Which member of the Breakfast Club did you most identify with when the movie came out?

Question

Follow-up questions:

Which character(s) do you feel most closely reflect you today?

How long did it take you to internalize the final message of the film, that we are all a Brain, a Princes, an Athlete, a Basket Case, and a Criminal?

My answers:

Brian the brain when I saw it, though I didn't have the same level of academic standing.

I'm somewhere in between a basket case (perennially) and an athlete, with a bit of the brain still lingering in the sidelines.

I was closing in on 28-29 y.o. when I realized that I embodied a bit of each of the characters.

Answer 1

I guess a little bit of the Brain, Basket Case, Criminal, and Athlete.  I never was a princess, nor will I ever be.

I played football, baseball, and track, did very well in school, did a few things to cops in my small town, and at times was a basket case.

Today, its pretty much the same.  I hit the gym, I can be a bad-boy, I can be a little lost, and I still seek knowledge.

Answer 2

a princess

love molly ringwald:)

Answer 3

For me it's once a basket case always a basket case :)

Answer 4

What an outstanding Answers question I associated my self with the brain. Was a nerd in high school had a rebeluous streak just to be cooler.

Most of the people on here werent even born when this movie came out.

To all those who have never seen it or dont know who molly ringwald is check out  "the breakfast club"  you will surely enjoy it.  

the 80s rocked except for the clothes whoa  

Answer 5

I wasn't alive when the movie first came out, but that doesn't mean that I don't recognize it's significance. That being said, I feel like I'm mostly the Brain, with equal parts Athlete and Basket Case thrown in for good measure. I think it was maybe on my fourth viewing (?) of the film that I realized that everyone embodies (to some extent) each of those traits. There are times when everyone can be a criminal or an athlete; not literally, necessarily, but via attitude. Willy T: Just because I wasn't around to experience the immediate cultural reaction to The Breakfast Club doesn't mean that the movie is any less profound now; it is timeless, meaning can still be drawn from it because human characteristics don't often change.

Answer 6

the principal. LOL

(i have no control over the others around me)

Answer 7

The Brain

Answer 8

when i was in school and saw the breakfast club I was without a doubt the criminal. But now that i m older I would have to say I am the princess.

Answer 9

I was definitely the criminal. There was nothing I would not do if someone dared me to. I spent a lot of time in detention.

Answer 10

I fit into the basket case and the criminal, because they both share a closer pain to alone and abandonment.

Answer 11

thats a good one.. i have to say when it come out i was in my teens..  i have to go with all of them.. i had a bit of all of them in me... back then in the 80s.... but i have to say i have that on dvd and sixteen candles and pretty in pink its good to go back and watch this movies...  i still get a kick out of them.. even that im in my early 30s now..

Answer 12

one word: FAT PIG

my bad that's 2