Ever wonder why the geek Brian is the one who doesn't hook up with one of the ladies? Is John Hughes making a statement about the plight of the geek in American culture, or did it just work out that way? He easily could have easily written a third girl into the script, though, I guess.
That movie kinda sucks. If it was easy to pidgeonhole high school cliques 20 years ago, imagine how easy it would be today.
It was a representation of the time. I mean even under today standards it would be far less likely that the "geek" or "brain" as the movie mor accurately describes him, to get the hot babe! The movie of coarse has to lay out a thickness to it. That is how they are able to make people with minds of 6th graders understand. You missed the whole story to the movie. An event had thrown a very diverse group together. These groups have an extreme social, economic wall between them all. Through events and time they ended up leaving some what united and that the object the system (school) was trying to do had always been and is the opisite. They showed you that every person has thier own set of problems that go along with the path they walk. I mean as a "geek" some only think that thier problem would be the lack of friends and sex, but he was willing to kill himself over a grade of less than an A. The girl "prom queen" people never see their problems and grant you her problem was more self inflicted perhaps but when you are young and school is the social circle alot of things that as you age seemed rather silly is in fact to you life. To me growing up in the 80's John Hughs did a fantastic job grabbing the times and pretty acurately making people see life from a kids point of view, the rest of the movie was fluff to entertain at the same time. My opinion and you know what they say about them....
a) you're just overanalyzing it... sit back and enjoy 2) that movie is the best... very simple, yet totally wonderful... like Ferris Beuler's Day Off. What great movies came out of the '80s....
Oh I always watcha movie to enjoy at first then I like to look for meaning and also mistakes. Like the movie Dazed and Confused for example. The scene in which they are pouring all the crap on the girls, they show cars in the back ground. The orange Trans Am has a set of wheels off an 80's Iroc on it. Did not have Iroc Camaro's in the 70's. How about the movie The Wraith, a scene before the cars get shot up shows them all messed up then click all better then after they get shot up they look like the did in the first little clip. I really love to see a movie when they are driving a car and both hands are on the wheel and you hear them shift! The six shooters that have 100 rounds of ammo.
that was the first movie I ever snuck into.....I was trying to sneak into missing in action 2, but the theater had NO empty seats.
