And the school giving the detention gets slammed with an “abuse” charge by confiscating the students phones and other means of internet access I mean it’s supposed to be a punishment yeah...?
Agreed! I can’t help but feel bad we don’t know how far his career would of went had he not passed. Would he be a Oscar winner. Or would he have stayed making only eighties themed movies. Or would he be the King of Superhero movies or Docudramas, Romances or would he have gotten burned out and left the movie business behind running a music store or operating his own dispensary or a flower shop. And would he have stuck it out with his wife or would he be in his 7th or 8th marriage by now.
36 years later, and this movie still holds up splendidly. The problem that the teens go through are still relatable to contemporary teenagers, and the chemistry between the five leads is superb! 😍
I haven't been in a highschool in 40 years but have seen enough photos and movies etc shot in them, they haven't changed a bit. I mean, obviously the people who designed and build highschools forgot what it was like going to one.
@@newclothes8165 As someone that spent all of his teens in the 1980s, this is my third favorite movie. My first is Beetlejuice and my second is Full Metal Jacket. I suggest you sit down with popcorn and a drink and watch each through.
@@johnphantom I will watch this one day as it is so important to the 80's genre of movies. At the time I was 13 when it came out and a black kid who felt the content didn't relate to me. Just didnt seem like something I would care for but being older now and more open minded. I think I will like it.
@@newclothes8165 Yeah there can be cultural differences, and they didn't give anything practically to the minorities for TV back then. I'll be honest with you, and I am not saying this because you said you were black we decided this yesterday with all the ads on TV, but I have gone to the theater 5 times since and including 1988. I am going to have a Covid-19 theater presentation of Coming 2 America, in my home as I plan to rent it the day it comes out. I love Eddie.
This movie is definitely a classic. Excellent soundtrack excellent acting excellent directing it's pretty much good all the way around. Most John Hughes movies are done very well
One of the things I love about this film is how it features teens (or the less powerful, outside a school setting) complaining about being stereotyped by authority figures, while they themselves engage in exactly the same behaviour, all the way through to the end. They discover that each other are 'more' than their stereotype, but they still buy into their own basic roles, and each other's. It's very self aware, and good social commentary (I think) on how we are conditioned to think of ourselves and others. A classic.
I graduated in 1985 which puts me smack dab in the middle... college was still affordable (mostly) but for the first time useless for a better quality of life. I think the 80's were the tipping point for generations that could prosper AND wanted the house & 2.2 kids. The generations that followed seem genuinely lost. Worst part is... we are responsible for raising a generation that is considered the worst for responsibility and baby-ish. The beginning of the end for what was expected from the next stereotypical generation... or not.
@abigmonkeyforme And your example of only knowing STEM students is also not relevant to the data of an entire generation. What I see in my nieces thoughts and behavior is exactly what I am seeing as a pattern on social media from that generation. It has nothing to do with genetics or lQ. It is their behavior and ideology, as an outcome of what is being taught in their schools and social media. I am having conversations with them as pathetic as them thinking women are just as strong as men, for example. They nearly had a meltdown over the scientific fact that women and men are very different. Or how they got very angry at the mere suggestion to merely watch a movie that both their dad and I like before they judged it, because they’ve been told by ideologues to think negatively about it without them even having the first clue what it’s even about. Being challenged on their ideology is taken as an offense instead of simply having a calm rational discussion. They have been taught WHAT to think, not HOW to think. And they get very emotional when a fact is presented to them that conflicts with the ideology they have been taught in our liberal schools, media, and social media. My youngest niece said she wants to be a nurse, so I’m hoping that her STEM field will help her start questioning some of the nonsense she has been taught, and begin learning proper critical thinking skills, but I still fear forced liberal electives will counter that and keep her stunted. I know that even as Gen X, we were forced to take a certain amount of liberal ideology electives in order to graduate, and I went to a fantastic university. My older niece was so influenced by social media that she got obsessed with the gay/drag make up artist channels like Jeffree Star etc. She wants nothing more than to do make-up as a living from that influence, working at a mall. She doesn’t even