fuckyeahthebreakfastclub:

eemvee:

<from Last Exit to Nowhere>

Want.

I knew The Breakfast Club word for word when I was 14 or so. Okay, still do. I’d call it one of my favorite movies.

I’m actually currently reading a book about John Hughes and his movies (You Couldn’t Ignore Me If You Tried by Susannah Gora). If I recall correctly, the town he grew up in (Northbrook, IL) had originally been called Shermerville, so that’s what he got it from.

“When I first started making movies, I thought I would just invent a town where everything happened. Everybody, in all my movies, is from Shermer, Illinois. Del Griffith from Planes, Trains & Automobiles lives two doors down from Samantha Baker. Ferris Bueller knew Samantha Baker from Sixteen Candles. For 15 years I’ve written my Shermer stories in prose, collecting its history.” —John Hughes, in Premiere magazine

That is so awesome. To me, that’s what writing is all about—the little details that thread people and their stories together, the background that we don’t always see right away but when we do, it’s fantastic.

Anyway, did you know he wrote Mr. Mom? And Vacation and European Vacation. Trufax. I had no idea.

I love being a storehouse of useless information.

That’s awesome! I didn’t realize they all were tied together :3