05 2015. Claire thinks he doesn't understand "pressure"—meaning the kind of pressure her friends put her under—but it turns out he understands pressure, in the full meaning of the word, perhaps better than she does. It can be light, frothy, and wholly amusing like The teen movie is pretty closely allied to the coming-of-age movie. Andrew has good reflexes. And it also seems to indicate that Bender isn't just talk: He's not just pumping up his image. 2015. From being protective of Claire to fighting Bender to having an absurd lunch Andrew seems to be as deep a character as a kiddie pool. He is depicted as the criminal, and reveals a past that correlates to that of many who maintain similar lifestyles and recreational choices that Bender exhibits. Home Plot Context Characters Themes Representations Quotes Study Questions Read Further Andrew Clark "the athlete" 4/8/2014 1 Comment Andrew Clark is the typical school jock in a high school society, respected and admired by everyone. Andrew denigrates Bender as someone who's worthless and "[doesn't] count," while Bender sees Claire as a "richie" and Brian as a mere dork. So, he ends up making an elephant lamp for shop class that doesn't work: You pull the trunk but the light doesn't come on like it's supposed to. It's got a providential, serendipitous quality to it. As the film goes on Allison begins to open up slightly to the athlete Andrew Clark, when she empties out the contents of her purse Andrew seems shocked but realises that there must be something wrong. Andrew Clark was the stereotypical athlete. So, now they really are friends. All characters in The Breakfast Club movie. In the last lines of the movie, Brian signs off by reading the essay he wrote to Vernon: BRIAN (voiceover): But we found out that each of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal. After Bender gets himself apprehended, Vernon takes him into a closet and tries to get Bender to take a swing at him so Vernon can beat him up without getting fired. Brian defends his own intellectual prowess in other areas: BRIAN: Bender, did you know without trigonometry there'd be no engineering?So, what's the greater meaning of the elephant lamp, if anything? Basically, he took shop class because he thought it would be easy. They all sit around in a circle on the floor. Each person had there on personality and taste at the beginning of the film. John Hughes's The Breakfast Club is one of film history’s most iconic and renowned movies and is a cornerstone of 1980’s pop-culture.
This remains to be seen. In this particular scene the camera zooms in on Brian’s to show the emotion and hurt he is feeling.
Breakfast Club Character Evaluations...The Breakfast Club was a movie about five very different characters, Claire, Andrew, Brian, Allison, and John Bender. Bender, being the prankster bad boy, gets things started. He tells Andrew, "I wanna be just like you! Technical and audio conventions are used throughout this scene to address his emotion. In the end they get picked up by their parents and they're wiser than they were in the beginning. But Bender seems scared and put off. Answer these questions to find out. 5/19/05 We also get to see other parts of the school, like the hallways, a closet, a room with confidential student files, and the football field (at the very end). Abstract He didn't shoot himself, but it was found in his locker. Nice Guy: The nicest character in the entire film - notably, he's the only character in the film who's nice to the janitor. It's the point at which the other kids stop seeing Brian as just some quirky weirdo and realize that he has issues that are similar in magnitude to their own. So, frequently, the subject matter involves high school and relationship issues, with forays into sex and drug use. Sweet, right? Allison's dad drives away without turning to look at her, and Andrew's dad acts like the horrible bullying thing that Andrew did is no big deal—but potentially losing his athletic scholarship is. But Brian's in detention all because of a ceramic, non-functioning elephant lamp. The character of Andrew is used to explore moral reasoning, identity statuses, and the effect......The Breakfast Club (1985) He wants them to actually After Andrew says he doesn't really think Bender's home life is as terrible as Bender acts like it is—with Bender's dad yelling "Shut up, B****! But, at the end, Brian's the one who brings the movie's message into focus. In John Hughes: The guru of '80s teen comedies and the biggest Beatles nerd working in Hollywood.The ordinary world is the parental world: the boring world where Mom and Dad are hounding their kids to do things.