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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Who is this Molly Ringworm and why should I care about what she says?
No black, mexican, asian, trans, lesbian, gay characters?
The easiest thing in the world, is to look at old movies and TV shows, and point out things which would not be permitted today.
If she’s going to say that this director somehow was bigoted, what does that make her, since she willingly participated in these allegedly objectionable movies???
Oh please. Lets apply today’s idiotic values to everything going back to Rome.
She’s trying to #MeToo herself out of obscurity, by going after a dead man that made her famous in the first place.
“Molly Ringwald Explains Why She’s ‘Troubled’ by ‘The Breakfast Club’ Three Decades Later”
Gee. Could it be she’s a HAS-BEEN and wants a little attention?
Oy! These Hollywood people and their EGOS!
“finding certain scenes in the director’s films to be misogynistic and homophobic”
Did it not occour to you that the 80s were DIFFERENT, as in non wussy?
At least you are bitching about how there were no blacks in any of his films...
Cripes, it’s like every childhood crush I had has turned into barking mad ultra libs.
If she thinks this will make her relevant, she should probably think again.
Long live Long Duck Dong!!!
The rape scene was also disgusting.
It was a fun movie, with great songs from The Psychedelic Furs. It was a movie that many people took too seriously back then, just as Molly wants to do right now.
It was a sophisticated Teen Soap Opera, entertaining, engaging, but not much more.
Some days I feel like I'm living in Mao's China or Pol Pot's Cambodia right before things got real interesting.
“The easiest thing in the world, is to look at old movies and TV shows, and point out things which would not be permitted today.”
I heard a radio ad for the, ‘Chappaquiddick’ movie yesterday. It actually WARNED PEOPLE that there would be some SMOKING in the movie!
Aarrgghhh!!!
>>The easiest thing in the world, is to look at old movies and TV shows, and point out things which would not be permitted today.
I do that when I watch an old movie. Then I think about how simple and pleasant life was then because every word and action wasn’t a landmine. I grew up in the south around whites and blacks, girls and gays. Everyone was happier and mixed freely, without worrying about the inadvertent “offense” that would end a career or get you kicked out of school.
Sorry Molly, you took the money and the fame, you have to own it. Oh, I wonder how that actress fared after you took her “big break” away from her. You know, it was her decision if she wanted to appear nude in the film, not yours.
Blazing Saddles would make their heads explode today. It would cause Civil War II.
She sounds really smart, but let’s look at this from a different perspective. Same thing with Friends and all those old shows. When you see how sexist or homophobic both the writers and the characters now appear, REALIZE THINGS HAVE GOTTEN BETTER. Realize we are now not sexist or homophobic any more, and get off our backs.
Dong...where is my auto-mo-billleee?
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