Thu 6 Aug 2009
R.I.P. John Hughes, director of Ferris Bueller, Sixteen Candles, and more
Posted by Miss Info under life beyond rap , quotes , sigh....[17] Comments
According to TMZ, director John Hughes died today at the age of 59. He suffered a heart attack while taking a walk in NYC. Just made me think of how formative his old movies were on an entire generation, myself especially… I grew up looking at a lot of the set locations that Hughes used in his films. Glencoe beach, where Ferris Bueller and his friends spent part of the “day off,” is the same beach that me and my cousins spent our summers. And our high school had the “breakfast club” morning detention that Hughes based his movie on.
ah, memory lane.
August 6th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
goodbye “another fixture of my childhood”
-breakfast club was biig
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August 6th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
R.I.P- John Hughes and MJ were my childhood. What a year this has been. Tremendous losses.
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August 6th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
this fucking sucks…
my john hughes game (and 80s movies in general) is proper as fuck though:
http://tinyurl.com/n8hrs6
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August 6th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
I ain’t shedding a tear for any celebrity passing but I do feel it more for Hughes passing than Jackson, the man clearly defined a few generations and they’re still trying to emulate him.
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Seersucker #1 (aka The Kraken) Reply:
August 6th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
“the man clearly defined a few generations and they’re still trying to emulate him”
wait, and Mike didn’t?
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harosa Reply:
August 6th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
He did, he did, dont take my head off, lol, just that I was way more a fan of Hughes’ films than Mike’s music, just a matter of taste, but i appreciate the legacy.
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August 6th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Whaaaaat?????
Aww damn! 16 candles? Ferris Bueller’s Day Off? Weird Science? The Breakfast Club????? Those are a part of who I am!
Daaaamn!
First Michael now this. My heart can’t be broken any more this year.Is God trying to tell us 70’s (and early 80’s babies) something?
Somebody please go check on Prince, Eddie Murphy, Quincy Jones and the guy from the Princess Bride!
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August 6th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
he made two of five movies that i have to watch every time they come on. ferris bueller, breakfast club…juice, menace and house party 1
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August 6th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
you from chicago?
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August 7th, 2009 at 12:41 am
Reading this really bothered me. I loved his movies! Specifically speaking, Ferris Bueller was my favorite movie growing up. This has been a rough summer as far as deaths are concerned. My childhood is being ripped to shreds…
Selfishness aside, I feel for his family. So sad. He will be missed.
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August 7th, 2009 at 1:45 am
Very very sad. He directed some of my favorites. His films depicted the generation extremely well.
I saw a real estate ad not too long ago for the Chicago crib they used for Cameron’s house in Ferris Bueller. The one with the glass garage, Ferrari, etc.
It’s was close to 3 million if I remember correctly.
I should’ve just put it on my black card. The value probably just shot up.
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August 7th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Info, are you saying you went to New Trier?
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August 7th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Ferris Beuller’s Day Off was my favorite movie for a long time. Hughes definitely knew how to make movies that define the teenage years.
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August 7th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
I love 16 candles, breakfast club, pretty in pink, ferris beuller. They are classic movies. all came out when I was a teenager. I never get tired of watching his movies.
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August 7th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Uncle Buck was my shit….when that kid got hit in the head with the golf club. I was rolllllllin. weird science was madd funny too
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August 7th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Vacation!!!!!!!!
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