want to bother going to cosmetology school to at least get certified skills… She has a YT channel too, but hasn’t been active on it for over a year (she even uses her real name on it, without so much as a second thought of keeping herself anonymous for safety reasons). I tried to encourage her to think about doing creative make up in the movie industry since we live in Southern California, which could pay very well if she gets good at it, but it’s clear that the 12 month magazine subscription I bought her for which featured all sorts of inspiration for movie make-up went into the trashcan every month. She is now at the age that I graduated college from, and she still lives with her mom and dad and will probably never be able to afford to move out on her own, so she just works at the mall and dates guys from online as much as possible in hopes to meet Mr. Right so that he can pull the financial weight for her for the rest of her life. The youngest one that wants to be a nurse is taking her sweet time with her first year of college… I was shocked to hear that she only took one class for her first semester whilst working at Starbucks, while her mom and dad are giving her free room and board, and my brother said he can’t retire until she’s done with college (he works a very physically demanding job, so that troubles me a lot that she is taking her time in entitlement). She said she’s going to take more classes next semester, so we’ll see. I understand that housing prices are very high right now, but I worry that my oldest niece is using that as an excuse to stay home as long as possible for very cheap rent that her parents are charging her, when she could’ve been using all that time with free rent to better herself to make a good living (their parents are reasonable where if they go to school, then they can live at home for free, but if not then they have to pay rent). I know that was long, but the thing is is that I see a pattern with this generation with friends of mine talking about their nieces and nephews (my fellow Gen X friends are noticing the same types of behaviors and beliefs in their nieces/nephews) and what I see the same things from them so often on social media, etc. etc.. Apologies for any typos… I’m not up to proofreading right now.
@Edgar Poe better than the crap they bring out today 🙄 The Breakfast club, Sixteen candles, The Bill and Ted movies the original Carrie, Christine, Dirty dancing these are just a few I can think of off the top of my head are all movies I absolutely love. I’m just an old soul, I like old cars, old movies and old music so much better than the crap they bring out today :)
@Edgar Poe I finally saw the Fifth Element a few weeks ago. I remembered it when it was out, but never went to the theaters to see it back then. It was an okay film and fun. Interesting to see what they got wrong about the future, like most films like that. The weak point, though, was the forced relationship between Bruce's character and what's her face. It was there for the sake of being there. I did like Chris Tucker for it, though. He was funny.
While there are so so many, this movie is the top reason why I am so glad that I grew up a child of the 80’s. I was born in 1970, so the 80’s encompassed my entire formative years. I was still a child in 1980, moved on to adolescence, puberty, teen-age years, and, finally, early adulthood. It was a great time to be alive and I miss it dearly.
Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. But we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us - in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain... and an athlete... and a basket case... a princess... and a criminal. Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, The Breakfast Club.
Simple pleasures for Simple minds. Pun intended. Regurgitation- any further mind-blowing philosophical takes on a cringe piece of 80s cinema? AMH was the only one who didn't need a good ass beating. Molly left school that day to smoke a joint and have her bf explode in her. Following week she was at Planned Parenthood destroying a fetus. Devoid of Christ, devoid of a lesson
i feel like this essay should have been more like, about what they found out was beneath the stereotype , odd that he would say they found out they were what he/everyone saw them as at beginning of the day ...
John Hughes was a great writer and director. No other filmmaker really ever quite had their finger on the pulse of what it was like to be a teenager during the 80s in the US. His films will always be thought of as cool, classy and entertaining in my opinion. The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off are my two favorites from Hughes.
My all time favorite John Hughes movie is "Planes, Trains and Automobiles". It is a required movie in my household to get through the Thanksgiving day meal. Everyone watches it while they eat and visit. It has become a beloved tradition for my family.😊
@@beadmore Great comment. Love the fact Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a holiday tradition at your house! And you're right, that is another excellent movie. John Candy and Steve Martin worked well on screen. Wished they made a ton more movies together.
