Don't You (Forget About Me): The Movie
Couldn't sleep last night, so I ended up watching The Breakfast Club on cable for the 1,000th time. And since I couldn't sleep, I was trying to think of a post I might get out of it. Who's the Molly Ringwald of our generation? ... Isn't it weird that Bender was originally gonna be John Cusack? ... Why did Billy Idol originally pass on what became Simple Minds' biggest hit?
Anyway, couldn't think of a good angle, but Stay The Course Productions helps me out with today's news of a feature documentary "that follows a sociological and psychological tribute to director John Hughes’ coming-of-age teen movies, including 1985's The Breakfast Club."
Via dontyouforgetaboutmethemovie.com:
Out of all of Hughes’s films, The Breakfast Club continues to represent a timeless voice to a new generation of teenagers as well as the original teens who were touched by the message of the movie 20 years ago.TiM G - "Don't You Forget About Coldplay" (MP3)“People who went on their first date or discovered their first kiss, experienced it all when they first saw the movie when it originally came out in cinemas across North America. It was also one of the first movies to score a hit album soundtrack, and like Dirty Dancing and Grease, was also one of the first movies aimed at a teen audience that scored a No.1 best selling single in America.”
“When we were asked to participate in the documentary, at first I was surprised the Breakfast Club had became such a cult since it was originally released twenty years ago,” says Jim Kerr, lead vocalist with Simple Minds. “The song has become our biggest hit in America, and when we heard the rest of the original cast from the movie agreed to be interviewed for the documentary, we felt it was only fitting to participate.”
The Breakfast Club was no ordinary “popcorn” teen movie; it had many focal points that reached beyond traditional Hollywood scripts, actors and storyline. Music for example, was an integral part of John Hugh's films. It was always understated but present enough to almost become a character in itself. Songs like the Simple Minds "Don't You Forget About Me" symbolized the quintessential anthem of teen angst and rebellion. The “Don’t You Forget About Me” documentary looks at the inter-relationship of character building and music, and asks if it is symbiotic to Hugh's films, or was it simply down to the era and the songs themselves?
Favorite use of song in a John Hughes movie ... go!
Posted at 2:21 PM
Tags: Coldplay | Simple Minds | The Breakfast Club
Thompson Twins "If You Leave" at the end of Sixteen Candles still reduces me to a pile of Jake-Ryan-Lovin' blubber.
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The fact that the people who made this documentary lump "Can't Buy Me Love" and "Pump Up the Volume" into the same category as "The Breakfast Club" leads me to think their reverence for the film is more than a little based in critical nostalgia rather than any sincere belief that it actually has much artistic or sociological import.
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"thieves like us (instrumental)" from pretty in pink, when everyone is getting ready for prom. i still get ready to go out to that song.
honorable mentions: the flowerpot men's "beat city" and instrumental version of "please, please, please let me get what i want" in ferris bueller's, and also the .2459 second clip of madness' "our house" while ducky fasts fowards the tape in andy's car in pretty in pink.
"that one's my favorite."
"what, are you deaf?"
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Also, how can anyone consider this a "cult" movie? It was extremely popular when it was released, and remains so to this day, just like plenty of other films from that era.
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Duckie listening to "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want"...
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Hands down, Cameron looking into the Seurat painting at The Art Institute of Chicago to that Dream Academy cover of "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want." Kinda cheezy now, but it always gave me a chill as a kid.
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Wasn't it Bryan Ferry who passed on "Don't You Forget About Me"?
The "What? Are you deaf?" line is a good one indeed. And Duckie's lip sync of "Try a Little Tenderness" is one of the finest moments in the John Hughes flixicon. Hey... I just made up a word... what a clever boy.
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Honorable mention: All the spazz dancing in the gym to The Specials' "Little Bitch" in Sixteen Candles.
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My personal favorite from Hughes...
"He's an asshole. Anybody wit a haircut like that gotta be an asshole."
