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    The Breakfast Club is considered a classic movie from the 1980’s. Throughout the movie different topics are presented such as stereotypes, education, family, status, cliques, and socialization. This film obtains major sociological value, and can be analyzed in many different ways. How the characters are portrayed at the beginning of the film, may switch at the end. This movie is a stretch of the basic high school detention, but can also be relatable. The film is about a group of students

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    The Breakfast Club On the surface to many, it seems like a cute and teeny 80s movie, but after seeing it, nearing 20…30 times by now, I can tell you that this is much more than your average teen 80s movie. From the opening quote, you get the feeling that you might be in for more than you bargained. And as the film plays out, you learn so much about the strange interactions that happen between strangers when forced into awkward situations of social interaction. Okay, so what’s so impressive about

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    In The Breakfast Club, five high schoolers break their social barriers and manage to get along in Saturday detention. These diverse high school students open up to each other and become friends by overcoming the concepts such as stereotyping, self-presentation, and their self-concept. Although their social perspectives are completely different from one another, their feelings toward certain subjects like their parents are common. Stereotyping is defined as the act of fitting groups individuals

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    The movie The Breakfast Club exemplifies many aspects of society and societal norms. It also shows how if you put your differences aside and focus on what is on the inside, you can find a lot more in common with each other than you would think. In the movie The Breakfast Club, the group dynamic is portrayed because all the students at the Saturday detention are from different walks of life. Each student is from a different clique. This is very evident in the beginning of the movie when they

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    The Breakfast Club The breakfast club is regarded as one of the best films ever made. The film takes a look at five students as they serve a 9 hour Saturday school detention. The film takes a look at social interaction, stereotypes, and high school cliques and norms. "Dear Mr. Vernon, We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever we did wrong. But we think that you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to

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    approach does not account for this. In close relation to norms, beliefs are an important factor in The Breakfast Club. Beliefs tell us what we think is true or false. In this movie there are many false beliefs that are shattered by the time the credits roll. Take Claire’s popularity for example; when the day starts she seems content with her life and how she fits into the school’s social system. However, when the five of them are sitting up in the balcony and talking about themselves, she reveals

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    Baillie Kee 17 October 2017 Comp.1 5th Hour Movie Review Essay The Breakfast Club Five students from very different backgrounds meet on a Saturday for detention with their principal. The contrasting group includes the athlete, Andrew (Emilio Estevez), the princess Claire (Molly Ringwald), basket case Allison (Ally Sheedy), brain Brian (Anthony Michael Hall), and criminal John (Judd Nelson). The principal assigns them an essay on “who you think you are,” and leaves them to do it. During this time

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    In picture movies, no one really pays attention to the story line plot itself. The movie that reflects a lot of psychological issues in today’s society is “The Breakfast Club”. The major development themes of the movie are of relation to a certain specific kind of audience viewing the lives of five teenagers with emotional, physical, social, behavioral and cognitive representations. They show proportional differences of all kinds of click groups in school. One of the characters is known as Brian

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    ideologies” and sides to himself when he smokes weed and connects to the troubles and philosophies of the rest of the Breakfast Club (Weiten, 457). Finally, at the end of the movie, Brian achieves the Identity Achievement status where he grows closer to a sense of identity and direction after “thinking through alternative possibilities,” or hanging out with the rest of the Breakfast Club (Weiten, 457). After being accepted by others, Brian builds his self-esteem and values his life despite his failures

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    #3 John Hughes "The Breakfast Club": Judging a Book by it's Cover A rigid, oversimplified, often exaggerated belief that is applied both to an entire social category of people and to each individual within it.("Stereotype") Everybody has been in a situation where they have been stereotyped or themselves have stereotyped others. The way we present ourselves, the way we dress, and the friends we hangout with, these are all things that people stereotype. "The Breakfast Club" written, produced, and

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