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Speaker 1: the Harvaring Night. Okay. So it's Friday, so I'm focusing
Speaker 1: and on current events. Alright, So this time when get
Speaker 1: my thoughts by the aspects of John Hughes and his
Speaker 1: legacy with a recent article that came out about him. Alright,
Speaker 1: here we go. Alright, So, to be exact, there was
Speaker 1: a Variety article talking about this e excuse me to
Speaker 1: be exact. Last week, uh August eighth was released about
Speaker 1: Anthony Marcoholl talking to a Variety saying that John Hughes
Speaker 1: did have plans and for a sequel for The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: It was very interesting cause he was saying that it
Speaker 1: would have been something like uh them being in their
Speaker 1: thirties and recanting uh uh r talking about hashing out
Speaker 1: what it was like and everything else, and that that
Speaker 1: would have been really interesting and and N so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get into that now. Initially, N me finding out
Speaker 1: about John Hughes film films, and uh it started with
Speaker 1: sixteen Candles and then the uh Breakfast Club and then
Speaker 1: Pretty and Pink. And when I was about fifteen, you
Speaker 1: know that was that was back when it was still
Speaker 1: video stores. And I I A, yeah, I was. I
Speaker 1: heard about John Hughes, but I was like, okay, let
Speaker 1: me check it out for myself. And so John Hughes
Speaker 1: it was really in it wa I I I don't know.
Speaker 1: He really had that down with the aspects of being
Speaker 1: honest about the experiences teenagers go through. And and when
Speaker 1: Anthony Michael Hall was talking about him speaking to John
Speaker 1: Hughes and having and John Hughes talking about everything, cause
Speaker 1: he was saying this was this was not not too
Speaker 1: long before his untimely death and he w and it
Speaker 1: wa It's just it's rough when you have uh illnesses,
Speaker 1: and especially from what I understand John Hughes had a
Speaker 1: heart attack. That's that's really devastating. So you know, he
Speaker 1: was saying, ye, he had all these plans and and
Speaker 1: you know, and then Anthony Michael Hall was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and and his uh perspective about it, and
Speaker 1: and n y'all linked this for you Andy, It's it's
Speaker 1: really interesting even though, and that says a lot about
Speaker 1: someone's character too. You know, even though a lot of
Speaker 1: time has passed and careers and everything else has developed,
Speaker 1: with John Hughes and Anthony Mark Hall and all these
Speaker 1: kind of things, you know, to still have that kind
Speaker 1: of rapport with ther each other, reach out to each
Speaker 1: other and have that dynamic that that's that says a
Speaker 1: lot and it and it it really comes across very
Speaker 1: well in the A and and in respect to the
Speaker 1: way his movies were Jon Hughes, because they were very
Speaker 1: a they were coming of age, but they weren't vacuumed
Speaker 1: where it it it y. You know, it's very pretentious.
Speaker 1: And that's what got the ball rolling when other w
Speaker 1: w you know, when we getting in the aspects of
Speaker 1: movies that came out in the nineties and so forth.
Speaker 1: They help John Hughes helped l lay the foundation in
Speaker 1: the aspects of you know, talking about what young people
Speaker 1: go through and everything else doesn't quite work when you
Speaker 1: have actors that are actually adults trying to portray that.
Speaker 1: You know, because you know, before movies like Him Hi
Speaker 1: His came along, and you had assorted films that were
Speaker 1: touching on the aspects of adolescents and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: but they were either overly dramatic the and there was
Speaker 1: no it was just an extreme There was no in between.
