Perhaps our generation's most poignant director and auteur is dead.John Hughes, who brought you National Lampoon's Vacation, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Pretty In Pink, Planes, Trains And Automobiles, Uncle Buck, and Home Alone died of a heart attack during a morning walk. He was 59.
In those seminal films, he developed a style that often incorporated the following:
In those seminal films, he developed a style that often incorporated the following:
• characters breaking the fourth wall
• additional scenes under and/or after the closing credits
• non-linear montages, where characters' actions in preparing for an event are spliced together immediately before the event takes place.
• a strong emphasis on pop songs and music cues
• additional scenes under and/or after the closing credits
• non-linear montages, where characters' actions in preparing for an event are spliced together immediately before the event takes place.
• a strong emphasis on pop songs and music cues
• the fictional Shermer, Illinois
For years he'd been out of the spotlight, but cultivated such a pedigree while he worked in the 80s and early 90s. Transformers and G.I. Joe are shitty movies, Michael Jackson is gone, and now, John Hughes. My childhood is dying!
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