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John Hughesthe Auteur

• By Angela Bauza

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John Hughes

• Born February 18, 1950, Lansing
• Spouse Nancy Ludwig (m. 19702009)
• Awards Australian Film Institute Open Craft
  Award
• John Wilden Hughes, Jr. (February 18, 1950
  August 6, 2009) was an American film
  director, producer, and screenwriter. He directed
  or scripted some of the most successful films of
  the 1980s and 1990s, including National Lampoon's
  Vacation, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird
  Science, The Breakfast Club, Some Kind of
  Wonderful,Sixteen Candles, Pretty in
  Pink, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Uncle
  Buck, Home Alone, and Home Alone 2 Lost in New
  York.

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John Hughes

• He is known as the king of teen movies as well as
  helping launch the careers of actors
  including Michael Keaton, Molly Ringwald, Anthony
  Michael Hall, Bill Paxton, Matthew
  Broderick, Macaulay Culkin, John Candy, and the
  up-and-coming actors collectively nicknamed the
  Brat Pack.

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The Inventor of a Generation

• When we think about the 80s we think about he
  Brat Pack we think about the movies that have
  lived through time and the director that gave
  them life.
• John Hughes
•  Dean Goodman Bob Tourtellotte and Peter Cooney
  (Aug 6, 2009). ""Brat Pack" director John Hughes
  dies of a heart attack". Reuters.

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Live on Breakfast Club

• Though his movies were more mainstream than
  underground, they had a type of style that lives
  not only in the youth of the 80s but also in
  generations of teens today. The movie Breakfast
  club has been re-made in almost all popular teen
  Television

• Boy Meets World
• Dawsons Creek
• Gossip Girl
• One Tree Hill
• Vampire Diaries
• Victorious
• Community
• Degrassi
• Are just to name a few

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Victorious
Community
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Director

• Director of Films

• Curly Sue
• Uncle Buck
• Shes Having my Baby
• Planes, Trains Automobiles
• Ferris Buellers Day Off
• Weird Science
• The Breakfast Club
• Sixteen Candles

• Mr. Hughes was also busy as a producer, a
  screenwriter and a pop-culture embodiment of the
  age. Historians of cinema may be slow or
  begrudging in appreciating his achievement, but
  if auteur status is conferred by the possession
  of a recognizable style and set of themes, Mr.
  Hughess place in the pantheon cannot be denied.
  (Scott)
• http//www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/movies/08apprais
  al.html?_r0

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• Themes

• Teen Cliques
• Rich vs. Poor
• Popular vs. Nerd
• Inventive Language
• The melding of worlds
• Friendship
• Community
• Style and music
• Fighting genetic destiny

• Fighting genetic destiny

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Wrote 44 movies
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Homage to John

• Director Will Gluck pays Homage to John Hughes in
  his movie Easy A.

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References

• http//www.imdb.com/name/nm0000455/?ref_sr_2 Goo
  dman, Dean (August 6, 2009). ""Brat Pack"
  Director John Hughes Dies Of Heart Attack".
  Reuters. Retrieved 2010-10-15.
•  "John Hughes Biography (1950-)".
  Filmreference.com.
•  a b c d Kamp, David (2010-03). "Sweet Bard of
  Youth".Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2010-02-20.
•  "Molly Ringwald Interviews John
  Hughes". Seventeen Magazine. Spring 1986.
  Retrieved 2010-02-25.
•  Michael Joseph Gross (2004-05-09). "When the
  Losers Ruled in Teenage Movies". The New York
  Times. p. 4. Retrieved 2010-07-21.
•  a b c d Saperstein, Pat (2009-08-06). "Director
  John Hughes dies at 59". Variety.
•  McLellan, Dennis (2009-08-07). "John Hughes
  dies at 59 writer-director of '80s teen films".
  Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
•  Brady, Celia (August 1990). "Big Baby". Spy
  6677. Retrieved September 3, 2012.
•  Diaz, Julio (March 1999). "1999 interview with
  Hughes". Ink 19.
•  Goldstein, Patrick (March 24, 2008). "John
  Hughes's imprint remains. He's still revered in
  Hollywood, but whatever happened to the king of
  the teens?". Los Angeles Times.