Like say Brian was a Nerdy Black teenager or Andrew was a Black guy, that might have made the story a little more interesting, just noticed that there were no Black characters in this movie and a Black lead would have been different and changed things just a little bit.
shareI think it would have been more interesting if there was a Samoan, a midget, and transgendered albino.....that is way more diverse than adding some run of the mill black kid
shareA black kid back then, would be in a Chicago school.
Spoiler alert for them spoil sports out there! Y'all like spoiled milk, stop crying over it!
So much racism and idiocy on this thread, outrageous!
Anyway I think the only way they could have had a black character would be by ignoring the race element (it's too heavy and complicated for this type of film), thereby nullifying what you say about making the story more interesting. It would probably be more interesting for black people though if they had someone they could maybe relate to - I wouldn't have been very interested in this film had there been no females.
Then this would be a sh tty movie.
Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life!
If that happened and it was today, Brian would have to describe him in the paper as a "thug." That's "the simplest term" to reduce a black guy into, as Brian accuses Vernon of doing. He'd be kind of hip hop, but he'd be called a "thug."
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Eh, this is obviously a loaded question.
I always thought the point of John Hughes movies was to have conversations we weren't having a society with regards to social class and/or forming relationships that transcend social class. The fact that the cast is all white is supposed to be eclipsed by the different stereotypes each kid found themselves in. Fast forward to 2017 and we're already talking about race, in fact it dominates almost every single conversation we have. There is not much to explore movie-wise with regards to this. The format of the Breakfast Club cannot be instructional beyond the national dialogue we've already had.
I propose this instead: replace the all-white cast with an all black or all asian cast where we see characters from different groups within those communities argue, bicker, and fight about whose got it worst and how they're all doomed to become their parents. I think it would be much more enlightening to see how THOSE conversations play out as opposed to just thrusting a token non-white character into a white dominated movie and repeat what we've already talked about for the past three decades.
Just a thought.