I give you Long Duk Dong.
Ah yes, John Hughes. During the utterly awesome, but completely saccharine teen angst/party films the 1980s this particular man did more for the typical surburban white youth than nearly any other director and producer. One of the more hilarious and borderline offensive characters is the sublime Donger.
Superpowers: Social climber, pretanatural drinker, attracting Amazons
Weaknesses: automobiles, the letters L and R, attracting Amazons
Long Duk Dong descends on a fictional Illinois town as an exchange student and within a hazy weekend offends his host family, destroys a car(while enhancing stereotypes), and mates with a giantess. Sounds like college.
This is an obscure choice, but his cultural staying power cannot be denied. While growing up in the Reagan years, teens looked to Hollywood to enable their underage boozing and this film was among that ilk. Sometimes I enjoy thinking that Dong went back to the orient, set up an opium den and whorehouse, and now runs a multinational conglomerate marketing sexually explicit material catering to big uns and chubby chasers.
"Oh sexy giirlfriend!"
ReplyDeleteYou have to go with Anthony Michael Hall! Not only is he found hidden among empty beer cans underneath a glass coffee table, but he gets to drive the hot girlfriend of Jake Ryan home in daddy's kick ass car b/c Ryan is tired of her and wants the geeky chic! He even passes out with his headgear on in front of a church! Here is to you "Farmer Ted"!
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