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Thinks her movies were really, really white 🤔

posted 7 months ago by EleazarHisSon (750)
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2969750/molly-ringwald-says-80s-films-really-really-very-white-remakes-require-diversity/

“Those movies, the movies that I am so well known for, they were very much of the time. And if you were to remake that now, I think it would have to be much more diverse. And it would have to be, you know, you couldn’t make a movie that white. Those movies are really, really, very white,” Ringwald said at the Miami Film Festival while she was accepting Variety’s Creative Vanguard Award.

“And they don’t really represent what it is to be a teenager in a school in America today, I don’t think,” she added.

The 56-year-old actress began her career on the sitcoms Diff’rent Strokes and The Facts of Life before her movie debut in the drama Tempest (1982). Her acting career has steadily continued, but none of her films has reached the height of fame as when she starred as an angsty teenager in Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), and Pretty in Pink (1986).

“I think they were really great and of that time, but they were his experience — John Hughes’s experience,” Ringwald said, acknowledging that the films reflected the director’s teenage experience of growing up in Northbrook, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.

Ringwald received some blowback on social media from Hughes fans.

“For years now, Ringwald has been crapping all over John Hughes — who was probably the most pro-American filmmaker since Capra — even though her own modest reputation exists in his artistic shadow. I’m over it,” journalist Mark Hemingway wrote on social media.

[–] Redsfan001 (6144) 7 months ago

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[–] Kowalski (75520) 7 months ago

WE DIDN'T LEARN SHIT ABOUT GIRLS OR SEX FROM JOHN HUGHES MOVIES...WE WERE ENTERTAINED...NOTHING MORE.

[–] jacotodd47 (1832) 7 months ago

John Hughes did two films I think are really funny - both hold up today in the sense they are still funny....

"Planes, Trains, and Automobiles"

"National Lampoon's Vacation"

The teen stuff he did, I didn't like it then, and as for now, they're ridiculous. They look absurd today.

Plus I don't know what High School Hughes went to. Something much more accurate was

"Fast Times at Ridgemont High"

Oh, it just hit me, I think he did "Ferris Buellers Day off" - I could be wrong. But I think he wrote that one.

FBDO was all right. It had some funny moments

[–] DoctorThirteen (13920) 7 months ago

Planes, Trains and Automobiles is without doubt one of the greatest, funniest comedies ever made. I cry with laughter every time I see it. And I've seen it a lot!

[–] Redsfan001 (6144) 7 months ago

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[–] AzureSeb (506) 7 months ago

There hasn't been a high school hit movie since 2007 (Juno/Super bad)

In 2010, Easy A grossed almost $80 million on a $8 million budget.

[–] Kowalski (75520) 7 months ago

2019'S BOOKSMART WAS SOLID AND FAIRLY VULGAR.

[–] Redsfan001 (6144) 7 months ago

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[–] nyctc7 (43590) 7 months ago

Some of those Spike Lee movies were really, really black. For shame.

She's an idiot.

[–] Mustang (5418) 7 months ago

Was thinking the same thing. Diversity only required if whitey around.

[–] Sparky (2582) 7 months ago

This is why women were kept at home and quiet- when they open their mouths they reveal their idiocy. This waste of white skin torpedoed her legacy in one fell swoop.

[–] Kowalski (75520) 7 months ago

YIKES🙄

[–] AzureSeb (506) 7 months ago

After the success of The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles, John Hughes allowed Molly Ringwald to choose the actor who played her love interest in Pretty in Pink. She could have chosen a black actor, but she wanted Andrew McCarthy.

[–] Kowalski (75520) 7 months ago

NAME AN AGE-APPROPRIATE BLACK ACTOR FROM 1986.

[–] blue1981 (7735) 7 months ago

She looks like a Piece of Shit for not only shaming the movies that made her famous but also John Hughes who isn't alive to defend himself.

[–] Kowalski (75520) 7 months ago

SHE DID NOT SHAME EITHER...SHE SIMPLY STATED THAT THE HUGHES HIGH SCHOOL FILMS NO LONGER ACCURATELY DEPICT THE SKIN SHADING OF THE AVERAGE HIGH SCHOOL....I DROPPED ALI OFF AT HIGH SCHOOL THIS MORNING...RINGWALD IS MORE THAN RIGHT.

[–] Evoken (1402) 7 months ago

Woke white liberal women are a disaster.

[–] nyctc7 (43590) 7 months ago

AWFUL

Affluent
White
Female
Urban
Liberals

[–] Mustang (5418) 7 months ago

She seems to be riding the Woke train probably hoping for get more roles. She also criticised the scene in The Breakfast Club where Bender looks up her skirt. Of course it was non consensual he was crawling under the table and just happened to see as she didn’t have her legs closed!

A modern remake would involve a group of diverse kids in detention for protesting the incorrect use of pro nouns who then talk about racism, climate change and take cheap shots at Trump.

[–] Kowalski (75520) 7 months ago

EXACTLY...BENDER WAS INAPPROPRIATE....I LOVE THE CHARACTER AND THE MOVIE...BUT I DON'T SEE ANYTHING THAT RINGWALD HAS SAID TO BE INCORRECT OR HARSH.

[–] WandererFromYs (2308) 7 months ago

Sixteen Candles is indeed too white for a remake. I can’t imagine a strong independent woman of color whining all movie that her family forgot her birthday. That’s is definitely some white girl shit.

Plus if they try and cast a Hispanic actress, it would have to be called 15 candles, since they celebrate their Quinceañera, the way white girls celebrate their sweet 16. So yes, it’s too white to remake.

[–] Kowalski (75520) 7 months ago

😂