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I sat in front of the TV as I was ironing out my huge batch of laundry and took a trip down memory lane to the land of John Hughes.
I went back to the seamless worlds of Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful and watched these childhood favorites through my adult eyes and I saw gold.
The movies are even more brilliant than they were when I just watched them with paradoxical passion and passivity some twenty plus years ago. The late great John Hughes is still a master storyteller.
In Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful he struck right to the heart of teenagers. It's no wonder these movies are cult favorites. In the commentary of Some Kind of Wonderful, one of the hosts cut right into the essence of John Hughes films saying how the producer actually respects teenagers and translates this respect into movies. John Hughes' greatness is in how he translates each and every teenager's desire to be free to be and express his authenticity. And he has woven stories that send the message that it can be done... He invites the romantics to be idealists through the medium of cuss-loaded, heavy kissing, bad hair and funky fashioned now cult favorite movies.
All the hormones, rebellion, the funky fashion, the music, the script, the transition of scenes and even more make both movies worlds unto themselves where personally as was then, I am still able to enter and relate.
Pretty in Pink was eye candy with its authentic and classic '80's atmosphere, and literally music to the ears with its New Wave soundtrack. The scene sequences and the dialogue were all electric and it helped greatly that Molly Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy had that intoxicating chemistry between them.
In Some Kind of Wonderful on the other hand, John Hughes and Howard Deutche created a rich and multifaceted world that is so realistic, idealistic, romantic and subliminally beautiful all in one movie. Great soundtrack, dialogue and scene sequences too.
I guess I would be doing myself a favor if I cut out on the comparison because I love both movies for all their merits. Pretty in Pink was sweet as Some Kind of Wonderful was deep, nuff said.
As Iona said in Pretty in Pink, "Why can't we start old and grow young?"
Thank you, Watts, Andie, Blane and Keith. I liked growing up on you. And great company while I finished my loads of ironing too. :)
I went back to the seamless worlds of Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful and watched these childhood favorites through my adult eyes and I saw gold.
The movies are even more brilliant than they were when I just watched them with paradoxical passion and passivity some twenty plus years ago. The late great John Hughes is still a master storyteller.
In Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful he struck right to the heart of teenagers. It's no wonder these movies are cult favorites. In the commentary of Some Kind of Wonderful, one of the hosts cut right into the essence of John Hughes films saying how the producer actually respects teenagers and translates this respect into movies. John Hughes' greatness is in how he translates each and every teenager's desire to be free to be and express his authenticity. And he has woven stories that send the message that it can be done... He invites the romantics to be idealists through the medium of cuss-loaded, heavy kissing, bad hair and funky fashioned now cult favorite movies.
All the hormones, rebellion, the funky fashion, the music, the script, the transition of scenes and even more make both movies worlds unto themselves where personally as was then, I am still able to enter and relate.
Pretty in Pink was eye candy with its authentic and classic '80's atmosphere, and literally music to the ears with its New Wave soundtrack. The scene sequences and the dialogue were all electric and it helped greatly that Molly Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy had that intoxicating chemistry between them.
In Some Kind of Wonderful on the other hand, John Hughes and Howard Deutche created a rich and multifaceted world that is so realistic, idealistic, romantic and subliminally beautiful all in one movie. Great soundtrack, dialogue and scene sequences too.
I guess I would be doing myself a favor if I cut out on the comparison because I love both movies for all their merits. Pretty in Pink was sweet as Some Kind of Wonderful was deep, nuff said.
As Iona said in Pretty in Pink, "Why can't we start old and grow young?"
Thank you, Watts, Andie, Blane and Keith. I liked growing up on you. And great company while I finished my loads of ironing too. :)
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