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Director John Hughes Dies, Aged 59
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WpbYQNloSN...+Hughes+01.jpg Filmmaker John Hughes dies at 59 This is one of those things that you never expect to read - and never know how to react to. I wouldn't say I was a huge John Hughes fan, really. But Breakfast Club was about as tone perfect an 80s movie got. It was some kind of weird affirmation of my childhood, almost validating that I was alive in the world when something so impossibly positive was created without sarcasm or cynicism. Its certainly the sort of movie that any type of remake would automatically miss the point of, in the same way that the remake of Red Dawn automatically misses the point by its simple existence alone: its not the dialouge or the characters or the actors but a certain point of time in the world. Its good that Hughes existed when he did, since theres obviously no market for his type of movie making anymore. Its considered saccharin, hokey and outdated but the fact of the matter is that its overly ernest and that scares a lot of people who are so use to being up to their necks in nihilistic garbage like Nolan Batman movies and 300 and Tarantino knee-jerk reactions. People are afraid of not being some fake, socially accepted edgy - and have driven themselves from feeling much else in entertainment. Because, seriously, who can't smile at this: http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...tclubdance.gif "And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds, are immune to your consultations, they are quite aware of what they are going through." -David Bowie |
Jesus...This really IS a bad year for Hollywood.
I'm glad I live in New York, and I'm a nobody this year. Chances of me making it past 60 is looking pretty good! |
Lets see a quick perusal of imdb shows that he wasn't a complete waste of meat given that he made Weird Science and Christmas Vacation. So we'll call it a mildly disappointed meh at this news.
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John Hughes was a tremendously important director, definitely THE voice for the 80s as LeHah eloquently put it. His work (notably The Breakfast Club) was a tremendous influence on me and he will be sorely missed. What an awful piece of news. |
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Well I had just been planning to leave it at that since I'd said my piece and that was the extent I cared to mess with it. But a freegan? really you can have George Carlin call me a cocksucker all you wish but I have to take a stand on this issue. For the record I eat all animals and I'm normally in the practice of paying for them.
Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go consume a buffalo. |
In this entry, history tells CetteHampsterLa to piss off: We'll Know When We Get There: Sincerely, John Hughes
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God-fucking-damnit! I grew up watching his movies in the 80's. The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science and Pretty In Pink are some of my favorite movies of all time. Sad day for film history indeed. :(
Wasn't he working on a new movie? |
Not as far as I know... He hasn't directed anything in YEARS if I'm not mistaken.
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He backed out of the industry after scripting Home Alone. Years ago, I read an interview that part of it was that Producers and Industry People just wanted him to churn out more Brat Pack-esque material just for money, not caring about the continuing quality of his writing. They basically wanted to whore out his style, his writing identification, so he left. We should all be so brave.
The link I posted above also gives reasons that were unknown to me before today. Now I wish I wrote to him. Not for the reply, but now knowing the person he was. |
Yeah, I knew as much from an interview that's on the Ferris Bueller's Day Off DVD. (I think it's on that one, at least) I had just heard from a friend that he was rumored to be working on writing another movie. As far as I know, the last movie he directed was Curly Sue.
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He was co-writing stuff (Drillbit Taylor) under his pen name as recently as a few years ago according to the New York Times...but kind of fell into obscurity for the most part.
Damn, this is sad :( Breakfast Club is one of my favorite teen movies. Might have to finally go and buy it now... |
The fuck you mean "buy it now"? I own that movie on BETA TAPE, son.
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What Beaner is thinking of is the fact that John was going to return to directing to produce something for Chicago's Olympic bid.
That link is really nice, LeHah. |
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