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description: From Vogue contributor and Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman a personalized guide to eighties movies that describes why they changed movie-making foreverfeaturing exclusive interviews with the producers directors writers and stars of the best cult classics.For Hadley Freeman movies of the 1980s have simply got it all. Comedy in Three Men and a Baby Hannah and Her Sisters Ghostbusters and Back to the Future; all a teenager needs to know in Pretty in Pink Ferris Buellers Day Off Say Anything The Breakfast Club and Mystic Pizza; the ultimate in action from Top Gun Die Hard 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 and Bull Durham; and family fun in The Little Mermaid ET Big Parenthood and Lean On Me.In Life Moves Pretty Fast Hadley puts her obsessive movie geekery to good use detailing the decades key players genres and tropes. She looks back on a cinematic world in which bankers are invariably evil where children are always wiser than adults where science is embraced with an intense enthusiasm and the future viewed with giddy excitement. And she considers how the changes between movies then and movies today say so much about societys changing expectations of women young people and artand explains why Pretty in Pink should be put on school syllabuses immediately.From how John Hughes discovered Molly Ringwald to how the friendship between Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi influenced the evolution of comedy and how Eddie Murphy made America believe that race can be transcended this is a highly personal witty love letter to eighties movies but also an intellectually vigorous well-researched take on the changing times of the film industry (The Guardian).
language: English
title: Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies
publisher: 4th Estate