Hadley Freeman brings us her personalised guide to American movies
from the 1980s - why they are brilliant, what they meant to her,
and how they influenced movie-making forever. For Hadley Freeman,
American moves of the 1980s have simply got it all. Comedy in Three
Men and a Baby, Hannah and Her Sisters, Ghostbusters, Back to the
Future and Trading Places; all a teenager needs to know - in Pretty
in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Say Anything, The Breakfast Club
and Mystic Pizza; the ultimate in action - Top Gun, Die Hard, Young
Sherlock Holmes, Beverly Hills Cop and Indiana Jones and the Temple
of Doom; love and sex - in 9 1/2 Weeks, Splash, About Last Night,
The Big Chill, Bull Durham; and family fun - in The Little Mermaid,
ET, Big, Parenthood and Lean On Me. Born in the late 1970s, Hadley
grew up on a well-rounded diet of these movies, her entire view of
the world, adult relations and expectations of what her life might
hold was forged by these cult classics. In this personalised guide,
she puts her obsessive movie geekery to good use, detailing the
decades key players, genres and tropes, and how exactly the
friendship between Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi influenced the
evolution of comedy. She looks back to a cinematic world in which
bankers are invariably evil, despite this being the decade of Wall
Street, where children are always wiser than adults, and science is
embraced with an intense enthusiasm, and the future viewed with
excitement. She considers how the changes between movies then and
movies today say so much about pop culture's and society's changing
expectations of women, young people and art, and explains why
Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles should be put on school
syllabuses immediately.
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