Film that have influenced our film

Film that have influenced our film

One of the films which have influenced our decision to make a teen drama was "The Breakfast Club". Not just due to it being set during school life, but the influences were mostly the characters. They all epitomise the type of stereotypical students that high/secondary schools have in America and Britain. These stereotypical characters in "The Breakfast Club" are seen in our film. 

Stereotypes

• Claire Standish (Molly Ringwald) is the princess, the Prom Queen, Miss Popularity.
• Brian Johnson (Anthony Michael Hall) is the brain, the geek, the "neo-maxie zoom deebie."
• Andrew Clark (Emilio Estevez) is the athlete, the jock, "Sporto."
• John Bender (Judd Nelson) is the criminal, the rebel, the punk.
• Allison Reynolds (Ally Sheedy) is the basket case, the loner, the weirdo.

The strict confines of high school status groups separate the characters. Claire and Andrew might know each other, they might even end up at the same big parents-are-out-of-town party, but they do not "hang out." None of the others would even speak to one another under normal circumstances. But Saturday detention is like a parallel universe-it creates a separate sphere where these divisions can eventually be set aside. In the "other world" their punishment creates, the members of the Breakfast Club are allowed to move beyond these social norms and distinctions. They interact with each other, learning the details of the lives beneath the stereotypes, and find common ground.

Ferris Bueller's Day off

The soundtrack used within the opening sequence in "Ferris Bueller's Day off" is relatively similar to our's. It has the same upbeat tempo, all be it used in a contrasting settings, with our film set in school, while the opening of "Ferris Bueller's Day off" is set in Ferris's house.