The Making of 'The Breakfast Club'

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#Hey hey hey hey #

#Ooh#

#Ooh whoa#

#Won't you come see about me #

#I'll be alone #

#Dancing, you know it, baby #

#Tell me your troubles and doubts #

# Givin' me everything #

#lnside and out and #

# Love's strange #

# So real in the dark #

# Think of the tender things #

# That we were working on #

# Slow change may pull us apart #

# When the light gets

into your heart, baby #

# Don't you #

# Forget about me #

# Don't, don't, don't, don't #

# Don't you #

# Forget about me #

# Will you stand above me #

# Look my way but never love me #

# Rain keeps fallin' #

# Rain keeps fallin' #

# Down #

# Down #

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Saturday,

March 24, 1984.

Shermer High School,

Shermer, lllinois, 60062.

Dear Mr. Vernon...

We accept that

we had to sacrifice...

a whole Saturday in detention

for whatever it was we did wrong.

What we did was wrong...

but we think you're crazy

to make us write an essay...

telling you who we think we are.

What do you care?

You see us as you want to see us...

in the simplest terms,

the most convenient definitions.

You see us as a brain...

an athlete...

a basket case...

a princess...

and a criminal.

Correct?

That's the way we saw each other

at 7:
00 this morning.

We were brainwashed.

I can't believe

you can't get me out of this.

It's so absurd

I have to be here on a Saturday.

It's not like

I'm a defective or anything.

I'll make it up to you.

Honey, ditching class to go shopping

doesn't make you a defective.

Have a good day.

Is this the first

or last time we do this?

Last.

Get in there and use the time

to your advantage.

Mom, we're not supposed to study.

- Mister, you figure out a way to study.

- Yeah.

Well, go!

Hey, I screwed around.

There's nothing

wrong with that...

except you got caught, sport.

Yeah, Mom already

reamed me, all right?

You want to miss a match?

Blow your ride?

No school is going to give

a scholarship to a discipline case.

Well, well.

Here we are.

I want to congratulate you

for being on time.

Excuse me, sir?

I think there's been a mistake.

I know it's detention, but, um,

I don't think I belong in here.

It is now 7:
06.

You have exactly 8 hours and 54 minutes

to think about why you're here.

- Ponder the error of your ways.

- [ Spits ]

You may not talk.

You will not move

from these seats.

And you...

will not sleep.

All right, people, we're going to

try something different today.

We are going to write an essay...

of no less than 1,000 words...

describing to me

who you think you are.

- Is this a test?

- When I say "essay," I mean essay.

I do not mean a single word

repeated 1,000 times.

Is that clear, Mr. Bender?

- Crystal.

- Good.

Maybe you'll learn a little something

about yourself.

Maybe you'll even decide

whether you care to return.

You know,

I can answer that right now, sir.

- That'd be "no" for me, because--

- Sit down, Johnson.

Thank you, sir.

My office is

right across that hall.

Any monkey business is ill-advised.

Any questions?

Y eah, I got a question.

Does Barry Manilow know

you raid his wardrobe?

I'll answer that, Mr. Bender,

next Saturday.

Don't mess with the bull, young man,

you'll get the horns.

That man is a brownie hound.

[ Click ]

[ Click ]

[ Click ]

[ Click ]

[ Click ]

[ Click ]

Keep eating your hand,

you won't be hungry for lunch.

I've seen you

before, you know.

Who I think I am.

Who are you?

Who are you?

I am a walrus.

It's the shits, huh?

## [ Humming lntroduction To

"Sunshine Of Your Love" ]

I can't believe

this is really happening to me.

[ Bender ] Oh, sh*t!

What if we have to take a piss?

Please.

You got to go, you got to go.

[ Unzipping Fly ]

- Oh, my God.

- You're not urinating in here, man.

Don't talk.

It'll crawl back up.

Whip it out and you're dead

before the first drop hits the floor.

You're pretty sexy

when you get angry.

Hey, home boy,

why don't you go close that door?

We'll get the prom queen impregnated.

- Hey. Hey!

- What?

If I lose my temper,

you're totalled, man.

Totally?

Totally.

Why don't you shut up?

Nobody's interested.

Really.

Buttface.

Hey, sporto,

what'd you do to get in here?

Forget to wash your jock?

Excuse me, fellas,

we should just write our papers.

Because you live here

doesn't mean you can be a pain...

so knock it off!

It's a free country.

He's doing it to get a rise out of you.

Just ignore him.

Sweets.

You couldn't ignore

me if you tried.

So...

So.

Are you guys like

boyfriend-girlfriend?

Steady dates?

Lovers?

Come on, sporto.

Level with me.

Do you slip her

the hot beef injection?

- Go to hell!

- Enough!

Hey! What's going on in there?

Spoiled little pricks.

Scumbag.

Let's close that door.

We can't have a party with Vernon

checking every few seconds.

The door's supposed to stay open.

- So what?

- So why don't you shut up?

- There's four other people here.

- God, you can count.

I knew you had to be smart

to be a wrestler.

- Who are you to judge anybody?

- Really.

Bender, you don't even count.

If you disappeared forever,

it wouldn't make any difference.

You may as well

not even exist at this school.

Well, I'll run right out and

join the wrestling team.

Maybe the prep club, too,

student council.

- Nah, they wouldn't take you.

- I'm hurt.

- You know why you knock everything?

- This should be stunning.

- Because you're afraid.

- Oh, God, you richies are so smart.

That's exactly why I'm not heavy

into activities.

- You're a big coward.

- I'm in the math club.

You're afraid you don't belong,

so you just dump all over it.

It wouldn't have

anything to do with...

you activities people

being a**holes, would it?

You wouldn't know.

You don't know any of us.

Well, I don't know

any lepers either...

but I'm not joining

their f***ing clubs.

- Watch the mouth.

- I'm in the physics club too.

Excuse me a sec.

What are you babbling about?

What I said was that...

I'm in the math club, the Latin club

and the physics club. Physics club.

Hey. Cherry.

- Do you belong to the physics club?

- That's an academic club.

So?

So academic clubs aren't

the same as other kinds of clubs.

Ah, but to dorks

like him, they are.

What do you guys do in your club?

In physics, well, we talk about

physics, uh, properties of physics.

So it's sort of social.

Demented and sad,

but social, right?

I guess you could consider it

a social situation.

Um, there are

other children in my club.

And, uh, at the end of the year,

we have, um...

- a big banquet at the Hilton.

- You load up. You party.

No. We get dressed up,

but we don't get high.

Only burners like you get high.

I didn't have shoes,

so I had to borrow my dad's.

My mom doesn't like me to wear

other people's shoes.

My cousin Kendall

from lndiana got high once.

He started eating, like,

really weird foods...

and then he felt

like he didn't belong anywhere.

Kind of "Twilight Zone," kinda.

Sounds like you.

You guys keep talking

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