Speaker 1: And that's what was really interesting to me. And going
Speaker 1: back to when I was looking for movies to watch,
Speaker 1: you know, back still when cause I was uh still
Speaker 1: towards the end of when uh Bogbuster Hollywood video was
Speaker 1: still think you know, when we get into the early
Speaker 1: early to mid two thousands, right, and so they really
Speaker 1: it was really they It really caught my attention, uh
Speaker 1: when I was reading these films because I could easily
Speaker 1: relate and because you know, unfortunately, uh, when you get
Speaker 1: into high school and you know of sort of things
Speaker 1: like this, Uh, you have the all those different experiences
Speaker 1: that you necessarily go through. But it's like it it
Speaker 1: it's something where you know, does it really have to
Speaker 1: be that way? Right? And that to from my point
Speaker 1: of view, when when you initially see it as a
Speaker 1: a a teenager, like if you choose to watch these
Speaker 1: films as a teenager, or if you are interested in
Speaker 1: watching these films as a teenager, and then you know,
Speaker 1: like if a a anniversary comes out of it about
Speaker 1: it and then you uh happen to be an uh
Speaker 1: adult at the time or or so forth, or you
Speaker 1: wanna revisit it when you know you're an adult. You
Speaker 1: when you look at it, you know, it's like does
Speaker 1: it e a you realize you know, when you're a teenager,
Speaker 1: it's either does it really have to be that way?
Speaker 1: Like you know, certain circumstances, it seemed like it might
Speaker 1: drive up for things to be to have that kind
Speaker 1: of dynamic, and you know it and then you realize
Speaker 1: that things are as serious as it seems then versus
Speaker 1: now and all these kind of things and it and
Speaker 1: it it makes you realize that and then uh, he
Speaker 1: didn't always and what was really interesting when about John Hughes,
Speaker 1: he didn't always stay in that realm with the aspects
Speaker 1: of coming of age films. Of course, that's where he
Speaker 1: got his frame fame and made his UH notoriety. But
Speaker 1: but films like movies like uh, Uncle Buck it gotch planes,
Speaker 1: trains and automobiles, Home Alone, w W ver versus sixteen
Speaker 1: canels bru you know in this instance the Breakfast Club
Speaker 1: and everything else. What are these films have in common,
Speaker 1: even though they're vastly different than the subject matter. They
Speaker 1: have in common is the aspects of family and isolation. UH.
Speaker 1: Family are coming to terms or something and when in
Speaker 1: being honest about something when you really don't want to.
Speaker 1: And it's really interesting too when you add in the
Speaker 1: aspects of UH fan theories. Cause most of the time
Speaker 1: when and you a in the aspects of fan theories.
Speaker 1: When it comes to John Hughes films, they either have
Speaker 1: to do with Christianity or they have to do with
Speaker 1: the aspects of UH. In the case of Home Alone,
Speaker 1: you know, UH operative or you know and also s
Speaker 1: more sinister the aspects of evil or when you break
Speaker 1: those downs, they c can have you know, religious undertones
Speaker 1: if you look at it too, and that in Itsel
Speaker 1: says a lot about also his disposition, cause he said
Speaker 1: a lot when he was interviewed, and they were he
Speaker 1: was a He was aksed different questions about what is
Speaker 1: your inspiration uh with uh your films, like W you
Speaker 1: know what inspires you? And he he said, when you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm trying to think exactly, you know, from what
Speaker 1: I remember. So he was saying along the lines of,
Speaker 1: you know, I just wanted to be honest about my
Speaker 1: experience when I was growing up, cause you know, he
Speaker 1: grew up in the Midwest, you know, around Chicago and
Speaker 1: around the area, and that is a h a very
Speaker 1: different experience for someone who you know, grew up out
Speaker 1: in the south or who grew up uh more up
Speaker 1: north where you know where you get into uh the
Speaker 1: New York territories or you get uh the uh you
Speaker 1: get uh someone who grew at in the W the
Speaker 1: uh West or East or something. But most of the time,
Speaker 1: W what W in, which is very poignant about you know,
