This Friday, the In The House series at the Event Cinemas on George Street in Sydney will be screening the seminal teen classic The Breakfast Club (book tickets HERE). In anticipation, we looked back at the film to bring you these 10 facts that you may have never known about one of our favourite movies of all time:
- What do John Hughes’ films, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Sixteen Candles, Pretty In Pink and National Lampoon’s Vacation have in common? (Other than that they’re all great) They are all set in the fictional Chicago suburb of Shermer, Illinois.
- For the first 33 minutes of the film Sheedy has no dialogue.
- The actors actually smoked oregano in the scene where they smoke marijuana.
- We’re so glad the film was called The Breakfast Club because otherwise it could have been baptised The Lunch Bruch or Library Revolution – both options for the film.
- The opening reads feature graffiti with the tag “I don’t like Mondays” — this was the line of explanation Brenda Spencer gave after the school shooting she committed in 1979. The film intended to reference her.
- Some directors just love doing a cameo appearance in their films and John Hughes is no exception. You can spot him picking up Brian at the end of the film.
- Hughes had intentions of filming sequels of The Breakfast Club in 10 year increments. Damn we wish he realised this.
- Judd Nelson’s audition couldn’t have been more spot on; he showed up in the same boots, gloves and ‘fuck you’ attitude as his character, Bender. According to Judd, while waiting for his turn to audition, the receptionist called security because of his boisterous behaviour. Just as the security guards got out of the elevator, Judd got called in — we call that destiny.
- Judd also proved his fantastic method acting by nearly being dropped from the film. He would pick on Ringwald and annoy Claire off camera. Luckily, his antics didn’t push his co-stars away, instead they persuaded Hughes to keep Judd. Phew.
- To acclimatise the actors to the ways of high school, the actors were sent to an actual school, complete with hallways labelled “Jock hall” and “Freak hall”. Only the principle knew of the actors and true to character, Judd got sent to the principles office because he was late to class.
For more details about In The House and this screening, head HERE.
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