Monday, November 28, 2011
Class Diary #3
Im a huge fan of 80s movies. I love The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful, Sixteen Candles and many more. There is something that I realized with some of these popular 80s films, most of these movies discuss and show different classes in some way or form. That the kids who are "not cool" are poor, and the "rich" kids are popular. Even though the kids who were supposedly "poor" really weren't, they were still looked at it as that because they don't have the big houses, pools, fancy cars and all that other kind of luxurious things. John Hughes showed the truth how people judge each other by their class. But he also showed that some of the kids who weren't really "poor" were looked at as poor. This was especially shown in the movie Pretty in Pink starring Molly Ringwald, who is a popular actress from the 80's, and she was judged because she didn't live in a big house, but she still had a car, and a nice size house. I just found this interesting how class was perceived in these 80s films.
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Great observation Alexandra. But I wonder if this isn't another instance where class is invisible - except to someone like yourself who has the language and knowledge to see it. Yes, Hughes is showing how teenagers judge each other but does he call it class? or explain it in these terms? the measurements in the movie of cool are material goods and confidence but he doesn't label these as arising from class position. the viewer has to work to figure that out, right?
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