producer research in coming of age movies #8

To master the theme of what to include in coming-of-age movies, I researched a famous producer in this Genre. His name is John Hughes and is the lead producer in over 15 coming of age movies. Some of his most famous and recognizable work, are movies like the "home alone" trilogy, Flubber, and "Ferris Bueler's day off." John Hughes' work has been successful through decades, meaning through different generations of kids. This hard feat was accomplished by what he claims as "keeping respect for characters, that match the respect in the audience. He says that many teenage movies use cliches on the irresponsibleness of teenagers, such as drama, and caring about popularity and things of that sort. By avoiding these cliches and stereotypes, he creates a respect for the audience, as they aren't exploited or targeted by the movie characters. in this way, the audience can view the characters as people, rather than a representation of them self. 

 In the movie "Home Alone" John Hughes manages to create a classic and well appreciated movie by giving Kevin, the protagonist more responsible traits, like for example when he goes grocery shopping by himself. This lets the audience similar to his age to not be offended by a more cliche film option, of Kevin left being hungry and helpless, because of his age. Character development and a sense of immaturity is still included but it veers from immaturity strictly from his age, towards his immaturity from his personality. In my film, I will attempt to avoid the typical actions teenagers would be inferred to make but still try to include a sense of immatureness to display character growth.