In fact, it’s strong enough to carry the whole soundtrack. It’s only ten tracks long, and most of them are pretty forgettable, but Simple Minds’ “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” actually does deserve the praise it received over the years.
#The breakfast club 1985 movie
Where the movie – and many of Hughes’ productions – excels is with its soundtrack. It’s just simply not the best of John Hughes, nor is it close to it. Or why the movie became a cult classic people still gush about today. Or why a slice of olive loaf sliding off a statue would be funny. I get why audiences would chuckle as Bender criticizes everyone’s lunchtime cuisine. Again, because I get it and because the cast did a great job portraying these stereotypes. It’s a ham-fisted attempt at really driving home how different everyone is, especially when Reynolds pours salt and crunches cereal between two slices of white bread. You see, he’s never heard of sushi because he’s “uncultured” and “too cool for school.” He also doesn’t have a lunch, because the cool kids don’t eat! Then we watch as Clark, Johnson, and Reynolds break into their brown bags of food – all very indicative of their home life and personality.
It starts with Claire breaking out a wooden board, a ceramic container of sushi, a jar of soy sauce, and chopsticks to Bender’s confusion. Let’s look at the lunch scene, where everyone digs into their lunches for a good solid three and a half minutes. It’s almost too “in your face” about highlighting the different lives these students lead. But also because the script is a tad rough. I don’t like any of the characters, partially because I’ve outgrown the urge to reminisce about my highs school years. And that’s where my biggest hangup with The Breakfast Club comes from. It makes it so easy to fall in love with the Brat Pack, even though they’re kind of insufferable.
Molly Ringwald (Claire Standish) and Ally Sheedy (Allison Reynolds) portray the stunning princess and the twisted outcast wonderfully, creating two characters we could swear we sat next to during lunch period.Įach of these students has their demons, and it’s those demons that we, the viewer, can connect with the most. It was no different for young ladies, either. If John Bender was who we aimed to be, Emilio Estevez (Andrew Clark) and Anthony Michael Hall (Brian Johnson) were who we actually were – jocks and nerds awkwardly fitting within our respective cultures. He was McDreamy of the high school universe – and was what so many kids of the mid- to late-80s strived to emulate. But hidden beneath all of that was a kindness that made him even sexier by the film’s end. He broke all the rules, didn’t give a crap what anyone thought about him, and was as mysterious as he was handsome. Judd Nelson’s rough ‘n tough John Bender was the go-to cool kid. These were the characters we thought we were or want our younger selves to have been. The whole conflict of detention and Assistant Principal Richard Vernon (Paul Gleason) are just vessels to introduce us to the aptly named Brat Pack. When John Hughes scribed The Breakfast Club, he was writing a character piece. And if there’s one thing The Breakfast Club is, it’s relatable. If it’s relatable in any way or has an important message, we’re sure to latch on and overlook that it may just be a mediocre movie. Sometimes, a movie doesn’t have to be stellar to be beloved. However, before you grab your pitchforks and march onto my social media, I think I see why people gravitate towards it. I know I’m in the minority, but I firmly believe that The Breakfast Club is a vastly overrated 80s comedy. But what is it about The Breakfast Club that draws us back in time and time again? Is it a great movie? Truth be told, I really don’t think so, but it also doesn’t have to be. I’m not even a huge fan, and even I know that, if it’s circulating on cable, I’ll get sucked back into that stupid library. There’s a good chance that, if it’s playing on TV, you’ll stop flipping channels and suffer through commercials to watch it. So why is it that we always get hung up on The Breakfast Club. AugJohn Hughes has so many no t able hits under his belt, from Home Alone to Ferris Bueler’s Day Off to Uncle Buck.
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