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 directors films to be misogynistic and homophobic. The actress makes it clear she loves Hughes and is proud of their work together, but that doesnt 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 Nelsons Bender peeks up her characters skirt stood out and made Ringwald uncomfortable. The actress writes that she kept thinking about the scene long after the viewing ended, and it wasnt the first time she was forced to come to terms about its meaning.
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John Hughes was a jerk. Comedy is made by jerks.
I guess it's the "[Long Duck] Dong" thing.
“Strange Days have found us
Strange Days have tracked us down
They’re going to destroy
Our casual Joys”
In high school, I was lead singer in a garage band - we rehearsed in a garage but never got a gig although we did have a few groupies that visited the garage.
As lead singer, I always channeled my inner Jim Morrison.
Years later as an entrepreneur interfacing with the music industry, a good friend & mastering engineer gifted me CDRs laser burned direct from the studio tapes of their first & last albums he re-mastered.
I didn't think it was a great movie otherwise but I did think the janitor was pretty cool. The only one in that movie that had a lick of sense.
Or how about in Ferris Bueller, the Charlie Sheen character winds up making out with Ferris’ sister.
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