Some Kind of Wonderful
Today, a fond farewell to Mr. John Hughes, a writer, director and producer whose films made such an impression on my teenage years.
“Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. ”
-Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, 1986
“Saturday, March 24,1984. Shermer High School, Shermer, Illinois, 60062. Dear Mr. Vernon, We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did *was* wrong. But we think you’re crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us - in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Correct? That’s the way we saw each other at 7:00 this morning. We were brainwashed.”
-Bran Johnson, The Breakfast Club, 1985
“We don’t have none of this stuff in the boy’s room! Wait a minute! We don’t got none of this… we don’t got doors on the stalls in the boy’s room, we don’t have, what is this? What’s this? We don’t have a candy machine in the boy’s room!”
-Duckie, Pretty in Pink, 1986
August 7th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Wow this is a sad moment, Sixteen candles and Weird Science are classics. His films and MTV were what made the 80’s fun for someone like me to growing up in.
I was just posting on my blog about him. He will be missed.
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August 12th, 2009 at 6:33 am
There was a point in my life that I could almost recite The Breakfast Club,especially the part where Bender is talking about his father. You will be missed John Hughes, but I’ll keep watching.
August 16th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
oh i love these movies so much…such formative years…i had them memorized!