You'll be Hughely Missed

I know this is a bit late, but I just wanted to comment on the sudden death of John Hughes last Thursday. Anyone from my generation is likely feeling his passing. He seemed to visually sum up an era. Heck he helped create it, wrapped it up nicely and put a bow on it. So much of my youth was spent studying his movies. It was no secret that I was a huge Molly Ringwald fan. To see an unconventional beauty like her on the big screen sprung hope eternal in misfit girls everywhere. Hughes was a pioneer in the teen genre, but unlike the marketing frenzy that the teen category is surrounded by now (see Twilight) I think Hughes did not intentionally set out to sell movies to this specific, as of then untapped, demographic. I think he truly saw compelling stories unfolding in the youth of the time. A generation that was coming from a post disco era. Young people making their way in an power hungry society: yuppified 80's, pre-gen x, pre-CDs, pre-texting. He saw the timeless Romeo and Juliet themes in suburban American highschools and caught them on film in a most authentic way. Thank you John Hughes for leaving us such a warm and pretty portrait of an era gone by.