The Breakfast Club Frak Party 11/23 @ 12:01 PM

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[LEFT]I’m planning on using this movie in class next week, so I’m going to have to rewatch it over the weekend. Y’all might as well join me for a fun ride back to the 1980s!

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[SIZE=5][SIZE=3] [FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium][SIZE=7]THE BREAKFAST CLUB[/SIZE][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE]
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"We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all. "

#2

bummer–one of my all-time favorites, but it’s right in the middle of my mani-pedi

have a cap’n crunch & pixie stix sandwich and a coke for me

#3

Unfortunately, I won’t be available at that time either but I might post soon after. The Breakfast Club is one movie I could probably comment consistently on without actually watching at the time . . . I have seen it so many times I actually have a good portion of the lines memorized. . . .

Ah, . . . those fun times in the eighties . . . .

“Screws fall out all the time . . . The world’s an imperfect place . . .”

#4

Ethan, welcome to the fleet!

Best movie ever? Possibly.

I’d bee watching it for 20 years before I noticed that, in the opening sequence, the janitor (Carl?) is in one of the trophy cases as one of the high school’s former Man of the Year award winners.

I too would love to be there, but I have to pass – need to work, and I have six episodes of The Shield to catch up to be current for Tuesday’s finale.

#5

Anyone there?

#6

Who tagged this as “hot beef injection”? :stuck_out_tongue:

(as if I need to ask)

#7

Just us chickens.

#8

Okay, remember that this less fun and more and educational thing. I need a 10-15 segment to show my students, so think about it.

#9

This music reminds me of my youth. :o

Until I remember how old this movie is, then I feel ancient. :frowning:

#10

What are you supposed to be teaching them? How to misbehave and still learn a valuable life lesson from it?

#11

I was thinking more of along the lines of how this movie teaches the lesson that no matter how different we are, there’s always a way of understanding each other. Plus, how it’s a classic teen movie. Maybe I’ll use the section pretty close to the end where they sit on the gallery and reveal their inner selves.

#12

This actor recently died. :frowning:

#13

Who? The teacher?

#14

This is probably one of the best portrayals of the traditional archetypes of different kinds of students: the princess, the jock, the geek, the weirdo, and the antisocial loner.

#15

The best. I’d have been Ally Sheedy’s character.

#16

Yes. 27 May 2006, Burbank, California, USA (mesothelioma)

#17

Was he in any other stuff I should or would know?

#18

I had actually been each of them at some point in my life. Maybe not the jock or the princess. :slight_smile:

#19

Character actor Paul Gleason has been adept at playing tough guys and white collar sleaze bags in motion pictures since the early 1960s, making his film debut in Winter A-Go-Go (1965). Gleason has made a name for himself portraying these unlikeable characters in films. A native of Miami, Florida, Gleason studied extensively at the Actor’s Studio in New York City in the mid-60s with Lee Strasberg (his mentor) and was seen in a handful of Roger Corman productions before landing a a three-year role on the TV soap opera “All My Children” (1970). Since the late 1970s, Gleason has had key roles in films that include Trading Places (1983), Die Hard (1988), Miami Blues (1990), Boiling Point (1993/I) and Van Wilder (2002). However, he is probably best remembered for his role as the no-nonsense principal “Richard Vernon” in The Breakfast Club (1985). He has also appeared in over 60 films and has guest-starred on numerous television series that include “Hill Street Blues” (1981), “Dawson’s Creek” (1998) and “Friends” (1994). Gleason passed away of mesothelioma, a rare form of lung cancer at a Burbank, California hospital on May 29th 2006 at the age of 67.

#20

He was in Die Hard? Hm. I’d probably remember him from that one if I put in a little effort.