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I second the management 100%
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Thompson Twins "If You Leave" at the end of Sixteen Candles still reduces me to a pile of Jake-Ryan-Lovin' blubber.
Posted by: Clams at August 16, 2006 2:49 PM
I think you might mean OMD's "If You Leave" at the end of Pretty in Pink.
There IS a great track at the end of Sixteen Candles called "If You Were Here" or soemthing that is really fitting.
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English Beat's "Rotating Head" in "Ferris Bueller." If you lived in the middle of nowhere, John Hughes movies were a great way to find out about 'new' bands.
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"March of The Swivelheads" by the English Beat in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".
...And pretty much all of "Home Alone".
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I second the management 100%
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"March of The Swivelheads" by the English Beat in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".
...And pretty much all of "Home Alone".
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"March of The Swivelheads" by the English Beat in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".
...And pretty much all of "Home Alone".
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Holy shit, we chatted about the Breakfast Club last night. . .Its the "Big Chill" of the 80s. . .Our kids in the future will love the soundtrack, but think the movie is the most boring piece of shit movie in which people sit around and have stupid conversations. That's how I feel about the "Big Chill" at least.
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Turning Japanese - The Vapours (Is that right?). . .Just because it reminds me of Long Duck Dong "ooooohhhhhh sexy american girlfriend!"
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John Hughes wrote it so does "Some Kind of Wonderful" count? Miss Amanda Jones during the Eric Stoltz shower scene was great. My ex was always partial to the cover of Can't Help Falling in Love at the end.
Also can't believe no ones mentioned Duckie's tour de force during Try a Little Tenderness...
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John Hughes wrote it so does "Some Kind of Wonderful" count? Miss Amanda Jones during the Eric Stoltz shower scene was great. My ex was always partial to the cover of Can't Help Falling in Love at the end.
Also can't believe no ones mentioned Duckie's tour de force during Try a Little Tenderness...
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"March of The Swivelheads" by the English Beat in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".
...And pretty much all of "Home Alone".
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John Hughes wrote it so does "Some Kind of Wonderful" count? Miss Amanda Jones during the Eric Stoltz shower scene was great. My ex was always partial to the cover of Can't Help Falling in Love at the end.
Also can't believe no ones mentioned Duckie's tour de force during Try a Little Tenderness...
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John Hughes wrote it so does "Some Kind of Wonderful" count? Miss Amanda Jones during the Eric Stoltz shower scene was great. My ex was always partial to the cover of Can't Help Falling in Love at the end.
Also can't believe no ones mentioned Duckie's tour de force during Try a Little Tenderness...
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John Hughes wrote it so does "Some Kind of Wonderful" count? Miss Amanda Jones during the Eric Stoltz shower scene was great. My ex was always partial to the cover of Can't Help Falling in Love at the end.
Also can't believe no ones mentioned Duckie's tour de force during Try a Little Tenderness...
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In other Molly Ringwald news, she's currently set to play the lead stage role in the new "Sweet Charity." That might be worth checking out.
The Thompson Twins' track at the end of Sixteen Candles is called "If You Were Here."
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I was a teenager in the 80's, and John Hughes nailed it. My high school years were just like all his 80's teen movies. I even had a biology teacher tell me that I reminded her of the "basketcase" girl from the Breakfast Club.
My favorite use of music is Duckie listening to "Please Please" as well.
BTW, my kids, who are teenagers now, love the movie.
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When I was in elementary I used to think that I was Bender. In retrospect, that idea is pretty funny, seeing how I'm Latino. Damn, we had no bad-asses to look up to growing up. The only "Latino" stars we had were Lou Diamond Phillips and Esai Morales. Well, at least the latter was Latino.
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When I was in elementary I used to think that I was Bender. In retrospect, that idea is pretty funny, seeing how I'm Latino. Damn, we had no bad-asses to look up to growing up. The only "Latino" stars we had were Lou Diamond Phillips and Esai Morales. Well, at least the latter was Latino.