Speaker 1: W what I what I was saying with UH tie
Speaker 1: this into W you know what I was talking about
Speaker 1: last week with the aspects of things that are successful
Speaker 1: as far as you know, s what some people consider
Speaker 1: it with spin offs and then you know, just rein
Speaker 1: uh rehashing what has already been done. That when someone
Speaker 1: takes the liberty to take a chance on showcasing, they
Speaker 1: experience that they lived in in our artistic way, and
Speaker 1: they're really genuine about it. That comes up across quite well,
Speaker 1: and you can give it time. A lot of people
Speaker 1: respond to it pretty well. And John Hughes is a
Speaker 1: really good example of that, and I think that's why
Speaker 1: his movies are will always have a lot of relevance
Speaker 1: the U no matter what time period it is or
Speaker 1: generation it is. There's something in his films that somebody
Speaker 1: can take away from and and even though it's unfortunately
Speaker 1: being pushed where you know, there's something normalizing the aspects
Speaker 1: of not having nothing new to their family or it's
Speaker 1: not important to have an extended family or family it's
Speaker 1: not really important. What's more important. It's self indulgence. Are
Speaker 1: more important to always internalize what's all all in your
Speaker 1: own head, not really taking consideration of what other people think,
Speaker 1: believe it or not. You know, we we being even
Speaker 1: though it's you know, it's that same adage when you
Speaker 1: look at it, you know, the loudest wagon gets the
Speaker 1: most a attention because there's nothing in it, and it
Speaker 1: makes the most noise, right, But that's the only reason
Speaker 1: why it's getting attention, because it's making them the more
Speaker 1: most noise and there's nothing now, so you know, people
Speaker 1: are shouting all these ridiculous things because they're very voistous
Speaker 1: with nothing to say. But you know, if we uh
Speaker 1: uh uh wanna be really honest with ourselves, you know,
Speaker 1: thinking like that, you know, having selfish, selfish mentalities and
Speaker 1: just having all these extreme agendas, you no, normal people
Speaker 1: don't really you know, relate to that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: And if you never perpetually go through milestones are y y,
Speaker 1: you know, you're not really seeking those things out. They
Speaker 1: really play themselves for a wrong in a wrong direction,
Speaker 1: and that's very detrimental in the aspects of of cultural
Speaker 1: development and and also when you think the fabric of
Speaker 1: UH what can be passed down and so uh A
Speaker 1: lot of times when we look on a with the
Speaker 1: uh John and also w A W what I think
Speaker 1: is very relatable in the aspects of John Hughes films.
Speaker 1: They call these the the the characters to come to
Speaker 1: times with milestone s right, And that's what's so odd
Speaker 1: about a lot of things that are uh coming out now,
Speaker 1: which with that with what they have the the label
Speaker 1: as it got it. They have to meet these agendas
Speaker 1: in order to you know, be uh appeasing to the
Speaker 1: higher ups in entertainment when it's just very polarizing, right,
Speaker 1: you know, for instance, the Odyssey. Now, now I'm gonna
Speaker 1: rehash this because it you know, it's like, uh, it's
Speaker 1: so many other people that have said it and I've
Speaker 1: said it are already, but I'm just gonna rehash this
Speaker 1: cause it's on top of another level of a really
Speaker 1: good example. Now, the Odyssey is one of those things
Speaker 1: where when you look at the rich history of it,
Speaker 1: you have to be very respectful of the source because
Speaker 1: the Odyssey is pertaining to the aspects of things that
Speaker 1: are s relevant are si you know, still relevant to
Speaker 1: Greek culture. And if you don't take the time to
Speaker 1: understand that all all of these an uh notations and
Speaker 1: references and you come in it with their agenda, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you know, we have to put uh our own politics
Speaker 1: into it. And it doesn't really matter about the natural
Speaker 1: the uh the uh develop source of where it came from.
