The purpose of this post is to illustrate that The Breakfast Club is:
1) A terrible movie
2) The white person equivalent of the equally terrible Scarface
3) A hidden pro-Communist chestnut hidden in wholesome middle American culture.
Point 1 is incredibly easy to prove. The acting in the movie is piss poor across the board. The focal fault is that nobody involved displays talent. Ally Sheedy and Judd Nelson appear to be decent actors at first, but once the surfaces of their characters' are scratched, they become dumpster babies. Emilio, Anthony Michael Hall, and especially Molly Ringwald, due to their acting, deserve to be illegally aborted babies, via rusty fish hooks to the cooter. John Hughes also invents fake, hip, young person lingo, pretending that he understands youth culture. It's fakier than fake.
2) Much like Scarface, the Breakfast Club has no admirable qualities. It feels tedious, as if the material is reaching for a plateau it can't quite reach. The acting is terrible across the board. The love of the movie appears to be tied specifically to one ethnic group, in this case, dumb white people.
3) Illustrated by Anthony Michael hall's variations of the same speech at the beginning and ending of the movie. Allow me to C&P these.
Beginning:
Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was that we did wrong. What we did WAS wrong. But we think you're crazy to make us write this essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us... in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Correct? That's the way we saw each other at seven o'clock this morning. We were brainwashed.
Ending:
Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong, but we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us... In the simplest terms and 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?
Basically, this "Breakfast Club" forms a union of disparate minds in order to combat what they believe to be the expectations of the principal. What they don't understand is that by becoming one unit instead of five individual units, they have fallen to their master. One unit is easier to control than five for an authority figure. If these very different people see themselves as "one," the leader, the principal, can rule them as one, The "Breakfast Club" is the union, and the principal is the Stalin. The club may think they have won by learning to work together, but they have signed the documents to end their own lives and individuality. The school--the soul-crushing system--wins.
My interpretation is that the principal was a hardass on purpose in order to trigger this grouping together. Indeed, it is probably the only logical interpretation there can be. The Breakfast Club can only be viewed by intelligent people as a pro-Stalinist piece of propaganda. If you find the Breakfast Club to be inspirational, or a feel good movie, you are probably extremely susceptible to brainwash and manipulation, and you shout probably cut all ties to any media.
1) A terrible movie
2) The white person equivalent of the equally terrible Scarface
3) A hidden pro-Communist chestnut hidden in wholesome middle American culture.
Point 1 is incredibly easy to prove. The acting in the movie is piss poor across the board. The focal fault is that nobody involved displays talent. Ally Sheedy and Judd Nelson appear to be decent actors at first, but once the surfaces of their characters' are scratched, they become dumpster babies. Emilio, Anthony Michael Hall, and especially Molly Ringwald, due to their acting, deserve to be illegally aborted babies, via rusty fish hooks to the cooter. John Hughes also invents fake, hip, young person lingo, pretending that he understands youth culture. It's fakier than fake.
2) Much like Scarface, the Breakfast Club has no admirable qualities. It feels tedious, as if the material is reaching for a plateau it can't quite reach. The acting is terrible across the board. The love of the movie appears to be tied specifically to one ethnic group, in this case, dumb white people.
3) Illustrated by Anthony Michael hall's variations of the same speech at the beginning and ending of the movie. Allow me to C&P these.
Beginning:
Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was that we did wrong. What we did WAS wrong. But we think you're crazy to make us write this essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us... in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Correct? That's the way we saw each other at seven o'clock this morning. We were brainwashed.
Ending:
Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong, but we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us... In the simplest terms and 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?
Basically, this "Breakfast Club" forms a union of disparate minds in order to combat what they believe to be the expectations of the principal. What they don't understand is that by becoming one unit instead of five individual units, they have fallen to their master. One unit is easier to control than five for an authority figure. If these very different people see themselves as "one," the leader, the principal, can rule them as one, The "Breakfast Club" is the union, and the principal is the Stalin. The club may think they have won by learning to work together, but they have signed the documents to end their own lives and individuality. The school--the soul-crushing system--wins.
My interpretation is that the principal was a hardass on purpose in order to trigger this grouping together. Indeed, it is probably the only logical interpretation there can be. The Breakfast Club can only be viewed by intelligent people as a pro-Stalinist piece of propaganda. If you find the Breakfast Club to be inspirational, or a feel good movie, you are probably extremely susceptible to brainwash and manipulation, and you shout probably cut all ties to any media.
