Overview of Context
The breakfast club was made in the 1980s by popular American film director, producer and screenwriter, John Wilden Hughes Jr. Hughes was responsible for some of the most successful films of the ‘80s and ‘90s and launched the careers of acting personalities including Michael Keaton, Molly Ringwald and Macaulay Culkin. He specialised in the directing of high school/teen films, earning him the title “King of teen movies.” Some things in the film are iconic with America and the ‘80s era such as Brian’s PB&J sandwich or the slang/offensive language, i.e.”Eat my shorts.” Only whites featured in the movie which may have been a result of acting being more white dominated at the time and/or it may have made it more complicated if other races/groups/stereotypes were to be incorporated into the high school structure. As is evident in the film, the hierarchy structure in schools in the ‘80s was much stronger than today, with Jocks and rich/popular girls at the top, rebels in the middle, and nerds and 'weird kids' at the bottom.