John Hughes died today. Well, yesterday - I'm glad he didn't die today, because it's my birthday today. But anyway, sad times - the Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller are both incredible movies, and though he only wrote it, so is Home Alone. He's been an influence on me in my script writing, or at least, bits of it - I've started writing a script about a bunch of guys going into school the day after a party and it's basically just recalling the night before. Imagine if Hughes had directed the Hangover. I guess you could say he's influenced another script-in-progress of mine as well, in that the protagonist talks to the camera like Ferris Bueller, but I really credit that more to High Fidelity for the inspiration. In fact, this script could be the adopted lovechild of High Fidelity and John Hughes, if only, y'know, screenplays could conceive.
RIP.
RIP.
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