Its still one of my favorites. I'd still love to do a play of it. Perhaps modernize it a bit. I just always wanted to be in it. I suppose I still could. Im nearly 39, but people think i'm in my 20s all the time, and people in their 20s are often cast to play teens, so... why not? Lol. Anywho I would be torn between paying Allison or Bender (Why couldn't Benders character be a female?)
@@Sindollx666x A play would be a good thing, just be advised, you might have to tinker with some of the language to get it approved for a school or the establishment where you want to perform it.
@@Sindollx666x you could even make a play of them coming back to the highschool twenty-five years later because Brian had made them all promise to do that in exchange for writing their paper at the end. You could totally make up how you think their lives would have gone. Do Claire & John show up as a couple, still together after all those years? Or did they go their separate ways that following Monday? So many roads to take these characters down! Dang! You got me going! Lol!
@@reneenayfabnaynay5679 I LOVE THAT !! Great idea!! Technically, friend, it's your idea, so if you want to write it, by all means please do! Or if you want to create a Quora, or a reddit (or perhaps I will) maybe we could collaborate and get anyone interested to help develop all these stories/plays/fanfictions. Another neat idea would be if one of the original (or more, evens) kids ended up here together and the original characters (whomever is used) could reunite when they go to pick up their kids!
I remember when I first saw that movie. I had such a crush on “The Rebel.” I always wished his character had been able to finish the joke before falling through the ceiling... 🤣
For those who might see Estevez as a "failed actor", don't. Early on, he found that his "true love' and talent was "behind the scenes". He got into producing and directing and had a long, successful, and happy career doing that.
@Brad BradBradBrad Estevez had a really solid career in the '80s and '90s after that took the foot off the gas and enjoyed his money while he was still a youngish man.
I like how the standard of beauty was a lot more natural back then... Granted we did wear a lot of makeup at times but it was still different... everyone had a different way of expressing their look as opposed to today when it feels like everyone is trying to look similar.
Tanya Sidello today, foundation is too heavy, brows too thick and dark and lashes are completely over the top. Today a lot of girls look like drag queens.
Tanya Sidello likewise. I prefer makeup to remain in the palette, or for a girl to look like she isn’t wearing makeup. Subtle makeup, catered to someone’s complexion looks beautiful.
I met Molly Ringwald a couple years ago at a hotel I worked at just outside of Toronto, Ontario. I was working the front desk and was lucky enough to check her in. She was very pleasant and down to earth and most people in the lobby didn’t even recognize her which was kinda shocking. I upgraded her room to our largest suite in the hotel and filled her fridge with the best snacks and drinks because I was so excited she was coming lol
I think that it is in part to the volume of press that today's actors need to do. There are so many more entertainment news outlets today than back then. With practice, you get polished.
@@Seiko180 Yeah, Charlie chose to go more openly in his father's footsteps by going with the name 'Sheen' instead of his real name which is Carlos Estevez.
I was kind of irritated at the obligatory question. I mean, be original - ask the young man about his work. I know Martin Sheen is a timeless and fantastic actor, but couldn't there be one interview where they didn't ask? You could see his facial expression change and his body language - he kind of shut down a bit. Shame.
Lol Oh TRUST if social media were a thing then you'd see all the cocaine and crazy stuff they did. Young money has and always will be crazy, just more private before social media age.
I wouldn't say humble. But they're young and still politeful and respectful, which isn't a common thing anymore. Back then they had little worry about being canceled like today. So of course they're calm.
Imagine ANY teen or twenty-something actor these days being able to hide in a school for a week in costume for research?!? They'd be mobbed unless they were a still a 'nobody' in the profession. Truly the stuff of legends in the theater.
The 80s was a time of a magical ambience. It was more simple time. Those were the days. The World now has reached a decline with disrespect and brainwashed sheep 🐑
@phaedrussmith1949 I think they were labeled that based on being in a number of movies together and being young. Not because they were actual brats. Lol
@@BlackNGoldRules But they sure did speak highly of themselves. Even in this interview. You would think they were discussing a Shakespearean play. And you can still sense this "holier than thou, we know better than you" air that resonates with most actors of today.
