10 Ways The Music Industry Owes John Hughes Big Time

4. The Dream Academy Gave Straight-Ahead Comedies Like Planes, Trains, And Automobiles and Ferris Bueller Moments of Sincere Beauty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhdk_44Gmew The Dream Academy are best known for their hugely-cathartic dream-folk anthem "Life in a Northern Town" - and for a signature sound consisting primarily of acoustic guitar, oboe, and synthesiser - but they are better know still for being musical proteges of Hughes, appearing in three times in two of his biggest films. In Ferris Bueller, they play an instrumental cover of the Smiths' "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want" in the scene where Ferris, Cameron, and Sloane visit the art gallery to appreciate the paintings. The music underlines the fact that these kids, in spite of their defiance towards conventional authority, actually are interested in cultural enlightenment. Just as long as it's by their terms. Another song by the Dream Academy, "Edge of Forever," appears towards the end of the film when Ferris and Sloane seal a day well accomplished with a kiss. In Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, their song "Power to Believe" shows up in the final scene where Steve Martin's character realizes John Candy's character wasn't so much of a problem as he was a desperate cause, and what ultimately compels him to inviting Candy back to his home for Thanksgiving. The greatest purpose Dream Academy serve in Hughes' films is the one Hughes does in spite of all pain and comic relief: to maintain that core of humanity central to us all.