(Ebook) You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried - The Brat Pack, John Hughes, & Their Impact On A Generation by Susannah Gora ISBN 9780307716606, 0307716600

(Ebook) You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried - The Brat Pack, John Hughes, & Their Impact On A Generation by Susannah Gora ISBN 9780307716606, 0307716600

You can quote lines from "Sixteen Candles "("Last night at the dance my little brother paid a buck to see your underwear"), your iPod playlist includes more than one song by the Psychedelic Furs and Simple Minds, you watch "The Breakfast Club" every time it comes on cable, and you still wish that Andie had ended up with Duckie in "Pretty in Pink." You're a bonafide Brat Pack devotee - and you're not alone.The films of the Brat Pack - from "Sixteen Candles" to "Say Anything" - are some of the most watched, bestselling DVDs of all time. The landscape that the Brat Pack memorialised - where outcasts and prom queens fall in love, preppies and burn-outs become buds, and frosted lip gloss, skinny ties, and exuberant optimism made us all feel for a time to be invincible - is rich with cultural themes and significance, and has influenced an entire generation who still believe that life always turns out the way it is supposed to be come what may.You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried takes us back to that era, interviewing key players, such as Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Andrew McCarthy, and John Cusack, and mines all the material from the movies to the music to the way the films were made to show us all how they helped shape our visions for romance, friendship, society, and success.American Entertainment journalist Susannah Gora is the author of "You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, And Their Impact on a Generation," published by Random House/Crown. Through interviews with the key players from that era, the book, which Vanity Fair has called "definitive," covers the history behind and sociological impact of the great 1980's teen movies, including classic John Hughes youth films such as "The Breakfast Club."