The Breakfast Club (1985)

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Wikidata Q499152, film, IMDb tt0088847, TMDB 2108: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits John Hughes as writer-director (‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan); 5 more episodes agree.

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

John Hughes: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. career (creator self-projection): John Hughes ⇒ The Breakfast Club (the host's read). Hughes is a cross between Hall's Breakfast Club character and Cameron, and did his best writing for those guys.
    “my guess would be he was kind of a cross between Anthony Michael Hall's breakfast club character and Cameron in a lot of ways”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:11:32 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

Alan Ruck: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (character lineage): The Breakfast Club ⇒ Alan Ruck (the host's read). Cameron is an extension of Anthony Michael Hall's Breakfast Club character, with similar anxiety and a near suicide beat.
    “Yeah, it's kind of an extension of the Anthony Michael Hall character in Breakfast Club.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:05:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Weird Science: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): The Breakfast Club ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read). Gary's girlfriend in Canada is a gag taken from Breakfast Club.
    “Like, that's the thing directly from Breakfast Club.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:17:25 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)

Connected to

Weird Science: 5 lines lineage ×2 industry ×2 programming ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Weird Science → The Breakfast Club. Weird Science was shot at the same high school as The Breakfast Club, here called Shermer High School.
    “You mentioned this movie was filmed at the same high school as the Breakfast Club and it was actually called Shermer High School.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:48:32 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)

Ferris Bueller's Day Off: 4 lines unmapped ×2 verdict ×1 contrast ×1

  1. unmapped (sibling film): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → The Breakfast Club. The two were basically filmed simultaneously at Shermer High, which also hosts Weird Science and Sixteen Candles.
    “Ferris Bewer and Breakfast Club were basically filmed simultaneously in Shermer High.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:01:03 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Alan Ruck: 2 lines lineage ×1 what-if ×1

  1. lineage (character lineage): Alan Ruck → The Breakfast Club. Cameron is an extension of Anthony Michael Hall's Breakfast Club character, with similar anxiety and a near suicide beat.
    “Yeah, it's kind of an extension of the Anthony Michael Hall character in Breakfast Club.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:05:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Bring It On: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Bring It On → The Breakfast Club. Hughes-era teen movies, like Bring It On, carry grown-up ideas about class, capitalism and sexism.
    “it's that they've all got some pretty grown up ideas on their mind.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:11:31 · Brian Raftery (0.85 sure it was them)

Donnie Darko: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Donnie Darko → The Breakfast Club. Fields found Donnie Darko's teen dialogue as realistic as Hughes's dialogue on Breakfast Club.
    “It reminded me of, again, when John Hughes sent me to play for Breakfast Club, that was, like, really incredible dialogue that I thought really captured the the zeitgeist, the kids that age.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:00 · Adam Fields (0.90 sure it was them)

Guardians of the Galaxy: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Guardians of the Galaxy → The Breakfast Club. The misfit team facing a deadline plays like the Breakfast Club or a group project nobody did.
    “And they're the Breakfast Club, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:30:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Internal Affairs: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Internal Affairs → The Breakfast Club. Another movie with no black people that did not need any.
    “Same as Breakfast Club, a movie with no black people.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:11:32 · Van Lathan (0.50 sure it was them)

John Hughes: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (creator self-projection): John Hughes → The Breakfast Club. Hughes is a cross between Hall's Breakfast Club character and Cameron, and did his best writing for those guys.
    “my guess would be he was kind of a cross between Anthony Michael Hall's breakfast club character and Cameron in a lot of ways”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:11:32 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

John Kapelos: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): John Kapelos → The Breakfast Club. Kapelos plays Dino here and the custodian in The Breakfast Club.
    “Yeah, I mean, he's the custodian in the Breakfast Club.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:18:17 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)

Paul Gleason: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (casting what-if): Paul Gleason → The Breakfast Club. Gleason, Dick Vernon in Breakfast Club, was considered for Rooney; hosts debate if that is too distracting.
    “Paul Gleason considered. For the role of Ed Rooney.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:00:54 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Planes, Trains and Automobiles: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Planes, Trains and Automobiles → The Breakfast Club. Speaker defends Breakfast Club and calls Planes, Trains a masterpiece, while Sixteen Candles is too gross.
    “But breakfast club I stand behind.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Flesh+Blood · 1:34:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

The Social Network: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (trailer vibe): The Social Network → The Breakfast Club. The speaker pitched The Social Network to a friend as Breakfast Club meets Zodiac.
    “and saying like, it looks like Breakfast Club meets Zodiac.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 1:06:23 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

