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brightbluegirlI've always had a thing for geeky guys. Geeky guys and bad girls.
So I became a bad girl, but when I tried to date geeky guys, they never quite satisfied. Too geeky, maybe. Too immature. Not enough John Hughes cool.
We watched Pretty in Pink last night. Duckie is so perfect I almost cried. And speaking of tears, when Andy tells off Blane for standing her up, in the hallway at school, he wipes away a lone tear.
He wipes away a LONE. TEAR.
Christ. My heart flutters anew even now.
So it made me think of my John Hughes geek love. His geeks were often his best characters. Hell, in non John Hughes 80's teen movies, the geeks were often the best characters.
Think of:
(And yes, I own all those movies, and more.)
I could go on, but I bet you get the idea. I'm a sucker for geeks. And of course, my favorite movies from after the 80's have geeks in them. (Like... High Fidelity, Donnie Darko, The Zero Effect, The Matrix, Hackers.......)
And really, what is a geek? Someone who doesn't "fit in" all the time, who's intelligent, with varied interests from the norm.
I discovered that when I tried to date hard core geeks, the ones in the Computer Science Department at school, that it never quite worked for me. They weren't my idea of "real" geeks. Not varied enough. Not John Hughes Cool.
Then I met Aaron. He was John Hughes Cool. Into music, fantastically intelligent, wry, dry, cynical sense of humour, a gamer and a mathematician. Perfect.
Alex was a throwback. I tried to find the geek in the bad boy. Which CAN be done, if you search hard enough (take the make out scene in The Breakfast Club, between Judd Nelson and Molly Ringwald... there is ONE facial expression of his that lets you know there's someone else in there, too), in some bad boys. But not in that one. He was too into his bad boy status.
And now Andrew. Also a gamer, an anarchist, who is into acting and is an extrovert, but sometimes just doesn't know how to act and what to say, and HATES talking on the phone. Is extremely intelligent, yet hasn't gone to University yet, although he will, and has finally decided what for. Wears a lot of black. Well pierced. Likes Cthulu. The perfect bad-boy geek. He's everything Alex pretended to be, mixed with what Aaron was/is. He's not only John Hughes Cool, he's Better.
So I became a bad girl, but when I tried to date geeky guys, they never quite satisfied. Too geeky, maybe. Too immature. Not enough John Hughes cool.
We watched Pretty in Pink last night. Duckie is so perfect I almost cried. And speaking of tears, when Andy tells off Blane for standing her up, in the hallway at school, he wipes away a lone tear.
He wipes away a LONE. TEAR.
Christ. My heart flutters anew even now.
So it made me think of my John Hughes geek love. His geeks were often his best characters. Hell, in non John Hughes 80's teen movies, the geeks were often the best characters.
Think of:
- Anthony Michael Hall in Wierd Science.
- Ilan Mitchell-Smith in Wierd Science. (and the woman they created was named "Lisa", so THAT was footage for lots of teen fantasies)
- Anthony Michael Hall in The Breakfast Club.
- John Cusack in Better Off Dead.
- Jon Cryer (yes, Duckie) in Pretty in Pink.
- Anthony Michael Hall in 16 Candles.
- Gabriel Jarret (playing Mitch) Real Genius.
- Val Kilmer in Real Genius.
- Michelle Myrink in Real Genius. (I know I'm technically just writing about guys, but she was perfect. And don't define me as straight/bi/gay, I've done a lot and I prefer to remain untitled, thank-you-very-much).
- Jon Sties in Real Genius.
- Eric Stoltz in Some Kind of Wonderful.
- Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future.
- Alan Ruck in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
- Keanu Reeves in Teenage Dream. (also released as Dream to Believe)
- Robert Carradine in Revenge of the Nerds.
- Anthony Edwards in Revenge of the Nerds. (one of the reasons I used to watch ER often - George Clooney can kiss my ass, it was ALL about Anthony Edwards)
- Ralph Macchio in The Karate Kid 1 and 2 (3 was all a bad dream, I swear. The best thing about it is he does a kata that I did for my brown belt grading, way back when)
- Ralph Macchio in Crossroads.
Matthew Broderick in Wargames.
(And yes, I own all those movies, and more.)
I could go on, but I bet you get the idea. I'm a sucker for geeks. And of course, my favorite movies from after the 80's have geeks in them. (Like... High Fidelity, Donnie Darko, The Zero Effect, The Matrix, Hackers.......)
And really, what is a geek? Someone who doesn't "fit in" all the time, who's intelligent, with varied interests from the norm.
I discovered that when I tried to date hard core geeks, the ones in the Computer Science Department at school, that it never quite worked for me. They weren't my idea of "real" geeks. Not varied enough. Not John Hughes Cool.
Then I met Aaron. He was John Hughes Cool. Into music, fantastically intelligent, wry, dry, cynical sense of humour, a gamer and a mathematician. Perfect.
Alex was a throwback. I tried to find the geek in the bad boy. Which CAN be done, if you search hard enough (take the make out scene in The Breakfast Club, between Judd Nelson and Molly Ringwald... there is ONE facial expression of his that lets you know there's someone else in there, too), in some bad boys. But not in that one. He was too into his bad boy status.
And now Andrew. Also a gamer, an anarchist, who is into acting and is an extrovert, but sometimes just doesn't know how to act and what to say, and HATES talking on the phone. Is extremely intelligent, yet hasn't gone to University yet, although he will, and has finally decided what for. Wears a lot of black. Well pierced. Likes Cthulu. The perfect bad-boy geek. He's everything Alex pretended to be, mixed with what Aaron was/is. He's not only John Hughes Cool, he's Better.
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