I’m having trouble sleeping, because of this cold I’ve got.
One of the many things that is running through my head as I toss and turn:
Why, in the 1980’s John Hughes movie of the same name, did Anthony Michael Hall’s character refer to the group as The Breakfast Club? What was that a reference to? Nothing in the actual movie that I can see. Something in culture? No idea. And it’s always bugged me. Maybe it just sounded cool?
I think it was just that they met early in the morning for their detention.
It appears you are right.
From The John Hughes Files:
Hughes wrote the script in two days: July 4th and 5th of 1982. He got the title from Bobby Richter (the son of a friend); Hughes asked him what detention was called at his school in Winnetka, IL — “The Breakfast Club,” referring to Saturday morning.
So now I know. And knowing is half the battle.
Here’s something else interesting:
You’d never guess it, but the library set was constructed on three basketball courts of an abandoned school (Maine North High School – it is now a police station). The books were donations of discarded items from the Chicago Public Library.
Which means they must have recreated the entire set for the filming of Not Another Teen Movie. I had assumed they just went back to the same school. Silly me.
It was also filmed in some real high schools, including Glenbrook High School, of which Jill Steinberg, my cohost when I had a radio talk show in grad school, was a graduate.
That’s always bothered me too.
Wasn’t it a Saturday detention or something like that? So, they had to get there around breakfast time?
Or maybe it was just to reinforce the title. So people would remember it. Because, I don’t think The Breakfast Club was very popular in the ’80’s, was it?
and the sad part is that they prolly spent a butt-load of money to rebuild that set for the other movie they used it in, either that or they just used bluescreens which is possible but the only way to figure that our would be to go through each movie and see if there are camera shots that area identicle(sp??)
You know, that’s a real good point. I forgot what year it was. They probably just digitally superimposed the Breakfast Club set. Silly me.
I hear they’re going to reconstruct that set yet again for the latest “ride the movies” experience at Universal studios. You come in and sit down and a t-bar is lowered actoss your lap and 8 hours later it’s released. That’s pretty much it. It’s up to you to spend the time in between relating to your fellow passengers and manipulating the dorkiest among you to write an essay. They’re working the bugs out now.
Will milk be provided to us, sir?