I think no other director in that era had this much of an impact on…well pretty much everyone in the 80s.  His legacy will endure, there is no doubt. 

Movies like the Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller and Some Kind of Wonderful continually resonate with each new generation.  He may have been writing to an era, but he was writing about real people, and that made his movies timeless.  More later on that.

Here is a great montage, a fitting tribute to his legacy.

RIP Mr Hughes.  Ferris will take it from here…