# DUG Movie Suggestion: The Breakfast Club
**URL:** https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/dug-movie-suggestion-the-breakfast-club/1710
**Category:** Analysis and Review
**Created:** [April 27, 2018, 8:32pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/dug-movie-suggestion-the-breakfast-club/1710 "2018-04-27T20:32:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@geoff](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/geoff)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2018, 8:32pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/dug-movie-suggestion-the-breakfast-club/1710/1 "2018-04-27T20:32:31Z")
How about “The Breakfast Club” as a movie to analyze in a Dramatica Users Group session? I’m suspecting Chris prefers to have movies that challenge the theory, rather than the same types over and over.
The Breakfast Club involves what could be several MCs. It’s in a single setting: the classroom detention. It also has nuanced activity, such as one of the characters crawling around the stairway as though reverting to a primitive ape. Memorable lines and music.
Anybody agree?
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### Author:  [@geoff](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/geoff)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2018, 8:54pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/dug-movie-suggestion-the-breakfast-club/1710/2 "2018-04-27T20:54:47Z")
Who’d be the reconsider character? I don’t think they’re archetypal. The loner seems a hinderer, as his actions provoke the adult to respond. Then what is the goal? It wouldn’t be likely to finish detention. I’m guessing it’s to become more humane to each other… conceptualize?
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### Author:  [@jhull](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/jhull)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2018, 10:35pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/dug-movie-suggestion-the-breakfast-club/1710/3 "2018-04-27T22:35:05Z")
Pretty sure this is more of an experiential film, rather than anything resembling an argument.
Teenagers sharing experiences. You would have to appreciate some argument in order for there to be some kind of Dramatica-type storyform.
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### Author:  [@decastell](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/decastell)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2018, 12:29am UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/dug-movie-suggestion-the-breakfast-club/1710/4 "2018-04-28T00:29:12Z")
Really? I would’ve thought it shaped up pretty easily: OS in situation (being trapped in detention), MC is (I think - been years since I saw it) the nerdy kid, influence character is a handoff between the others with them pushing the “everyone’s alone” and the RS is about them becoming (or not becoming, given the voiceover at the end) friends.
It’s a movie about how being a teen sucks because adults are jerks. So, kind of like real life 😉
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### Author:  [@jhull](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/jhull)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2018, 1:02am UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/dug-movie-suggestion-the-breakfast-club/1710/5 "2018-04-28T01:02:51Z")
I don’t know. I saw it recently and couldn’t really see anything in there. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I quite enjoy Emilio’s dance moves. But other than that, I’m not sure about a complete stotyform.
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### Author:  [@GetSchwifty](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/GetSchwifty)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2018, 1:23am UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/dug-movie-suggestion-the-breakfast-club/1710/6 "2018-04-28T01:23:00Z")
Molly Ringwald recently wrote about it in the context of #metoo and so on. It’s a hot topic.
> **[What About “The Breakfast Club”?](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/what-about-the-breakfast-club-molly-ringwald-metoo-john-hughes-pretty-in-pink)**
>
> Revisiting the movies of my youth in the age of #MeToo.
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### Author:  [@GetSchwifty](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/GetSchwifty)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2018, 1:25am UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/dug-movie-suggestion-the-breakfast-club/1710/7 "2018-04-28T01:25:45Z")
I think the roles have been reversed lately. I always thought of teenagers as adults that were still expendable.
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### Author:  [@crayzbrian](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/crayzbrian)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/dug-movie-suggestion-the-breakfast-club/1710/8 "2018-04-28T02:43:52Z")
I heard someone compare it to the most recent Jumanji. So, I’m not sure if either have storyforms because I haven’t watched the former recently and haven’t seen the latter. But, Detention sure sounds like a situation to me and everyone certainly has an Attitude about each other if I remember correctly. Is there an MC/IC?
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### Author:  [@mlucas](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/mlucas)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2018, 12:20pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/dug-movie-suggestion-the-breakfast-club/1710/9 "2018-04-28T12:20:11Z")
The reason _The Breakfast Club_ doesn’t have a storyform is because it’s just the backstory for _Pitch Perfect_.
😛
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### Author:  [@GetSchwifty](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/GetSchwifty)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/dug-movie-suggestion-the-breakfast-club/1710/10 "2018-04-28T14:32:17Z")
hahahahahhahah ok that’s funny.
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### Author:  [@museful](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/museful)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2018, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/dug-movie-suggestion-the-breakfast-club/1710/11 "2018-04-28T15:31:57Z")
It doesn’t have a storyform because it has three!
But seriously, thinking back to the movie, I’m with @decastell in that it seemed pretty standard and didn’t feel as though it would be lacking a story form.
On a side note, I’ve always wondered about this:
> In stories that reflect Western culture - particularly in American culture - the Story Goal is traditionally found in the Overall Story Throughline. This results in a story in which the Goal pertains to all of the Overall Story Characters. The Goal, however, might just as appropriately be found in the Main Character Throughline, or either of the other two. In such a story, the overall Goal could appear to be whatever the Main Character was hoping for or working toward, regardless of what was of concern to the Overall Story Characters.
I’d sure like to see an example of this…
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### Author:  [@SharkCat](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/SharkCat)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2018, 1:32am UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/dug-movie-suggestion-the-breakfast-club/1710/12 "2018-05-04T01:32:01Z")
I want to see that too, or should we ignore it since the program doesn’t work that way?
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### Author:  [@jhull](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/jhull)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2018, 1:48am UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/dug-movie-suggestion-the-breakfast-club/1710/13 "2018-05-04T01:48:30Z")
(The Breakfast Club doesn’t have a complete storyform…)