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But what is it about The Breakfast Club that draws us back in time and time again? Is it a great movie? Truth be told, I really donвЂ™t think so, but it also doesnвЂ™t have to be. IвЂ™m not even a huge fan, and even I know that, if itвЂ™s circulating on cable, IвЂ™ll get sucked back into that stupid library. ThereвЂ™s a good chance that, if itвЂ™s playing on TV, youвЂ™ll stop flipping channels and suffer through commercials to watch it. So why is it that we always get hung up on The Breakfast Club. For one brief moment, in this forced oasis away from their outside pressures, they actually were seen.AugJohn Hughes has so many no t able hits under his belt, from Home Alone to Ferris BuelerвЂ™s Day Off to Uncle Buck. However there is something triumphant in the вЂњla-la la-laвЂќ chorus as Judd Hirsch throws a first in the air, a certain battle won no matter what happens on Monday. Call it youthful optimism or steered by foolish feeling, but this tension is one of the things the film and its song get wholeheartedly right about the high school experience. Maybe weвЂ™re not led to believe they will all stay besties, but the film certainly dances toward assuredness. вЂњAs you walk on by.вЂќ the ghost of what was shared remains.Д«ut does the songвЂ™s questioning of the future reveal the closing commeraderie as bullshit or does it play with the tension of the uncertain future of their new bond? The lyrics ruminate on profound but transient connections and the weight of social promises, complicating what still feels dangerously close to a improbably transformative ending.

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If the unfolding day serves to undermine the hierarchy by revealing their individuality, then the song reminds them that thereвЂ™s no going back from showing oneвЂ™s full self or from the seeing. It feels like something written by this group both in response to one another and the social strata that forces them into these prescribed roles. The song begins in a burst of bottled rage and has the rhythm of an adolescent tantrum, making it a fitful match to the group therapy session weвЂ™re watching. And when you are this age, the emotion is everything. The world isnвЂ™t real (detention for bringing a gun to school, instant makeovers, etc.) but the emotion is. Its anthem is similarly accessible but hyper-produced, filled with relatable feeling but kind of untouchable in its chilly groove - itвЂ™s consumable but truthful product, so naturally we eat it up like the candy it is even as it affects us deeply.

Like the best high school films, The Breakfast Club exists somewhere between painful reality and gilded fantasy. In pop music and cinema, catch them with a hook before you surprise them with a message and you register on a whole other level. At the onset it carries so much less baggage than when it finishes the film, like itвЂ™s more defined by its hipness than its sentiment. But the song does open the film more like a cool theme song. Part of the reason why we remember them together isnвЂ™t just how timeless they both are, but how in sync their insights are. ItвЂ™s one of those perfect marriages of music and material that are inextricable in their legacies, both unquestionably enhancing the otherвЂ™s impact. You canвЂ™t separate one from the other: hear the song and suddenly youвЂ™re monologuing an вЂњathlete, basket case, princess, etc.вЂќ piece see its iconic poster and youвЂ™ll hear a вЂњhey hey hey HEYвЂќ in your head. But the pillar of this kind of definitive relationship of song and subject in his films is The Breakfast Club and вЂњDonвЂ™t You (Forget About Me)вЂќ by Simple Minds. Is there a better era for films defined by a single song (and vice versa) than the 80s, particularly those from John Hughes? Hughes was more than a master of understanding the teenage disposition, and music was always a part of his equation.

The 1985 Smackdown is coming, so Chris looks at that year's iconic track from The Breakfast Club.