Preview

The Breakfast Club

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
1574 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
The Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club contained a wide variety of communication. Within this essay, the various types of communication and behaviors will be discussed. Key terms will be pointed out and highlighted, as well as described in relation to the examples extracted from the film. The character's included: Brian (brain), Andrew (athlete), John Bender (criminal), Claire (princess), and Allison (basketcase). I will concentrate on two characters through out the film. The first character is John Bender (criminal) and the second character is Claire (princess).

There are seven interpersonal communication skills that took place in the movie. They are the: dynamic process, inescapable, unrepeatable, irreversible, complicated, contextual, and governed by rules. I will be discussing these seven skills in the next few paragraphs.

The dynamic process was shown between Bender and Claire when Bender told Brian to close the door so they could get the prom queen impregnated. She gave him a dirty look, and turned back around. He was expressing the action that he wanted to be done rather then the state of being. After that she told him,"Why don't you shut-up, nobody here is interested." She forced her opinion upon him that no one cares about what he say's. That is what dynamic process is all about.

The second skill is inescapable communication. There are many examples of this through out the beginning of the film. Bender invades Claire's comfort zone many times, which makes her answer back. If she didn't say anything, she would at least give non-verbal cues. In one scene, Claire states that he is just doing this to get a rise out of them, and to ignore him. He starts saying things about her and Andrew. She tried ignoring him but then she answered back,"Go to Hell!" She couldn't escape from communication.

The third skill is unrepeatable. This is a statement that was said by both character's, but could never be repeated again because it was good the first time it was said. Bender was telling

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Better Essays

    The Breakfast Club is such an interesting movie to use with this topic. The wide range of characters allows for a variety of different interactions. The way we are going to approach this, is to look at each character and examine the different interactions between.…

    • 1296 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    At the very core of these skills is a crucial shift in focus. One must “concentrate on results and not on being “busy” (Mindtools.com…

    • 876 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The movie The Breakfast Club is about five students in spending their day in saturday detention. All of these characters have completely different personalities from one another, which makes the movie more interesting than it already is. The character that I will be doing my character analysis on is named John Bender. John Bender is the troublemaker of the group, and, in my opinion, the funniest.…

    • 324 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    The film “The Breakfast Club” directed by John Hughes is a compelling film that illustrates the inner working of the teenage mind-set. A film quite literally opens your eyes to how teenagers work within different stereotypes. John Hughes is able to show how although each character may give the impression that everything is “OK” but really, on the inside their whole life is just constant stress. This stress, which numerous things, including their parents and peers brought on, effected them in a way in which throughout the film, we as the audience have more insight into their lives as teenagers. Many of the characters in this film are easily relatable; however, Hughes has been able to show the differences within the inner workings of their…

    • 1779 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    A “quintessential 80’s movie,” The Breakfast Club is a film rich with psychological principles. This movie is about a group of high school teenagers filled with personal angst who spend a Saturday serving their detention sentences in the school library. Each teenager from a different clique, they didn’t expect to relate as much to each other as they thought. As they begin to get to know each other, the vengeful assistant principal Vernon starts to single out Bender, the rebel of the group of teenagers. Initially, none of the other teenagers help Bender. This demonstrates the bystander effect because they don’t help Bender; this effect can be explained by the absence of group membership and cohesiveness because the 5 strangers don’t really know each other yet. But when assistant principal Vernon locks Bender in a closet, the group has already established trustworthy relationships among its members, so they decide to help Bender escape. Also, assistant principal Vernon debatably exhibited deindividuation when he proceeded to threaten Bender and to lock him inside a closet. Normally, an assistant principal of a high school wouldn’t speak cruelly or do such things to a student, but because of the situation (their history together and how Bender always seemed to have won), Vernon acts this way. Finally, each teenager demonstrated conformity in his/her own way. Bender covered up his scars from the abuse he received from his dad so that he wouldn’t be judged as weak for them; Andy, the jock, covered up his hatred for his father because he didn’t want to be seen as abnormal; Brian, the geek, contemplated suicide but never told anyone because he didn’t want to be perceived as depressed; Allison, the outcast, lies compulsively because she has to keep up a reputation she has created; and Claire, the popular girl, hides the fact that she is still a virgin because all of her friends are not virgins and she doesn’t want to be considered…

    • 328 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Film: The Breakfast Club

    • 323 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The 1985 film “The Breakfast Club” is a classic American coming-of-age-drama-comedy film. “The Breakfast Club” is written, produced, and directed by John Hughes, who was met with “resistance and skepticism” because he lacked filmmaking experience when he requested to direct this film. This film turned out to be Hughes’ directional debut. With a budget of one million dollars, this film grossed 51.5 million dollars worldwide.…

    • 323 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Another interpersonal communication theory that the film exemplifies really well is in-group and out-group patterns. For example, the women of Peg’s community and…

