Back to the Prom : The Lost Dance / The Original Ending (Pretty in Pink Special Feature)
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
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Duckie giving her permission to go with her heart is the most beautiful part of the movie.
That’s because Duckie really loved her. As the saying goes “If you love something, set it free”
Yes!
Exactly!!
Nooooo. I 100% agree with Ringwald. No chemistry. Zero chemistry. They were like brother and sister. It ended like it should have. And no offense to the actor who played Duck man but that character got on my nerves.
@@burnningbridges Exactly. Duckie didn't deserve to have her just because he wanted her. She fell in love with Blaine.
For the record: Jon Cryer is very attractive and the character of Duckie and the person he is is also, very attractive
Also, I remember as a teen feeling like she didn’t deserve Duckie and always took him for granted.
Definitely agree... Duckie was Sooooo dreamy...so good hearted and kind❤
And Andie never deserved someone as good as him
I was 13 when I saw this movie in the theater... My whole life i always fell for the unique Duckie types, because of this character... Molly and Andi both have crummy taste in men lol
I had a major crush on Duckie. I would take him over Blaine anyday. The dress and that ending stunk to high heaven.
I totally crushed on Duckie and was really upset at Molly for ditching him
I had a Duckie in my life, I tried to be his girlfriend, but it was like kissing my brother.
Except today he’d be considered a stalker, not romantic. To be honest, I kinda thought of him as one back then too. Not a call the cops I’m fearing for my life kinda stalker, but it was clear why he annoyed her sometimes.
"They wanted her to get the cute guy," DUCKIE IS THE CUTE GUY!!!!!!!
This. Yes. Thank you.
I mean, it's so obvious. I can't understand how anyone else doesn't see this.
Agree
Duckie was a goofball! A nice guy but a goofball. He was a good friend. Andy was very mature and serious. The pair wouldn’t have matched well together a goofball and an academic scholar with issues
@@gbear2253 I think Duckie was more mature & she was faking maturity. It isn't more mature to lack a sense of humor or go for image & wealth instead of genuine heart. Duckie got lucky in this. Free to find a better girl. A smarter nicer one would have picked him. She was boring like Blaine. You're right. THOSE two fit. Duckie deserves what he brings. He wouldn't have been happy where he wasn't appreciated well.
The reason the original ending didn't work wasn't due to any of the actors chemistry.. etc. It didn't work because of the scriptwriters failure to set that ending up properly. There wasn't any hint, nudge or foreshadowing of any attraction for Duckie anywhere in Andie's heart. There was no foundation for Andie to suddenly end up with Duckie out of the blue except as a consolation prize, which naturally didn't set right with the test audiences, so they had to go back to the couple they had legitly set up of Andie and Blane. The filmmakers thankfully didn't give up on their original ending idea though and they did Some Kind Of Wonderful. They reversed the sexes and this time they did a much better job in setting the main character Keith to end up with his bestie Watts. He has a knock his socks off kiss with Watts and gradually loses his amorous feelings for his dream girl Amanda as they realize they are not meant for each other during their date. Keith and Amanda both realize at the end that it's he and Watts who belong together.
Great comment. ❤
Wow!!! I love this comment. This is so accurate about both movies. I feel like Molly saying she had no chemistry with Duckie is because that just was not part of the script at all. So for them to magically end up together would not have made any sense. As you said in Some Kind of wonderdul that was part of the script. That initial kiss they shared you just knew. Two of my favorite movies by the way!!! Love your take on this. @cisio64123
@@marionemmanuel6506 Thank you and exactly . They went out of their way to show during that kiss between Keith and Watts that it was a major turning point as there was deeper feelings and major attraction there. You knew where it was likely to go so it made sense when it did. They did well in making it clear that his feelings for Amanda was only a schoolboy infatuation and Watts was no consolation prize as his feelings for her were so obvious that even Amanda knew to back out gracefully once she saw it too. There was none of that type of romantic , hidden feelings coming to the surface set up for Duckie being Andie's hearts choice at all and that's where that pairing fell flat and just didn't work.
@@StLProgressive Thank you.
Exactly!!! I could not have said it any better @cisio64123
Here’s the thing though- she WOULD end up with Blane, but she’d end up divorced and would end up with Duckie in her 40’s.
Soooo true!!
@@Krnflakgrl71 She'd wish she ended up with Duckie. I agree, except there's no way he'd still be single. I was that age & I'd have made sure of it, lol. Srsly tho, he'd not have still been single & he'd have found out the difference, from other girls & realized she hadn't been very kind, or fun at all, & actually rather cold & rude.
