The Andie + Duckie relationship

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if you describe the movie like that, yes, but IMO, ducky was a jealous immature, borderline stalker possessive friend. duckie was the one treating her like crap just because she liked someone 'above her', and maybe MR saw the script the same way and THAT'S why she didn't think duckie deserved to end up with andie.

I think it was ridiculous to pretend that what Duckie and Andy had resembled a deep friendship.....Duckie was always played like her looser side kick....he seemed more like a neighbor that just tagged along with Andie all his life and, like one would of a loyal stray dog, Andie grow a soft spot for. but it was never a true, equal friendship (who lets a friend wait outside for you while you go inside a club because he's not allowed in?). Some kind of wonderful at least portrayed an equal, true friendship between the 2 love interests.

"When life presents you with lemons, squeeze out the juice and squirt it in your enemies eyes."

Andie was a bish. And had no reason to be I mean she was at the bottom of the food chain as well. Duckie just loved someone who wasn't worthy--Andie. At the end I felt she deserved weak a@@ Blaine. They were both liars and worried too much about what others thought of them.

He was in the friend zone.

I always saw it as a girl and her gay best friend relationship. Then I listened to the director's commentary on the DVD and was shocked--SHOCKED--to hear the director describe their relationship as being one of unexpressed romantic love for one another. what What WHAT!? Is this guy blind, deaf and dumb? Is he not seeing the same movie clips as we, the viewer are seeing!? Is he on the spectrum and unable to read body language between two people? How can anyone watching this mistake Andie for being in love with Duckie or even for Duckie being in love with Andie?? And we're talking about the DIRECTOR--he's all up in there with the nuances of the characters all day, every day! I was just shocked at how detached the dude seemed from the very story and characters he was working intimately with literally every day. Was dude's gaydar jammed? Because Ducky queened it UP with those limp wrists of his, henny. And Andie was completely indifferent towards him whenever he'd flying into his theatrics.

Andie was 100% correct when she told the director "My character would never end up with Duckie." And she was 17-years-old! Having to tell a seasoned director this (and she was 100% correct). I believe in later years Molly Ringwald has stated that Duckie was gay but just didn't know it yet. NAILED IT. She clearly had her pulse on the situation even back then, unbeknownst to the director!

It still just shocks me at how all of these people could be working on the same exact movie but individually read the relationships before them so completely differently. That should've been a huge red flag for John Hughes to never work with this director ever again.