The breakfast clud should've had a sequel
It was a great film showing how language can triumph over speech.
shareNo being critical, just asking how do you think they could have pulled off a sequel?
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Not a bad idea.
shareBender: Part time writer, part time college adjunct. Maybe an English teacher. He's written a few successful books but finds himself lamenting about how younger kids spend their days on twitter instead of reading. Takes his job seriously as a mentor to young people. Knocks up Claire in high school, they have four kids together and end up living in suburbia.
Claire: knocked up in high school and dropped out. She finds herself bored with being a homemaker and eventually starts her own successful business from scratch.
Andy: His knee blows out in college and he and Allison go their separate ways. Eventually he becomes a high flyers and very successful on wall street. He loses millions in the real estate bubble, wife divorces him and he becomes estranged from his own kid
Brian: Snaps in college and stops caring about his grades. He eventually ends up reasonably successful in IT. Marries a control freak who plans every aspect of his and their daughter's lives. He meets an online pen pal whom he falls in love wife and sees behind his wife's back.
Allison: Has a fling with her older art professor in college, goes through a string of bad relationships until she eventually finds a nice, caring guy who appreciates her for who she is. Becomes a world famous artist traveling around the world. (I liked her spiel about seeing the world when she dumps her bag on the chair. I didn't think she was crazy at all.) She and her husband are unable to have children together, so they are trying to adopt a child. Allison is frightened that her own child won't love her.
These were some ideas I toyed around with, but you could go a million ways with this.
As for an actual sequel:
I would have the five of them meet up for a 30 year school reunion. They all have issues with their kids, jobs, and relationships which they discuss.
You could also have a parallel story line with their kids who contemplate feeling estranged from their parents. it would be an interesting bookend as long as they don't become the centerpiece.
I always thought the Breakfast Club was kind of a generational thing; like a Generation X anthem. Showing Xers as parents and older adults would be an interesting concept in today's rat race, corporate, social media obsessed world.
A reunion would be cool. Could do like they did in Before Sunset. Have them meet to discuss their lives. Could be something like they return for Vernon's funeral/memorial service.
I also would hope that they kept true to generation X and did not follow the usual formula. What I mean by that, is I hope if they met for a reunion or funeral that its not the usual one is super rich, one is famous, one is broke, one now works in the school, one suffered from drug/alcohol abuse, etc. They say that generation X got jobs, worked hard and never complained that they were not their "dream" job. I would hope that they all had jobs average to successful careers. They could talk about how their lives changed in college and the real world.
I also would hope that they kept true to generation X and did not follow the usual formula. What I mean by that, is I hope if they met for a reunion or funeral that its not the usual one is super rich, one is famous, one is broke, one now works in the school, one suffered from drug/alcohol abuse, etc. They say that generation X got jobs, worked hard and never complained that they were not their "dream" job. I would hope that they all had jobs average to successful careers. They could talk about how their lives changed in college and the real world.
Well this would work if we were exploring a ten year reunion, but by 25-30 years it would be unrealistic.
The interesting thing about this day and age is that pretty much anyone can be famous and successful; paradoxically almost anyone can be broke and unsuccessful. The internet opens an enormous amount of opportunities.
So, for example, maybe Bender has written a bestselling books, but these days his books are ebooks and he finds himself without an audience.
Same thing with Allison.
Fame and having your name every were isn't necessary for an artist to be financial successful anymore like it was 20 years ago.
If I were to write a sequel, I would focus more on the relationship between the parents and their kids. That tends to be the biggest frustration for people in their middle aged years. share
That would be interesting to see them focus on their personal relationship with their own kids.
However, I think considering these characters are generation X that it would be best if they all had quiet yet successful careers versus having something like the characters in the Big Chill. I would much rather have it that Andrew is a stock broker, Brain is a Doctor, Bender owns a auto repair shop, Clair is a fashion designer and Alison is a social worker. They are all successful and live normal and for lack of a better word boring lives.
That is more realistic than Andrew is a hedge fund titan, Brain started a dot.com and was a billionaire on paper at one point only to see his fortune evaporate, Bender is a best selling author and his books became movies, Clair is an unhappy divorced house wife who lives off alimony and takes care of her three kids and Alison became a famous actress.
That is more realistic than Andrew is a hedge fund titan, Brain started a dot.com and was a billionaire on paper at one point only to see his fortune evaporate, Bender is a best selling author and his books became movies, Clair is an unhappy divorced house wife who lives off alimony and takes care of her three kids and Alison became a famous actress.
Interesting take, you should write a fanfiction story or something. share
easy: the knock your dick in the dirt and the five years/god damned funny speeches are what pushes Bender to get his act together and eventually become principal of that very school. with a doctorate. [toying with the idea of him marrying Claire who is a fashion designer.]
andy becomes a physical therapist and marries Allison who is a child psychiatrist.
brian becomes the girl's erm... lady doctor.
Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.