All while wearing bras on their heads, feeding magazine clippings of glamour models into a scanner, and attaching a Barbie doll to jump-start cables during a thunderstorm. That comes in handy one evening when Gary and Wyatt are inspired to create their own girl after watching Frankenstein (1931), leading to a patently absurd sequence of them hacking into a government server to boost their processing power. Gary’s the louder and more confident of the pair, but he’s all mouth and no action, while Wyatt’s quieter and sweeter with a particular interest in computers. In this movie, Gary and his best-friend Wyatt Donnelly (Ilan Mitchell-Smith) play archetypical nerds who dream of a woman’s touch and to be embraced by their peers. The young actor became a good luck charm for Hughes, having already starred in National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983), Sixteen Candles, and The Breakfast Club months before Weird Science came out. Hughes was in his mid-thirties at the time, but there’s no denying outcast Gary Wallace (Anthony Michael Hall) is analogous to him as an adolescent. The ’80s were full of movies poking fun at bespectacled nerds, so Weird Science plays as a wish fulfilment fantasy for socially-awkward boys who lusted over girls in gym class. And amidst those landmark high school movies was Weird Science, Hughes’s zaniest project and a stylistic outlier in his filmography, although it’s become a cult for those who like teen movies doused in trippy madness.ġ985 was a different time for geeks, a few decades before the mainstream caught up with why Transformers are cool.
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That iconic teen movie has a few scenes that date its sexual politics awfully, but it paved the way for his superior coming-of-age films The Breakfast Club (1985), Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), and the lesser-known Some Kind of Wonderful (1987).
John Hughes made his name writing the first two National Lampoon’s Vacation films (1983–85) and Mr Mom (1983), before segueing into directing his own script - Sixteen Candles (1984).