John Hughes Essays

student that that is very misunderstood; cause people to not take the time to get to know one another. Many people would fit into one of these social categories, as do the main characters in The Breakfast Club, produced and directed by John Hughes in 1984. Hughes argues that everyone is different and no one, not even adults, have the right to determine a person’s worth based on their looks or social status. His argument is effective for its intended audience due his use of exaggerated stereotypes

John Hughes movies of the 1980s: do their meaningful messages override their exclusion of diversity? John Hughes' most famous actress Molly Ringwald used some interesting words to describe him. A few of them were racist, misogynistic, and homophobic. Molly Ringwald was in his most popular movies. For example, she starred in Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, and The Breakfast Club. After Ringwald's big break in Sixteen Candles, she started to become John Hughes's muse for his future movies. Hughes

from one of the greatest movies John Hughes Directed that still resonates today. An innovator, legend, and idol to many, I believe John Hughes is one of the greatest directors of all time. John Hughes’ unique style of relatable scenarios portraying the developmental challenges teenagers go through in The Breakfast Club, and Ferris Buhler’s Day off. Teenagers are aliens; they don’t listen; they rebel; they drive adults crazy. In the movie, The Breakfast Club, John Hughes shows the many ways that teens

office… “Don’t You Forget About Me” I immediately think The Breakfast Club. If you have seen this iconic movie, then you know the impact this song has on the film, even generations later. The Breakfast Club was directed by a talented man named Johns Hughes, and made its big debut in 1985. One Saturday in detention with a brain, an athlete, a princess, a criminal and a basket case is all it took. This movie digs deep into the role of high school stereotyping, but still keeps a warm comedic feel to

three have shared a common friendship that is challenged when Andy turns to a new kid, “ Shane” to teach him how to be a punk for an acting audition. The film “ The Breakfast club” by John Hughes is about five students from stereotype endure a saturday detention under a power- hungry principal. This group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, Brainy Brain, and Andrew, the jock. Each has a chance to tell their story, making the others see them a little differently. These characters are

a brief glimpse into the characters backgrounds. At the beginning of the day you can clearly see the separation among the five students. Claire is considered the princess, Andrew is the athlete, Brian is the brain, Allison is the basket case, and John Bender is the criminal. The irony in it is that as these five students serve detention together they discover over the course of the day that they actually have many similarities. They all have different backgrounds and are involved in different

The Breakfast Club is a movie that was released in 1985. This classic movie was written and directed by the famous John Hughes. The movie revolves around five high school students who are forced to attend Saturday detention and write an essay about who they think they are as a person. Every main character comes from a different clique. There’s the jock, Andrew; the popular girl, Claire; the nerd, Brian; the rebel, Bender; and the odd girl, Allison. These five students all believe they have nothing

"The Breakfast Club" is a coming of age film directed by John Hughes in 1985, where five very different adolescent students are assigned to Saturday detention, where they figure out that each of them fits a particular stereotype, they all have the same characteristics but through their own experiences they become who they are today. In this movie Claire Standish is the princess, Alison Reynolds is the freak, John Bender is the criminal, Brian Johnson is the nerd and Andrew Clarke is the jock. At

In the film, The Breakfast Club, by John Hughes, a film director and a producer, directed a movie about the five high school students who unwillingly attended a school detention on a saturday morning. They approximately stayed in the detention room for roughly eight hours. Mr. Vernon, a professor, served as the authority by forcing them to attend the detention. As soon as the students appeared in the detention room, Mr. Vernon immediately command them on their task for eight hours. He interdiction

The Breakfast Club   The breakfast club is a famous teen film directed by John Hughes. The Breakfast Club provides many concepts of adolescent struggles like identity issues, peer pressure, stereotypes, family relationships. The storyline follows five high school students from different social status meeting at their school’s library for Saturday detention. The film depicts Claire as the princess, Andrew as the jock, Brian as the brain, Allison as the basket case and Bender as the criminal. However

