At the beginning of the year, the American commercial blockbuster "Bumblebee" was released in China, and in the film, the fist clenching action after the battle of bumblebee was seen as a tribute to "Breakfast Club". So what kind of movie is "Breakfast Club"?
The movie "Breakfast Club" is a small-budget youth film. Filmed in 1985, it depicts the story of five students on an American campus who are punished for staying on campus, each with different personalities and difficult to get along with, but finally treat each other sincerely after talking and become good friends.
Here are a few details worth mentioning:
*This is the second film directed by director John Hughes, who completed the screenplay in just two days (July 4 and 5, 1982).
*The film stars five high school students who define themselves as princesses, nerds, athletes, freaks and criminals.
*In the second half of the film, the crowd sits around the floor to tell their troubles without a script, and director John Hughes completely lets them play freely. Other improvisational passages in the film include Brian's answer to why he has a fake ID and says, "So I can vote."
* The final shot of the film, where Bend raises his fist and points to the sky, is now almost seen as a hallmark of '80s cinema, and is actually a stretch of Judd Nelson's improvisation. The director told him to walk toward the setting sun and make a few random moves. Just as they were about to finish filming, Nelson suddenly made this move.
*The film's title is Called The Breakfast Club because the director's neighborhood where his friend's son's school will be penalized to stay in school and become a breakfast club.
The story of this film is very simple, telling the athlete Andrew, "bad student" Bend, "princess girl" Claire, "nerd" Brian, the taciturn Alison five people for their own reasons were punished for their own reasons to stay in school to study homework, in a day, five people can not go out, in the reading room to each other, different personalities reflect different psychology, they from the beginning of hostility, to the end into a conversation, understand each other, become good friends.
Why is such a seemingly boring movie so regarded as a classic?
It has been honored in many later works such as Bumblebee, Teddy Bear 2, Ready Player One, and Wonder Woman. The reason for this may be that "The Breakfast Club" was filmed more than thirty years ago, and in the context of the time, it truly shows american high school life and the psychological state of adolescents, life, learning, family, and social connections. Although it is a small-budget film, it has a unique perspective, unfolding from five students with different personalities, and showing the differences in the superficial emotions and real personalities of the five people very deeply.
The film as a whole is light and humorous, and in many plots, the actors are encouraged to play freely, and naturally they are not pretentious. It is the originator of American campus youth films, and the psychology of life shown has a great influence on similar films in later generations.