John Hughes’ Lasting Legacy
A tribute to reclusive 80s auteur John Hughes. For the uninitiated, the filmmaker of “Sixteen Candles” and “The Breakfast Club” stopped directing in 1991 and moved back to the midwest. [via -designobserver-]
“He’s our generation’s J.D. Salinger,” says [Kevin] Smith, whose film “Dogma” shows its heroes, Jay and Silent Bob, on a pilgrimage to Shermer, Ill., a mythical town that only exists in Hughes’ films. “He touched a generation and then the dude checked out. If it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t be doing what I do. Basically my stuff is just John Hughes films with four-letter words.”
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