Please stop this narrative. I didn’t end up marrying my male best friend. I married someone else, it was a nightmare. I’m now single and STILL don’t want my male best friend. He was not the better choice just because it didn’t work out with my husband. He is my friend, like a brother.
Annie Potts is my absolute favorite character. She knew Duckie was hot.
That comes with experience,lol…back then i loved the ending, now as an adult, i hate it! Lol😂😂😊
She literally calls him "the duck man."
ew
Iona!!! I adored Annie Potts’ character, her wardrobe, her lifestyle, everything about her!! ❤
“ He must practice on melons…” 😂
Annie Potts is right, I totally agree with her. When Duckie shows up at the prom, when they hold each other’s hand, you get the feeling they belong to each other, that they’ve got something the other guy will never achieve. I must admit I was really surprised by the new ending, although they managed to perform the Cinderella story in quite a gracious way. And Duckie’s look to the camera is priceless!
Duckie is cute and great. But Molly's right, the chemistry was never there. They are better as friends.
@@kumaranvij ...and they _should_ have enjoyed the prom as friends and a big "phoo you" to the guy who cow-towed to his snobby friends and blew her off. It could have been a testament to best friends can be better than boyfriends.
I think this is a case of the times. These days the audience would boo Blaine and roote for Duckie and Andi
No, in the 80s everyone loved Duckie & didn't even like Blaine.
We love John Cryer, in general too. I do not comprehend Molly Ringwald.
@barkpeeler2000 😁 Do you make baskets or something? Are you woodland?
I agree that today’s audience and young people would choose Duckie.
Her choosing Duckie at the end would have been a cop out. He would have been a consolation prize. She never got the guy she wanted and ended up with a guy who was just there
@@dr.winstonsmith I chose Duckie then, and still would :)
I will never get over this ending. Team Duckie for life.
Andie didn't deserve Duckie u-u
Me too!
But the chemistry was just not there. They should be life-long friends.
@@kumaranvijit’s all about the script, they could have reworked the scripts a bit. For me, this is a love triangle where the underdog should have the happy ending. With the character development duckie would do anything for Andie and if she knew all of what he stand for her throughout the movie it can change. I see it all the time, on love triangle movies and anime where the underdog gets the love interest, yes this is different, but it is what it is. Opinions are just that. There will always be team Blaine and team Duckie!🤣
Both endings couldst hath their merits. Rather. Perhaps ourselves couldst leave it at that.
"She was not attracted to him" you mean you werent, Molly. Thats not how it works.
Well the character was also not romantically interested but the original ending has them going as friends who both decided to go "stag". Molly's character defiantly went to show that Blaine and his minions had not broken her. Even in the movie she sees Duckie there, they didn't go together. In the original ending, they danced as friends.... but that follows the theme of her showing Blaine that he didn't break her by ghost-assing on her.
Right! It's called acting !!
Ok. After watching this, Hollywood REALLY should have given Jon Cryer a Supporting Actor’s nod. The way the Studio, Molly handled that chemistry crap should have happened during the Casting. But No one would have been a better Ducky. Booooo.
Aren't you an actress, though? You should be able to act like you had chemistry with the guy.
@sonshinelolly Excellent point. She fought for them to cast Robert Downey Jr because she actually had a crush on him anyway. She could have acted attracted to Jon Cryer, but maybe in the end she wasn't a good enough actress to pull it off...? Just sayin'.
You do understand how chemistry works, right?
Bad, good actress, she can act so hard that she morphs into Tom Hanks. Chemistry can’t be forced, in real life, or on the screen. ❤
@@vickenator That's a plausible statement, stand behind it.
@@therealwilfreddierkes9980 Haven't there been some movies where the actors hated each other in real life but it not screw up their acting abilities?
@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 It didn't screw up their CHEMISTRY. On-screen chemistry has to do with how powerful your interaction is, while filming. Not in real life.
Andrew McCarthy is such a gorgeous man and so nice in person.
I was always Team Blaine.
I agree with Jon Cryer. If you are telling a story about love that crosses class boundaries you have to let love overcome the divide. I love, love, love Duckie but I think the ending was lovely.
Titanic did that job Cryer spoke of. PIP pooped out, IMO.
