New American Teen poster seems familiar…
Now let me see…where do I recognize the image used in this new poster for American Teen from…
Oh yeah, from the poster for John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club.
What’s the logic of this? Isn’t this movie supposed to be a documentary of some sort? So why the constant emphasis on each of these kids filling some stereotypical role, an emphasis that now comes full circle by referencing the source of many of those stereotypes?
I really don’t get the print campaign for this movie. I really don’t.
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Okay, the whole point of this movie (American Teen,) is to make fun of movies about stereotyping teens into “classes” and “cliques.” (E.g. “The Jock,” “The Nerd,” etc.) One of the chief examples of this type of film is “The Breakfast Club.” “American Teen” is like “Scary Movie,” making fun of stereotypes and film genres. This entire poster imitation is completely deliberate. At present, you, the author, are fulfilling the stereotype that most people on the internet are unintelligent and uniformed. Good job. (This is the equivalent of a Jew tipping low or an African-American eating fried chicken and drinking Kool Aid. It is highly counter-productive.)
You are a massive idiot.
(Good job spending more time posting this on stumbleupon than actually doing research.)
It’s a documentary?
Hmmm…now, I don’t know if you were trying to prevent people from seeing this movie with your idiotic logic, but you’ve made me want to watch it now, thank you!
Are you retarded? American Teen is a documentary about teens and the categories and stereotypes represented in the teenage society. Whoever came up with the idea for the movie’s print ad was obviously making a parallel to an extremely memorable piece of popular culture (The Breakfast Club) in which the same themes are represented as an a reference for the messages in the film. It’s actually incredibly simple. I think you just realized that the two movies had similar print ads and you thought you had discovered something clever. As if they weren’t intended to be alike and as if nobody had already noticed it.
Have you seen the movie? It shows teenagers filling out “stereotypical” roles in high school, yet (like the Breakfast Club) shows the various dimensions each “stereotypical” character possesses. Obviously the director was just trying to create some sort of interest by associating it with The Breakfast Club. I suggest seeing something before critiquing it needlessly.