I am so sad: John Hughes has died. He wrote, directed or produced so many of my favourite films - Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club - as well as some really bad films that nevertheless still helped define my childhood (Dennis the Menace, Home Alone, Beethoven, Miracle on 34th Street). I don't really know what to write to be honest, other than today is a very sad day indeed. This New York Times obituary is a nice tribute to the man who helped define a generation."His universe of nerds and jocks, socialites and misfits, rockers and rebels – not to mention overbearing principals, clueless teachers and absentee parents – also influenced a generation of movie-goers and -makers, versing them in a common language of pop culture idioms that persists decades on. "Mess with the bull, get the horns."
He made a star of quirky girls - as embodied by Ms. Ringwald in Pretty in Pink and 16 Candles (and Ally Sheedy in The Breakfast Club) - and charmingly cocky, off-center boys, like Matthew Broderick’s character in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off."
ps. You must read this rad article from a 1985 issue of New York magazine about the brat pack
