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Every generation should have it's defining film. For mine (I'm 40), it was The Breakfast Club, released 1985. It seemed most everyone could identify with one of the characters. I was probably an even blend of all 3 of the male characters.. I was a computer geek that played varsity sports and got high as a kite on the weekends.
Ali Sheedy and Emilio Estevez were born a month apart in 1962, making them both 22 years old at the time the movie was released. Judd Nelson was even older, at 25. Only Anthony Michael Hall and Molly Ringwald, both 16, were close to the age of the characters they protrayed.
Paul Gleason, the actor that played principal Vernon passed away from cancer in 2006.
For some reason, the John Hughes style teen movies don't exist anymore. I don't even know what the current high school generation is like, except for the kids I play WoW with.. and I'm hoping that's not entirely representative.
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 and 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.
3 comments:
Really?
Yes really. At the risk of sounding like "git off muh lawn".. it seems to me that the kids are shallow and self-centered.. with limited command of the language.
There are always exceptions, but I'm thinking on average... I'm not impressed.
Weird. I guess I was just thinking of perhaps something a little more...complex...as a generational film.
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