What character(s) in ANY John Hughes film best describe you?
beingzoe 2 months ago // 4 responses // Sports & Leisure TV and Movies

This is kind of tough actually, but I’ll start with a pure John Hughes mashup.

I would be a mashup of Keith Nelson from Some Kind of Wonderful and John Bender AND Allison Reynolds from The Breakfast Club.

I live with an artists sensibility and a constant panging for love like Keith, but have always felt at the edge of every social circle like both Bender and Allison in varying degrees, despite never really being rejected by any.

However, allowing for other 80’s coming of age films, I would say growing up, Pump Up the Volume probably best represented and had the biggest impact on me.

But really I just want to find my Watts and finish my novel. So I guess you could say that my life has been a constant evolution towards becoming Keith.

Wow, who would have thought John Hughes could be so deep?

While these movies certainly weren’t made for my demographic, I would say I would be the dad in Sixteen Candles.

Milo sent me a private message to look at this one.

I don’t know what in the Sam Hill any of these things are (and I think Milo is laughing at me).

I guess I’ll have to say Travis from Old Yeller.

You always keep me laughing zoe.

Wow, I am tickled over this discussion and I adore your style, wit and ability to communicate your personal connection to and/or your knack for giving an accurate mash up of characters that describes your personality zoe. I am impressed, in fact.

I have though about my relation to these brilliant characters (J.H. does hit the mark on that deep spot within for our generation of folks) many times over the years actually and yet it proves a bit difficult to make that honest self-assessment at present. Regardless, here I go:

I am a mash up of Ferris Bueller and his neurotic best friend Cameron in equal doses, meets Andie Walsh from Pretty in Pink and a very real, though slightly different version of Allison Reynolds from The Breakfast Club.

I grew up in a very affluent neighborhood, but lived in an apartment complex. I was consistently striving to find creative ways to fit in with my surroundings (though not the crowd necessarily) and look “unique” at the least, always fighting having limited resources, so similar to Andie. I also longed to find just the right ‘one’ all the while putting up a good front.

In any and every circle I have been in, I tend to be the ‘idea man’, with the sneakiest, most unconventional and inappropriate ways to go about things (I purposely squelch voicing many of them for fear of being locked up), much like Ferris, though I suffer these days a very neurotic ‘do not do a thing to get in trouble’, streak akin to Cameron. When I have indulged in mega-trouble making, I have nearly always escaped due to the ‘goody-goody’ feel I tend to project. It it tedious. I do not often act out in the name of fun these days, but the brilliant plans continue to flood my mind assuredly.

While I am very social typically, my comfort zone is by far and wide to be an isolated, basket case who can push people away with my any given number of off=putting quirks. Thank you Ms. Allison for showing us that that sort of behavior and persona can still be permeated.