You might want to get familiar with the story once more.
My point as to the similarities of Stand By Me and Breakfast Club is a group of people getting to know more about each other than ever before and getting closer & bonding because of it. Finding appreciation for fellow human beings. Both stories are group therapies. Thinking the grass is greener on the other side is folly. The joker kid thinks the jock kid has it better or the preppy kid with rich parents has it easier when all have imperfect lives.
Your point is that every coming to age and teen angst movie has the whole bonding thing going on? Yes, it's a timeless and winning formula. For The Breakfast Club, yes. The kids in Stand By Me were childhood friends, whereas every single person in The Breakfast Club may have known about one another, but definitely didn't know-know one another.
Finding appreciation for fellow human beings? What fucking story are you reading? You're making Stand By Me sound like some feel good Pixar animated matinee. Far from it. The people the guys knew in Stand By Me were mostly pieces of shit.
You're comparing apples and oranges when you get into the social aspects of each character. What does the interaction between Judd Nelson's character and Emilio Estevez's character have to do with Stand By Me?
You state the obvious about how the detention kids saw each other. That was never a mystery in The Breakfast Club. The question was, how does a jock, nerd, cheerleader, misfit, and someone mentally and physically abused act towards each other knowing that on Monday, they won't ever say anything to each other in the hallway. This is nothing more than John Hughes acting out his childhood dream, therefore we cannot accept that as any kind of reality, along with any kind of serious debate.
And to your point Stand By Me has the loss of innocence factor to it in addition to different personalities bonding.
Bonding? Not in The Breakfast Club. They even ask the question as The Simple Minds allude to this in their hit song:
As for the guys in Stand By Me, they were all already bonded by socio-economic and hardships felt by a poorer class of people.
We should start a book & movie club, Flynn. What is your address again? I'll bring a house warming gift in the form of some neighborhood bums (cats), that I don't feel like feeding anymore. Some torties. Some more black than orange. One more orange than black. When I look at them, I think orange really is the new black.
For us to start a book & movie club, it would be nice if one of the founders actually reread the book, so he knows what fuck he's talking about.
That's a start.