Whenever I go back to visit my parents around the holidays, I'll hit up this specific towny bar, I like the owner/bartender he's a recovering alcoholic and hilarious. But the clientele......the one or two 70s+ people that are the last of their group alive that havent died of liver failure yet, the 50's and 60's age group, 30s-40s age group and those in their 20's that dont realize they are looking at their own future in those others. They all get sloppy drunk, forgetting their dead end job and the town they never set foot out of and remember their glory days the would give anything to go back to. If you made a drinking game out of any time you heard someone say "remember back in highschool!" you'd be dead in 20 minutes. I had fun in highschool, I had fun in college...but I had so many great experiences after and will to come. Yeah I'd like to have my 20 year old body back, but I sure as fuck don't want to go back in time.
I graduated high school in 1984. I went to school with everyone in the Breakfast Club. Great movie. Brings back memories for me. But don't be fooled. Cool kids dressed like Madonna and talked like Valley Girls to express their 'individuality.' We had the same ratio of mean people and idiots that they have today. We were definitely not smarter than kids today. We followed the same rules as they do today just expressed in a different manner. You may think we dressed funny (and we sure did!) but when kids look back from the future to today they are going to think the same thing. And they'll be correct. I was a burnout. That was my label. But I knew and talked with nerds, preppies and jocks. We were all in the same boat just like today. You can find comfort in your 'label' but when you break away from that label is when you see who you really are. That's what this movie says to me. I was voted 'friendliest' in my senior class. Embrace your label but don't let it hold you back. Peace PS: Our 'burnout' team beat the crap out of the 'jock' team in the end of the year softball tournament. So you never know. :-)
I would have loved to been a teen in the 80s I was born in 91 so I don't remember a lot of the 90s but I do remember the early 2000s a lot and I'd give anything to trade that for the 80s. Everyone seemed so much more mature and fun
@@symonelove5841 If you had been a teen in the eighties you would be in your fifties like I am and struggling to remember what exactly your teen years were like. Movies are great and nostalgic but they don't represent the true reality of what it was like back then. Mature???? Let me introduce you to Dave Picininni, Danny Jones and Jeannie Landa. Then you tell me how mature '80's kids were. Ha Ha :-)
Bryan Burton yup. I dressed like Madonna for awhile. I graduated in 1985. I had friends in all “cliques “. We all had our own little groups but mingled well. I always loved the bad boys like Bender. So sexy!
As a member of gen z, I want to thank you. I’m tired of older people shitting on my generation. It’s especially prevalent in the comments of old videos such as these.
The John Hughes trifecta of ‘Sixteen Candles (‘84), ‘The Breakfast Club’ (‘85) and ‘Pretty in Pink’ (‘86) defined my high school years (1983-87) in the Midwest. Gen Xers like myself had a had a movie 3 years in a row that seemed to capture our high school years so incredibly accurately. I treasure those movies. It’s like looking at my own HS yearbook.
Anthony looks SO different in his own style then in a lot of his 80’s movies, breakfast club, 16 candles etc. it was also weird and intriguing to see him in edward scissorhands as a completely different type of character. love it tho❤️❤️
@@TitoTimTravels Probably because he got MUCH bigger, all over, and stopped looking like a skinny boy. I always thought it was steroids in preparation for that football movie he made. His neck got really big, bigger than usual, it seemed to me.
For me, this was the most iconic movie of the 80s. Every time I see it, I want to go back and relive those days. Sometimes just hearing the theme song brings me to tears because I miss everyone and everything. Wish I could do it over.
I turned 16 in 1980. I really enjoyed the 80s... probably because the 70s sucked so bad. The 80s were better in every way, clothes, movies, and especially music.
Judd Nelson’s performance in this CLASSIC movie, is the best I’ve seen him perform. I have watched this movie so many times, I can’t even remember how many times. But my heart still hurts for his character, because of Judd’s acting.
So interesting how today interviews are never this "quiet". There always background music or cut to scenes from upcoming movies while people are talking. The 80s were just so unique I miss them. There was time to breathe and take in what you were watching. Today everything looks and feels like channel surfing.
In Weird Science he had cool as fuck hair, he was growing it into that style around the time of this interview, in The Breakfast Club itself it was totally different, I remember it being almost a light ginger colour
A calm, respectful, humble interview. All of them have such good manners here. A fantastic movie absolutely. However, this interview and the atmosphere is incredible.
Wow! I was 14 when this movie hit the theaters. I remember watching it with my best friend thinking how real all the characters were. What a brilliant movie, at a brilliant time in history. There will be nothing like the 80’s. Probably the best era ever to be young.
