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The Breakfast Club
Saturday morning, March 24th, 1984, 7am. Our 5 characters turn up for school detention:
the princess/popular girl - Claire Standish, with her rich father in the BMW....
the brain/geek - Brian Johnson, with his mother & sister in the station wagon....
the athlete/popular boy - Andrew Clarke, with his father in the pickup truck....
the criminal/rebel - John Bender, walking on his own....
....and the basket case/weirdo - Allison Reynolds, in the back of the family car.
Detention is being held in the library and Principal Richard Vernon has the job of 'watching' them for the day. Andrew sits at Claire's table, Brian sits directly behind them but is forced to move by Bender to another seat and Allison arrives last. She sits behind everyone else, not saying a word. Vernon arrives and tells the group that he is expecting them to do a 1000 word essay each, telling him who they (as individuals) think they are as a person. Bender gets another detention for the following Saturday by asking Vernon if Barry Manilow knows that he raids his wardrobe when the principle asks if there are any questions.
It doesn't take long for Bender to stir up trouble with Andy and Claire....He pretends that he is going to urinate where he's sitting & proceeds to ask Claire and Andy if they are boyfriend and girlfriend. They then dicuss the school's social groups. Bender then gets up and removes a screw from the door so that it will close over and stay closed. Andy and Bender's arguing about this causes Vernon to come into the room.
He asks each one of them why the door is closed but they say "It just closed, sir." Bender states that a screw fell out of it. Vernon challenges him about the screw, but when Bender plays innocent, Vernon says "You're not fooling anyone, Bender. The next screw that falls out will be you." Bender retaliates with "Eat my shorts", and keeps arguing with Vernon, earning himself another 6 detentions (or 2 months-worth).
Vernon leaves and the 5 try to amuse themselves: Claire starts checking out Bender, and Allison is off in her own bizzare world, while showing off her artistic ability (she ruffles her hair causing dandruff to fall onto her snowy picture), Bender plays air-guitar whilst smoking, Brian plays with his pen and Andy plays with the strings of his hoodie jacket.
Eventually, they're all asleep! Bender tears apart literature, and then proceeds to quiz Claire about her virginity. Allison finally mutters a sound, and Andrew has finally had enough of Bender. They get into a small fight but Bender backs down however still maintains his tough guy image by pulling a knife.
Carl, the school janitor comes in a little later to empty the bins and proves that he's more than just some untouchable peasant by telling the group that he's been inside their lockers and picks up on their conversations. Bender is impressed by this and starts whistling the Bridge on the River Kwai tune when Carl leaves, the rest doing likewise. However when Vernon comes into the room Bender changes the tune to a Beethoven one (DUH-DUH DUH-DUH, DUH-DUH DUH-DUUUUUUUH....). Andy and Allison are sent to get drinks. She finally talks but still manages to keep up her loner act.
Whilst Allison and Andy are gone, Bender starts checking out Claire and asks Brian about his virginity. Brian lies that he and Claire slept together but then comes clean and reluctantly admits his virginity to them both. Claire sticks up for him when Bender teases him.
Andy and Allison come back with cans of Coke for everyone. Claire has sushi for lunch, Bender has Claire for lunch, Brian shares his with Bender, Allison has a cereal sandwich with pixie sticks and Andrew has the whole canteen.
Providing the entertainment, Bender impersonates Brian's goody-two-shoes family, and when asked to do his own, it becomes obvious that his own homelife is violent. Andrew makes a mistake by not believing Bender who proceeds to show him the cigar burn on his arm and figures he doesn't need to sit with everyone anymore and goes ballistic.
Vernon's having a bad day, and when he heads out of the office, the gang sneak out to Bender's locker. Bender retrieves the dope from his guillotine-protected locker. Brian can't believe any of this is happening. Returning from the locker, the gang almost run into Vernon, and have to try and make it back to the library without getting caught. Andrew thinks he knows the way against the advice of Bender, but they end up trapped in a dead end; the moral being that criminals know best! ;) Bender stuffs the dope into Brian's trousers, and then sacrifices himself to allow the others to make it back.
Bender heads to the gym shouting "I wanna be an Airborne Ranger", while the others slip back into the library. Vernon drags Bender back to the library, while Bender keeps up the tough guy image. He gives Andy his sunglasses for "better hallway vision".
Vernon locks Bender in a closet and challenges him to throw the first punch but Bender does nothing. He escapes from the closet via the roof tiles, but falls through the roof back into the library. Vernon comes racing in from the toilet after hearing the crash, and Bender hides under Claire's desk. He bangs his head under the table but the others start coughing to cover him whilst Claire stamps on him for trying to look up her skirt. Vernon claims that he won't be made a fool of, but does just that as he leaves, with toilet paper tucked into the back of his trousers!
