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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
We miss you, John Hughes! We’ve missed you even before you left this world so prematurely, but we doubly miss you now.
Mr. Hughes created a genre just as surely as the Coens did. The John Hughes Film was so specific that even films he just produced are still, to this day, mistaken as ones he directed. Some Kind of Wonderful and Pretty In Pink, for example, are movies he wrote and produced, but didn’t direct.
His voice was unique, his way with young actors was easy and natural and his way with building characters was iconic. Nobody could match him on that. Ferris Bueller. Case closed!
Today we’ve got a shot of Hughes wedged between The Geek and The Princess on the set of The Breakfast Club, a movie that never gets old for me. Marry me, Ally Sheedy in The Breakfast Club! Thanks again to Pat Barnett for sending this one along (and it looks like it once again comes from Cineweekly).
If you have a behind the scenes shot you’d like to submit to this column, you can email me at quint@aintitcool.com.
Tomorrow’s Behind the Scenes pic wants all the gold.
-Eric Vespe
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The dark knight rises will rock
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This movie and "Sixteen Candles" are classics. Hughes deserved to be right up there with Truffaut and Godard. Seriously.
There was lot more to these brat pack movies than people think... -
such a great magazine...oh shit the memories. i'm old.
and i didn't like her at first but eventually grew to have a major crush on Ringwald, as i think we all did. -
feels like it belongs to another era... and yet I remember those days so vividly.. God, am I getting that old?!?
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and then both Paul Gleason and John Hughes had to pass away.
The 10 greatest actors who play assholes of all time:
Dabney Coleman
Paul Gleason
William Atherton
Hart Bochner (That's right, Die Hard hit the asshole trifecta)
J.T. Walsh
Ronny Cox
Richard Dreyfuss
Paul Reiser
Ted Knight
and, of course, Barry Bostwick
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Jan 28, 2012 12:30:49 PM CST
Anthony Michael Hall is thinking "I'm totally hitting that."
by mrboinfoint
And John Hughes never had a clue. When he found out he got so mad he refused to direct Pretty In Pink and passed it off to Howard Deutch. Thus ending his working relationship with Ringwald.
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LOVE the asshole list. Dabney Coleman may rule them all. Nice to see him back on 'Boardwalk Empire'. William Atherton, too... I can still hear him in my head:
'May I, please, see this storage facility, Doctor Venkman?' Sooooo gross.
One criticism... You forgot KEVIN TIGHE! He surely deserves a place in that exalted firmament of professional dickheads. -
Why did he get so mad? was he hitting her too?
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This role and even Weird Science suggested he was going to be a tremendous actor. What happened? The Man-Swell, that's what. By the time Edward Scissorhands rolled around, whatever idiosyncrasies he had, vanished with his waifish frame.
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The beautiful goth girl learns to conform to society's norms and becomes a prom queen. Pretty much all of John Hugh's movies are "upper class white asshole's problems: the movie". Although National Lampoon's Vacation was great.
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Jan 28, 2012 1:30:06 PM CST
Isn't it great when people make up behind-the-scenes shit?
by sifodyasjr
Who needs facts, right?
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even the geek Farmer Ted wore Polo shirts.
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First off, you're a queer.
Second, to claim that being a prom queen means you "conform to society"...lololol. what a fucking douche/nerd/faggot you are. There aren't enough insults I can throw at you. I'd run out, but just know that you're all of them. A total mongoloid. -
I went to a breakfast club/ferris bueller double feature once, and was struck at how infinitely superior ferris was. Some classic lines in tbc though...if he stands up...we'll all stand up...there'll be anarchy!
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Don't mess with the bull, you'll get the horns, young man!
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You need to stay out of the cool kid's threads.
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There are tons of real life problems in his films. For instance, Ferris Bueller only got a sweet computer for his birthday instead of a Pontiac Fiero like his sister. That's brutal. He had to slum it for a day when driving that old Ferrari around. Millions of kids face that same problem on a daily basis. Shame on you.
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Sadly, John Hughes DID make a sequel (quasi-sequel?) to THE BREAKFAST CLUB called "REACH THE ROCK" in the mid-Nineties, with Alessandro Nivola playing a renamed adult "Bender" and Brooke Langton playing a renamed adult "Claire" (I don't think Hughes owned the actual sequel rights to BREAKFAST CLUB, which is why things were shifted around a bit). There's even a "Vernon" stand-in! I think most critics and audience-goers either panned or dismissed it when it came out, probably proving that a movie like THE BREAKFAST CLUB could only have gotten made in the Eighties ... and, of course, if you actually view the movie as THE BREAKFAST CLUB sequel it was intended to be, it's both depressing as hell and takes a little bit of the wind out of your sails when you go back and re-watch the original.
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I think that movie is an overrated pile of trash.
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I think it's overrated too. I actually prefer Sixteen Candles. Sixteen Candles is fucking hilarious and has a couple of hot chicks in it. I never found Molly Ringwald attractive. She looked like my sister and I've never cared for redheads. And Ferris Bueller is better than The Breakfast Club too. However, they're all better than Pretty in Pink. Yick. That movie sucks.
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...Mugato is right. The weird anti-feminist 'makeover' of Ally Sheedy (they put a PINK BOW in her fucking hair, for chrissakes) is the one glaring flaw in the movie. At best, it betrays an ingnorance of gender politics that really dates the film.
