Posted on 04/07/2018 8:08:50 AM PDT by EveningStar
Molly Ringwald rose to prominence as John Hughes’ muse in the hit films “Sixteen Candles,” “Pretty in Pink,” and “The Breakfast Club,” but her most beloved movies are troubling her in hindsight. In a new essay for The New Yorker, Ringwald salutes and critiques her collaborations with Hughes, finding certain scenes in the director’s films to be misogynistic and homophobic. The actress makes it clear she loves Hughes and is proud of their work together, but that doesn’t mean their films should not be analyzed under a contemporary context.
While Ringwald was showing her daughter “The Breakfast Club” for the first time, the moment in which Judd Nelson’s Bender peeks up her character’s skirt stood out and made Ringwald uncomfortable. The actress writes that she “kept thinking about the scene” long after the viewing ended, and it wasn’t the first time she was forced to come to terms about its meaning.
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The movie encouraged boys and girls to do anything they fancied sexually, under the table or not. Nothing mattered, nothing was right wrong, just do it. The movie taught kids well, and today we see the result of it.
This molly character wonders why there is so little respect for women? look at the stupid movie, biytch!
The teacher who was supervising them and the janitor had their number. They were all being punished for being brats and little thugs in any case. Boo hoo!!
Here. Let me explain it to you. The guy is looking up your skirt because he wants to see what's under it.
Now your life is complete.
I saw it too. My daughter insisted.
I get your thoughtful point. I guess I see her expression of it in a reasonable tone, of talking about it in terms of her child’s perspective, and a willingness to reflect on something from her past as a lot different from the usual liberal POV, which blames others for their misery. I got the sense that hers was reflection more than revision. I thank you for disagreeing with me without using the terms, “idiot, snowflake, moron” or equivalent.
I get your thoughtful point. I guess I see her expression of it in a reasonable tone, of talking about it in terms of her child’s perspective, and a willingness to reflect on something from her past as a lot different from the usual liberal POV, which blames others for their misery. I got the sense that hers was reflection more than revision. I thank you for disagreeing with me without using the terms, “idiot, snowflake, moron” or equivalent.
Exactly...kiddy version of Big Chill but without caring about any of the characters.
Well, I have read enough of your posts in the pasts to know you aren’t any of those things anyway. I don’t know much about her now, which is usually (but not always) a good thing.
I liked her as a young actress, I thought she was cute in a homely way. Never heard much about her after that.
I just took issue with her assertion of “we all know women are subjugated” line. My wife isn’t subjugated in any way, and neither are the women I know, work with, and work for.
In her case, it was liberal shorthand for “I’m with you folks” which I wouldn’t brag about, but hey, that is me.
Boys like girls. Girls like boys. live with it.
Full disclosure. I was smitten with her.
And thanks for the kind words.
I’m father of three personally and professionally successful daughters and an assertive wife who talks politics with me. They all vote for what and who they want, and they don’t always agree with me. I’m with you on the notion that the women I know are anything but subjugated. That’s a world I want to live in, where the color of the skin and gender doesn’t matter as much as character and ideas.
Nice to make your acquaintance.
Seinfeld won’t do college campuses anymore.
Likewise to make your acquaintance...:)
“I want my two dollars!”
Then maybe she shouldn’t have done the scene or done something about it back then.
Thanks, I haven’t seen it since I was a kid but now I have kids, so they deserve to see it. Original of course. Didn’t even know there was a remake.
They love to remake stuff don’t they? Makes em feel like they’re rewriting history. Never mind the fact that history repeats itself.
Tanner and Kelly were the two best.
Revenge of the Nerds had around a dozen sex crimes and numerous assault crimes. Great flick.
Old, old joke. If you knew who she was, you’d know that.
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