80’s director John Hughes dead at 59
Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
- Ferris Bueller
John Hughes, the director whose work all but invented the very idea of the 80’s for many of us, is dead of a heart attack at 59. I had just committed to rewatching his films recently, inspired by the mashup below of the great dance sequences in The Breakfast Club, set to music by Phoenix (In retrospect, Ringwald’s dance moves are clearly stronger than her acting.). In many ways, Hughe’s work is beyond evaluation for any of us that were raised on it – a thick scrim of nostalgia hangs over every scene, every well-worn quote, and every unforgettable musical set piece. But however his work dates, it’s hard not to give the man credit for creating a body of work and a set of characters so iconic that they stand in for an entire decade, a cinematic shorthand for our own adolescent sturm und drang. But enough talk - I’m going to run to the video store and check out the movies I haven’t rewatched before word gets out. That’s a real tribute.
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