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The Breakfast Club est un film américain écrit et réalisé par John Hughes en 1985.

Ce dernier ira chercher les acteurs Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, Molly Ringwald, ainsi que le légendaire Emilio Estevez afin de créer une histoire réunissant cinq étudiants à personnalités très divergentes, soit the brain, the prom queen, the criminal, the basket case et the athlete. Tout le film se passe un samedi, lorsque les cinq personnages se retrouvent ensemble en retenue. Ils apprendront à passer outre leurs réputations respectives et à s'apprécier mutuellement.

Du début à la fin, The Breakfast Club nous entraîne dans un univers auquel tout adolescent s'est identifié. La bande originale est composée de morceaux classiques de l'époque, dont Don't you forget about me des Simple Minds. La fin constitue l'un des moments les plus forts du film, amenant le spectateur au thème même du film par le biais du sujet imposé aux élèves en retenue : « Qui pensez-vous être ? ».

The five strangers, who seem to have nothing in common at first, come together at the high school library, where they are harangued and ordered not to speak or move from their seats by the antagonistic teacher Mr. Richard Vernon (Paul Gleason) and remain for a period of nine hours (from 7.A.M. to 4.P.M.). He assigns a 1000 word essay (in which each student must write about who they think they are) and then leaves them mostly unsupervised, returning only occasionally to check on them. Bender, who has a particularly negative relationship with Mr. Vernon, disregards the rules and riles up the other students; mocking Brian and Andy and sexually harassing Claire. Allison remains oddly quiet except for the occasional random outburst.

The students pass the hours in a variety of ways: they dance, harass each other, tell stories, fight, smoke marijuana, speak on a variety of subjects. Gradually they open up to each other and reveal their inner secrets (for example, Allison is a kleptomaniac and a compulsive liar and Brian is ashamed of his virginity). They also discover that they all have strained relationships with their parents and are afraid of making the same mistakes as the adults around them. However, despite these developing friendships, the students are afraid that once the detention is over, they will return to their very different cliques and never speak to each other again.

Nevertheless, genuine connections have been made. Andy and Allison are drawn to each other, and Claire and Bender overcome their differences and kiss. Both couples exchange tokens: Allison takes a patch from Andy's letter jacket, and is seen with his jacket around her shoulders at the very end of the movie when they're saying goodbye. Claire gives Bender one of her diamond earrings.

At the request and consensus of the students, Brian is asked to write the essay Mr. Vernon assigned earlier (the subject of which was to be a synopsis by each student detailing "who you think you are"), which challenges Mr. Vernon and his preconceived judgments about all of them. Brian does so, but instead of writing about the actual topic he writes a very motivating letter that is in essence, the main point of the story. He signs the essay as "The Breakfast Club" and leaves it at the table for Mr. Vernon to read when they leave. There are two versions for this letter, one read at the beginning and one at the end, and they are slightly different; illustrating the change in the student's judgments of one another, and their realization that they truly have things in common.

Don't You (Forget About Me)

Hey, hey, hey ,hey
Ohhh...
Won't you come see about me?
I'll be alone, dancing you know it baby

Tell me your troubles and doubts
Giving me everything inside and out and
Love's strange so real in the dark
Think of the tender things that we were working on

Slow change may pull us apart
When the light gets into your heart, baby

Don't You Forget About Me
Don't Don't Don't Don't
Don't You Forget About Me

Will you stand above me?
Look my way, never love me
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
Down, down, down

Will you recognise me?
Call my name or walk on by
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
Down, down, down, down

Hey, hey, hey, hey
Ohhhh.....

Don't you try to pretend
It's my feeling we'll win in the end
I won't harm you or touch your defenses
Vanity and security

Don't you forget about me
I'll be alone, dancing you know it baby
Going to take you apart
I'll put us back together at heart, baby

Don't You Forget About Me
Don't Don't Don't Don't
Don't You Forget About Me

As you walk on by
Will you call my name?
As you walk on by
Will you call my name?
When you walk away

Or will you walk away?
Will you walk on by?
Come on - call my name
Will you call my name?

I say :
La la la...

posted by OSTIAN@00:00AM
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The Breakfast Club is celebrating its 20th anniversary!
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