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No one/nothing else represents my early adolescence as well as his work does. I'm betting a lot of other people my age will say the same.
Hughes was OK (and obviously, I'm sad to see him go) but some might say that the work of TimHunter, KevinSmith and Todd Solondz capture adolescence far more accurately.
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While Hughes movies didn't really reflect the specifics of my own adolescence, I think he did an excellent job of finding and exploring the commonalities, or essential truths or something, about adolescence in general. They don't call 'em coming-of-age movies for nothin'.
I've only actually seen Breakfast Club, which I hated, but he seems to have a lot of fans. To me he just represents the eighties which I hated. It's probably not fair to identify him with Ronald Reagan but I have a hard time separating them.
Except for "The Breakfast Club," I sort of hated his movies back in the day. It was only later that I realized what a time capsule they were, and that they really are a strange little body of work that's unique to him. He had a vision, and he got to work it out on screen, and people used to come see him do it. Good for him. RIP, Mr. Hughes.
(Also, "Uncle Buck." That movie was the perfect vehicle for John Candy, and I'm so glad that movie happened, because it was hilarious.)
Also, yeah, while I'm not crazy about Hughes' teen movies (though I liked a lot of 'em when I was a teen), I think that a lot of his comedies are pretty brilliant.
I'm not saying his was an accurate depiction of adolescence, but that they're representative of that period in my life.
Totally.
That article is horribly written... Hughes wrote and exec produced Ringwald starrer "Pretty in Pink," which felt of a piece with his directing projects,
I found THIS super touching...it's a blog post from a kid who was his pen pal eventually. It's really a great story, and also retells how Hughes blamed the Hollywood machine for John Candy's death, and how that was partly what led him to leave Hollywood.
I think Ferris Bueller is the only one of his movies I saw in first release, in the movie theatre, and I liked it primarily because we were living outside LA, and hadn't been home to Chicago in forEVER. I know I did not like Pretty in Pink or Some Kind of Wonderful when I saw them.
Hughes' sense of humor is nothing like mine, so other than my not finding his writing funny, what BoPo said.
Yeah, I'd be lying if I didn't say it made me well up some. Which was a little weird while in the midst of getting the girls out the door this morning.
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