11 Behind-The-Scenes Secrets of The Breakfast Club
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Okay, so stand up if you don’t like The Breakfast Club? Thanks. Now that I can properly take aim, let me explain to you why you’re wrong. The Breakfast Club is the quintessential teen movie-funny, sad, and mixing together social groups and constructs all the better to break them down. Described as “the first movie to take teen angst seriously”, this is a film the defines a genre-and what a genre at that. Without further ado, let’s get to the juicy behind-the-scenes gossip from the world of The Breakfast Club…you’ll love number ten!
1. The Brat Club
All of the titular club are actually members of a group of actors and directors who would come to be known as the “Brat pack”-many of them have worked together after this movie, with Emilio Estevez widely regarded as the leader of the pack. They were named after a journalist noticed their-as he called it-bratty behaviour, and, in an homage to the rat pack, gave them a nickname that stuck even as they all moved on with their careers.
