Now that we’ve had an evening to overcome our numbness from the breaking news of John Hughes’ heart attack, we might as well turn the topic positive and open up the discussion to our favorite John Hughes movie moments.
Michelle and I discussed this topic for a while yesterday, and after some difficult deliberation — and counting Hughes’ super-iconic moments like the Ferris Bueller ending or the Home Alone burglar stuff (my favorite thing ever until age, like 20) as givens — I’ve always been partial to Steve Martin’s extremely random F-word tirade in Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
It’s not one of Hughes’ greatest movies, but this one scene just taps into a level of cathartic frustration-release we’ve all dreamed of before, plus the fact that this scene is just randomly in the middle of an otherwise extremely-clean family-ish film is just awesome in itself (scene starts at 2:15 – language NSFW):
Favorite John Hughes movie moments? Leave ‘em in the comments.
Michelle’s favorite scene is after the jump:
