{"id":9159,"date":"2009-08-07T09:02:11","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T23:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=9159"},"modified":"2009-08-07T09:02:35","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T23:32:35","slug":"vale-john-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2009\/08\/07\/vale-john-hughes\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale – John Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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John Hughes - 1950-2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today we mourn the passing of a generational hero, the great screenwriter\/producer\/director John Hughes. Responsible for films such as Weird Science<\/em>, The Breakfast Club<\/em>, and Home Alone<\/em>, Hughes’ touched the teenage pop-culture sensibility and squeezed hard. Among his other works on film, as\u00a0director or screenwriter,\u00a0is\u00a0the oft-quoted classic around the fernbyfilms.com<\/em> offices, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off<\/em>, as well as Planes Trains and Automobiles<\/em>, Uncle Buck<\/em>, Sixteen Candles<\/em>, the original National Lampoons Vacation<\/em>, Curly Sue<\/em>, She’s Having A Baby<\/em>, and Some Kind Of Wonderful<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Molly Ringwald and Jon Cryer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hughes scored big points in the 80’s for his portrayal of teen angst in a world rapidly growing faster and faster. His flair for slapstick comedy was also renowned, with Ferris Bueller<\/em> remaining perhaps one of his more enduring cinematic legacies. But for Hughes, it was perhaps his two seminal teen films, Pretty In Pink<\/em> (which he did not direct, but wrote the screenplay for) and The Breakfast Club<\/em>(which gave us Emillio Estevez, Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy, alongside up-and-coming teen star Molly Ringwald) that really launched Hughes into the pop-culture zeitgeist.<\/p>\n

While his star burned brightly in the 80’s, it was his latter career as a director of lamentably inadequate “comedies” such as Baby’s Day Out<\/em>, Flubber<\/em>, Dennis The Menace<\/em>, and the increasingly ordinary Home Alone <\/em>franchise, that soured an otherwise great cinematic oeuvre.<\/p>\n

However, for his capturing of the mid-80’s angst and teen chic<\/em>, and the introduction of Molly Ringwald, Macaulay Culkin, Emillio Estevez and Kelly LeBrock into the cinema frame, John Hughes will be surely missed.<\/p>\n

John Hughes was 59.<\/p>\n

“Bueller……. Bueller……….. Bueller…………”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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