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In other Molly Ringwald news, she's currently set to play the lead stage role in the new "Sweet Charity." That might be worth checking out.
The Thompson Twins' track at the end of Sixteen Candles is called "If You Were Here."
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Yes yes..."If You Were Here" of course...still...turns me into a bowl of jelly.
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I third that emotion for "If You Were Here..." I never knew who sang that song until like a month ago and immediately downloaded it!
I always loved the band that plays at the "alternative" club in Pretty In Pink... anyone know who they were?
I also loved "Town Called Malice" (the Jam) in Sixteen Candles... as well as "Turning Japanese" (the Vapours)
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gotta be "try a little tenderness" sceen with duckie
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All of those are good, but I always loved when Annie Potts made Molly Ringwald slow dance with her to "Cherish" by the Association as she relived her prom.
The most famous music has got to be that instrumental chick-a chick-a music that plays every time Ferris Bueller touches Cameron's dad's car. You know, the one that was in a Twix commerical forever?
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the band in the club scene in pretty in pink is the rave-ups.
also, coming out on august 29th is the pretty in pink:everything's duckie edition. the alternate ending (where andi and duckie get together) is included. and a new some kind of wonderful version (with commentary, making of etc etc) comes out the same day. i will wet myself with glee now.
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In other Molly Ringwald news, she's currently set to play the lead stage role in the new "Sweet Charity." That might be worth checking out.
The Thompson Twins' track at the end of Sixteen Candles is called "If You Were Here."
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Dream Academy's version of Please, Please, Please in the art museum. Beat City is a close second.
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MOst of the best ones have been noted (cept maybe Sigue Sigue Sputnik or Flesh For Lulu) so I'll just mention that a friend of mine was trying to release a Ferris sndtrk at the label he worked at since they specialized in 80's music. Getting the Beatles' Twist & Shout would've cost a fortune and they couldn't do it without it. They should've just got a marching band to record it since you can hear it in the film. Drat. Putting all the goodies on a boxed set would be pretty damn cool. Some friends of mine were gonna reshoot the whole movie for kicks but didn't. Guess what? Some Australian girl did with her playing ALL of the parts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNv1HepO32A
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In other Molly Ringwald news, she's currently set to play the lead stage role in the new "Sweet Charity." That might be worth checking out.
The Thompson Twins' track at the end of Sixteen Candles is called "If You Were Here."
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Check out this nice 'lil blog post I came across today, a John Hughes Movie Soundtrack Retrospective, with all kinds of good songs from those movies for grabs:
http://derekjohnson.blogspot.com/2006/08/john-hughes-soundtrack-retrospective.html
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gotta be, hands down, 'she loves me' by stephen duffy during the scene where watts gives keith kissing lessons in the garage during some kind of wonderful (the best movie EVER). i get swoony just thinking about it ...
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Hey, my vote is also for the Sixteen Candles ender "If You Were Here." I've posted it for sharing if anyone wants it.
http://rapidshare.de/files/29695585/If_You_Were_Here.mp3
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filmed at my high school (go trevs!)
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If You Leave - OMD - Pretty in Pink. No question for me.
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Favorite obscure birthday song ever: "Happy Birthday" by Altered Images. It's in the original version of "Sixteen Candles" (but not later releases) -- plays quietly in the background of homeroom while Sam fills out the "sex tester." Its chorus, "if they were me, if they were me, and I was you..." is distinctively 80's cool. Only my coolest friend Dan (who can quote John Hughes with the best of 'em) gets sung this version on his birthday...and I never forget his birthday (I live for that sh*t).
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John Hughes was really on a roll when he made all of those teen movie comedies - I dont think anyone since has been able to hit his high marks in this genre. But he wasn't the first filmmaker to produce hit soundtracks--Elvis, the Beatles, etc, were there long before John Hughes.
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My favorite music scene in a John Hughes film is that part in Pretty In Pink where The Rave Ups are playing "Positively Lost Me" at the bar. Luv that song!
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