Dana Stevens of Slate, whose film columns I always enjoy, had a really moving and spot-on column commemorating the life of filmmaker John Hughes. Her final paragraph is about recreation, or what I’ve dubbed elsewhere as visual karaoke. She writes,

At last year’s Halloween Parade in New York City, a surprisingly large group of young people put in a lot of work to re-create the parade-float scene from Ferris Bueller, dancing crowds and all. And if you search for “Breakfast Club dance scene” on YouTube, you’ll find more homemade recreations than clips from the original. Imitating John Hughes movies is a very John Hughesian gesture. The fact that kids who weren’t yet born when Hughes last directed a movie are now looking to his films for instruction on how to be a teenager makes it clear that his best work will last for many sophomore years to come.