Acclaimed 1980's film director, John Hughes, died from a heart attack yesterday in New York City. He made most of the classic "Brat Pack" films of the 1980's. He was like the Martin Scorsese of teen pop films. My personal favorite was
Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I've seen that movie countless times. I say at least 5 times a year I watch it from start to finish and also always catch 20 minutes pieces of it on cable too. This movie is always on cable and hopefully the networks will air a mini-marathon of his movies this weekend. Actually, just about every weekend the networks already does that but this weekend it needs to be done to the max. They need to air these movies without commercial interuption from start to finish on a 24 hour block. It's should just be like how they do
A Christmas Story on Christmas Day.
I've been reading everybody's blogs and tweets about how much people loved his films. I'm constantly quoting Ferris. My older brother got me into this movie when I was six years old and the last 22 years has been spent in a constant state of living in reference to this movie in somehow or another.
It's a shame that John Hughes spent the 1990's to the present day being more like Howard Hughes. He wasn't out in public much and didn't make the films that we all loved him for. Yes, he did write a script here and there along with some producing credits but his adoring public never got the classics that he drummed out for a whole decade. He'll be missed.
Here's a "best of "clip from Ferris:
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