did the Breakfast Club really strike home for you?

[momophile]

did it sum up high school for you?:shrug:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. Absolutely. ..

but I never could figure out if I identified more with the the girl who shook dandruff on her desk or Molly Ringwald. :shrug:

[momophile]

2. I really wanted to be like the basketcase

but really I was more of a wallflower.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. It's kind of ...

freeing. :)

[Taverner]

4. In a way

But they didn't show any angel dust-smoking, anarchist libertines so it didn't TOTALLY hit home, ya know...

[wildhorses]

5. don't you forget about me --

i wonder if anyone at the 5 different high schools i attended remember me?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_9sB92dJzM

[bridgit]

6. no, mine was more like Heathers, or Mean Girls...

[Cabcere]

7. I didn't see it until I was in college...

...and at the college I go to, everyone is the nerd. :+

[hfojvt]

25. the nerd was the part I liked least about it

First, I would not take shop for an easy A. If I wanted an easy A, I'd take trigenometry.

Second, the queen concludes that I am not any smarter than Bender. Excuse me? If I am not smarter than him, then I have got nothing. He's stronger than I am. He has more friends than I do. He has more girlfriends than I do. If I don't have more brains than him, then I am a total loser.

Third, I am 45 years old and I have never smoked any pot. There is no way in hell I would have any part of that when I was 17.

Fourth, I would not have tried to pretend that I had had sex with the prom queen (even if she did lend me her underwear so I would not lose ten floppy disks on a bet)


I would not say that it fit high school for me, but I think it has some important things to say about how people relate to each other.

[Deep13]

8. Sure, right up to the part where they all hook up (except the brainiac).

I was a slacker and antisocial, so there was never a happy ending. On the other hand, there was never much pressure from school, just from my fucked up family-life.

[EFerrari]

9. No but it made my worry about my kid.

:)

[Skittles]

10. as an observation, yes

I was a GI brat who moved constantly and I saw these ridiculous cliques all the time - I absolutely REFUSED to participate and went out of my way to make friends in all groups

[jobycom]

11. Not in the specific stereotypes, but in the theme summed up by the Bowie quote.

To me it wasn't about the students seeing past the stereotypes and cliques, it was more about them understanding and proving that their lives were valid, that they weren't just extensions of their parents. That they weren't just incomplete beings for the adults to form into a finished product, but were complete individuals already. That's the part that impressed me most. Teen movies then, and still, fall into two categories. Teens are either mindless, soulless druggies drifting through some fantasyscape (Porky's, Dazed and Confused) or they are struggling to become the adults that adults and public service announcements want them to be (Clueless). Not that there's anything wrong with these films, but what I liked about "The Breakfast Club" was the way it treated teens as fully functional and multi-dimensional. They dealt with drugs and sex, but that was just part of their world, not the entirety of it. In the movie, they saw past the artificial worlds the adults had created around them, and understood the reality of their own.

"These children that you spit on as they try to change their world are immune to your consultations--they're quite aware of what they're going through."

To me it was a beautiful movie, and one I try not to forget as my oldest daughter starts high school. (I even made her watch the film with me!)

[NewWaveChick1981]

12. No, not really.

But then I went to high school in the late 70s and early 80s (graduated in 1981).

[MrScorpio]

13. No at all

That school was too new, too suburban and too white

[Orsino]

14. No, but it did perfectly sum up...

...Hollywood's idea of what high school is, and how to sell it to teens.

[mitchum]

15. No, but "Dazed and Confused" did

[Darth_Kitten]

16. Well, I was going to high school when the movie first came out......

I guess in a way we did relate a tad to the characters. But they did whine a bit too much on how rotten their parents were.

[Redneck Socialist]

17. No, but it was nice to see marijuana use portrayed positively

Remember this was at the height of the "War on Drugs," "Just say No" nonsense, so it was pretty cool to see drug use portrayed in a positive light.

[Tektonik]

18. I went to high school in 99-03

and comparing my experience w/ the movie, the movie was wayyyy wayyyy too white.

I went to a public high school with large white, Asian and Latino populations.

[av8rdave]

19. It didn't...but it did remind me that I wasted a lot of time worrying about stupid things in HS

[BuddhaGirl]

20. In the way it portrayed the different cliques

and social groups, yes. I went to my 10th reunion, and the same people were hanging around in the same cliques they socialized with back in school.

Class of '80, here!
Mater Dei H.S.
Santa Ana, CA

[woo me with science]

21. Nope. I look back on movies and TV shows from the 80's

and what stands out for me is the level of self-absorption and self pity. It was, after all, the decade of greed and excessive therapy and navel-gazing for the comfortable. I watched "A Chorus Line" again on TV recently and the self-pitying and whining from all the characters was unbearable.

[hfojvt]

26. Bender was not a whiner though

He was angry. What stands out for me, was the way he turned all their attitudes on their head. I always thought of the thugs as just thugs. It never occured to me that they were also poor.

[ElboRuum]

22. My high school's clique situation was almost identical...

So um, yeah. You could say that.

[Left Is Write]

23. Yes.

[SPKrazy]

24. I related to it some...

and St. Elmo's fire some too

:shrug:

[sniffa]

27. not even cLose

and i'm stiLL amazed by peopLe who swear it's the greatest movie ever.