Stereotypes In John Hughes's Film The Breakfast Club

John Hughes’s film The Breakfast Club (1985) resonates with certain modern-day stereotypes of high school students. The film also reflects on how much damage that social status and labels have on people, especially during adolescence. Hughes’s film breaks down the emotional barriers between ordinary high school students of different backgrounds through typecasting. As the actors take on the general roles of students that can be found in most high schools, the narrative of the story begins to drastically change as the characters are revealing their backgrounds with each other. As a result of using this technique, the film reveals the external and internal struggles that most adolescent children deal with in their lives. The acting portrays the external struggle – maintaining a certain image in front of others – that the characters face as the roles of each person is revealed from the dialogue and facial expressions in particular. Sound reinforces

In this monologue, Brian expresses the satisfaction from the characters after the events that occurred in the film. The main idea to point out from this is the line where each of the characters say their certain label which Brian explains how they share each item on that list. The overall lesson of this film is compressed into this line where the characters themselves know who they are and how to treat others. Furthermore, in the part where John walks through the football field, Nelson walks towards the camera with a feeling of triumph as he puts on a pair of sunglasses and opens his coat. At the same time, the music in the background picks up once more and the scene freezes with Nelson raising a fist over his head as if he feels accomplished. After that, the scene fades out in order to signal the end of the film and of a legacy that Brian calls “The Breakfast