Everything old can be new again, even in Brat Pack World (Hello, “St. Elmo’s Fire” sequence), but 80’s teenage queen Molly Ringwald Have offered a measured – yes, it is possible – take on where she thinks movies based on some of the most popular films in the decade should go. In short: traditional remake? No. A new story inspired by? Sure!
In a recent comprehensive chat to honor film40 -year anniversary, Hosted by “Happy Sad Confused” Podcaster Josh Horowitz (which is available to see in full on-lineThe Via Entertainment Weekly) were united by “The breakfast club“Stars Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy.
During the long -awaited reunion of Ringwald and the other four stars in 1985 John Hughes-Directed High School Classic “The Breakfast Club” on Friday at Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, the issue of reworking of the movie inevitably arises. In response, Ringwald offered this: “I personally do not believe in making that movie, because I think this movie is very much of its time.”
Wait, wait, hold on. While other stores are stuck on Ringwald’s statement on “No remake”, she continued to further clarify her opinion.
She Continued, “It resonates with people today. In Believe in Making Movies that are inspired by Other movies but build on it and represent what’s going on today. This is very, you know, it’s very white, this Movie. None of that.
She is not wrong, in some accounts. While the film, which follows five very different high school students (recites it with me now: a nerd, a jock, a princess, a basket case and a criminal) that they spend a leadership Saturday afternoon in custody, is quite white, it is also a movie that is basically about relate to other people that you may not know. That is A story that still reasoned, as Ringwald notes, and one that can prove to be ripe for a new recording, albeit with a little creative and smart casting.
While the film is also not explicitly about gender, someone who saw it at a tangible age (read: me) probably took the conversation about the perception of girls against boys when it comes to sex and connection culture a lot to heart (in the immortal words in sheedy is allison: “Well, if you say you don’t have it.
This is not the first time Ringwald has struggled with a mature reading of some of her earliest work, especially the ones she did with Hughes. 2018, Ringwald wrote an essay for The New Yorker It similarly explored what it is like to look back on some of the more dated aspects of the film as an adult.
“I thought about it again this past fall, after a number of women came up with charges of sexual abuse against producer Harvey Weinstein, and the #metoo movement collected Steam,” Ringwald wrote about some of her character Claire’s scenes with adopted Paramor John Bender (Nelson). “If attitudes to female submission are systemic, and I think they are, it is a reason that the art we consume and sanction plays part of strengthening the same attitudes.”
Ringwald still ended her essay by writing that she hopes that Hughe’s films will endure and that “it is up to the following generations to find out” how to analyze them. Or how to redo them?
