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PＵＲPＬＥ means royalty. It symbolizes power, nobility, luxury, ambition. It conveys wealth and extravagance. It evokesnostalgic feelings.

I won’t be a rockstar. I will be a legend.

The Breakfast Club was unique because of how Hughes achieves his story goals: through long, drawn-out conversations that built to teary emotional realizations. The movie is basically a stage play unfolding in a series of close-ups, yet that didn’t stop it from becoming a big box-office hit. Inspired a wave of more angsty films about growing up, including Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful (also written by Hughes), Stand by Me, For Keeps, Dead Poets Society, Say Anything, and School Ties. Even the more arty hits of the early ’90s—like Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan, Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused and, yes, Boyz n the Hood—feel loosely connected to the character-driven origins of The Breakfast Club. That approach eventually filtered into television, with high-school dramas, becoming the standard-bearer for emotionally mature teen storytelling.

Effy is painfully aware of her subtly unfortunate reality, sinking into a depression that progressively worsens throughout her four seasons on the show. To the other characters, Effy seems somewhat like a “femme fatale”,she’s both a source of fascination and resentment while they do not understand Effy and her often erratic ways. During the first season, she has taken a vow of silence in a futile effort to be noticed, disturbed that her parents favor Tony. Nonetheless, Tony is the only person that Effy truly cares about, because Tony is the only person that understands her. In the third season, Effy becomes the central character, and her vices of drinking, doing drugs, partying, and having mindless sex as exemplified in the previous seasons become even more detrimental.“ She sinks even further into depression, uncharacteristically paying little attention to her appearance. A love triangle develops between Effy, Freddie McClair, and James Cook. While Effy truly loves Freddie, she clings to mindless engagements with Cook, afraid of emotional intimacy becoming tormented by the vulnerability that she feels in being in love. In the fourth season, Effy’s depression develops into full-blown psychosis. She tries to commit suicide more than once but is saved on each occasion. Ultimately, she is hospitalized for her mental issues and is abused by her psychiatrist who, almost falling in love with Effy himself. The fourth series ends with Effy laughing unaware that Freddie has been murdered.

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“When I was on stage and I was thinking of… I felt like I know him. I know his heart and I know what he wouldn’t do to hurt me. But I didn’t realize that feeling so confident and so great about myself and then it just be completely shattered by one thing. By something so stupid. But then you make me feel crazy, you make me feel like it’s my fault. I was in pain.”

“I feel like the stereotypical popular girl isn’t usually portrayed with the intellect card as well. So that was nice that we were able to have both.”

The hole girl power thing is such a big deal now there’s a enormous void, thats clearly been proven that there’s a desire to fill that.. but its if you just change the character name from bob to sue, suddenly it’s - i mean anything where like, a girl is punching another person in the face or like being really a sort of - it’s just this hole full girl power is rally revolting.

“Upon its debut on British channel E4 in 2007, Skins set a precedent for dark, gritty coming-of-age television. The three generations of characters are markedly different from many other high school-based shows of the era, weighed down by the very real problems they face on a daily basis. The series tracks each character’s journey in a raw way that depicts them as troubled and flawed, rather than optimistic and innocent. Given the darkness around them, these teens often speak in a mature manner far beyond their years. These are wise young people who are struggling through their adolescence. Many of them are outspoken and loud, while others only speak when they have something important to say.”

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.