Brat Pack (actors)

Brat Pack is a name for an actor - generation, the early to mid -1980s, become popular, particularly in cliques - movies in which many of the same actors appeared together. They also met privately and were known as wild partygoers.

Her films were mostly meant for a young audience, whose enthusiasm for the majority of these actors wore off, as both the audience and the rolls were growing up.

Origin of the term

Brat Pack ( brat, English for ' brat ' or ' bellows ', . Pack, english for, pack ', ' pack '. ), In allusion to the Rat Pack, the group led by Frank Sinatra ( with Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin and others), said to have been first dubbed by actress Lauren Bacall so. The term Brat Pack came up with a cover story in New York Magazine on 10 June 1985. Author David Blum described in this article, the wild party behavior of a group of young actors in their 20s who worked together in different combinations since the early 1980s in several films. Even if the articles in part, the talent of the young actor points out, whereby the lack of acting training is cited as a criterion for membership, it is nevertheless quite very critical, especially in his description of group behavior and their airs and graces. Most of the actors so designated, therefore, did not like the concept and gave the article to some extent even the blame for the decline of her career.

Members

The cooperation of the Brat Pack members sometimes reaches back to the school age, where, for example, Charlie Sheen, Sean Penn, Chris Penn, Emilio Estevez and Rob Lowe already turned together as teenagers Super - 8 films. In the eponymous article in the magazine New York 10 June 1985 Author David Blum credited the Brat Pack first, the actor Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson, Tom Cruise, Timothy Hutton, Matt Dillon, Nicolas Cage, Sean Penn and Matthew Broderick to. Later, the (core ) group defined from the main cast of the films The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo 's Fire, and after frequent conception includes eight performers:

Anthony Michael Hall

Andrew McCarthy

Demi Moore

Molly Ringwald

Ally Sheedy

Over time, this circle is enlarged by another actor, as increased by the growing number of films, the frequency of common roles with certain actors.

Matthew Broderick

Alan Ruck

Jon Cryer

Patrick Swayze

John Cusack

Lea Thompson

Kevin Bacon

Kiefer Sutherland

Jami Gertz

Robert Downey Jr.

Jennifer Grey

Sean Penn

Mary Stuart Masterson

James Spader

The Brat Pack and C. Thomas Howell, Mare Winningham, and, due to their activity in The Outsiders, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio and Tom Cruise Furthermore, be assigned more often.

Filmography

In essence, today under Brat Pack the main characters from the films are summarized The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo 's Fire. More Brat Pack films include The Outsiders, Class, Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink.

A similar significance was also the term used in the American literature. From the mid- 1980s as a " literary Brat Pack ," a series of debut novels promising young writers who thematized the process of growing up and in the wake of this hype has been very successfully marketed aggressively.

At this loose group initially following authors and works included the media, such as the Pages Magazine:

Other media, such as Spy Magazine calculated variously added the following persons:

In addition to dealing with aging and issues such as drug abuse, consumption, heartbreak and disorientation, the novels had a mostly thoughtful, sometimes even cynical point of view of social strata in common. In most cases, doing a fictional story combined with the real culture of the 1980s (among music). Therefore, the novels are now considered an important part of pop literature. In addition, they were united in many cases the narrative perspective of the first-person narrative.

Four of the authors listed here ( Ellis, Eisenstadt, Tartt and Lethem ) had also studied at the liberal Bennington College in Vermont, the then most expensive college for the visual arts in the United States.

A short essay about his time in the " literary Brat Pack " can be found in Bret Easton Ellis ' Lunar Park halbbiographischem book (2006).

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