John Hughes
Aug. 7th, 2009 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seldneiOkay. So I saw and dug Breakfast Club in ... junior high? I think? I consider Weird Science a total guilty pleasure (though I think Robert Downey Jr. was wasted in that film, and would have made a really great whatever the Anthony Michael Hall chracter's name was). And what 80s high schooler could resist Ferris Bueller? I faked sick so much in high school, I'd be a hypocrite not to like it.
However, I still see Heathers as a more fundamental shaping of my teenage psyche. So I was all prepared to not post anything about John Hughes because, while I liked those movies, they weren't quite that ... momentous to me.
And then I remembered this:
Pretty in Pink, people. Probably not John Hughes's masterpiece, and we all know the ending is problematic whatever way it goes, and that dress at the end ... really?
But still. I am a sucker for the whole "cup her face and kiss her" thing, and it's all that movie's fault. And I am too old to be Andie now, so I want to be Iona. (Except without her yuppie boyfriend--I'll rewrite the part for Scott and keep half an ounce of cred.)
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djmrswhite wrote an article about how he and his husband bonded over a line in Sixteen Candles (go read it, it's cool). Which got me thinking, because Scott and I could, I think, communicate entirely in movie lines and song lyrics (we're so GenX it's ridiculous). And I realized John Hughes wrote two lines that are a part of our repertoire:
"You missed my eye by an inch!"
"Half an inch."
and, yes, from The Breakfast Club:
"Smoke up Johnny!"
(I know, you're thinking, seriously, that's the line? But it has become more and more appropriate now that we're parents.)
However, I still see Heathers as a more fundamental shaping of my teenage psyche. So I was all prepared to not post anything about John Hughes because, while I liked those movies, they weren't quite that ... momentous to me.
And then I remembered this:
Pretty in Pink, people. Probably not John Hughes's masterpiece, and we all know the ending is problematic whatever way it goes, and that dress at the end ... really?
But still. I am a sucker for the whole "cup her face and kiss her" thing, and it's all that movie's fault. And I am too old to be Andie now, so I want to be Iona. (Except without her yuppie boyfriend--I'll rewrite the part for Scott and keep half an ounce of cred.)
djmrswhite wrote an article about how he and his husband bonded over a line in Sixteen Candles (go read it, it's cool). Which got me thinking, because Scott and I could, I think, communicate entirely in movie lines and song lyrics (we're so GenX it's ridiculous). And I realized John Hughes wrote two lines that are a part of our repertoire:"You missed my eye by an inch!"
"Half an inch."
and, yes, from The Breakfast Club:
"Smoke up Johnny!"
(I know, you're thinking, seriously, that's the line? But it has become more and more appropriate now that we're parents.)
