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Molly Ringwald Explains Why She’s ‘Troubled’ by ‘The Breakfast Club’ Three Decades Later
IndieWire ^ | April 6, 2018 | Zack Sharf

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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TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: breakfastclub; hollyweird; hughes; johnhughes; liberalagenda; mollyringwald; ringwald; thebreakfastclub
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To: Eddie01
No black, mexican, asian, trans, lesbian, gay characters?

We were all troglodytes back in those benighted and unenlightened days.

61 posted on 04/07/2018 8:55:02 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: dead

Ditto. My thoughts exactly. Then as well as now.


62 posted on 04/07/2018 8:55:20 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: headstamp 2

I know! I just about drove off the road laughing!


63 posted on 04/07/2018 9:02:18 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: EveningStar

I saw Molly Ringwald on Broadway in a revival of Cabaret. She played the female lead and was bland and disappointing.


64 posted on 04/07/2018 9:02:54 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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To: EveningStar

Watched Blazing Saddles as the only whites in the theater. Never heard more laughter in my life, every time the word nigger was said.


65 posted on 04/07/2018 9:05:11 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: EveningStar

Couldn’t she just...not talk?


66 posted on 04/07/2018 9:05:14 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Maybe Teddy’s care blew a head gasket before he drove it off the bridge.


67 posted on 04/07/2018 9:07:38 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: dead
Maybe, but with better music...

Wait a minute.

I think the very first CD I ever bought was the soundtrack to "The Big Chill".

(A roommate bought a portable CD player about the time the movie came out.)

68 posted on 04/07/2018 9:09:31 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: EveningStar

Not to worry, Molly. That will be corrected in the remake, which will eventually happen — because Hollow-wood is out of original ideas.

That said, regrets — we’ve all had a few.


69 posted on 04/07/2018 9:10:24 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: EveningStar
for the first time, the moment in which Judd Nelson’s Bender peeks up her character’s skirt stood out and made Ringwald uncomfortable.

Boys don't do that nowadays???

I think this is another example of a washed-up former teen actress looking for some publicity.

70 posted on 04/07/2018 9:10:31 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: EveningStar

She is probably troubled because she hasn’t had any roles since then, and was largely dependent upon her very cute looks at the time. Big mystery solved.


71 posted on 04/07/2018 9:10:51 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I see what you did there. *SMIRK*


72 posted on 04/07/2018 9:10:56 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: EveningStar

Then, by all means, she should stop cashing the residual checks.


73 posted on 04/07/2018 9:12:07 AM PDT by riri
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
You can always look at pre-code movies, too.

There's one with William Powell as a jewelry thief giving all of his short-term hostages marijuana cigarettes to smoke and lose memories of what happened so as to make his getaway cleaner.

74 posted on 04/07/2018 9:13:11 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: dfwgator

And Nazis. Cruise had a scene as a U-Boat commander.


75 posted on 04/07/2018 9:14:52 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: jalisco555

“I saw Molly Ringwald on Broadway in a revival of Cabaret.”

That is a nominee for gayest statement on FR for the day!


76 posted on 04/07/2018 9:15:20 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: aynrandfreak
She’s trying to #MeToo herself out of obscurity, by going after a dead man that made her famous in the first place.

Best explanation I have seen so far.

77 posted on 04/07/2018 9:16:59 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
She's had some roles.

Between making bad career movies, and puffing up to about 2.5X her "teen" size, not to mention a fairly limited acting range, she shouldn't be trashing the movies that made most of her continuing "residuals" income possible.

78 posted on 04/07/2018 9:21:05 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: dsrtsage

79 posted on 04/07/2018 9:25:04 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: ThunderSleeps
These were purely fun/funny movies - meant to be enjoyed and forgotten.

Except they weren't forgotten. They became classics and are still watched today.

I recently did a deployment on a destroyer where the most watched films, over and over again, were "Breakfast Club" and "Fast Times at Ridgemont High". Now mind you, most of the crew were born in the 1980s and yet they loved these films!

Born in the late 60s, I asked myself, "what is it with these films from the 80s, MY FILMS that people find so enduring?"

Then is occurred to me that people like them because they're real. The current films young people watch today are so sterile and fake because they have to be. There are rules and quotas that have to be followed or else the film can't get made so young people today watch and enjoy Sixteen Candles which didn't have to follow those rigid rules.

This is also what troubles Molly Ringwald.

This is an interesting article. There's a lot here.

80 posted on 04/07/2018 9:25:08 AM PDT by Drew68
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