the comedies weren t aimed at us. teenagers in the movies were olivia newton john and john travolta. these kids when they were in high school looked, you know, like my parents. it was kind of like he woke up one day and went, there s an entirely underserved audience here, let s make movies for them on their level that talk the way they talk using actors that look their age. i think one of the mistakes commonly made in hollywood teenage pictures is they re just going for the bucks, and not going for the heart. i think he s honest and doesn t try to show us for something we re not. he took the simplest of canvases and ones we re all familiar with. bueller? growing up. bueller? staying home from school, all the sneaky stuff we like to pull off. life moves pretty fast. you don t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. john was obsessed with sort of the middle american outlook on life. there is no clearer expression of john s affection for what is
being a high school student. he took his teenage characters incredibly seriously. all of them. i loathe the bus. 16 candles was a revelation as kid because i thought oh, i m anthony michael hall. that s who i am. all right. i knew you d come around. epitomizes what it s like to be 15, 14, a freshman, anxious to be at senior parties, with this girl. that guy who is normally made fun of in other movies is a hero in this movie. farmer ted is, could argue, the leader of that flick for a lot of us. very nice. we re five minutes in i m at a loss. prior to john hughes, most of the comedies weren t aimed at us. teenagers in the movies were
all of them. i loathe the bus. 16 candles was a revelation as kid because i thought oh, i m anthony michael hall. that s who i am. all right. i knew you d come around. epitomizes what it s like to be 15, 14, a freshman, anxious to be at senior parties, with that guy who is normally made fun of in other movies is a hero in this movie. farmer ted is, could argue, the leader of that flick for a lot of us. very nice. we re five minutes in i m at a loss. prior to john hughes, most of the comedies weren t aimed at us. teenagers in the movies were olivia newton john and john travolta. these kids looked like my parents. like he woke up one day, entirely underserved audience
he took his teenage characters incredibly seriously. all of them. i loathe the bu 16 candles was a revelation as kid because i thought oh, i m anthony michael hall. that s who i am. all right. i knew you d come around. epitomizes what it s like to be 15, 14, a freshman, anxious to be at senior parties, with this girl. that guy who is normally made fun of in other movies is a hero in this movie. farmer ted is, could argue, the leader of that flick for a lot of us. very nice. we re five minutes in i m at a loss. prior to john hughes, most of the comedies weren t aimed at us. teenagers in the movies were olivia newton john and john travolta.
wonderful. somebody asked me to do a situation comedy after i finished being on the show of shows becatuatn comedies weren t very good, didn t mirror life. i asked myself what piece of ground do i stand on that nobody else stands on? worked as writer/director on variety show and write about what happens at home and home i talk about what goes on at office. are you doing this because you re afraid of alan? no because i respect alan brady, a man of his caliber has great firing power. it s a hybrid of family life, work life, cared about them as family because you saw them together every day. they were a family. hi everybody. norm! hey mr. peterson, caller waiting for you. if she calls, i m not here. on tv family transcends blood.