Is the child, the 80'ies dying? Or are we living?!!!

John Hughes (1950-2009)


Simple Minds - Don't you (forget about me) - Breakfast Club Music Video

First Michael Jackson, now John Hughes died in his fifties (born 1950), by a heartattack, at a morning walk in NY.

How are we, their empoered and inspired children, going to pass on their message, when they are gone? How are we able to translate their inspiration, feeling and style into the future?

But we are still living, their children; so they live on...
...thus it is maybe not the question HOW we are able to inspire others, it is rather THAT we inspire!
Isn't that at the core of all those movies, that WE THE CHILDREN CAN LIVE OUT OUR INSPIRATION, AND REALY MOVE SOMETHING OR SOMEONE, by our inspiration? Telling that we, each and everyone, no matter which type of becoming of age you are, no matter wich dreams you have!? That we are the ones! No matter that we are, what ever kind of, children/teenies/dreamers!?
Singing, dancing, that we can inspire, and dream!

We are the children of WEIRD SCIENCE!
(Lisa & Buck the best adults ever)

Oingo Boingo - Weird Science

The Trailer (here)

"Their heroes and heroines, who started out feeling like misfits, were rewarded for the basic virtues of good hearts and decency. He kept them from being simply throwbacks to some romanticized earlier age by effective use of realistic teen dialogue." -- by: Daily News


"John Hughes didn’t make the smartest, wisest, most hilarious movies about American teenagers. Cameron Crowe and Amy Heckerling did. He didn’t make the sexiest. Those would be Francis Ford Coppola’s “Rumble Fish” and “The Outsiders.” He didn't make the drunkest and druggiest as Richard Linklater did with "Dazed and Confused." He made neither the most feeling (I like either “American Graffiti” or “Valley Girl” for that) nor the most volcanic (see “Rebel without a Cause”).

Without saying anything new or even necessarily true (“It’s so hard being cute, white, middle- American, and middle-class”), he changed a segment of the movies by giving us aspirational emotional archetypes. Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Jon Cryer, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Charlie Sheen, Matthew Broderick.


Speaking conventionally, they weren’t stars. Their attitudes were. Nobody wanted to be those actors per se, they wanted to be what those actors felt.

[...]
Few directors made glibness seem as urgent as Hughes did. He sanded away the edges of lust, angst, and rebellion until what remained were anodyne anthems for the MTV era. He didn’t invent the movie soundtrack. He was just the first director to perfect it visually. Classic and original pop songs became the life force of a new mainstream moviemaking: the American musical as long-form music video. These movies made you want to dance to them, and the songs were where most of the soul came from [...]" -- by: boston.com

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

Ferris Bueller

Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Fan Trailer
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More links:
The Brat Pack
=> Not the generations before Rat Pack,
or the next generation (more actor centered comedy) Frat Pack.
The Guardian

Theme ("Somewhere in my memory") of Home Alone (John Williams).

(like a Blues Brother)

One person who we should not forget here, is John Candy (1950-1994), one great person, of us children, who also is gone too soon, and who also timelessly inspired us, and filled our life with style and joy.
Thank you Uncle Buck, your children live, dream, enjoy and inspire on!

John Hughes 80s Montage *RIP* - Teenage Wasteland (Baba O'Riley)

Children! Dream and inspire on!!!

Danke Brudi, you are, will and always have been this kind of inspiration, guide, hero and brother for me, embodying this spirits and styles of the 80'ies and inspiring, empowering childhood!