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The teenagers in the eighties were kind of ugly


Agree? The styles today have certainly changed, but watch any eighties movie, Children of the Corn, Just one of the guys, Footloose and so on and so on. Maybe it is because these kids were real, they cared more about different things than about being the most pretty or having the best fashions. Some truly did have good looks, but then you wonder how others ever made it on the big screen.


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Hughes went for verisimilitude. His actors were teens and looked like real eighties kids. If a director adopted a similar approach for a modern film, the cast wouldn’t have model-good looks and a sizable portion - pun intended - would be overweight.

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