Bender crawls back out from under the table, receiving a barrage of slaps from Claire. He asks Brian for his dope, and goes to the back of the library to smoke it. Claire decides to join him, followed by Brian and then reluctantly by Andrew. Andy comes out of a smoke filled room and goes crazy running around the library & being all athletic, finally screaming in the Foreign Languages room, shattering the glass door! Allison can't believe what's happening.
Carl catches Vernon snooping around in the confidential basement files, and blackmails him for $50!
The gang compare wallets and purses, while Allison gives back Brian's wallet that she stole. Claire checks out all of Bender's girlfriends. Allison dumps her purse and problems onto the couch. Andrew can relate to it, asking her if she has parental problems. She replies with "They ignore me."
Carl and Vernon discuss about the kids and teaching, Carl revealing that as a kid, he wanted to be John Lennon.
They all gather together and discuss about why they are there. In one of the most dramatic scenes in the film, Andrew tells the story about why he is there (for taping a pupil's butt-cheeks together) and the problems he has with his father telling him he won't tolerate losers in the Clarke family. Bender thinks that his old man and Andrew's old man should get together and go bowling!
Brian ponders his failure in shop, while Bender upsets Claire by making fun of her party trick of applying lipstick from between her cleavage. Brian loses it when he described how he tried to kill himself with a gun, which turns out to be a flare gun, much to amusment of everyone else! Allison then reveals that the only reason why she's in detention is because she had nothing better to do, causing the gang to collapse into giggles.
Enough of the personal stuff, it's time to party! Brian turns DJ, Bender goes ape, Claire goes disco, Andrew turns hip, and Allison gives it all. Bender heads back to the closet, while the rest of the gang hang out. Claire gives Allison a makeover, and Brian starts work on the masterpiece.
Claire visits Bender in the closet, and gets in the first kiss so that Bender won't! She asks him if he was disgusted by her party trick and he nods yes but says no. Claire smiles. Allison is transformed into a goddess.
Brian finishes the masterpiece, Andrew can't believe the transformation of Allison, and Carl bids them fairwell.
Allison and Andrew hit it off. Claire gives Bender her diamond earring, kisses him and gets into her dad's car. Vernon reads the masterpiece, while Bender puts Claire's earring into his own ear and heads home, raising his fist in silent triumph as he walks across the football fields....
SOURCES:
Screencaps from http://www.leavemethewhite.com/caps/thumbnails.php?album=100
Plot outline from http://alternatezone.com/thebreakfastclub/tbc1.htm - altered by moi :)
I adore this movie so much - probably the reason it was/is so successful is that everyone knows/knew somebody at school who was like each of the five characters. I know I can think of a few! ;) :p It's hard to believe I only saw The Breakfast Club last month....well....2 months ago seeing as this is now May! O__O I thought Judd Nelson as Bender was fantastic - the epitome of cool. Why can't I have/get a bad boy? ;)
Oh and in case you're wondering what the gang did to get detention...Claire played truant to go shopping; Andy taped another boy's butt-cheeks together; Brian brought a flare gun to school, going off in his locker; Allison came because she'd nothing else to do on a Saturday morning and Bender set off a fire alarm the day before.
Some fave quotes, moments you know the drill ;) :
- (to himself, crawling above some acoustic ceiling tiles)
Bender: Naked blonde walks into a bar with a poodle under one arm, and a two-foot salami under the other. The bartender says, I guess you won't be needing a drink. Naked lady says...[the ceiling gives way]...Ohh SHIIIIIIT!!!!!
- Andrew: (to Brian who's been constantly asking him questions) You ask me one more question and I'm beating the shit out of you.
- (Richard Vernon places magazine rack in front of door to hold it open)
Bender: That's very clever, sir. But what if there's a fire? I think violating fire codes and endangering the lives of children would be unwise at this juncture in your career, sir.
- Bender: Here's my impression of life at Big Bri's house, "Son?" "Yeah, Dad?" "How was your day, pal?" "Great, Dad! How's yours?" "Super! Say, how would like to go fishing this weekend?" "Great, Dad! But I got homework to do." "That's alright, son! You can do it on the boat!" "Gee!" "Hon, isn't our son swell?" "Yes, dear. Isn't life swell?"
(kiss)
- Bender doing the DUH-DUH DUH-DUUUUUH as soon as Vernon walks in and the look on Vernon's face hee hee.
- Bender full stop. Completely steals the movie, not to mention Judd Nelson was
- Andy trying not to laugh when Brian talks about the flare gun going off in his locker and destroying it. Emilio's face is brilliant here!