    • 660 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Instructions: To complete the film analysis assignment, you are to view and analyze the film, The Blind Side. After viewing the entire film, you must be able to recognize at least seven of the interpersonal communication concepts displayed within the movie that we have discussed throughout the course. You are not to just briefly mention the concepts; instead you must describe each concept in detail as it correlates to the film. In addition, when you name each communication concept, list the page number to support your statements/findings, and also define the concept as well. So for each of the seven boxes within the template that is attached, you should state the communication concept, the page number that the concept is located at within…

    • 267 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Breakfast Club

    • 627 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Despite the fact that the well known movie, set thirty years prior on March 24th, 1984, The Breakfast Club is an arresting and pertinent investigate juvenile associate society. John Hughes, who is also responsible for the movies Sixteen Candles and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, catches the subtleties of juvenile generalizations and collaborations, the way of life conflict amongst youths and grown-ups, and the part that guardians play in forming the secondary school experience of child. The Breakfast Club takes after five distinctive young people over the span of a day as they are compelled to persist confinement on a Saturday.…

    • 627 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Breakfast Club Analysis

    • 720 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The well-known song “Don’t You Forget about Me” plays at the end of the movie The Breakfast Club, signaling not only the end of the famous movie, but also the end of the transitory group that had developed in the earlier scenes. Although movie was released over twenty years ago, high school students today can still use the labels that are examined in the movie to identify themselves in the cruel world they call high school. With the final lines “you see us as you want to see us...In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions,” the point of the movie finally becomes apparent; stereotypes are not accurate representations of teenagers, but instead they accurately represent who teenagers think they are. There is no doubt that students all come with labels; it is inevitable. But whether a student is a brain, a jock or a princess, they are all greatly impacted by the stereotypes and boundaries that are a part of each of their social groups.…

    • 720 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Pulp Fiction

    • 755 Words
    • 2 Pages

    I based my movie project on the film, Pulp Fiction, by Quentin Tarantino. This film stars such names as John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, and Bruce Willis. The movie has a few different aspect that takes form thoughout the plot. One of which is about John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson's characters, who play a couple of deadly, cold hearted hit-men. Another is about an over the hill boxer, played by Bruce Willis, who scams the head boss of a mafia-like cartel for some big time money. When Bruce Willis's character rips off the head boss, and he inturn sends his thugs, played by Travolta and Jackson to take care of him. While this is all going on many other crazy things take place, which in my opinion makes this movie one of the best ever made. The movie contains many interpersonal communication concepts thoughout the story line. The three interpersonal communication concepts I chose to examine are empathy, non-verbal communication, and dramatic changes in self-concept.…

    • 755 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Breakfast Club

    • 629 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The Breakfast Club relates to social health and mental health, by the characters personalities. In the Breakfast Club, five teenagers have to spend a full day in detention. Claire is the princess; the pretty, popular girl with parents that fight all the time. John is the criminal; the bad influence, and the pothead that gets beaten. Brian is the brain or nerd; he is the smart one of the group, that is pressured to do good by his parents. Allison is the basket case; a crazy goth, that makes things up. Andrew is the typical high school athlete; pushed to the max by his father and coach to be the best. People can come from all walks of life but still have common social and mental struggles.…

    • 629 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Breakfast Club film contained a wide variety of behavior and stereotypes. Each person had their on personality and taste at the beginning of the film. I believe that communication played the biggest part in the movie. It shows the way that people from totally different backgrounds can communicate and even agree on issues. The various types of communication and behaviors within the film will be discussed. Key terms will be pointed out and highlighted, as well as described in relation to the examples extracted from the film. To begin with the film started out with a communication climate that was both tense and without verbal communication. This was mainly due to the variance in membership constructs of the characters involved. The character's included the brain Brian, Andrew the athlete, the criminal Bender, the princess Claire, and the basket case Allison. There was a great deal of interesting nonverbal communication taking place between these people. Their reactions and responses to each other demonstrated perceptual errors, which would be shown as the story progressed. The gender conflict styles also played a role. The girls both tended to listen, rather than hold the attention of the others. This was especially true in Allison's case, whom never spoke. Allison was introduced in the movie as the basket case. Allison showed that she was obviously insecure, seating herself facing away from the rest of the room (avoidance). She would not speak out. She was non-assertive, when asked what she wanted she would not respond (impervious response). She would only sit and smile to herself. You could categorize her in to the passive aggressive label perfectly. She didn't like herself (low self-esteem), or others. She was both futile and helpless. The only way she displayed her anger was by giving a whimper. She obviously had a lot of pent up feeling, for she reveals a lot later in the movie through self-disclosure. Allison obviously lacked the respect of others, for she had…

    • 1456 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Interpersonal Skills

    • 254 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Interpersonal skills are the life skills we use every day to communicate and interact with other people, individually and in groups.Interpersonal skills include not only how we communicate with others, but also our confidence and our ability to listen and understand. Problem solving, decision making and personal stress management are also considered interpersonal skills.…

    • 254 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    skills for life

    • 731 Words
    • 3 Pages

    As I stated previously, I think all five skills are important in every aspect of life. My strongest attribute is being inquisitive and being a strategic thinker. I tend to ask a…

    • 731 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays