of adolescents that allow five kids to defy the social norms and create a new type of interaction with one another, bonding and sharing intimate stories of their lives. This would not otherwise have been experienced without Saturday detention.
To start off Melinda is a freshman. The first year of high school. High school is tough, but it becomes extremely tough due to the fact of her having no friends. Plus home is not any
The 1985 film, The Breakfast Club, directed by John Hughes shows how a person’s identity can be influenced by conflict he or she has experienced in life. First, John Bender is in the library telling everyone how he got a cigar burn on his arm from his dad. For example, his mother and father don’t treat with the most respect or any respect at all. They call him names and say he can’t do anything right. One day him and his dad got into a really bad argument and his dad burnt him with is cigar that he had. Because his parents treat him that way, he treats everyone he’s around very badly.
In the iconic film, The Breakfast Club, five random high school students must spend their Saturday together in detention. Each teen is in detention for a different reason. The Jock (Andrew), the Princess (Claire), the Brain (Brian), the Basket Case (Allison), and the Criminal (Bender) must put aside their differences to survive their grueling eight-hour detention with their psychotic and rash principal Mr. Vernon. While in detention, they are expected to write about “who they really are” in one thousand words. Throughout the day, their actions reveal their innermost struggle involving their cliques and their home lives. As the movie progresses, we find out the reason each teen is in detention that culminates in a climactic discussion about
“I viewed each of the films at least once…taking notes on the role of the teacher, peer relations, among students, relations between students and adults, student attitudes toward schoolwork, extracurricular activities, the role of the family, the resources of the school, the use of violence and drugs, exploitation of sexuality (4).”
In this film we see many typical high school behaviors such as cliques, cattiness, and popularity (or lack there of) issues. Many scenes in this movie have an array of stereotypes. Sometimes they are clearly stated and others just seen through attitudes of the actors/actresses character. Also through out we follow the main clique “the plastics” and they have this image they have to uphold. Be perfect, skinny, the best at everything, and in sync with everything they do; or they wont uphold their status. I chose this film because I think it shows a lot of what we have learned in this course and how it is in real life. Clearly the film is exaggerated but much of
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.
This film contains some classic examples of the kinds of real life issues adolescents deal with. Issues such as popularity, peer relationships, family/sibling relationships, sex, and struggles with identity are all addressed in this ninety-minute film.
The film, The Breakfast Club, introduces five students, each perceived with a different stereotype which is commonly found in American high schools.
The Breakfast Club is a movie made in nineteen eighty-five, directed by John Hughes. The plot follows five students at Shermer High School, as they attend for Saturday detention on March 24 on nineteen eighty-four. The students are not complete strangers to each other, but the five of them are from completely different cliques or social groups. John Bender “The Criminal” is one of the worst behaved kids in school, does drugs and is always involved in some kind of trouble, Claire Standish “The Princess” is one of the most popular girls in school, all the guys want to date her. Brian Johnson “The Brain” is the typical nerd, he is really smart in school, but has no idea about relationships, parties or drugs. Andy Clark “The Athlete” is a really popular kid in Shermer High, he is the varsity letterman, captain of wrestling team and a ladies man. Finally the last student in the detention is Allison Reynolds “The basket Case” she barely talks to anyone in the school and act really weird when approached.
The movie The Breakfast Club is a perfect example of peer relationships in the adolescent society. It shows the viewer some of the main stereotypes of students in high school you have a jock, a nerd, the weirdo, a rebel, and a prep. Over the course of a Saturday detention the different types of peers learn a lot about one another by hearing what each one has done to get into Saturday detention as well as why they chose to do it.
What can you learn about adolescence by watching five very different teens spend Saturday detention together? With each and everyone of them having their own issues weather it be at home, school, or within themselves. During this stage of life adolescents are seen as rude, disrespectful, and out of control. But why is this? Is it truly all the child’s fault? Teens have to face quite a few issues while growing up. Adolescence is the part of development where children begin push back against authority and try to figure out who they are or who they are going to become. Therefore, we will be looking at adolescent physical changes, their relationships, cognitive changes and the search for identity as depicted in the movie The Breakfast Club (Hughes,1985).
One of these is normative social influences, this is “the influence others have on us because we want them to like us (King, 2013, p. 447). Andrew shows this when he talks about how he got in detention. Andrew states he bullied a kid, so the kid would think he was cool. You see that Andrew does this disgusting action to this kid so he could be seen as cool. Another social behavior that is seen in the film is the fundamental attribution error, which is observers overestimate the importance of the internal traits and underestimate the importance of external factors when explaining others behaviors. We see the fundamental attribution error a lot in this movie. First we see it with Brian, everyone sees him as smart. But when Brian explains that he failed shop class people were surprised; they never thought this kid would ever fail, since he is so smart. Another is with Bender, they see him as disrespectful and aggressive. What they do not know is, at home, he is being verbally and physically abused by his dad and has to defend himself. This can bring us to conformity, which is a change in a person’s behavior to get more closely with group standards. We see this with all five of the students. Let’s start with Andrew, he covers up his hatred for him father so he wouldn’t be seen as abnormal. Then you have Brian who talks about contemplating suicide for failing a class. He did not want to
In the film The Breakfast Club there are various social psychological theories and concepts that describe the inner selves of the characters. The characters in the film are initially perceived in a certain manner by each other because of knowing the way they behave in school and the type of people and environment they surround themselves with in school. However one detention on a Saturday brings these characters together and throughout the film their true personalities and behaviors start to reveal themselves by means of social psychological theories and concepts. The characters individually and as a group display their personalities through theories and concepts of social psychology. At the very start of the film, one of the concepts displayed is the acceptance type of conformity. The principal assigns the characters (students) to complete a task and because he is a figure of authority, the characters accept having to complete the task by the end of the day without any attempts to alter that. One of the students, Claire Standish, is revealed to display the concept of narcissism, which is unfortunately a dark side of herself. This is evident as Claire claims that she is popular and loved by her fellow schoolmates and seems to care and showcase her rich and beauty too much. She is, as her detention-mates discover, full of herself. In addition this also shows signs of the spotlight effect theory which can relate to Claire in that she believes that her schoolmates look at her and pay so much attention to her appearance add rich, spoiled-like behavior. Another character to show a theory of social psychology is Allison Reynolds. In the film, Allison is a character with an introvert personality, although she also displays strange and...
Despite an inappropriate music-video sequence and a phony up-tempo finale, The Breakfast Club offers a breakthrough portrait of the pain and misunderstanding which result from the social hierarchy created by youth themselves. The lookers and the jocks are popular and can do whatever they want — except relate to those outside their social circle of winners.
Non judgmental and Compassion was a message in this movie. If more people would have compassion for others we would live in a better world. It is important to be non judgmental because people never know what happens in a person's life to cause them to act out in a certain way. Mrs. Erin Gruwell’s students were separated along racial lines and had few aspirations beyond street survival. Many people warned her that her students were all criminals who couldn’t be taught. With all odds stacked against her, she accepted the teaching position at Wilson High School. Erin Gruwell saw more in the students than a future as criminals and gang members; she saw them as people who have lost their ways in life. Instead of turning her back as society had done, she held out a helping hand. She had compassion and was non judgmental toward the children’s actions and hatred for one another. Being judgmental...