- When Vernon finds them all 'asleep' after the first hour or so of detention, tells them all to wake up and no-one does. Then when he asks about who needs to use to use the toilet, 5 hands all shoot up :)
- When Vernon says, "...and you may not talk" after Claire gags at Bender catching his own spitball and when he says "you may not move from these seats" as Brian is switching chairs.
- Bender falling through the roof of the library.
- Bender's facial expression when Allison is biting her nails - "You keep eating your hand and you're not gonna be hungry for lunch."
- The scene where Bender lands himself with another 6 detentions all because he can't keep his mouth shut.
- At the beginning when Bender is walking up to the school & doesn't seem to acknowledge the Reynold's car coming to a halt in front of him and just keeps walking lol.
- The dancing scene - I love that song (Karla DeVito's We Are Not Alone) and seeing each character have their own way of dancing. I always dance along hee hee, especially to Bender & Allison's foot side-shuffling thing, Bender doing it with his hands in his pockets lol and then also to Claire and Allison doing something similar.
- Bender: "Hey how come Andrew gets to get up? If he gets up, we'll all get up. It'll be anarchy!"
- Brian playing with his pen/pencil at the beginning, in his mouth and part of it going up one nostril, then catches Bender watching him do it.
- When Bender is joking about Brian's homelife and the mood suddenly changing when asked to imitate his own....
- Allison casually reaching for Bender's knife when he sticks it into a chair & he doesn't notice her take it....
- Bender going nuts during the dancing scene - an 80s pop song is playing & he's headbanging away like he's at a rock/heavy metal concert LMAO.
- Vernon jumping when his 'muddy' coffee spills out of his flask & all over the desk. *snort* :p
- The word Neo-maxi-zoom-dweebie, invented by Bender of course!
- Bender: "Being bad feels pretty good, huh?" ;) :D (one of my favourites!)
- Brian's letter: (Brian's V.O.) 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 your 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 simplist terms, the most convienient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, (Andy's V.O.) and an athlete, (Allison's V.O.) and a basket case, (Claire's V.O.) a princess (Bender's V.O.) and a criminal. (Brian's V.O. again) Does that answer your question? Sincerely Yours, The Breakfast Club.
- Bender: (talking about the screw he took from the library door) "Screws fall out all the time. The world's an imperfect place."
- The scene with Bender getting all those other detentions:
Vernon: (to Bender) You're not fooling anybody, Bender. The next screw that falls out is gonna be you. (turns to leave)
Bender: (under his breath) Eat my shorts...(Vernon spins in his tracks and faces Bender again)
Vernon: What was that?
Bender: (loudly) Eat my shorts!
Vernon: You just bought yourself another Saturday!
Bender: (sarcastically) Oh I'm crushed.
Vernon: You just bought one more right there!
Bender: Well, I'm free the Saturday after that...beyond that, I'm gonna have to check my calendar!
Vernon: Good! 'Cause it's gonna be filled, we'll keep goin'! You want another one? Say the word, just say the word! Instead of going to
prison, you'll come here! Are you through.
Bender: No!
Vernon: I'm doing society a favor!
Bender: So?
Vernon: That's another one, right there! I've got you for the rest of your natural born life if you don't watch your step! You want another one?
Bender: Yes!
Vernon: You got it! You got another one, right there! That's another one pal!
Claire: (worried) Cut it out! (Mouths "shut up" to Bender)
Vernon: You through?
Bender: Not even close, bud!
Vernon: Good! You got one more, right there!
Bender: Do you really think I give a shit?
Vernon: Another...(Bender glares at him)
Vernon: You through?
Bender: How many is that?
Brian: That's seven including the one when we first came in and you asked Mr. Vernon here whether Barry Manilow knew that he raided his closet.
Vernon: (to Bender) Now it's eight...(to Brian) You stay out of it!
Brian: Excuse me, sir, it's seven.
Vernon: Shut it, Peewee! (to Bender) You're mine Bender...for two months I gotcha! I gotcha!
Bender: What can I say? I'm thrilled!
- The look on Bender's face after he kisses Claire as she drives away and he watches her! ;)
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Out of these types of movies, my absolute favorite is Some Kind Of Wonderful.
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Wasn't he hot though? I think he had my attention from the moment he stepped into that library lol. I ♥ his typical class clown/bad boy behaviour; pissing everyone off, the attempts at chucking paper balls at Claire's head LMAO. And I adore that lovely floppy brown hair - rawr! ;) :D Ultimate bad boy indeed!
This is one of those movies that I forgot how many times I saw it.
Heck, I think within the first week of me buying it on DVD, I'd watched it at least 8 or 9 times!! *has lost count too*
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