The man behind the Breakfast Club (the TMO classic), Uncle Buck, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Buellers Day Off, Wierd Science and just about every important film of most of our teenage years has died. Words fail me this morning to pay tribute to this fundamental part of my younger years - the only thing I can do on my return to Holland is pull out the Breakfast Club and watch it one more time.
You can take your Kubricks, Parkers, Fellinis, Scorceses and your Scotts and admire their genius, but Hughes was a different class, and whilst his movies will never be revered in the same light as some of those directed by the people I mentioned, they will be classics for a generation - my generation.
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Still, good to have his films around if you need to teach your kids about the importance of conformity and materialism.
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Well, you know. He's going to be revered all the way across the world as "the bard of teen angst", and I'm just a twat posting in a cobwebby corner of the internet, so it's not like I can take his legacy away from him. But even as a young 'un I never liked his triumphant narratives of misfit kids being normalised (hooray!) and I thought Bueller was a horrible film about a horrible character. Still. Maybe I'm being unfair and it's actually reasonable - even essential - to venerate the man who gave us Home Alone and Baby's Day Out.
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I'm with Thorn to be honest. Maybe I was a bit young to really 'get' a lot of his films. Bueller's only really good bit is with the car park attendants and the Ferrari. I never really felt like the characters in his films were people I could actually relate to in any way, or would ever have felt any sort of affinity with. Weird Science has its moments I suppose.
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I didn't like Ferris either.. Self serving little prick who ruins Camerons life - You never do see Cameron father beat him to death with the cars muffler, but he does...
Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink I really enjoyed, maybe it's of an era because I love St Elmos Fire too and that's pretty shit.
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I like that in Newsweek's list of Ten Actors Who Owe John Hughes Big Time, number ten is Macauley Culkin. This despite the fact, that off the back of Home Alone Macauley Culkin was embezzled by his own father for the millions he earned, became a massively over-exposed child-star, and slipped into drug dependency, bankruptcy, and commercial non-viability. Thanks John Hughes! Culkin's name is surely now a by-word the the pernicious effects of fame, and the terrible havoc it can wreak on a young person's life. Still Hughes, did well out of it. So I guess Culkin owes him a big debt of gratutude.
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I hate Ferris Buller, and for the most part thing Hughes films aren't great. Weird Science was kind of fun, but the rest were just those films my sister watched as far as I'm concerned. I was too busy watching the Thing and Empire Strikes Back to care who John Cussack was playing Genesis cassette tapes to in order to bone.
NB - Matthew Brodderick, I've only liked in two roles - Election and Cable Guy.
Molly Ringwald has a weird mouth.
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Home Alone 1 and 2 (because 3 and 4 DO NOT exsist and are figments of peoples imaginations) were probably my most watched VHS tapes between the ages of 10 and 12
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