In the 1980s, one of the most recognizable producer and director was John Hughes. His portrayal of teens during this decade is popularly known the such films as The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, and Ferris Buller’s Day Off. In The Breakfast Club, he depicts teenagers in a way that “…conveyed some feeling for the social tensions and frustrations created by high school clique and lifestyle divisions — nerds, jocks, preppies, druggies, and valley girls. Sometimes even class barriers are alluded…” (Quart

within the same genre, the themes can still vary. Some of which include living life to the fullest, the meaning of friendship, as well as coming of age. These themes are all significant within the films “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” (John Hughes), “The Breakfast Club” (John Hughes), “Napoleon Dynamite” (Jared Hess), “Me and Early and the Dying Girl” (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon), “Boyhood”(Richard Linklater) and “Girlhood” (Céline Sciamma). Teens are often portrayed to live life to the fullest by rebelling against

The Breakfast Club is pivotal film that should be within every high school student’s must watch list. There are aspects of the romance and the coming of age genres within the film, but this film contains much greater weight with the ideas of the Teen Film genre. The film consists of a group of kids, each from a specific stereotype within their high school and forced into a room for Saturday detention and through this and other features of the Teen Film genre they learn that they are not all that

Adolescence: A Look at Adolescence in the Movie The Breakfast Club The 1985 movie written and directed by John Hughes, called The Breakfast Club looks at five very different students who are coming into adolescence and becoming their own people. The main characters are Claire Standish, the princess; Andrew Clarke, the jock; Brian Johnson, the brain; Allison Reynolds, the basket case; John Bender, the criminal, and Richard Vernon the principle. This movie shows five young adolescent people trying

John Hughes’ 1985 movie, The Breakfast Club, offers uncountable examples of the ideologies of interpersonal communication. Five high school students: Allison, the kook, Brian, the brain, John, the criminal, Claire, the princess, and Andrew, the jock, are required to devote the day in Saturday detention. At the end of the day, they discover that they have more in mutual than they ever grasped. I will begin by choosing a scene from the movie and using it to explain what interpersonal communication

The Breakfast Club (1985) is a teen movie sensation written and directed by John Hughes. Starring in the movie are Molly Ringwald as Claire, Ally Sheedy as Allison, Emilio Estevez as Andrew, Anthony Michael Hall as Brian and Judd Nelson as Bender. All the characters represent a different clique from an American high school. As part of the different groups they have never got to know each other before. They see each other as a princess, a basket case, an athlete, a brain and a criminal, so does their

seen when the students cover for John when he snuck back into the library and also in the way Vernon threatens the addition of more Saturday detentions to control the students’ actions. Similar to this is peer pressure. In the film peer pressure is used to encourage both positive (when behavior over conforms to expectations) and negative (when behavior under conforms to expectations) deviance. An example of negative deviance encouraged through peer pressure is when John convinces everyone else to smoke

In the movie, Claire Standish represents the popular girl and Andrew Clark represents the jock. Brian Johnson is the nerd and Allison Reynolds is the loner, and last but not least John Bender is the rebellious one. Mr. Vernon assigns them all an assignment, to write an essay about who they think they are. At first, it's answered as Mr. Vernon is crazy and shouldn't care about who they think they are. Also, it is noted how no matter

In the 1985 film, The Breakfast Club, five high school students must spend their Saturday together in detention. Each of the teens is in detention for a different reason. They are each very different. There is the Jock, the Princess, the Brain, the Basket Case, and the Criminal, though they must put aside their differences to survive their grueling eight hour detention with their psychotic and impulsive principal Mr. Vernon. During detention the students were supposed to write and essay, assigned

detention together in their high school library. They were all stereotyped of high school cliques who poured their hearts out to each other and discover how they have a lot in common than they thought. The main characters of the breakfast club were; John bender ( the criminal), Allison Reynold (the basket case), Claire Standish ( the princess), Brian Johnson ( the brain), Andrew Clarke ( the jock) and principal Richard Vernon. In light of this movie, Brian was the brain, the nerd and the peace keeper