Don't you forget about Hughes: Shortly after beloved 80s auteur John Hughes died a couple weeks ago, Achariya Rezak issued a challenge to SL fashion bloggers to memorialize his movies in avatar photoshoots. Many, many took her up on that call, here's the full list. Above, two of my personal favorites: a 16 Candles tableau by Phire Zuhra, and Dove Swanson's pitch-perfect tribute to Ally Sheedy's emo-spacecase character in The Breakfast Club. All this talent and enthusiasm devoted to a Generation X fixture like Hughes is a nice visual marker for Second Life's user demographics, which is dominated by folks in their 30s and 40s.
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John Hughes was never an auteur. Please don't insult the talent that truly carries that title in the film world.
Hughes made teeny bopper films that are the equivalent of fast food. Its fun, its nice and its dirty a treat but not nutritional.
As a Gen X, I really hate the fact that a Baby Boomer is cited as someone who defined my generation. NO
Posted by: Melponeme_k | Friday, August 21, 2009 at 04:30 PM
Hughes made teen comedies, yes, but then, Hitchcock made thrillers, John Ford made Westerns, and Douglas Sirk made melodramas. I wouldn't rank Hughes on their level, but a lot of directors recognized as auteurs mainly or exclusively worked in established commercial genres, as well. Hughes wrote/directed/produced most of his best work, and has an identifiable style and set of recurring themes-- generally the criterion for being considered an auteur, whether or not you like his movies.
Posted by: Hamlet Au | Friday, August 21, 2009 at 04:45 PM
No, I disagree Mr. Au.
Hughes made insular and slightly racist comedies that involved only white suburban teenagers. And the subjects he explored were treated topically at best.
You can't compare the best movies of the 70's to the pap that Hughes turned out.
Posted by: melponeme_k | Friday, August 21, 2009 at 08:50 PM