The movie, The Breakfast Club, is a classic that displays five very different teenagers gathered in Saturday detention. Each teenager (Bender, Allison, Claire, Brian, and Andrew) has a different personality and behave in different ways which leads to clash between the characters. John Bender, the essential “bad boy” of the movie, appears to not have any type of impulse control throughout the film. He constantly has random outbursts and makes sexual passes at one of the other main characters, Claire. His behavior is explained through the psychoanalytic approach. His random outbursts and sexual passes are explained through his unconscious impulses.(finish this paragraph) Brian is displayed as the “nerd” of the film. He has a constant pressure …show more content…
She is constantly worried about what others may think of her. That is exactly why she behaves the way she does. Claire admits that she has a constant pressure to live up to the way other perceive her. She faces so much pressure to act a certain way based on her surroundings. She feels as though if she acts a certain way, her reputation may be torn to shreds. Allison is depicted as the “crazy girl” in the film. Throughout the film she has trouble engaging with the other teens, with the exception of a few random outbursts. Allison goes about dumping out her purse to reveal the contents of it, saying that it is for when she runs away. When asked about her parents, all she replies with is “they ignore me.” By her parents ignoring her, it causes her to have trouble engaging and her random outbursts. She has random outbursts for attention. She seeks the attention her parents never gave her. Andy is displayed as the stereotypical “jock” of the film. His father is the wrestling coach and places so much pressure on Andy to act the way he acted in high school. Andy is allowing his father to dictate the way he is acting. Based on the way his father wants him to act, Andy feels forced to behave like a bully the way his father
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.
What Jessica desires is to be in control and she sees an opportunity to achieve this within the popular group of the school. Jessica earns her position within her clique by being demanding. She scrutinizes students at school, and her dominant demeanor allows her to control people’s behaviours. Although Jessica plays her part exceptionally well, Valerie is able to see through the facade. During a conversation between Jessica and Val, Val sees the true Jessica. She says, “The confidence was gone, the superiority was missing - all replaced by this weird vulnerability that didn’t look right on her,” (Brown 215). Valerie sees that without her public persona, Jessica is vulnerable. What Jessica desires is control, and without it she feels just as insignificant as those she picks on. By developing a public persona of a confident teenager, Jessica controls people’s lives and makes an impact on others, positive or
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.
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.
In act one Anne always talked back saying things like, “Oh, I had a date with Jopie.” and other things like “I’m going to be a famous dancer or singer, or something wonderful!”that show that she would show off. She also would talk back to people like when she ruined the fur coat and took the pipe and was not honest about it. She became worried at the end of the book and when everyone was threatening to leave, Mr. Van Daan left and then Peter threatened to leave and Anne said “No, Peter! No.”. It shows that she is very worried. Anne was showing off in act one a lot and was always saying that she would be famous and was not honest. Then later in the book she became worried because the war was getting very intense and she knew that they couldn’t hide forever and everyone was getting mad at eachother which was going to cause drama and could eventually get them
in there because she is saving up for when she runs away. Allison’s response to the strain
The breakfast club is a teenage movie who show us the typical stereotypes who exist in high school and young people from different social groups. This movie tries to portray teenagers and their problem in their life in a realistic way. The breakfast club shows us that an outside look with the typical stereotypical look don´t need to be that person as you think.
The Breakfast Club (1985) follows a group of five adolescents through an eight-hour long detention at their high school. The film progresses through their day evading their assistant principal and engaging in delinquent activity, all in an attempt to pass the time faster. Though all coming from different cliques and social groups, by the end of the movie, the five students come closer together and find that their differences are not as deep as they seem. Films within the popular media have tried to accurately depict what it’s like to be an adolescent and The Breakfast Club (1985) does just that. By incorporating five different students from five different cliques, Allison the basket case, Claire the prom queen, John the criminal, Brian the
In the movie “The Breakfast Club” there are several social psychological principles occurring during the course of the film. The film focuses on five students, Claire, Brian, Andrew, Allison, and John, or “Bender” as he more commonly referred to. The students arrive at their high school to serve a Saturday detention sentence. The central plot revolves around each of the characters personal lives, personal characteristics, and relationships, and how they each develop over the course of the film. While there are several social psychological principles that were present in the film the major principles that truly stood out included: the cognitive dissonance theory, stereotypes, and conformity. Each of these principles can be seen in several
From the moment we start school, we are told to act a specific way, be a certain person, and do certain things to pave a path for who we are to become. In some cases, the way we act, the things we do, and the people we surround ourselves with during our school years cause us to be placed into a certain stereotype. The Breakfast Club, directed by John Hughes, Don’t You Forget About Me, written by Keith Forsey and Barbie Doll, written by Marge Piercy all give extremist views on the dangers of stereotypes. In The Breakfast Club, Andy, Allison, Bender, Brian, and Claire spend a whole day together projecting their own selves only to decide to leave each other behind for their own cliques. Don’t You Forget About Me is a mantra, telling
The Breakfast Club is about 5 high school students enduring detention on a Saturday. You first see the in groups and outgroups. An in group are people who belong to the same group as you, while the out group are people who belong to a different group as you. This was shown right off the bat in
The year is 2014. It continues to be evident that teenagers suffer from many different personality disorders. Many say that the hardest year of a person’s life tends to be their teenage years. A great film that displays students suffering from personality disorders is, The Breakfast Club. This movie is about five seemingly different teenagers in high school that all receive detention on a Saturday. Their mischievous behavior led them to be all together in the same room, on the same day. Interestingly enough, each of the students fit a particular stereotype, and many have the same characteristics. The only different aspect is how they express themselves.
Andy is the stereotype of a jock. He is at the formal operational stage. Andy's dad pushes him to be the best. He has to win and that's the only option. He is an authoritarian parent who is controlling. At the beginning of the movie Andy is at the identity vs. role confusion. He has no personal identity because of the control his dad has over his life. This leads to him losing control.
These aspects where portrayed in such an incredible manner in the movie through the character Arnie (played by Leonardo Dicaprio). The character Arnie comes off as very brutally honest and sometimes rude. He has a hard time understanding when to apologize or a reason to why he should. For instance, one part in the movie he jokes about his father committing suicide at the dinner table singing, “dad’s dead, dad’s dead” over and over again. Arnie also gets drawn to specific objects that interests him, lacking his sense of focus which creates major predicaments for him (such as climbing up the towns water tower and not wanting to come down). Though, ways to prevent him from getting hurt or allowing him to comprehend a sense of what is right from wrong is creating melodic sayings. So for instance, his brother Gilbert (Johnny Depp) sings “match in the gas tank, boom boom”. This allows Arnie to assimilate that he should come
In addition to denial, she reaches a stage of anger and indignance with herself and others in the small world that is her life. She can no longer perform the simplest tasks such as dressing herself or walking down the stairs. It irks her to need help, which is one of the reasons she can't stand Doris. She is also angry at the lack of emotional control as she perceives how "laden with self‑pity" (pg. 31) her voice sounds when arguing with Marvin in one instance. She cannot control how her "mouth speaks by itself, the words flowing from somewhere, some half hidden hurt" (pg. 68).