A. O. Scott's remembrance of the iconic film auteur John Hughes is kind of touching and thoughtful, an appropriate tribute to such an influential figure. I hesitantly agree with the points raised by comparing the best of his teen comedies "Pretty in Pink" "Ferris Bueller" and "Sixteen Candles" to Jean Luc Godard's "Masculin-Feminin." This is most convincing when you consider the Godard/Karina relationship to the Hughes/Ringwald obsession.
The part of me that identifies with young radical French nihilists in 1960s Paris doesn't want to admit the obvious: that I also identify with white materialist suburban American teenagers being stupid and quirky. Whatevz. 
at the very least, Michael Shoeffling is fucking hot. We can thank Hughes for bringing this face to the masses. 
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