Normally I would make fun of someone waxing nostalgic about anything. Especially something like this.
But as a nerd without really a clue about what to do about it in high school, his films did speak to me. I was Farmer Ted. I was Andie. I desperately wanted a Duckie.
His movies made me realize that there were other people like me out there somewhere. Not anywhere close to Northeast Texas. But they were out there. It made me want to go find them. And I did.
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John Hughes shaped an entire generation of us and helped us keep our sanity.
John Hughes was the real deal.
Amen. You know. In a totally secular sense. ;-)
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