Welcome to the website for Evan, Railey, and Sean’s John Hughes text analysis project.
Research Questions
- * What kinds of dialogue/script inclusions are common throughout each screenplay?
- * How do the screenplays compare when it comes to intentionality of the camera?
- * How are ensemble casts handled differently in writing than a more individually-focused story?
- * What parts of speech are more commonly found in the scripts than others?
- * What cinematic techniques outside of typical dialogue and description are found in the scripts?
- * How are different production contexts accounted for in Hughes' writing?
John Hughes (1950 - 2009) was one of the most influential filmmakers of the 1980’s, with many of his works still standing the test of time. This project is focused on analyzing the screenplays for three of his most famous movies: Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986). We are interested in seeing how the scripts hold up after nearly forty years, while also extracting certain data from them (including things like word tracking, dialogue frequencies, and various comparisons between the three).
Each screenplay’s original .txt source file can be found in the links below.
Source Documents (Text Documents):
IMDb Source Links (Photos and Information):
