Pink pretty It may have been released in 1986, but its history of non -correspondent crushing and a teenage anguish still plays a nucleus with audiences almost 40 years later.
Mounting high off the success The Breakfast Club The year before, writer-producer John Hughes Gathered with teen icon Molly Ringwald for a melancholy romantic comedy that not Take a completely on Saturday’s arrest. The orchestral maneuvers in The Dark’s “If You Leave” and the psychedelic title track perfectly scored that unforgettable teenage upset, as Andie Walsh had a seemingly not corresponding enthusiasm to the boy of his secondary. It’s not strange Pink pretty It was a success at the box office, on the billboard graphics and with generations of teenagers who dream of being in Andie’s position, but the drama not only happened on the big screen. Behind the scene, the filming of Pink pretty It was full of members of the cast that fall and rumored a non -corresponding crisis that reflected the events of the film.
In honor of Pink prettyThe 39th anniversary of February 28, keep moving -you know the original drama of the movie and more on stage:
Molly Ringwald
Pink pretty Centers around Ringwald’s character, character Andie Walsh, who is stuck in the Triangle LoveAndrew McCarthy) and his best friend Duckie (Jon cryer)). Everything accumulates at Andie High School Ball, where an iconic is now adjusted triangular pink dress Designed Marilyn VanceAlthough Ringwald admitted in the later years that he hated the robe.
Molly Ringwald has been a fashion trailer for decades thanks to its iconic appearance of the film. Ringwald was a Darling Rom in the 1980’s and starred in several legendary films, including Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club and sixteen candles. Beside her phenomenon performances, the actress also captured the essence of the time with her various (…)
“(Would like) virtually nothing more than he was wearing,” she said Good day America By 2024. “Anything would have been better. Marilyn Vance made the dress, the same triangle invested in the 1980’s. It wasn’t what I imagined. I was not very happy with this and I really wanted to change it, but now that I look back, it was a lot of its time. “”
Pink pretty The test audience was originally projected with a different ending on Andie chose Duckie about Blane at the dance, but a completely new scene was shot with Andie, choosing Blane due to harsh early reactions. According to Paramount, images of the scrapping Pink pretty The ending has been lost over time.
“Feeding to the audience would definitely have this reaction,” said Ringwald Vanity Fair In 2021, “it did not make sense for the way the whole film was structured and the way these characters were launched. Maybe Andie could understand Duckie if Blane had been portrayed as a vast punk or if there had been no chemistry between me and Andrew.
“But it did not make sense for the whole movie to be this (but) Cinderella story (but) does not end the guy you want. I would have been dissatisfied. Jon was fantastic in this role, but for me, in my opinion, Duckie was clearly a gay boy with a fierce Pluse to his friend.”
A very passionate group of Pink pretty Fans have theorized that Duckie could have agreed with his sexuality throughout the film. Ringwald apparently lent credit to the theory, explaining Outside magazine This “Duckie does not know that he is gay” in the movie, although Crayer had a different interpretation.
“(Molly) said that the guy Duckie was based was gay. It’s a different thing. Be clear here,” said the actor in a 2012 interview with Zap2it. “No, he actually said that if he was projected beyond the movie, this Duckie would be now. And I’m not disagreeing.”
Ringwald has been shown outside By calling many of his teenage comedies in the 1980’s to be “Homophobic” and “very white”, though he also tried to put Pink pretty, Sixteen candles and The Breakfast Club In context of the time they were made.
“ Everyone says and I think (it is) it is true that the times were different and what was acceptable, because it is definitely not acceptable and it should not be then, but it is a kind of way it was, ” he told NPR in 2018. ”
“And of course, I don’t want to look ungrateful to John Hughes, but I am very opposed to what’s in these films,” he added.
Jon cryer
Cryer said CBS Sunday morning In 2015 he never felt comfortable around him Pink pretty Costars. In fact, Cryer compared his character Duckie to “the type (he) always wanted to be in high school.”
“Molly and Andrew were very reserved people and I am a very outgoing person,” he said. “This could have worked very well, so dynamic, but he did not. I think I was irritated from day one.”
