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I’m your host Derek Allen and today
we’re gonna take a look at the legacy of
John Hughes and the mark he and his
films left on popular culture born in
Lansing Michigan in 1950 John Hughes
first got his taste for writing while
working as an ad copywriter in Chicago
he would soon transition into writing
comedy and his story vacation 58 would
land him on the staff of National
Lampoon magazine this story describes
his family trips as a child and would be
the basis for the 1983 film national
lampoon’s vacation
starring Chevy Chase waitress other
stories that Hughes pen wallet National
Lampoon magazine which show his strong
understanding of teenage culture he
refused to portray teenagers in the
usual Hollywood manner as immoral and
ignorant Hughes saw teenagers to be
especially bright and deserving of
respect
he would take this viewpoint and apply
it to four films he wrote and directed
between 1984 and 1986 led off by sixteen
Candles his directorial debut and
followed by The Breakfast Club weird
science and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
these films would be praised for the
realistic depiction of high school life
and also for being some of the most
popular comedy films of the decade
Hughes also broke film convention by
having his characters stopped to address
the camera and audience they bought it
as well as having the action continued
after the end credits you still here
it’s over these films would be a big
part of the brat pack era the brat pad
being a nickname given to a group of
young fresh actors and actresses of the
time who frequently appeared together
and team-based coming-of-age movies
Hughes’s use of popular music in his
films is another aspect of his
filmmaking that cannot be overlooked his
ability to capture the emotional cues of
a film with the addition of select songs
such as simple Minds don’t you forget
about me remains an essential and
unforgettable part of many of his movies
from the 1980s
following it’s remarkable success in
this genre huge shifted his attention to
adults with his 1987 comedy planes
trains and automobiles this began a
series of films starring John Candy such
as 1988 the great outdoors and 1989’s
Uncle Buck Uncle Buck introduced use to
child actor Macaulay Culkin who soon
after starred in 1990s home alone with
this film Hughes almost single-handedly
saved a cash-strapped twentieth
century-fox
the film which he had written and
produced generated five hundred million
dollars worldwide and became his biggest
and final hit you guys give up oh yeah
thirsty for more despite becoming a
holiday staple it still generated a lot
of negative publicity for it’s loud and
fairly violent slapstick comedy Hughes
continued to focus on preteens and the
movies he would write and produce
credits in turn felt he had traded his
sharp writing and dialogue for crude
broad-based humor these films included
Beethoven Dennis the Menace and babies
day out his involvement with 1994’s
remake of a Miracle on 34th Street
brought him scathing criticism yet again
and in turn he began penning and
producing roommates for Disney these
roommates such as a hundred and one
Dalmatians and flubber were financial
successes and wildly popular with
audiences however he never regained the
glaring success that his first films had
brought him Hughes’s final major film
project was home alone 3 in 1997 like
the film he was faded away from the
spotlight and turned his back on
Hollywood he spent the last decade of
his life as a farmer in the state of
Illinois during that time he still wrote
scripts to films under the fake identity
of Edmond Dantes named after the
character from the man in the iron mask
as Hughes considered himself a prisoner
of his own success
his last screenplay was at the 2008 film
drillbit Taylor are you still in the
military I was discharged unauthorized
heroism
despite John Hughes’s difficulty in
recapturing his early success his
reputation as one of the leading
interpreters of teenage
remains unparalleled I can’t believe
this they forgot my birthday
he’s also recognized as the main
inspiration for directors like Kevin
Smith would follow in his footsteps
I’m your host Derek Allen and today
we’re gonna take a look at the legacy of
John Hughes and the mark he and his
films left on popular culture born in
Lansing Michigan in 1950 John Hughes
first got his taste for writing while
working as an ad copywriter in Chicago
he would soon transition into writing
comedy and his story vacation 58 would
land him on the staff of National
Lampoon magazine this story describes
his family trips as a child and would be
the basis for the 1983 film national
lampoon’s vacation
starring Chevy Chase waitress other
stories that Hughes pen wallet National
Lampoon magazine which show his strong
understanding of teenage culture he
refused to portray teenagers in the
usual Hollywood manner as immoral and
ignorant Hughes saw teenagers to be
especially bright and deserving of
respect
he would take this viewpoint and apply
it to four films he wrote and directed
between 1984 and 1986 led off by sixteen
Candles his directorial debut and
followed by The Breakfast Club weird
science and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
these films would be praised for the
realistic depiction of high school life
and also for being some of the most
popular comedy films of the decade
Hughes also broke film convention by
having his characters stopped to address
the camera and audience they bought it
as well as having the action continued
after the end credits you still here
it’s over these films would be a big
part of the brat pack era the brat pad
being a nickname given to a group of
young fresh actors and actresses of the
time who frequently appeared together
and team-based coming-of-age movies
Hughes’s use of popular music in his
films is another aspect of his
filmmaking that cannot be overlooked his
ability to capture the emotional cues of
a film with the addition of select songs
such as simple Minds don’t you forget
about me remains an essential and
unforgettable part of many of his movies
from the 1980s
following it’s remarkable success in
this genre huge shifted his attention to
adults with his 1987 comedy planes
trains and automobiles this began a
series of films starring John Candy such
as 1988 the great outdoors and 1989’s
Uncle Buck Uncle Buck introduced use to
child actor Macaulay Culkin who soon
after starred in 1990s home alone with
this film Hughes almost single-handedly
saved a cash-strapped twentieth
century-fox
the film which he had written and
produced generated five hundred million
dollars worldwide and became his biggest
and final hit you guys give up oh yeah
thirsty for more despite becoming a
holiday staple it still generated a lot
of negative publicity for it’s loud and
fairly violent slapstick comedy Hughes
continued to focus on preteens and the
movies he would write and produce
credits in turn felt he had traded his
sharp writing and dialogue for crude
broad-based humor these films included
Beethoven Dennis the Menace and babies
day out his involvement with 1994’s
remake of a Miracle on 34th Street
brought him scathing criticism yet again
and in turn he began penning and
producing roommates for Disney these
roommates such as a hundred and one
Dalmatians and flubber were financial
successes and wildly popular with
audiences however he never regained the
glaring success that his first films had
brought him Hughes’s final major film
project was home alone 3 in 1997 like
the film he was faded away from the
spotlight and turned his back on
Hollywood he spent the last decade of
his life as a farmer in the state of
Illinois during that time he still wrote
scripts to films under the fake identity
of Edmond Dantes named after the
character from the man in the iron mask
as Hughes considered himself a prisoner
of his own success
his last screenplay was at the 2008 film
drillbit Taylor are you still in the
military I was discharged unauthorized
heroism
despite John Hughes’s difficulty in
recapturing his early success his
reputation as one of the leading
interpreters of teenage
remains unparalleled I can’t believe
this they forgot my birthday
he’s also recognized as the main
inspiration for directors like Kevin
Smith would follow in his footsteps
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