Excellent overview as ever Minty. I'll add that janitor John Kapelos was also the one that marries Sam's (Molly Ringwald's character) sister in Sixteen Candles.
I was in high school when this movie came out and it was dead on about how our high school was. Fast forward 35 years and I recently showed my two teenage sons this movie for two reasons: That it is a great movie and for the message it sends. They loved it and we have since already watched it a second time together!
Funny you say that. I might be a few years older than the characters, but in the mid 2000s I played the VP in a one-act version at my school (I have a theatre background and the drama teacher asked me to do it). I grew very close to those actors/kids and I never sided with Vern. Still don't. I'm close to sixty, and still understand ...
@@muskokamike127 Never grown up? No, I've grown up, but never forgotten my memories, my feelings, the intensity of my world then. Am I the same as I was then? No. Have I forgotten? No. "lol ..... you you know you've never grown up when you mock people who have had a fuller life than you ..."
Ikr, I ALWAYS sympathized exclusively with the kids, all the times I've seen it over the years - my teens, and into my 20s and 30s. Watched it for the first time in 15 years this week, and....I was shocked to find myself empathizing more with Principal Vernon than the students. Its the circle of life I guess.
You can't talk about the 80's without mentioning The Breakfast Club they go hand in hand, one of my favorite movies of all time especially since i ended up going to a high school with people just like every one of those characters in that movie. Great video Minty you brought back some great memories for me this morning ✊
This movie was released during my senior year of high school. It epitomizes everything about my high school years and to this day, I still love watching it. The song, Don’t You Forget About Me, was our senior prom’s theme. It will always resonate with me.
@@jennyoneill8879 Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon, none were in the brat pack. But that was a brilliant movie. "As I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house I had two things on my mind. Paul Newman and a ride home."
I know they weren't but they were all so young and so good looking but The Outsiders was like the first 80s coming of age teenage movie and then we got 16 Candles, Breakfast Club and St Elmos Fire... but The Outsiders started it all
I graduated in June of 1985. This was our movie, an anthem that helped many in my class to graduate. It helped everyone understandand & accept everybody had pressures. It was a tough year!!!
I too was a graduate of 1985. Saw and loved this movie with my High School Girlfriend. She, at one point in our history, quoted at me from the Simple Minds song, and I have never forgotten about her... (quiet whimper).
We had punk rockers in the 80's and the funny thing about goth, punk rockers, rockers, etc? They all go "that way" to break out of the main group but all end up just being part of another group.
@@muskokamike127 I've noticed that with a lot of so-called non-conformists, they were all very conforming in their non-conformity. It's rare that you get a true non-conformist, someone who really goes their own way and doesn't simply conform to another group.
Yeah I always have a theory of if you're non-conformist. You're really conforming to the idea of being a non-conformist. Then contradicting yourself. I never understood term.. I still think it's an oxymoron.
This movie screamed out my high school experience. It will always be part of my history and Hart. Because it was a perfect portrait of the 80s. With each character.. And the only other movie that can be on the same level.. Dazed and confused.. A great snapshot of times of a teenager..
Only the 50th? 😁 I play it on loop, just to have on for "atmosphere" while I'm getting dressed for work. Like playing a cool album. No shame in that! 👍
This was a film of my generation. It is hard to express the impact it had on all of us back when I was in HS in the mid-late 1980s. Glad to see it is getting looked at again.
This and Fast Times at Ridgemont High are the best 80s movies. Breakfast Club was geared more to the Midwest where Fast Times was more for California. Love them both.
good millennial take. doesn't mean it should be said. none of this should be nullified by anything that has come to be since then. because it's all crap in comparison.
The make over scene was infact what we did in the 80s as a social thing. A "imma take you under my wing" girl bonding thing. It was respect. Like let me help you. I understand Ally's point but over all it wasnt a critical action back then. It was a perfect scene for the times.