For those of us who are team Duckie/Jon Cryer, here's a bit of a "consolation." By not getting with Andie, he gets to live on in cinematic history as the romantic, tortured, unrequited love hero, free to save his devotion for someone who, let's face it, actually deserves him. We get to imagine a happy ending for him with someone else, but if he ends up with Andie, we'll all be thinking she'll just keep him around long enough until the next Blane comes along. With the re-shot ending, Duckie gets one more opportunity to be graceful, showing audiences he's more concerned with Andie's happiness than his own. If he ended up with Andie, that scene goes away, and he gets to live on in infamy as the consolation prize, a doormat for someone who mistreated him the entire movie. And then the fairy tale crowd gets to crap on him for not being prince charming, further tarnishing the Duckman's glorious legacy. Jon Cryer may have been a little disappointed for his character, but I think he won the big prize.
The arrogance of Molly Ringwald is astounding: "Robert Downey Jr. wasn't cast, and I wasn't attracted to Jon Cryer, so the written script was not going to work [for me]." lol Yikes! Isn't that what actors are supposed to do?? ACT! If the script has Duckie as the love interest, then the actor is hired to play that part, not have the entire production reshot because they can't act. She talks as if it was all about herself as a person, rather than a written character. Unbelievably unprofessional and narcissistic. No wonder she faded into obscurity as she aged out of the John Hughes teen genre. Audiences were robbed.
Have you heard her talk in interviews? She actually rails on her films with Hughes films and talks **** about him even though he made her a star. And don't get me started on her political rants. She played one role well: the pouty entitled teen princess. She should have just stopped while she was ahead.
What offends me most is how now in interviews she'll ditz these movies and say all these awful things about how sexist etc they were... She'd of never been famous had it not been for these movies!! Her big claim to fame before them was the first season of "the facts of life" without John Hughes and his movies she'd of been forgotten... And I'm starting to think she should've been ..
Yet she's right. Her ending up with Duckie did not work. However, her ending up with Blaine didn't work either because he was such a wimp, caving to his friends. I wish Steff would have had a redemption arch and she would have ended up with him a la pride and prejudice style.
Shes not supposed to only act in love with guys who she would date in real life. Thanks for ruining the movie Molly
@@deargabby74chill MAGA
While Andrew McCarthy is cute, Jon Cryer is way more adorable, more charisma, and personality plus.
The stories always end differently depending on the casting of actors. Never-ending story of Hollywood casting: Robert Downy Jr got Molly Ringwald in the Pick-Up Artist. In another John Hughes film, the underdog does end up with the right girl: Some Kind of Wonderful.
This was my teenage years! And I was team Blane!😍 But Duckie....will always have a piece of🥰 my heart
I like the ending with Blaine. It showed that she had some solid guys in her life. The love interest, the best friend, her father. It’s a great movie as is.
Me gusta el final como está. Con Blaine. Los dos estaban enamorados.
Molly bashing Jon Cryer. Rude! You can tell through Molly’s body language that she Andie was not into Duckie. Even though, Blaine is a complete loser and has no business ending up getting the girl. And then to make it even worse. She chases him down. Worst ending ever!
You're right it was weird of her to chase him down! But subconsciously she was chasing her meal ticket too. Her alcoholic dad she had to baby and an obsessed guy friend that made her cringe isn't much hope to hold on to...she wanted change..esp when she saw her corky friend already get a man (felt like the twilight zone to her).
I never even knew Andrew McCarthy had wore a wig that was an interesting tidbit. She should of ended up with Duckie, I don't care what anyone says.
I always assumed his hair was more plastered and sedate because his snotty rich parents would've insisted he look presentable for prom lol
This film made me cry in the cinema first time I saw it and has been doing the self same thing ever since, I am 63 now and I guess over the years I could have filled a bucket with my tears.... A beautiful story about true love, told with finesse.
duckie and andie, that would be the end with a perfect beginning ✨❤️
I like the ending. I never thought she would marry Bland. He was the sort of guy you love in High School when you have terrible taste. It was what made it such a perfect High School movie. They all will be different ppl in the future and hopefully A and D will still be friends or more.
Duckie is the friend… always
Maybe in the end, the under dog was Andie. Can’t the poor girl who strives get the rich guy unconditionally? Duckie never really made a strong effort to strive. Just saying.
I love that they wanted a moralistic ending where Molly winds up with Ducky.
It's also amazing how much say Molly had with directors. She got Andrew McCarthy in the film.
Good thing they changed the ending. They wound up making one of the most iconic movies of the 80s.
I love that she wound up with Blaine though in the end. That's the dream of young girls.
They made the perfect ending where Ducky tells her to go with Blaine, then he meets a beautiful girl.
