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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We were all troglodytes back in those benighted and unenlightened days.
Ditto. My thoughts exactly. Then as well as now.
I know! I just about drove off the road laughing!
I saw Molly Ringwald on Broadway in a revival of Cabaret. She played the female lead and was bland and disappointing.
Watched Blazing Saddles as the only whites in the theater. Never heard more laughter in my life, every time the word nigger was said.
Couldn’t she just...not talk?
Maybe Teddy’s care blew a head gasket before he drove it off the bridge.
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.)
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.
Boys don't do that nowadays???
I think this is another example of a washed-up former teen actress looking for some publicity.
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.
I see what you did there. *SMIRK*
Then, by all means, she should stop cashing the residual checks.
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.
And Nazis. Cruise had a scene as a U-Boat commander.
“I saw Molly Ringwald on Broadway in a revival of Cabaret.”
That is a nominee for gayest statement on FR for the day!
Best explanation I have seen so far.
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.
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.
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