Apr 27 2008
Sixteen Candles Still Gets Me
Sixteen Candles came out in 1984, when I was in eigth grade and dreading high school and all that it entailed (cliques, drugs, sex, etc.).
I wasn’t quite ready for what the next few years had in store, and then I saw Sixteen Candles, written and directed by John Hughes, and I had hope.
Hope that I might be accepted, hope that boys might find me attractive (braces and all), and, most of all, hope that Jake Ryan would sweep me off my feet.
While none of those things ever quite panned out, I did, years later, find out that, much like my Sixteen Candles‘ heroine Samantha Baker, I was on the radar of one of the popular boys in school. Nothing ever came of it, but still.
I have now seen Sixteen Candles more times than I can count (at least 100…) and can recite practically every line.
And I even ended up marrying my very own “Jake Ryan”–no black Trans Am, though, but he is a pink guy.
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I love the movie too, but Jake didn’t drive a Trans AM. I’m not positive, but I think he drove a Porche. Maybe you’re thinking of Forrest Whitaker’s character (Charles Jefferson) in Fast Times (another great 80s movie, but more of a guy movie) — he drove a Trans AM.
Mike
I was referring to Samantha’s birthday conversation with her girlfriend when she said she wanted a “black Trans AM and a pink guy, and they’d do it on a cloud without getting pregnant or herpes…”
The Porche was Jakes fathers i thing… I remember the like”your letting take the Porche” in the end of the flick…
Still a great chic flick… With some great sound bites…
Chato B. Stewart
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