Welcome to the (Breakfast) Club | Generation X

John Hughes was you know our prophet
even though there are any spaceships and
wookiees and I’m part of the reason I do
what I do today it’s because John hears
those movies pretty-in-pink sixteen
Candles The Breakfast Club they have a
lot of the pleasures and a lot of the
sincere emotions of great old Hollywood
romances but they’re set in the world of
the suburban American high school and
you know instead of Betty Davis there’s
there’s Molly Ringwald it’s one of the
best scripts that I think I’ve ever read
he didn’t talk down to kids
he gave a voice to a generation to
teenagers that was intelligent but still
sounded like the age that we were and
you got your heart dies who cares I
can’t when you were 15 14 13 feeling
completely adrift feeling unable to make
connections the idea that you can be the
skinny little nerd and you can talk to
the cute redhead a dream girl and she
won’t look at you with scorn of course
that’s empowering of course that’s
exciting I think every girl felt like
Molly Ringwald wasn’t like I looked at
her and went oh she looks like me but
there was on a grander level I think I
felt like oh I could be her