Posted on 08/08/2009 3:21:29 PM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
Last night’s Red Eye discussed the recent loss of Hollywood director John Hughes, who died of a heart attack in New York this past Thursday. Host Greg Gutfeld noted that he “owned the 1980’s,” and he most certainly did.
Hughes was behind some of the best comedies of the 1980s including The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Uncle Buck, The Great Outdoors, and the Lampoon’s Vacation films. Christmas Vacation has always been a holiday favorite of my family, and is certainly one of Hughes’ most quotable films. Red Eye guests went on to discuss their admiration for Hughes; no one had anything negative to say.
Hughes’ films were fun, heartwarming, and hilarious. He made the types of films that everyone could watch and enjoy, the kind of filmmaking that is harder to find these days. He really was the Frank Capra (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It’s a Wonderful Life) of his generation.
Finding a filmmaker like Hughes may be getting tougher by the day, but it doesn’t mean we have to give up on the film industry all together. We just have to look a little deeper to find what we want. Conservatism and pro-Americanism may be suppressed in Hollywood but it is far from gone.
During an age where leftists like anti-military conspiracist Oliver Stone and anti-capitalist documentarian Michael Moore are heroes in Hollywood, people like Hughes sure will be missed. If his films were not necessarily conservative they were certainly American. They had universal themes that everyone could enjoy, no audience was left out.
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Ferris Bueller will always be one of my Top 5 movies.
recommend finding the original article from National Lampoon “Christmas 59”. It was the short story upon which the Vacation series was based.
IIRC he was also a Republican and fairly conservative.
He just knew the angst of growing up as a teen in the 80s. He *knew*.
Yep, I'm 42 and the people I've talked to about this in the past couple days all said pretty much the same thing. I few months back I was flipping channels and "The Breakfast Club" was on, nearly twenty five years later it still made perfect sense.
The Breakfast Club is timeless. Every one of those kids still exist in high school today. It is the defining movie of Gen X.
I will miss him.
I want to remind people that vilify Hollywood [and there are a lot on FR] that there are good movies. American movies have inspired more foreigners around the world to LOVE America than anything else.
This is a big industry here in Los Angeles. To cheer and praise its demise is wrong.
Rest in peace, Mr. Hughes.
I loved his movies ! At the time in 1985, I was graduating H.S. I saw the movie. It was right on the money of what teens were going through at the time. One thing was a computer room with a sign of “All Hackers will be Expelled” which was prevalent at the time. Of course at the time, the gov’t did not yet try to regulate computers and had no asinine laws like the DMCA.
If he did, it doesn’t mean his movies were not wholesome.
I’m hoping Conservatives will not sink to the level of Liberals. Hollywood movies have inspired millions to love America. So many are jealous of the things we have.
Be generous.
This is true, however there are also an awful lot of movies that make people, well, hate America is probably too strong, but dislike/despise/misinterpret America for sure.
Be positive. Everything in life has pluses and minuses.
I’m just sick of Freepers willing the death of American industry. And most of it is mindless.
I agree.
I don't think these movies will be considered "timeless classics" because future generations will always wonder why they all have the same group of people with the same quirks. However, for those born between the mid-60s and the mid-70s they will ALWAYS be special.
~~”I recommend finding the original article from National Lampoon “Christmas 59”. It was the short story upon which the Vacation series was based.”~~
Here’s the article that started him off — about his family’s 1958 road trip to Disneyland, “Vacation ‘58”...
http://www.bizbag.com/Vacation/Vacation%2058.htm
And here’s the back story, as told by Hughes...
http://www.all-story.com/issues.cgi?action=show_story&story_id=389
Oh I don’t with the death of the American film industy. I wish for its betterment.
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