I never wanted to see this movie, but finally did about 10 years ago. It was good, but I still think 16 Candles is by far the best Teen Movie he ever made. I remember after seeing it, all of us 17 years olds were like, "wow, that was a teen movie with an actual plot, I wonder if it will catch on." We were stunned by it. It did catch on, but Better Off Dead is still great fun too.
i find it difficult watching the breakfast club. i'm sure we all made pacts to remain friends beyond school only for your group to become fragmented when everyone leaves for college/uni or work. at least current generations can retain this through facebook, but back then, if you lost contact, that was it.
It's the same with work.....I worked for a large corporation and had a "gang" we did everything together. Baseball, camping, concerts, pub crawls, house parties, literally everything. When someone quit or moved on? That was it...done, never saw them again. There's one I still see occasionally and chat on facebook, but that's about it.
I was born in the early 70's so was pretty much the age these characters were supposed to be in the movie when it came out. It certainly touched a nerve watching Mintys video just now and has brought back a wonderful sense of nostalgia and longing. In the 80's I always wished I grew up in my parents era of the 50's and 60's with awesome chromed cars and the birth of rock n roll etc. But now I appreciate better what I had at the time and very fondly remember the late 70's, the 80's and the 90's. My best friend's now are the one's I had in my school days and I'm now married to my highschool love and so happy ( today is her 52nd birthday). The 80's, absolutely incredible, and always cherished by me.
The thing is though. All 5 cast members were just absolutely great actors. Still are to this day. When you have that. You can make any scene in any location gold. 👍
I'm 78 and I still watch my copy at least once a year. I walked out of the theatre from both movies (St. Elmo's Fire) feeling like I had seen something so real, I felt good about movies again, which is what I felt when I saw Star Wars in 1977. I still feel the same way.
They would lose their minds over 16 Candles because of the politically incorrect characters and the use of a gay slur. Teens today are more worried that someone somewhere might be offended than they are about having a few laughs
I was 16 when this movie came out. O-levels were over, summer was here, the whole world was ahead. Me and my chums knew the words to this movie off by heart.
I love this movie so much! The one character that can identify with is Alison Reynolds played by Ally Sheedy. Even though I'm a man, we all can identify with Alison's feeling of being ignored by parents and get the feeling of them loving you. I went through that from being a little boy until my mother's death in the Spring of 2011. So thank you John Hughes for making this iconic movie which love dearly ❤.
I've seen some of the deleted scenes on TV, however, I want to see the extended cut! This needs to happen! Also, the bender ceiling scene, he improvised the joke.
I love the breakfast club. This movie is just an amazing 80s movie. Doesn’t matter how old I get it’s always good and fun to watch. Recently I was talking to some friends and my wife. We’ve decided that the best movies ever to watch over and over. Are from the late 70s, 80s, 90s and a little bit of the early 2000s. Hollywood can’t make good movies like this anymore. Great job Minty!
I grew up with this movie, and in retrospect must say, that in my humble, most assuredly valueless opinion, the best thing to come from this movie was the track "Don't You forget About Me" by Simple Minds.
One of my favorite movies. I was on 10th grade when this came out, but didn't get to see it until college. Interestingly, it's theme song ( another personal favorite ) was the theme for my senior prom in '87. I watched this with my then teenage son a few years ago. It seemed to really strike a chord with him even after all these years.
My third-favorite all-time film, and my number one favorite director! And I absolutely cannot imagine Ringwald as Allison, and have an even harder time imagining Hughes wanting anyone else for Claire. It's one of those parts that seems tailor-made for the actress to whom it was given.
"And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations They're quite aware of what they're goin' through" - David Bowie
After all these years (saw it in a cinema here in germany in the 80ies)...still iconic and one of my favourite movies with a brilliant cast, great story and still best song by Simple Minds - LOVE IT !
