“John Hughes made a certain type of high school movie, and then it stayed static for 30 years. The only thing that changed was that maybe it was found footage or maybe it's a little snarkier, but the actual language that kids live in today, like with texting, motion graphics, the internet and that whole hashtag culture doesn't exist in movies today. It's left on the floor.” YearsLittlesMadeWholeKidsTodaySchoolCertainCultureFoundLeftLanguageChangedTypeInternetHigh SchoolStaticTextingHashtagsHigh School Movie Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“Even the way the kids react with media today is so completely different than what most movies have. We just wanted to make a movie that challenged them.” WayDifferentKidsTodayWantedMediaMedia Today Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“It's a fusion of almost everything, in the way that I think society today tends to take cultural memory. Because there's an internet, it's on there forever. I think that's the way kids see the world today. They actually speak to each other using retro concepts now because the internet culture has kept that memory alive, constantly.” ThinkingWorldWayKidsTodayCultureSpeakMemoriesForeverAliveInternetConceptsWorld TodayFusionRetroSociety TodayInternet Culture Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“Kids today are sold so much, by corporations and media and commercials and advertising and music videos, that I do. A lot of times, they retain that stuff and wear it, and that's the concept of a hipster. It's about owning it and redefining it, on your own level. It's a way of retaining control and meaning, in a world where you're being told to think in a certain way.” ThinkingWorldWayKidsTodayCertainStuffLevelsMediaConceptsVideoAdvertisingCorporationsHipsterRetainingRedefiningOwning It Author:Joseph M. Kahn
