Michael
Aug 7th 2009, 11:03 AM
John Hughes, Director of ‘The Breakfast Club’ and ‘Sixteen Candles,’ Dies at 59
John Hughes, the director and screenwriter who helped define a young generation with his ’80s films “Sixteen Candles,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Pretty in Pink,” has died.
The cause was a heart attack, according to a statement from the publicists Paul Bloch and Michelle Bega.
Mr. Hughes first began as a screenwriter, gaining notoriety for his screenplay for “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” which became a popular franchise.
But his true success came with his directorial debut, “Sixteen Candles,” which made a star out of its young lead, Molly Ringwald.
Mr. Hughes was responsible for a slew of films in the 1980s that defined what it meant to be an American teenager, from the music to the fashion to the social faux pas. His universe of nerds and jocks, socialites and misfits, rockers and rebels – not to mention overbearing principals, clueless teachers and absentee parents – also influenced a generation of movie-goers and -makers, versing them in a common language of pop culture idioms that persists decades on. “Mess with the bull, get the horns.”
Source (http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/john-hughes-director-of-the-breakfast-club-and-sixteen-candles-dies-at-59/?hp)
I must say that I was a big fan of John Hughes' films. Breakfast Club has to be one of my all-time favorite films. He captured a part of the 1980s in a way that no other filmmaker ever came close.
John Hughes, the director and screenwriter who helped define a young generation with his ’80s films “Sixteen Candles,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Pretty in Pink,” has died.
The cause was a heart attack, according to a statement from the publicists Paul Bloch and Michelle Bega.
Mr. Hughes first began as a screenwriter, gaining notoriety for his screenplay for “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” which became a popular franchise.
But his true success came with his directorial debut, “Sixteen Candles,” which made a star out of its young lead, Molly Ringwald.
Mr. Hughes was responsible for a slew of films in the 1980s that defined what it meant to be an American teenager, from the music to the fashion to the social faux pas. His universe of nerds and jocks, socialites and misfits, rockers and rebels – not to mention overbearing principals, clueless teachers and absentee parents – also influenced a generation of movie-goers and -makers, versing them in a common language of pop culture idioms that persists decades on. “Mess with the bull, get the horns.”
Source (http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/john-hughes-director-of-the-breakfast-club-and-sixteen-candles-dies-at-59/?hp)
I must say that I was a big fan of John Hughes' films. Breakfast Club has to be one of my all-time favorite films. He captured a part of the 1980s in a way that no other filmmaker ever came close.