Part of the out -of -screen stress was due to Ringwald originally campaigning for his friend (and future Pickup artist cost) Robert Downey Jr. To play Duckie.
“He had wanted Robert for the paper. I think John (Hughes) wanted either Antony ((Michael Hall) or Michael J. Foxwho would do it in a moment Back to the future“, Confirmed Vanity Fair. “He would have made a completely different movie touched Duckie. But once Jon (Cryer) went into this role, there was no question that was the boy. He put himself in this role that it is impossible to imagine anyone else.”
Cryer and McCarthy resolved their differences in a very public way after a screening of 2024 of the latter documentary Brat.
“When we did Pink prettyWe did not get along because it was an announcement, “Cryer complained during a round table, with McCarthy ok,” This is very true. “
Cryer clarified X That he was not “talking outside the school” because he had reconciled with McCarthy a long time ago, adding: “For the record, the man is a prince. We were too young to understand us.”
Andrew McCarthy
Cryer may not have been the only tension I felt Pink pretty Set. Director Howard Deutch claimed in a 2020 interview with Den of geek That very real and Ringwald crisis in McCarthy made for intense filming experience.
“They hated each other. They hated each other because Molly had a little flanked and he had no in love, “the filmmaker said.” And then she suffered that she was the foundation, and then she climbed. I had to lie to them. I had to lie to Molly and say, “Oh, no, he really has an enthusiasm, but he is a boy, so he is afraid to show -The.” I had to play this to achieve it. Luckily for me, it was added to the sexual tension. Helped the whole feeling of “these guys will meet or not?” I don’t think they were so aware of what I did, but I think they knew it was working. This relationship was full of conflicts. This cannot be manufactured. “”
Ringwald seemed to laugh at Deutch’s version version in an interview from 2021 Vanity FairWhere he said he had no idea what how do how. “
“I was only 17 years old, and Andrew was already 20 years old, so we definitely lived very different lives,” he said. “But we were fine and ended up doing another movie together a few years later. I feel like we had an interesting dynamic because we were definitely a partner, and we weren’t really friends, but we had a lot of chemistry. “”
For his part, McCarthy said Entertainment tonight That Ringwald struggled to put himself as a blane, as the filmmakers initially sought a completely different type of actor.
“This part was written for a square jaw, big, annoying, you know, the quarterback and Molly got me this part,” said McCarthy. “I made an audition and Molly said, ‘Oh, for whom I would fall. It’s dreamy. It’s poetic. And so John Hughes went,’ Seriously? That WIMP? … (Hughes) heard Molly. “”
Cover images All members of the BRAT package had stories of complicated dating, sometimes among them. In October 2024, Rob Lowe shared that he and Demi Moore had a brief flowers after performing love interests in the 1986 romantic comedy on last night. “I mean, Demi and I briefly, I’m not telling stories (…)
Accredited the success of Pink pretty And the romantic comedies of Hughes “others” of the 80’s to the producer seriously taking “young people and their emotional life”.
“That’s why people (still) keep watching these films,” McCarthy added.
McCarthy reflected on his star performance and the BRAT Pack time in his 2024 documentary Brat. He told her Use weekly At the time of Brat“Released that was disappointed Ringwald rejected his invitation to be interviewed.
“It’s so articulated and insightful about these things,” he said Us. “Brat package is a fun thing. It’s like a octopus – it has these long tentacles that you still get and you can feel them as a hug or as something (something else). People are in different places in their life ”
Harry Dean Stanton
While the love triangle is the heart of Pink prettyThe emotional core of the film revolves around Andie’s dysfunctional relationship with his father Dur Jack (Stanton).
Elusiu Stanton made his feeling Pink pretty clear crystal during an appearance at the “Doug loves movies” podcast in 2013. Guest Jen Kirkman Teed Up Stanton for a great laugh from the studio audience when asked if Andie was right to choose Blane about Duckie.
“I do not give Af, man,” Stanton responded.
Pink pretty It is in streaming now in Paramount+.