John Hughes was a master of light
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| Fri, 08-07-2009 - 11:54am |
John Hughes | 1950-2009
John Hughes made films that defined what it meant to be an American teen in the '80s. Among his coming-of-age films were "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Weird Science."
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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-et-hughes-appreciation7-2009aug07,0,6260523.story
The filmmaker's world was white, comfortably middle-class and suburban. His view encompassed an easy sentimentality, a measured angst, an outrageous sense of fun.
Filmmaker John Hughes burned brightest in the '80s, when he defined teen angst in terms of the caste system of the suburban high school experience, a thread that others would pick up again and again.
His films were talky, in a good way. Like the kids whose stories he was telling, he let them ramble. Teen self-absorption was treated with reverence, not ridicule. The world might make fun of them, their classmates, their brothers and sisters too, but never John Hughes.



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