John David Washington has said that the toughest time on set was filming the banquet scene. He later called Ron Stallworth to ask how he had contained himself amid such hatred when dealing with the actual KKK.
The Breakfast Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Emilio Estevez was originally going to play Bender. However, John Hughes could not find someone to play Andrew, so Estevez agreed to play him.
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John Hughes wrote the screenplay to this movie in just two days (July 4 and 5, 1982).
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After Andrew finishes pulling out his lunch from the paper bag then turns around to Bender, You can see for a second Judd Nelson breaking character when he smiles at Emilio Estevez.
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Brian (Anthony Michael Hall)'s reference and stereotype is as "The Brain". The name "Brian" and the word "brain" are anagrams of each other.
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John Hughes wrote The Breakfast Club (1985) before he wrote Sixteen Candles (1984), but the studio was concerned that Hughes's first film was a drama, completely filmed in-house and featuring just talking; basically a Broadway Encounter group type formula was Hughes' first film. They wanted him to do something tried and true; something along the lines of National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), so he wrote Sixteen Candles. But, ironically, Sixteen Candles was not the commercial and critical hit Breakfast Club was. It did ok; but Breakfast Club, not a formula movie like Sixteen Candles, was a much bigger hit at the box office.
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The theme song, "Don't You (Forget About Me)", was written for the film by Keith Forsey. It was a number one hit for Simple Minds, and Billy Idol and Bryan Ferry turned down offers to record it first (although in 2001, Billy Idol recorded Don't You (Forget About Me) as a bonus track for his Greatest Hits album). The song was also turned down by Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, who then suggested they offer it to the band fronted by her husband at the time, Simple Minds.
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In early drafts of the script, Claire (Molly Ringwald) was called Cathy.
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Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off were both inducted into the National Registry for being Culturally significant; Ferris Bueller in 2014 and Breakfast Club in 2016. Those were the only two John Hughes movies that accomplished this.
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Anthony Michael Hall (Brian Johnson) hit a growth spurt during production. According to Judd Nelson (John Bender), Hall was shorter than him at the start of production, but at the end of it, he was taller than him.
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John Hughes: Brian's father, who picks him up at the end of the film.
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The High School was used in John Hughes' next film, Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), with Matthew Broderick playing the title character, and was considered for the role of Andrew Clarke.
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Film critic Gene Siskel called this a teen-aged Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?? (1966).
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John Hughes: [The Beatles ]: Principal Richard Vernon (Paul Gleason) is named after a minor actor from A Hard Day's Night (1964). When the principal asks the janitor what he wanted to be when he grew up, the janitor replies that he wanted to be John Lennon.
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John Hughes insisted that the entire cast and crew eat their meals on-location in the Maine North High School cafeteria.
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The cast all agreed later that Ally Sheedy (Allison Reynolds) was the best dancer.
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Karen Leigh Hopkins was cast as Robin, a gym teacher who gives the teens advice. But after one day of filming, Hopkins was fired and her scenes were re-written for Carl (John Kapelos), the janitor. According to the book "John Hughes: A Life in Film", Molly Ringwald (Claire Standish) and Ally Sheedy (Allison Reynolds) objected to a scene in which Robin was seen nude in the locker room, so John Hughes deleted her character.
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Many people feel that the original prototype for this movie was Whose Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, with its Broadway Encounter Group Formula, which had people holed up together in a room and arguing, shouting, divulging personal secrets and revelations and confronting each other to move the drama. The Boys in the Band, a 1970 William Friedkin movie about the New York gay scene post Stonewall, had a similar format; A Chorus Line, Michael Bennett's smash 1975 musical about the gritty lives of Broadway dancers, also followed this formula pattern, and Lawrence Kasdan's 1983 classic The Big Chill also followed a similar formula, and was another obvious influence on the Breakfast Club. In fact, most critics called this the "Little Chill" or the "Big Chill" for teenagers. Breakfast Club had a huge influence itself. Movies like Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise series, which features Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy arguing and improvising on their feelings of life for young people, were directly influenced by Breakfast Club.
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The film was shot in sequence.
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Judd Nelson (John Bender) stayed in character off-camera, even bullying Molly Ringwald. John Hughes nearly fired him over this, but, ironically, Paul Gleason (Richard Vernon) defended Nelson, saying that he was a good actor, and he was trying to get into character.
The Breakfast Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Breakfast Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Breakfast Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Breakfast Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Breakfast Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Breakfast Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Breakfast Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Breakfast Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Breakfast Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Breakfast Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Breakfast Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Breakfast Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Breakfast Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Breakfast Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Breakfast Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Breakfast Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Breakfast Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Breakfast Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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