John Hughes

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q311263: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan credits them on.

Counted as producer. The films the hosts said they produced, which the two lists below run through too: The Goonies (1985). Count them as director (7 films), writer (10 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Anthony Michael Hall: 1 line

  1. people (falling out) · them, directly: Anthony Michael Hall ⇒ John Hughes (the maker said so: Vanity Fair). Hall says Hughes wrote Ducky, Ferris and other roles for him, then they split after Weird Science.
    “he believes Hughes wrote the roles of Ducky and Pretty and Pink and Ferris Bueller for him.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:59:55 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Easy A (2010): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · them, directly: John Hughes ⇒ Easy A (the host's read). Easy A is in open dialogue with Hughes: Olive says her life is not a John Hughes movie and the finale has a Hughes montage.
    “But also she, like, literally says in the dialogue, my life isn't a John Hughes movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:12:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986): 1 line

  1. people (auteur culmination) · them, directly: John Hughes ⇒ Ferris Bueller's Day Off (the host's read). Cameron is the culmination of five years of Hughes teen movies trying to get that character right.
    “the Cameron character is a culmination of 5 years of John Hughes teen movies, him trying to get this character correct, and then I feel like he finally did.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:04:56 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

The Breakfast Club (1985): 1 line

  1. career (creator self-projection) · them, directly: John Hughes ⇒ The Breakfast Club (the host's read). Hughes is a cross between Hall's Breakfast Club character and Cameron, and did his best writing for those guys.
    “my guess would be he was kind of a cross between Anthony Michael Hall's breakfast club character and Cameron in a lot of ways”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:11:32 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (19) everyone in directing

Writing (15) everyone in writing

Other (2) everyone in other

Producing (1) everyone in producing

What was said about them, by kind

career (4)

  1. career (career): John Hughes → Weird Science. Weird Science feels like Hughes heat-checking, coming right after Breakfast Club.
    “Also, the weird science to me feels heat checking for Hughes too.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:16:35 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Lawrence Kasdan → John Hughes. Kasdan's first five years beat Hughes in a screenwriting final.
    “So it's John Hughes versus him in the finals and cast and wins.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:22:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (creator self-projection): John Hughes → The Breakfast Club. Hughes is a cross between Hall's Breakfast Club character and Cameron, and did his best writing for those guys.
    “my guess would be he was kind of a cross between Anthony Michael Hall's breakfast club character and Cameron in a lot of ways”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:11:32 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Adam Fields → John Hughes. Fields worked on Hughes's Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club before Donnie Darko.
    “By that point, Fields had worked on several big films, including 16 candles in the breakfast club.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:25:30 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Stanley Kubrick → John Hughes. Kubrick loved John Hughes movies, which is why he wanted Hall.
    “So Stanley Kubrick, for some reason, love John Hughes movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:21:53 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (lineage): Easy A → John Hughes. Easy A is in open dialogue with Hughes: Olive says her life is not a John Hughes movie and the finale has a Hughes montage.
    “But also she, like, literally says in the dialogue, my life isn't a John Hughes movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:12:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → John Hughes. Same pitch: the film sits between John Hughes teen comedy and Kill Bill action.
    “they said, it's like John Hughes meets Kill Bill.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:51:06 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

people (6)

  1. people (people): Uncle Buck → John Hughes. Uncle Buck is a John Hughes movie.
    “That's a John Hughes movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Flesh+Blood · 1:33:17 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): John Hughes → Anthony Michael Hall. Hughes loved Hall and pitched the next movie on the Breakfast Club set.
    “He wants to make every movie with him and he's like, I got our next movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:16:54 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): John Hughes → Anthony Michael Hall. Hughes saw Hall as his proxy, Scorsese to De Niro.
    “This is like, I'm Scorsese and you're De Niro, basically.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:20:27 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)
  4. people (auteur culmination): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → John Hughes. Cameron is the culmination of five years of Hughes teen movies trying to get that character right.
    “the Cameron character is a culmination of 5 years of John Hughes teen movies, him trying to get this character correct, and then I feel like he finally did.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:04:56 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. people (falling out): Anthony Michael Hall → John Hughes. Hall says Hughes wrote Ducky, Ferris and other roles for him, then they split after Weird Science.
    “he believes Hughes wrote the roles of Ducky and Pretty and Pink and Ferris Bueller for him.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:59:55 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. people (falling out): John Hughes → Bill Paxton. Paxton turned down the garage attendant role as too small and was never offered work by Hughes again.
    “he offered him the role of the garage attendant, Ferris, and Paxton turned it down.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:00:37 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (2)

  1. theme (theme): John Hughes → Taylor Sheridan. Bill's notes pair Hughes and Taylor Sheridan as the two greatest creative forces, as if on the limitless drug.
    “Hughes and Taylor Sheridan are the 2 greatest creative creative forces we've ever had.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:16:21 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. theme (analogy): John Hughes → The Godfather. Hughes's vindictiveness toward slighters is compared to Michael Corleone.
    “Hughes was weirdly vindictive for somebody who had such a, like that in like a dangerous Michael Corleone kind of way”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:00:16 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Steven Spielberg → John Hughes. Movie swap: Spielberg directs Weird Science and Hughes directs The Goonies, which he produced.
    “I would have Spielberg direct, weird science, and I would have Hughes direct, uh, the Goonies, which he produced”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:26:44 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about John Hughes: Cameron wears a Red Wings jersey, not Blackhawks, because Hughes grew up in Michigan and idolized Gordie Howe, which still bothers Bill.
    “John Hughes grew up 1st 12 years of his life in Michigan, loved the local hockey team, the Red Wings.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:19:55 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about John Hughes: Who won the movie: Hughes first, Broderick second, Cameron third. Bill argues Hughes is the most-seen, most-loved director since 1980 and had no rival in his lane.
    “I think you could make the case that since 1980, he is the director who more people have a serious relationship to his movies than any other person”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:36:40 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)