Catching up on what’s been going on in the #stupidteenagemovie realm, here’s a comprehensive look of Hughes News for the month of July. As a reminder, this is a collection of all the news about John Hughes and his continued influence on pop culture.
“So, it’s sorta social. Demented and sad, but social.”– John Bender, “The Breakfast Club”
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that there are actually people who have formed a Muggle Quidditch League. It turns out these little Quidditch clubs are popping up in the best schools across the country. A friend of mine even said that a family member CHOSE a college based on the availability of said sports team. For those of you who don’t know (i.e. have been living under a rock for many, many years), Quidditch is a kind of football-meets-hockey on brooms played by Harry Potter and his cohorts in the various J.K. Rowling books.
Think about it: Harry Potter is to many kids today what the Brat Pack films were to those in the 80s. As it turns out, some brilliant minds made that same leap and ended up laying the dialogue and music from the seminal work over the images from the Harry Potter series.
HOGWARTS BREAKFAST CLUB
THE BREAKFAST CLUB HARRY POTTER STYLE
Though there will (likely) never be sports inspired by The Breakfast Club (Intramural No-Hand Lipstick application scrimmage team, anyone?), I can just picture Brian (aka the Brain) leading the charge as Seeker (the esteemed position of The Boy Who Lived himself) had the timing been right. (We know that Anthony Michael Hall’s character wasn’t a “snitch” given the fact that he hid Bender’s pot in his pants for the bulk of their Saturday in detention.)
One more point about the WSJ story: It shared the struggles of the recently-formed NYU team in getting recognized by their school — and that’s even with the official Quidditch championships slated to be held in New York City this November. In fact, in light of the significant HP/TBC overlap — as well as the fact that many of the muggle Quidditch players are sure to be, in John Bender’s words “Neo Maxi Zoom Dweebies” — I imagine the NYU team’s plea to be recognized as an official club at their alma mater went something like this:
Dear NYU:
We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in Central Park for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did *was* wrong. (We thought we could play a sport that was written about in a children’s novel.)
You may think we’re crazy (that’s okay – lots of people do.) But we think you’re crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are.
You see us as you want to see us… In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a Seeker..and a Beater…and a Keeper…a Chaser…Does that answer your question?