Yesterday, while on a morning walk in New York City, the acclaimed film director John Hughes, creator of those classic 80's teen angst movies, died after suffering a heart attack. Few American directors have captured and distilled the American teen experience the way John Hughes did. In Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink his protagonists broke down class barriers in high school social circles. Joining The Takeaway to remember the man and his legacy is Wesley Morris, film critic from the Boston Globe, to talk about how Hughes' films influenced a generation.
Watch this tribute to John Hughes made at the height of his career:
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One of the great things done by John Hughes was to shoot on location in Chicago: Loop, Wilmette, North Shore. It's a beautiful part of the country where real people (like Hughes) live. RIP
just some coincidences..
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RE: John Hughes
My son bore a striking resemblance to Macauley Culkin at the time the Home Alone movie came out, and in fact shared the same birthday (8/26). The resemblance was such that many people remarked on it, with one woman actually walking up to us and saying to him "don't you let your parents leave you home alone"..
My son's name of course, is John Hughes...
Alas, to be a comedy director! Poor John Hughes. Frankly, I expected a bit more from 'The Takeaway.' Preston Sturges wrote (and directed) about small town Americans but still speaks to us all today. Woody Allen describes a small world, but his reach extends. Jaques Tati -- are we all rural French people? I'm not sure Hughes is in the same class of those directors, but he's being treated like some kind of Chuck E Cheez franchiser by the mainstream media. I expected a bit more from your program.
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