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 writer. The films the hosts said they wrote, which the two lists below run through too: National Lampoon's Vacation (1983); Sixteen Candles (1984); The Breakfast Club (1985); Weird Science (1985); Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986); Uncle Buck (1989); Home Alone (1990); (unnamed films); Mr. Mom; Pretty in Pink. Count them as director (7 films), producer (1 film) 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.

John Hughes: 2 lines, within their own work

  1. career (creator self-projection) · through The Breakfast Club (1985), which they wrote: 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)
  2. people (auteur culmination) · through Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), which they wrote: 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)

Mad Max 2 (1981): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Weird Science (1985), which they wrote: Mad Max 2 ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read). The climactic biker-gang sequence is an homage to The Road Warrior with the same actor and makeup.
    “it's pulled right from this movie that had just come out, same actor, same makeup, same everything, they're like doing an homage to it”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:08:03 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft) · through Weird Science (1985), which they wrote: Mad Max 2 ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read). The Road Warrior homage is a nine-minute sequence, about 10% of the movie.
    “It comprises 10% of the whole movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:08:58 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

48 Hrs. (1982): 1 line

  1. craft (comedic device) · through Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), which they wrote: 48 Hrs. ⇒ Ferris Bueller's Day Off (the host's read). Ferris's impersonation bit is the suburban white guy riff on Eddie Murphy in 48 Hrs.
    “it's the suburban white guy riff on, on, uh, Eddie Murphy in torchies in 48 hours, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:28 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

Al Feldstein: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Weird Science (1985), which they wrote: Al Feldstein ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read). The movie is based on a 1951 pre-Code comic by Al Feldstein.
    “this was based on the 1951 pre-comics code comic made of the future by Al Feldstein.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:30:25 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

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)

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986): 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (dry run) · through Home Alone (1990), which they wrote: Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ Home Alone (the host's read). Rooney getting beaten up by the house is Hughes's dry run for Home Alone.
    “Hughes has like a dry run for home alone when when Rooney goes to the house.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:19:48 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)

Superbad (2007): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Weird Science (1985), which they wrote: Superbad ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read). Weird Science may be the biggest influence on Superbad.
    “Like, I feel like, I don't know which was the biggest influence on Superbad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:07:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

The Breakfast Club (1985): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Weird Science (1985), which they wrote: The Breakfast Club ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read). Gary's girlfriend in Canada is a gag taken from Breakfast Club.
    “Like, that's the thing directly from Breakfast Club.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:17:25 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 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): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), which they wrote: Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ Easy A (the maker said so). Director Will Gluck has said Ferris Bueller is his favorite movie, and Olive's Mohawk and guitar bits echo it.
    “I think the director, Will Gluck, has like talked about how Ferris Bueller is, I think, his favorite movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:12:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. 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)

Alan Ruck: 1 line

  1. lineage (character lineage) · through The Breakfast Club (1985), which they wrote: The Breakfast Club ⇒ Alan Ruck (the host's read). Cameron is an extension of Anthony Michael Hall's Breakfast Club character, with similar anxiety and a near suicide beat.
    “Yeah, it's kind of an extension of the Anthony Michael Hall character in Breakfast Club.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:05:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986): 1 line, within their own work

  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)

Home Alone (1990): 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (dry run) · through Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), which they wrote: Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ Home Alone (the host's read). Rooney getting beaten up by the house is Hughes's dry run for Home Alone.
    “Hughes has like a dry run for home alone when when Rooney goes to the house.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:19:48 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)

Oingo Boingo: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Weird Science (1985), which they wrote: Weird Science ⇒ Oingo Boingo (the host's read). The speaker imagines the title song was written after the band was told the plot and shown the film, Frankenstein vibe included.
    “I'm making this movie. It's about these 15 year old kids that create basically like the perfect woman and she comes out of the computer and has sex with them.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:13:46 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)

Parker Lewis Can't Lose (1990): 1 line

  1. unmapped (derivative) · through Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), which they wrote: Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ Parker Lewis Can't Lose (the host's read). Parker Lewis Can't Lose is essentially Ferris Bueller and preferred over the actual TV adaptation.
    “do you guys prefer the Ferris Bueller TV adaptation or Parker Lewis Can't Lose, which is essentially just Ferris Bueller?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:15:08 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Superbad (2007): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Weird Science (1985), which they wrote: Weird Science ⇒ Superbad (the host's read). Weird Science's ending was 'completely ripped off by super bad'.
    “Uh, really satisfying ending, then just completely ripped off by super bad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:42:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

The Breakfast Club (1985): 1 line, within their own work

  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)

The Ferris Bueller Show (TV, 1990): 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), which they wrote: Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ The Ferris Bueller Show (TV, 1990) (the host's read). A 1990 NBC series with Jennifer Aniston as Jeanie, which the hosts call bad.
    “The Ferris Bueller Show, 1990, NBC.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:14:56 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Weird Science (1985): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Breakfast Club (1985), which they wrote: The Breakfast Club ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read). Gary's girlfriend in Canada is a gag taken from Breakfast Club.
    “Like, that's the thing directly from Breakfast Club.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:17:25 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 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)