Speaker 1: It d it does. It seems disingenuous and people aren't
Speaker 1: are are gonna you know, not give it it it's
Speaker 1: the a any credit or just written off as another
Speaker 1: thing that somebody has done to push an agenda on,
Speaker 1: when that's really unfortunate because there's a lot of pr
Speaker 1: uh relevant messag messages in the Odyssey that a lot
Speaker 1: of people can relate to. And then it t also
Speaker 1: ties back with the aspects of you know, touching on
Speaker 1: milestones in life in order for people to become more
Speaker 1: productive in uh culture, in order for their culture to
Speaker 1: strive and move forward and be more enlightened. And I
Speaker 1: think that's what needs to be treasured and protected, you know,
Speaker 1: when we come to the arts and we come to
Speaker 1: a and when we come when we think about entertainment
Speaker 1: because for instance, uh uh before uh before and after
Speaker 1: John Hughes came along. You know, the actors who were
Speaker 1: a part of the brad Pack, they have contributed and
Speaker 1: they still contribute to a lesser extent in different ways,
Speaker 1: even if it's an unfortunate that some of them just
Speaker 1: have these weird mentalities about their disposition with the woke mentality,
Speaker 1: which is unfortunate because that's you know, that's them personally,
Speaker 1: their issue. But you also, even though they're personally doing
Speaker 1: things that are not really I don't agree with are
Speaker 1: n very harm or harmful to the fabric of mar
Speaker 1: uh uh the development of American values and the development
Speaker 1: of Western civilization. Here, that's neither said nor none. What
Speaker 1: what's important is them being a part of something bigger
Speaker 1: than themselves, right, which that that that's what you give
Speaker 1: respect to me, and that's what you think about, right alright,
Speaker 1: So let's get back to that. Okay, So now, bef
Speaker 1: na I now before as I I mentioned er uh
Speaker 1: reh reiterate this again. You know, there was just this
Speaker 1: I g uh for for example, even though it's uh raunchy,
Speaker 1: you know, porky's uh something like that, uh sh uh,
Speaker 1: movies like that, they they were y and then you
Speaker 1: know an animal house. Uh. You know, they were like
Speaker 1: a a very niche things that would be you know
Speaker 1: more you know some some people would would refer to
Speaker 1: that more as uh male humor. But they happened to
Speaker 1: be things that were youth oriented, but real are It
Speaker 1: was a a thing where or something melodramatic happened and
Speaker 1: uh something like uh and uh and in uh uh
Speaker 1: like uh with the u y uh the boy the
Speaker 1: boy in the bubble with uh John Travolta or something
Speaker 1: like ice Castles or something like Love Story. And then
Speaker 1: also Greece was very interesting because Greece was tipping, tipping
Speaker 1: the toes and move moving them in mento in their
Speaker 1: aspects of doing something new, where you know, before Greece
Speaker 1: it was just you know, when it comes to musicals,
Speaker 1: it wasn't a break up to where uh it was
Speaker 1: a variation of people y. You know, it was one
Speaker 1: of those things where you know, I like musicals, but
Speaker 1: at at a point I was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: because in and it was a you know, very appreciative
Speaker 1: of uh movies like Greece, and then Greece in in
Speaker 1: itself because they understood that, you know, it's off putting
Speaker 1: for to sit there for however long and all they
Speaker 1: ever do is just seeing everything and there's no like
Speaker 1: a you know, kind of situational uh place in the
Speaker 1: movie where they're just you know, talking, con conversing, and
Speaker 1: Greece was one of those that did that. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, it was the campiness and not being
Speaker 1: very genuine with the aspects of teenage experience. It was
Speaker 1: kind of all over the place. But that was really
Speaker 1: neat what they were doing. They were taking a chance
Speaker 1: with that and it really worked well. Now, when John
Speaker 1: Hughes came along, he said, okay, well I bet you
Speaker 1: want more tier here less be even more genuine the
Speaker 1: aspects of the teenage experience. But instead of doing the
Speaker 1: same whereas older people and the adults portraying in a
Speaker 1: teenage life, is actually teenagers who are doing this, and
Speaker 1: see how that works. And it worked very well because
Speaker 1: it was more genuine and it's more relatable. And that
Speaker 1: was that they you know, that was very successful. And
Speaker 1: so my whole point of bringing all this up is
Speaker 1: that it's I think, you know, moving forward. You know,
Speaker 1: when we think about the a aspects of what impacts
Speaker 1: culture and the aspects of things that are healthier for
Speaker 1: culture and help with you know, more engaged conversations people
Speaker 1: un you know, things that it can be better official
Speaker 1: for the growth of success and successful for culture and
Speaker 1: other generations. It's to look towards things that give more
Speaker 1: th that that engage more meaning beyond oneself or that
Speaker 1: it's mindful of those things, you know, where it's not
Speaker 1: something hard to do and when and I I you know,
Speaker 1: I'll close with this. Uh So, when that was a
Speaker 1: you know, I'll say it again. It's still on I'm
Speaker 1: not mistaken, it's still on Hulu. I give a lot
Speaker 1: of respect for this documentary I'm trying to think about. Uh.
