Who is responsible for many of the Sixteen Candles quotes?”
I was stunned to see that iconic 1980s film director John Hughes died today at age 59. He apparently suffered a heart attack while walking in New York. For those of us who consider ourselves children of the 1980s, Hughes’ films were the soundtrack to our junior high, high school, and college lives. Even if your high school life didn’t look like the world he depicted in “Sixteen Candles,” “Pretty in Pink,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and other films, you could recognize the real in it. High school has a pain that “Happy Days” never knew, and despite the gauzy proms and Ferris Bueller hijinks, Hughes found it. I like to think that even the jocks and cheerleaders and student-council presidents had days when they felt like more like Duckie or Anthony Michael Hall’s Geek in “Sixteen Candles.” Those are the characters who stuck with me, and with viewers. In “Pretty in Pink,” I wanted Andie to end up with misfit Duckie, not cover boy Blane, and still can’t imagine who was in the supposed focus
Writer-director-producer John Hughes died of a heart attack Thursday in New York City. He was 59. Hughes was the man behind some of the biggest films of the ’80s — writing and directing The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; and writing the screenplay for Pretty in Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful and Mr. Mom. He is credited for creating the teen angst genre in modern film. His movies were not only box office successes but critical ones as well, and often praised for their realistic approach into the lives of modern teenagers. Hughes’ films served as a huge break for some of the biggest stars of the ’80s including Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Matthew Broderick and Molly Ringwald, who appeared in three of his films including the lead role in Sixteen Candles — the first movie Hughes directed. A native of Illinois, Hughes set most of his films in the Chicago area. He stepped away from the spotlight to spend time with his family and
