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Saturday, March 24, 1984...



Are you a brain, an athlete, a princess, a basket case, or a criminal?

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"eye don’t really care so much what people say about me because it is a reflection of who they r."
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Reply #1 posted 03/24/18 10:36am

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I've never seen the movie.

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Reply #2 posted 03/24/18 11:56am

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luv4u said:

I've never seen the movie.



Shameful. biggrin
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Reply #3 posted 03/24/18 12:00pm

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EmmaMcG said:

luv4u said:

I've never seen the movie.

Shameful. biggrin


From what I have been told I'm not missing any thing biggrin

canada

Ohh purple joy oh purple bliss oh purple rapture!
REAL MUSIC by REAL MUSICIANS - Prince
"I kind of wish there was a reason for Prince to make the site crash more" ~~ Ben
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Reply #4 posted 03/24/18 12:18pm

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Image result for family guy the breakfast club

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Reply #5 posted 03/24/18 12:19pm

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Related image

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #6 posted 03/24/18 2:53pm

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luv4u said:

EmmaMcG said:

luv4u said: Shameful. biggrin


From what I have been told I'm not missing any thing biggrin

Whhaaaaa!!! that is a trip through time. No cell phones, 80s, this is a must Luv4u

"Heart To Hot To Hold" by Jesse Johnson (1985)

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Reply #7 posted 03/24/18 2:53pm

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Heart Too Hot To Hold -Jesse Johnson & Stephanie Spruioll -2.19.1985

"And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They are quite aware of what they are going through..." -David Bowe

The Breakfast Club - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Label: A&M Records
Heart Too Hot To Hold
Jesse Johnson and Stephanie Spruill
Produced by Keith Forsey
Words by Keith Forsey, Laurie Forsey, Jesse Johnson, and Michael Frondelli
Music by Keith Forsey and Laurie Forsey
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When you walked into the room
I could see you were no fool
Is that smile a sign for me?
Only if my heart could see

Can I hold you in my dreams?
Keep your body close to me
Tell myself I've got control
Even though you're hot to hold

Is your heart too hot to hold?
Just a flame that burns my soul
Heart, too hot to hold
Too hot, too hot, to hot to hold

When you walk, you walk so cool
And you know the way you move
Makes me want to take a chance
Are you ready for romance?

Will I make your body cry
Cry so loud you'd never hear
In the shadows of my life
Can I take you home tonight

Is your heart too hot to hold?
Just a flame that burns my soul
Heart too hot to hold
Too hot, too hot
Too hot to hold

Heart too hot to hold
Just a flame that burns my soul

Heart too hot to hold
Too hot, too hot
Too hot to hold

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Reply #8 posted 03/24/18 2:57pm

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Reply #9 posted 03/24/18 3:03pm

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Just have to throw in the Simple Minds song that came with the movie...but was bigger than the movie...

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #10 posted 03/24/18 3:43pm

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luv4u said:



EmmaMcG said:


luv4u said:

I've never seen the movie.



Shameful. biggrin


From what I have been told I'm not missing any thing biggrin



Don't trust the word of others. Only trust your own opinions. And mine. You can trust my opinions too biggrin
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Reply #11 posted 03/24/18 5:55pm

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EmmaMcG said:

luv4u said:


From what I have been told I'm not missing any thing biggrin

Don't trust the word of others. Only trust your own opinions. And mine. You can trust my opinions too biggrin


Yeah, I don't know anyone who has ever said The Breakfast Club was worth missing. It's one of the best 80s movies. John Hughes wrote a trilogy of teen movies that spoke to everyone (the other two being Pretty In Pink and Sixteen Candles).

Luv4u, do yourself a favor and watch it. You'll find yourself in there somewhere, I guarantee it.

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Reply #12 posted 03/24/18 7:08pm

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purplethunder3121 said:

Just have to throw in the Simple Minds song that came with the movie...but was bigger than the movie...

I swear when I hear this one somewhere I just tune right in and feel it

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Reply #13 posted 03/24/18 9:14pm

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OldFriends4Sale said:

purplethunder3121 said:

Just have to throw in the Simple Minds song that came with the movie...but was bigger than the movie...

I swear when I hear this one somewhere I just tune right in and feel it

Yup. takes me right back to a certain confusing period in time... Trying to drive away from it with this song blasting on the car speakers...

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #14 posted 03/25/18 11:33am

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This movie will always have a special place in my heart. I was a combination of the brain, princess, and the basket case. My dad and I sometimes communicate through visual art. He showed me this movie in the early 90s when I was having trouble fitting in during junior high. It really did help with what I felt at the time,and with my understanding of others. I kept the David Bowie quote from Changes featured at the beginning of the movie pinned to my wall in my bedroom from Junior High until the time I got my first apartment. I was also thrilled to see the 1999 album in the movie, as this was around the time I was first getting into Prince.
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"As long as I can hear you smilin' baby
You won't hear my tears."
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Reply #15 posted 03/25/18 6:39pm

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EmmaMcG said:

luv4u said:

I've never seen the movie.

Shameful. biggrin

I never seen it too, but if EmmaMcG recommends it then I'll check it out

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Reply #16 posted 03/25/18 11:41pm

EmmaMcG

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EmmaMcG said:


luv4u said:

I've never seen the movie.



Shameful. biggrin

I never seen it too, but if EmmaMcG recommends it then I'll check it out



I was never even alive in the 80s so I can't be accused of just liking the nostalgia factor. It's a genuinely good movie.
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Reply #17 posted 03/26/18 12:10am

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EmmaMcG said:

kpowers said:

I never seen it too, but if EmmaMcG recommends it then I'll check it out

I was never even alive in the 80s so I can't be accused of just liking the nostalgia factor. It's a genuinely good movie.


For those of us who were alive and in high school in the 80s, John Hughes - for being an older guy, that being older than a teenager and in his mid-thirties - found words and provoked emotions that teenagers might not have been otherwise able to articulate.

All five kids in Saturday detention have their demons to purge. The jock can't think for himself. The princess feels peer pressure to be perfect and looked up to. The brain feels a threat of failure for everything below an A or B that he gets; and sees his clubs (like computer club) the same as social clubs that the princess is part of. To her, they're different, but to the brain they're the same. The criminal acts out because he has learned that from his alcoholic abusive father. The basket case is as such because her family flat out ignores her (as she confesses to the jock who understands her because his own feelings are ignored in lieu of his father's need for winners in the family). She longs for attention and affection. We even see her parents (or someone) dropped her off at the beginning of the movie and drive off before she can even say goodbye. Her confession as to what got her to detention is rather enlightening to her situation.

Adults in the movie all have their own twisted and unrealistic view of teenagers, although one sums up who really changes over time. Echoing that, the kids balk at the idea of changing into their parents, realizing it is probably unavoidable.

While those of us of a certain age do have nostalgia attached, the strength of The Breakfast Club (even more than Pretty In Pink or Sixteen Candles) is the raw and compassionate truth of how the teenagers are written and portrayed, keeping them out of stereotypes and firmly in the pocket of every person who will ever view the movie throughout time.

"eye don’t really care so much what people say about me because it is a reflection of who they r."
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