If you were in HS when this movie came out, then you knew every type of person portrayed. The only ones they left out, was Stoner/Metalhead, and Preppy. This was from a central Missouri high school. Individual results may vary
As a 1984 high school graduate, I can relate to all the characters in this movie. They remind me of my friends and kids that I interacted with every day. This movie certainly brings back memories.
I think Judd was actually 25 or 26 when they made that movie and she screwed up his age. I always wondered why they picked someone so old to play a teenager in a movie. Then I realized that him being older and looking a little older, made him a more intimidating figure in the movie next to actual teenagers.
It's important for anyone born more than nine months AFTER Mike plans to arrive in 1985 to hunt him down and KILL HIM if he gets anywhere near a time machine. The butterfly effect is inaccurate (sorry Ray Bradbury). You'd only need to look a few days downstream of a splintered timeline (not millions of years) to see MASSIVE causal disruption to world events. Only events well underway would continue as they did, and even then there would be countless different outcomes. It is virtually impossible for anyone conceived more than a few days after the target temporal incursion point to be conceived after the incursion. Consult a biologist or physician specializing in fertility and a particle physicist to completely understand why. No one's life history survives backward time travel. Everything changes almost instantly. The pandemic is a great example, given the alteration of life paths, movement on the planet's surface, pollution levels, countless other variables. Simply consider how quickly the virus infected tens of millions of people and you can see how the movement of molecules around the global is so quick. Viruses are made of molecules. All this said, I am SO with you there, brother Mike. 1985 was THE BEST year of my life, by far. It's certainly cliche to say "knowing what I know now..." but it's so true for me in that year. My best year could have been so much better. Mostly true pertaining to interpersonal relationships, but then there's PCs and the internet tech boom, the burgeoning crisis with then CIA operative and family friend of the Bushes, Osama Bin Laden, not to mention the defective O-rings on Challenger, the tragedy of Pee-Wee Herman making that ONE LITTLE MISTAKE in a darkened theater...so many things I would want to prevent or make better. Then I think of all the young people I love who only exist as a result of all the terrible things I'd stop or the world-changing benefits I could bring to the new time line. Not one single person born in 1987 or beyond would exist. Don't misunderstand me, it's not like life would end, or people would stop having babies, it's that none of them...NONE...would be conceived at just the right moment, with the same combination of gametes, the exact "load" launched, the same angle of ejaculate trajectory...etc. The odds of any of us being exactly who we are, genetically, by our parent's union is 1:8,000,000+, then take into account all of the factors, including temperature, gravity, air pressure, body position, choices effecting intensity and timing of ejaculation, and the fact that there are more than 300,000,000,000 sperm vying to be the one that reaches the egg first (talk about a zero-sum game!) and you can see how even the most minute change in the day's events leading to copulation would nearly eliminate the same person being conceived. Think about all the hundreds of thousands of tiny decisions we make (35,000 consciously, nearly 400,000 unconsciously) during the course of a day. Traveling back in time, and making changes (especially the BIG ones you might WANT to make) would cause a tidal wave of causality that would circle the globe in just a few hours, causing noticeable changes in a few days. Just on my own in 1985, I could choose to slow down or even reverse the slow collapsing of the Soviet Union by revealing privileged information I have about the nature of the Strategic Defense Initiative hoax conspiracy. I would have been able to contact specific journalists, politicians, and members of academia who would have been in a position to expose the fraud of the "Star Wars Defense System" and reveal that it was a ploy to bankrupt the Soviets by forcing them into a new arms race they simply could not afford. Would I do that? Well, I might, if I was 16 again and thought it could get me laid!
I’m now 52 and this movie changed my life as a teenager. I still remember how it made me a better person. I was the jock in HS and had many friends like the people in that detention.
I miss the sets they used back then -- cozy, no overlit sets, loud music, no audience. It felt like you were sitting there with them. A nice, quiet start to the day.
If he gets up, we’ll ALL get up, it’ll be anarchy! /Does Barry Manilow know your raid his wardrobe? /You’re a NEOMAXIZOOMDWEEBIE. /You are a parents wet dream. /Do I STUTTER? / ...... He had the best lines and was so believable. He had this lost little boy look and in the scene where the Principal is threatening to hit him his face breaks my heart every time. He’s an abused kid who projects this tough guy image but is really just scared and sweet. That is CATNIP to the girls!
I'm surprised with your comments. She looked and sounded very cute, natural and interested to me. I enjoyed her chemistry with her guests who also all looked/sounded natural and professional.