Speaker 1: Andrew McCarthy was the forerunner of making this uh big uh.
Speaker 1: I think you know, he was giving his interpretation of
Speaker 1: the aspects of w W what it was like with
Speaker 1: youth entertainment, uh, before they came along with Backpack and
Speaker 1: after and then the article that came out by saying
Speaker 1: that you know, their pretentious. When it turns out this
Speaker 1: guy who came out with this article uh slandering, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to slander really and it was unfortunate that they
Speaker 1: they uh took that to heart when they should have
Speaker 1: just ran with it and just said, okay, you know,
Speaker 1: but it's just it's one of those things. It's a
Speaker 1: life lesson. But they was they s you know, like
Speaker 1: I said, what was really good at like uh you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, you know uh uh most of
Speaker 1: them still just managed to transition themselves into other careers
Speaker 1: and MA made it work for them. But really good
Speaker 1: example of that and say okay whatever and they learn
Speaker 1: learn and that it's unfortunate. It's one of those things
Speaker 1: sometimes and tra a tragedy, opportunities happen unfortunately. But when
Speaker 1: you think about the transition, uh, and I'll get back
Speaker 1: to this documentary with Andrew McCarthy. So the nineties when
Speaker 1: um uh Nino two one on, you know, that kind
Speaker 1: of crowd came along. No, they they they took it
Speaker 1: and ran with it, and they say, hey, this is us,
Speaker 1: uh like it or not, Hey, we're gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: make this work for us. And it really did, and
Speaker 1: it it was really interesting how that transition and change
Speaker 1: the cultural landscape the nineties too, with this aspects of
Speaker 1: teenage life and gen X and all that, so that
Speaker 1: you know, that's another really good example of cultivating something
Speaker 1: uh for for good or for the a bad And
Speaker 1: you know it's there's not uh the you know, the
Speaker 1: the gen X is one of those strange things where
Speaker 1: they they are very uh the best way I can
Speaker 1: describe that, they they they were really gen xers. That
Speaker 1: from you know, I'm just saying from my point of
Speaker 1: view where you know, from even though I'm a l' millennial.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just it's one of those things where
Speaker 1: you know, you may do with what kind of label.
Speaker 1: But you know, I don't I know, I am who
Speaker 1: I am, even though I happen to be a millennial.
Speaker 1: But the way it this position is like Jena at
Speaker 1: having that mean mentality with gen X making the best
Speaker 1: are bad situations like you know, that's kind of like
Speaker 1: their their thing, their their trademark, you know when you
Speaker 1: look at it. And Okay, So going back to the
Speaker 1: Brackpad with UH Andrew McCarthy, Now, I really appreciate this
Speaker 1: documentary because it was really candy in the aspects of
Speaker 1: UH saying that UH, you know, well see you you
Speaker 1: at some point have to come to terms with something.
Speaker 1: You have to come to terms, uh with mistakes and
Speaker 1: everything else and then trying to figure out solutions and
Speaker 1: all of that. And the documentary really highlighted that very well.
Speaker 1: And I can't stress enough I really appreciate the aspects
Speaker 1: of what John Hughes has given to UH pop culture.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think that, you know, closing out
Speaker 1: on my thoughts with the week, I think that's what
Speaker 1: needs to be UH protected and thought about. You know,
Speaker 1: when we move on and we UH look at things
Speaker 1: that are are relevant in pop culture, you know, h
Speaker 1: it's w what is what's the give and take of it?
Speaker 1: Like the is it? You know? How how is this beneficial?
Speaker 1: How is it not? You know, what's what's the f
Speaker 1: W what's the worth? What's the merit of it? So
Speaker 1: that's just my penny of thoughts for the current week here. Alright,
Speaker 1: if you uh, you don't wanna cons extendue E extend
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