Task 3

The historical text that I have been covering is the movie ‘The breakfast club’ which was written and directed by John Hughes. The Movie is about 5 teenagers who are off to a Saturday’s detention with people, who belong to different cliques, during the end they become friends and realise that coming not coming from the same group doesn’t mean they can’t become friends as they are being stereotyped individually.

Throughout the movie it has shown that a mobile phone has been used at least once, as well as the only technology that is being used so linking this back to how it’s changed through the years, technological devices is carried out every day and everywhere e.g. mobile phones, going on the laptop/computers whereas back in the days none of this was used a lot and carried where ever individuals went, showing us that in today’s society new digital media is expanding as you can have access to the content anywhere, everywhere. Going back few years back there was less opportunity for people to access the use of the internet and computers which is why the teenagers in the movie had time to connect with each other without any distractions such as mobile phones.

The movie is similar to the main text by the use of the main characters swearing and name calling, however it is similar to the main text by the use of comedy and humorous behaviour by the teens and how they react, this can link to my main text ‘attack the block’ as the young teens are shown to be funny by the use of the slang which links back to the teenagers in today’s society, the use of the comedy in the movie can be similar as other teenage movies are making the audience laugh is what attracts teen movies. The students ‘getting high’ can be shown to be linked to the main text as the main character sells drugs while smoking and getting high, so teenagers doing this back in the days were less than individuals getting high today.

The difference to my main text is that the use of clothes that has been worn by the main characters are totally different to what the teens wore in ‘attack the block’ as the use of dark and dull colours have been worn as well as hoodies and caps, whereas the clothes worn by the ‘Breakfast club’ were simple and bright colours. The language that was spoken didn’t include no slang but swearing was involved. The swearing In Attack the block is used frequently whereas The Breakfast club uses swear words in some places, so my main text usually swear all the time and don’t care In today’s society where back in the days this would be a negative impact e.g. ‘You better watch the mouth yeah’ which was said by Andy who is in fact represented to be the ‘Jock’, even though they are all having fun they are having innocent fun where no one is in danger.

It shows the audience that they are having innocent fun in Saturday detention where as teenagers represented in today’s society would usually bunk off the detention and go out with friends to ‘wonder on the streets’ and mug people. It shows that society has changed with the use of representation of teenagers shown negatively as everything teenagers do nowadays are stereotyped in a bad way, instead of showing the good in teens, the way teenagers are portrayed is shown in the media, this can be shown during the London Riots.