I was 10 years older than the target group that this movie was aimed at, but I still enjoyed it, but I was very surprised that this group of performers did not become superstars---not even close! I really liked Ally Sheedy, especially in "Short Circuit"; but poor Judd Nelson's career as a major leading man could not possibly be sustained after he starred in such wretched movies as "Blue City" and "From The Hip".
This is a timeless movie. I could watch it over and over and never get tired of it. Great cast, great script. They don't make them like this anymore. "I wanna be an airborne ranger!"
I don't have a list of favorite directors but John Hughes is definitely my favorite director. Many people talk about Spielberg, etc.. all those big names.. but John to me is just untouchable. So glad for his movies.
Without any question, this is my favorite movie. I can quote every line in this movie. The actors were so outstanding that the plot was overshadowed to say the least. I think everyone who watched it can relate to at least one of the characters. If not, you certainly know someone in school who is one of them......!
I was watching this with my dad the other week and he kept saying the lines seconds before the characters said them, he hasn't watched the breakfast Club in years!
Judd Nelson pulled up to TASCHEN Books in Beverly Hills on his Harley last year. My daughter told me he was super nice wishing all the staff a Merry Christmas👍🏼
Honestly I wish I was born in the 80s. Breakfast club is my all time favourite movie and honestly I love the cast. It's just so fascinating to see how life was so simple and kind in the 80s. And also Anthony Michael Hall is 🥵
I was born in 70. Believe me, if you grew up in the 80s, you wouldn’t have fully appreciated it until 20-30 years later. We were just getting by, but it was a magical decade.
It's a breath of fresh air to come back and see how different things seemed to be during this time. You just don't see this type of interaction on camera on major media outlets nowadays.
@Vince Belfort I'm talking about the juxtaposition of people being interviewed on tv in the 1980s vs 2010-2020s. Based on your comment, your taking a pretty cursory approach that it's just people talking. I was referring to how way the people the people are talking to each other, their facial expressions, their delay, everything, it's much different then what you see today. It's an effect of time and change. It's nice to be able to go back and appreciate it.
I can’t believe Molly Ringwald was only 17. I always convinced myself they casted her when she was older to make myself feel better because she’s just so beautiful and well spoken and talented
Notice how Jane Pauley was asking some good, interesting questions. Notice how well-dressed, modest, and well-behaved the young actors were. Notice how quiet the whole interview was, no music constantly playing or co-hosts interrupting with stupid questions and constantly laughing like hyenas. It's like it was a different world back then. A better world, actually.
2024 and I still believe that TBC was the best 80's movie EVER! Thank you to all of you beautiful actors for contributing something so complex as youth(!) and sharing it for generations... You all are the BRAT Pack. Glad a BC 2 was never made. You can't fix beautiful.
The cast and film is one of the greatest things ever, I love how John Hughes was solidly able to write five different types of characters and pull them all together with similar parental problems or pressures from their peers, high school is still very full of cliques. I also love how they all share the same distaste for the authoritative Paul Gleason character
Believe it or not, I wasn't any of those types. Wasn't a nerd, wasn't a jock, wasn't a metal head, wasn't a browner, and wasn't a weirdo. I was just plain vanilla and completely flew under the radar. In middle school I was sort of a class clown, but that's it.
Judd played this very well. We called them motorheads.. and I would never have known that was not his background - until now. What a half a century later.
They all seem nervous or some sort. There is a lot of brief silent between the questions. The 80s was really a different time. They were all well-spoken, that's for sure.
I was 9 when this movie came out and I was hypnotized the entire time I watched. When I was little, all we wanted to do was been teens. Not famous, not a celebrity, we just wanted to be teenagers. This movie, along with Pretty In Pink, 16 Candles, Weird Science, Ferris Buhler...made every kid in elementary school wanna get a drivers license. 🥺
I was forced to watch this movie at 8 or 9 as well as "Mask" by my mom's friend's older son, mom's friend, mom, and a few other oldies who wanted to go to the theater and see it. I wasn't thrilled about going I remember.
I remember back in 1988 when I was 10 years old, my dad recorded the Breakfast Club off of HBO on VHS tape. I used to come home after school everyday and watch it. I was probably too you and shouldn't have been watching it and I definitely didn't understand all of it, but I love it so much. I could then, and still can, quote the whole thing. If you are from a certain generation, it is one of the best movies of all time.