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What was said about it, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): John Kapelos → The Breakfast Club. Kapelos plays Dino here and the custodian in The Breakfast Club.
    “Yeah, I mean, he's the custodian in the Breakfast Club.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:18:17 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (creator self-projection): John Hughes → The Breakfast Club. Hughes is a cross between Hall's Breakfast Club character and Cameron, and did his best writing for those guys.
    “my guess would be he was kind of a cross between Anthony Michael Hall's breakfast club character and Cameron in a lot of ways”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:11:32 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (style contrast): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → The Breakfast Club. Ferris is more new wave, with synths and funky outfits, than the more trad early-80s Breakfast Club.
    “Ferris feels more new wave than breakfast club in some ways.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:02:38 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Donnie Darko → The Breakfast Club. Fields found Donnie Darko's teen dialogue as realistic as Hughes's dialogue on Breakfast Club.
    “It reminded me of, again, when John Hughes sent me to play for Breakfast Club, that was, like, really incredible dialogue that I thought really captured the the zeitgeist, the kids that age.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:00 · Adam Fields (0.90 sure it was them)

industry (2)

  1. industry (industry): Weird Science → The Breakfast Club. Anthony Michael Hall's Pryor-style drunk scene was test-driven in The Breakfast Club, so execs wanted more of it in the next movie.
    “They, uh, they soft tested the Richard Pryor too.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:35:31 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Weird Science → The Breakfast Club. Making Weird Science was reportedly the condition for Hughes being allowed to make The Breakfast Club.
    “this was how he was allowed to make the Breakfast Club if he also agreed.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:44:13 · Kyle Brandt (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (3)

  1. lineage (lineage): Weird Science → The Breakfast Club. Gary's girlfriend in Canada is a gag taken from Breakfast Club.
    “Like, that's the thing directly from Breakfast Club.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:17:25 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Weird Science → The Breakfast Club. Weird Science was shot at the same high school as The Breakfast Club, here called Shermer High School.
    “You mentioned this movie was filmed at the same high school as the Breakfast Club and it was actually called Shermer High School.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:48:32 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (character lineage): Alan Ruck → The Breakfast Club. Cameron is an extension of Anthony Michael Hall's Breakfast Club character, with similar anxiety and a near suicide beat.
    “Yeah, it's kind of an extension of the Anthony Michael Hall character in Breakfast Club.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:05:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Weird Science → The Breakfast Club. Bill's double feature is The Breakfast Club, making it an Anthony Michael Hall night.
    “My double feature is Breakfast Club for the same reason”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:40:35 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)

theme (3)

  1. theme (theme): Internal Affairs → The Breakfast Club. Another movie with no black people that did not need any.
    “Same as Breakfast Club, a movie with no black people.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:11:32 · Van Lathan (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Bring It On → The Breakfast Club. Hughes-era teen movies, like Bring It On, carry grown-up ideas about class, capitalism and sexism.
    “it's that they've all got some pretty grown up ideas on their mind.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:11:31 · Brian Raftery (0.85 sure it was them)
  3. theme (theme): Guardians of the Galaxy → The Breakfast Club. The misfit team facing a deadline plays like the Breakfast Club or a group project nobody did.
    “And they're the Breakfast Club, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:30:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

unmapped (3)

  1. unmapped (easter egg): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → The Breakfast Club. A Simple Minds Don't You Forget About Me poster appears in Ferris's room, a year after Breakfast Club, as Hughes building his own universe.
    “the simple minds. Don't you forget about me, poster, one year after Breakfast Club, which I love like Hughes making his own universe.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:56:30 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (sibling film): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → The Breakfast Club. The two were basically filmed simultaneously at Shermer High, which also hosts Weird Science and Sixteen Candles.
    “Ferris Bewer and Breakfast Club were basically filmed simultaneously in Shermer High.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:01:03 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (trailer vibe): The Social Network → The Breakfast Club. The speaker pitched The Social Network to a friend as Breakfast Club meets Zodiac.
    “and saying like, it looks like Breakfast Club meets Zodiac.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 1:06:23 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (verdict): Planes, Trains and Automobiles → The Breakfast Club. Speaker defends Breakfast Club and calls Planes, Trains a masterpiece, while Sixteen Candles is too gross.
    “But breakfast club I stand behind.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Flesh+Blood · 1:34:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): The Breakfast Club → Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Bill ranks Breakfast Club above Ferris, though both are pantheon.
    “They're both pantheon for me, but breakfast club's an all timer for me.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:23:34 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (2)

  1. what-if (casting what-if): Paul Gleason → The Breakfast Club. Gleason, Dick Vernon in Breakfast Club, was considered for Rooney; hosts debate if that is too distracting.
    “Paul Gleason considered. For the role of Ed Rooney.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:00:54 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (casting what-if): Alan Ruck → The Breakfast Club. Ruck had previously auditioned for Bender.
    “Ruck had previously editioned for what role? Bender, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:03:58 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

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