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Jan 28, 2012 3:21:31 PM CST
Ah,i just checked and that Heathers movie with Christian Slater was not made by Hughes
by killik
hm,i always confuse that movie as a John Hughes film.anyway,sorry for the OT carry on.
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Still have a crush on Ally Sheedy.
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The Breakfast Club and Ferret Bueller are absolute shite. Ferret may be the most annoying character ever to grace celluloid and the Breakfast Club might have been passable except for the spontaneous dance numbers. 80's trash.
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Also, haven't seen this in a long time, but when does Ally Sheedy become prom queen? Doesn't the movie just end with them going home after detention?
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At least the funniest.
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..and I cant stop laughing at Killik's post.
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Dabney Coleman, Ally Sheedy and Matthew Broderick have all been mentioned in this TB so far. Going for the Trifecta.
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Good times. I miss Hughes too... and OMNI.
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Jan 28, 2012 6:51:17 PM CST
Whether you're into Goth girls or not, Sheedy is clearly the hotter one in the flick.
by tallboy6t6
Not to say that Ringwold looks like Ringworm or anything, but Sheedy is the looker in the film.
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Jan 28, 2012 6:52:00 PM CST
And the crew always shows up for reunions aside from Estevez
by tallboy6t6
Why does Emilio always ditch out on the various Breakfast Club reunions that happen once every 5 years or so?
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Still think this is the best thing Hughes ever did. Granted he just wrote it, but it's still my favorite. The scene where everyone is rocking out to Land of a Thousand Dances is still my all time favorite closing scene to a movie ever. I could never really get into the Breakfast Club or any of his teen movies. They're rightfully beloved and well made but I never clicked with any of the characters (I had a much different growing up experience). Good stories nonetheless. Mr.Hughes was truly one of the great ones. Great pic though. AMH looks fucking 10. That's crazy.
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It has Jennifer Connelly WITH boobs. Savages.
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Jan 28, 2012 9:50:19 PM CST
Breakfast Club, Die Hard, Trading Places, Pursuit of D.B. Cooper, Miami Blues, Arthur, (the largely forgotten) Vigilante Force, and on and on...
by stegman84
...and yet Paul Gleason still wasn't deemed worthy of an obit on AICN when he passed away a few years back, which I'm still bitter about.
The man was one of the great scene stealing character actors of the past few decades, big role or small, tv, film, good or bad, he was always a joy to watch. He is definitely missed.
Oh, and margot_tenenbaum, you forgot Miguel Ferrer off of your 'best on screen assholes' list. For shame. -
still a looker.
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Get a grip, fuckers.
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God, I would have screwed her so many different ways! Then I would have wiped my dick off on Ally Sheedy and done her, too!
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Jan 29, 2012 3:20:24 AM CST
John Vernon deserves a place on the greatest actors playing assholes list
by successor
Dirty Harry, the dean from Animal House, Charlie Varrick.
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Jan 29, 2012 8:24:39 AM CST
I thought it was okay when it came out...
by has_snyder_been_fired_from_superman_yet
...didn't see it again for maybe 15 years, and liked it alot more when I did. Each time ive seen it since, my opinion of it has grown. It really transcended its 80s teen movie genre.
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Jan 29, 2012 8:27:29 AM CST
Ally Sheedy was supposed to be the weird, mental chick...
by has_snyder_been_fired_from_superman_yet
...but I thought she ass hot as fuck! She was like the evolutionary antecedent for every hot goth chick who appeared a few years later.
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Jan 29, 2012 8:28:25 AM CST
"washot as fuck" Of course her ass was also nice
by has_snyder_been_fired_from_superman_yet
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You're right. So here it is:
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Hughes took an early retirement partially due to the fact that he just didn't like dealing with Hollywood people. I also read that after John Candy died (whom he adored), Hughes fell into a deep depression and didn't want to make films any more. The guy will always be copied but never duplicated.
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Jan 29, 2012 1:36:33 PM CST
Somehow I think that if John Hughes really hated Hollywood
by mugato5150
...he did a pretty good job keeping that under wraps. George Lucas, Mel Gibson they hate Hollywood and so they finance their own movies. John Hughes was involved in 4 Home Alone Movies, a few Beethoven movies and Baby's Day out. I'm having a hard time seeing him as some sort of renegade filmmaker.
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John Vernon(Dean Wormer) absolutely deserves to be on that list, along with the previously mentioned Kevin Tighe (see LOST, Matewan for his truly hissable roles).
Bill Paxton is often put on these lists for True Lies and Weird Science, but I disagree with this. I love me some Paxton, but his douchebaggery is too comical for me to truly loathe him. He's just too likable. Contrast that against the truly talented asshole William Atherton, whose every inflection and facial twitch makes me ache to punch him in the face. -
Jan 29, 2012 2:28:05 PM CST
Daily dose of truth: You have to be quite a pretentious little twat to like Rushmore more than Breakfast Club
by tallboy6t6
Get a grip, fucker.
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Look at those boots.
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I grew up in the early 80s and have always thought that "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" was funnier and more true to my teenage experiences. "Breakfast Club" always felt like pretentious crap.
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I always thought of St. Elmo's Fire as quasi-sequel to The Breakfast Club; a lot of the same actors, similar vibe. John Hughes and Joel Schumacher shared office space around that time.
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