Andrew McCarthyLast documentary ”Brats“About his time as a teenage idol in the 1980s together with comrades such as Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy, mapped the actor’s path from irritation and direct hostility to the” Brat package “label to cruel affection, when he, as he realized that the movies he looked down on while he made them – movies like “St. Elmo’s Fire“” Less than zero “and” Mannequin ” – meant more to a whole generation of film guests even more” serious “prestige like” The Falcon and the Snowman “ever could.
The danger of those of us who grew up on the movies is that the track will be reversed – that films that seemed meaningful to our teenage eyes are not really so good when seen outside the lens to abandoned childhood nostalgia. Still, returning one of McCarthy’s most popular movies via a new 4K UHD edition proves that some of the Brat packs were not only always good, they have gotten even better over time. McCarthy and Ringwald’s Coming of Age Romance ”Pretty in pink“Is not just an amazing teenage movie, it’s a fantastic movie, period.
It was easy to take “Pretty in Pink” just a little for granted when it came out in 1986. It was the fourth teenage girl written by John Hughes During the time when he was a kind of Preston Sturges for the young adult audience; Just as Sturges wrote and directed seven almost perfect comedies between 1940 and 1944, Hughes knocked out scripts for six classics in high school in the three -year period booked by “Sixton Candles” and “Some kind of wonderful.”
“Pretty in Pink” is one of Hughes’s best, partly because of his decision to hand over the director to Howard Deutch. Deutch debuted with “pink”, and it has the structure and passion for one film of a guy with a lot to prove; Each place, from the working class’s home for hero Andie (Ringwald) and the posh surroundings of love interest Blaine (McCarthy) to Funky Record Store where Andie works and the club where she and her best friend and secret admirer (Jon Cryer) hang, are full of Expressive visual details – every clothing and decor are carefully and just right.
While Hughes’ Slick Director Style in Movies such as “The Breakfast Club” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” offers lots of their own satisfaction, “Pretty in Pink” feels more vibrant and genuine than his other films thanks to Deutch’s more naturalistic, spontaneous approach- The emotional moments hit harder and cut deeper into “pink” and the deut -oriented “some kind of wonderful” than they do in the teenage films that Hughes directed themselves.
Deutch takes the moments when Hughes exactly and painfully articulate the raw nerves of young people and make them even better with their unpleasant instincts to take the actors out of their comfort zones and show their performances appropriately within the framework. . -Upartist “and Godards” King Lear. “
If “Pretty in Pink” marked the end of something for Ringwald, it was the beginning of something for Deutch, which started his career with a surprisingly insured debut (although he, in a witty and self -release interview of 4K, he presents himself as more Happy than sure). Deutch got the job because he had cut the Hughes trailer for “sixteen candles”, and his apprenticeship in the publicity world had also included collaborations with Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola, Warren Beatty and other master directors.
Working with the best authorities in their day week in and weighs clearly affected deutch, which absorbed their lessons in their DNA and used them elegantly on their modest movie about a girl in love with a boy from the other side of the tracks. Although no movie is actually “simple”, “Pretty in Pink” it gives the impression because Deutch’s choice is so completely accurate (the fact that he worked with top levels as cinematographer Taj Fujimoto, editor Richard Marks and composer Michael Gore without doubt).
Deutch continued to direct two more Hughes scripts (“some kind of wonderful” and “The Great Outdoors”) as well as hundreds of hours of episodic TV and a handful of sequels for films he did not direct (a couple of them, which they underestimated “grines Old men, “, superior to their originals). “Pretty in Pink” remains special in its Oeuvre, and in the careers for everyone involved – there is something difficult to replicate its combination of simplicity and innocence with so much rich observation attack and filmmaking crafts. McCarthy has the right to have revised his opinion.
“Pretty in Pink” 4K UHD is now available from Paramount Home video.