Thank you for making this video!!! The Breakfast Club came out the year I was born and it has always been my favorite 80s movie. That and "Just One of the Guys!!" and I always love watching it over and over again once in a while and its still funny to me. John Hughes was a directing genius and his movies were brilliant. They told stories of the 80s and what life was like growing up, just like "Rebel Without a Cause" and "Grease" did for their times. I always love your movies and love tuning in!!! One of your biggest fans!! :)
One of my all time favorite movies. I was in my early 20's when this came out, and had 2 small children, but it really resonated with me. I was a cross between the geek and the freak in high school, so I really identified with them.
Another fun fact the 90s teen pop group , the A-Teens , parodied this movie in their music video, Dancing Queen. Paul Gleason even stars in the music video as the dention teacher.
An all time classic! In college drama class I did the monologue that Emilio does when he’s talking about how he got detention and how it ties back to his fathers expectations. I had rehearsed so much and was ready to nail it but when I performed it, it was so powerful and real for me, I had to excuse myself and pick another the following week. This movie is an all time classic!
Thanks, Minty. This episode really hits the nostalgia train. I was in highschool when this came out, and was a homage to the life we were living at the time.
I will forever love the Breakfast club. My mom was 17 when the movie came out, she went to see it 5 times in theaters lol then when I got older she put me on to it
Love your vids🔥 The Breakfast Clubs is one of those films for me that I can appreciate as a cultural icon, but tbh I didn't really like the first time I saw it. 00:05:20 I would say the creation of the "Brat Pack" started two years earlier with The Outsiders (one of my favourite films as a kid btw). A video on that in the future would be great.
My Daughter is 26, she was raised on John Hughes’s movies. I also later let her watch Kevin Smith movies because he celebrates & loves Hughes as much as we all do as well.
Yeah, prettying up Alison is the only flaw of this masterpiece. Well that and how Bender was able to have his weight supported by drop ceiling panels, how exactly Claire got into Vernon's closet, and how Vernon didn't smell multiple joints being smoked at the same time.
The whole double door when the put the magazine rack in it. They put a divider in so you couldn't tell it was a double door. They could have left the one door open with the rack, and walked out of the other door.
I think Bender was able to not fall instantly is because he was probably crawling using the frame that holds the panels. It's usually quite sturdy. He just probably slipped and fell on the panel.
I actually read the original script of this movie 20+ years ago, with the "PE teacher" scene in it. The scene had the Principal also peeking and being caught by the custodian, with that being the basis for the "blackmail". After the scene was cut, it changed to the "being caught looking at student files", which I always thought odd, why would a janitor think there was anything wrong with a Principal looking through a file cabinet?
I only recently discovered your videos (the first being the Batman and Robin one), but I gotta say that I really like your 10 Things Series. They seem well researched and you also cover a wide array of movies, not just whatever is popular at the time. Also, other channels tend to cover the most basic of details while you delve deep and reveal things like From Dust Til Dawn and The Frighteners were both intended to be Tales from the Crypt movies. Keep up the good work!
Every high school kid should be forced to watch “The Breakfast Club”. It should be mandatory. It’s so relatable, while others like “Sixteen Candles” are too predictable, and flicks like “Weird Science” were unrealistic. “The Breakfast Club” will always be a classic. One of the greatest movies ever made, and without question the greatest teen movie ever made.
Had the honour to act in a movie with Judd Nelson. Very nice guy. Always said hello to me on set and remember my name and was interested in talking. Solid actor that really should have stayed on top along with his buddy, RDJ.
@@angrytheclown801 haha, reminds me of this one chick who came into the bedroom one day with her pants pulled down and a home depot paint stir stick.... I looked at her kinda weird, what's that for? "I've been a bad girl daddy" lol I buy a lot of paint at home depot and they give me one every time and I can't help but snicker.....hehehehe
The Breakfast Club dance sequence was the inspiration for some Boston University students who recorded a music video. One of the students was the young Alexandra Occasio Cortez, later congresswoman.
