Page One: ‘The Breakfast Club’ (1985)

Written by John Hughes

The movie version of the opening:

Those “various view of things” was John Hughes’ way of writing a placeholder so his crew could shoot a bunch of B-roll footage for Hughes and his editor to stitch together the images to go with Brian’s voice-over narration. It IS interesting to note that he DOES specify “Bender’s locker.” He KNOW he wanted to include that and, indeed, ends the visual montage with that image.

Watch this now as I’m sure it’ll be gone soon: Don’t You Forget About Me: A Tribute to John Hughes.

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