“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” It may be a bit of a stretch to say everyone in the English speaking world knows what movie that quote is from, but it’s not that long of one. Since its 1986 release “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” has become an American classic, and its late director John Hughes became a king in the teen movie genre.
Hughes wrote countless classic ’80s films, such as “Pretty in Pink,” the first two “Home Alone” films, “Christmas Vacation” and “Flubber.” The man penned some classic one-liners and also wrote quite a few life lessons into his films. That spurs the question — what other films from the 1980s include valuable life lessons?
Yes, the ’80s are the butt of all decade jokes, but where would America be without those crucial 10 years of big ugly hair, heavy eye makeup and leg warmers? No matter the fashion, people were still people in the ’80s, and there’s always something to be gleaned from the past. We’ll examine life lessons taught to us by several films from the ’80s; “The Breakfast Club,” “Pretty in Pink,” “Back to the Future,” “Heathers” and (how could we not?) “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”
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You never know what kind of friends you’ll make in detention. Photo from IMDb.
“The Breakfast Club:” One of the most important lessons in “The Breakfast Club” is to not judge someone based on first impressions. Did anyone honestly expect a beauty queen and a rebel to fall for each other? How about a jock and a basket case? “The Breakfast Club” does a great job of showing how a group of kids with completely different personalities would not only speak and relate to one another, but also come to respect each other. Everyone is guilty of passing judgment every now and then, and it p