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Breakfast Club

posted 17 years ago by Spudnic
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This movie really reminded me of The Breakfast Club. Hold on, I'm not crazy...

The random group of people from different circles being thrown together. Hatfield and Mrs. Mallory are from the same clique and start off feeling superior to the others. You have the outsider, the geeky guy, the tough guy. The stereotypes are well represented.

Towards the end, them sitting around the stagecoach on the benches and on the floor, all of these disparate characters feel a common bond for having gone through this together.

Then at the end when they are taking Mrs. Mallory out on the stretcher her friends look upon Dallas with disgust. Mrs. Mallory is obviously torn.

Maybe this is a stretch, but this really struck me and I'm not one to look for these kinds of connections.

[–] BananasFoster 17 years ago

Makes perfect sense. Both films show microcosms coming together under situations of stress (albeit Saturday detention and Indian attacks are two different beasts...)

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[–] zwrite2 17 years ago

You're not crazy. In fact, your post is one of the most insightful I have read here on IMDB.

I just watched the movie, and I was trying to think of a modern-day correlation as I watched it. Thanks for reminding me about "The Breakfast Club." You're spot on.

Adios,
ZWrite

[–] zwrite2 17 years ago

Spudnic:

In a review I wrote, I gave you credit for reminding me of "The Breakfast Club."

Shalom,
ZWrite

[–] K_Billy 17 years ago

Dude You're not crazy and totally correct.
That was a great connection you made, and I thought a bit about that as well the first time I saw this.

Nice job, dude.

[–] oddlittleemily 16 years ago

I'm so glad you posted this... I thought the exact same thing and wasn't sure if I was crazy or not xP

[–] vinidici 16 years ago

Here comes the ONE, the ONLY ("Thank God!" I can imagine some of you guys chiming in, out there in "the peanut gallery") vinidici, to simultneously undermine AND re-inforce the OP's premise as only HE can do it!

"Grand Hotel" (1932) was, as far as I know, the first motion picture to employ the gimmick of casting many film stars together in the same picture (e.g., John and Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford). I am not so certain that it was the first movie, however, to throw in disparate archtypical and iconic characters together into a shared setting; but until I know different, I will operate on the assumption that GH was, indeed, a pioneer in THAT department as well. Such a storytelling device has been present in countless films, cutting across many diffent film genres, ever since.

Just off the top of my head, here are some film titles which incorporate the "disparate types banding together" motif:

Grand Hotel
The Lady Vanishes
Stagecoach
Lifeboat
Key Largo
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Murder on the Orient Express
[Insert any disaster movie or teen slasher flick HERE]

On television, "Gilligan's Island" comes most readily to mind.

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[–] cokoholicar 16 years ago

There always has to be one that disagrees... well done sir

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[–] MrPie7 16 years ago

Well, I'd be more inclined to agree if Ringo was under arrest for taping Luke Plummer's butt cheeks together. Just kidding. Similar theme.

[–] thereseuphemiaabernathy 15 years ago

TBC is exactly what I was reminded of as well!