John Hughes made a fair few of them, and Molly Ringwald was their poster girl. They are, according to her, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Princess Bride and When Harry Met Sally.Ī New Yorker born in 1978, Freeman grew up loving the sort of movies in which power ballads, prom nights, makeovers and mullets occupied a central position. At the end of the book Freeman reserves an entire section for “Top Eighties Quotes” and further subsections to cover “the three most important movies of the decade”.
It doesn’t matter whether they mean anything to them – it’s what they mean to you. “Quotes” are private mantras, lucky coins we carry with us I hoard a whole collection of them, ready to jingle in conversation with unsuspecting strangers. “It really is astounding I was single until the age of 35,” she adds. She recalls as “dealbreakers” those moments when her date has failed to recognise a random quotation from Ghostbusters. (The title itself is lifted from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off).
In Life Moves Pretty Fast, a racy and highly entertaining love letter to 1980s movies, Hadley Freeman quotes favourite lines at every opportunity. No wonder he couldn’t remember it – he’d delivered an awful lot of lines in those intervening years, and nearly all of them funnier than that one.
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It was only later when I was checking that I noticed the line had come from an episode six series back. He had no idea what I was talking about, and nor did anyone else at the table. I was once introduced to an actor from a TV sitcom, lovely chap, and after a few drinks I blurted out one of his character’s lines in homage: “I’m a bearded concubine!” He returned a politely blank look. Time it properly and you can amaze friends with your powers of recall and erudition.
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