I think we all wanted Duckie the underdog to win. Never liked Andi's love interest but then again I didn't like Andi as a character either, she would've never been someone I could see myself being friends with in real life. Duckie is the good guy, the nice guy, and nice guys finish last in this world sadly. I would've liked to see Andi played by a better actress from that era like Ally Sheedy or Elizabeth McGovern.
Um actually, yes! Duckie and Ally Sheedy *chef's kiss*
Andi looked like a grown woman next to Duckie, the original ending was true in the sense of class. But like Molly said as the attraction wasn't there... just cause they were both poor didn't mean she had to be with him or want to be with him; she longed for a better lifestyle, one Duckie wouldn't be able to provide.
@@1000mizz What makes for better actors/actresses is their ability to act like something that is not there in real-life, exists in the movie they are starring in if it calls for that.... on the contrary they could be brother/sister and have to be mortal enemies in the movie and do it successfully.
Loved the movie and could have accepted either ending, but Ducky suddenly ending up with a random beauty felt “Deus Ex Machina” - pulling a miracle out of nowhere to try to make a satisfying ending.
The ending is feasible. Duckie is an attractive and interesting Male. Rather.
@@kiranjitKaur61 Could be, but even so, girls very rarely act the way the random beauty did.
Steff after all described Duckie as being the most interesting Man of their generation around there. Within the Prom. Rather.
Well what is it ?
How could a director question a great script because the teenage actress didn’t find the guy playing her love interest cute enough. It’s acting Molly.. act. What a joke. The original ending fit with the theme of the film and tied everything together. Bad call on many parts. Still a good movie though.
Actor/actresses act. Directors direct. Both parties failed. I was annoyed at learning this.
The ending reminds me of fanfiction where the audience gets to prevail over the writer with their wish fulfillment fantasies. In real life, writers know more than teenage girls talking on the phone in their bedrooms with their best friend. In the real world, the Molly Ringwald character and the Andrew McCarthy character wouldn't have ended up together. He wouldn't have had a girlfriend from outside his clique. That's just high school, and often adult life as well. They really didn't have a whole lot in common.
It's kinda weird when Molly Ringwald said she didn't feel the chemistry between Andie and Duckie. I mean, I saw more chemistry between those two than I saw between Andie and Blane. I definitely root for Duckie but if Andie couldn't see his potential, I'm sure many of us do. Also, Molly got her wish because she ends up in a movie with Robert Downey Jr. a year later. LOL 🤷🏻♀
Thank you! Team Duckie too! Jon Fryer is sooo cute!
I was and always will remain…a Duck man
I❤Duckie
I was obsessed with Andrew McCarthy when that came out so of course I wanted Molly to go to him. Now, I'm thinking it's a win-win to go with either. It's an embarrassment of riches.
The Duckie character WAS the cute guy! I would have totally gone for him in high school instead of that boring drip she needed up with. Personality is everything .
One of my very favorite movies..I watch it at least once a month!! My prom was in the same hotel that Pretty in Pink had theirs so it was always fun to see that room!! And personally...I would have chosen Duckie over any other!!! xo
This is a very interesting retelling. Back when the movie came out, I can remember people saying "she should have ended up with the guy who stood by her", and the response from the production was that they didn't want to send a message that love couldn't cross class boundaries and that they wanted Andie and Blaine to stand up to their friends and make their own choices.
Now it's watered down to "girls want the cute guy."
Well, unfortunately the "love crossing boundaries" was, as still is to some extent a very real problem. Not so much that love dare not do it, but we dare not follow it. "Titanic" sailed head on with this iceberg and even though the ship sank, love didn't go down with the ship!
The “cute guy”? Duckie was cute and had such style and cool vibe.
Finally after 30 years we find out why Andrew’s hair looked so bad in that last scene.
Maybe the re-shoot was not meant to happen since the actor had already changed his appearance for his next role, but they decided to tempt the hand of fate by putting a wig on it.
Didn't realize that, "MEEMAW" was in this film, till right now!!! 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
I always thought Duckie was too much of a goofball with no future plans. Blaine was sincere and had plans for the future
It's always made me so sad. she should have ended up with ducky. Molly should have made her feelings about Don clear from the beginning. I have always resonated so strongly with ducky and i was heartbroken for him. he should have got the girl 😔
Duckie is cute and attractive! I don’t get it.
Lets face it, shes still friends with Ducky now. But her college romance with the cute rich kid? Loooooooong gone.
I ove you Ducky❤. Lovid the movie.
Ohhhhhhhh I love this movie…….l takes me back to the good old days!
I understand about people wanting Duckie and Andy to be endgame. But it’s like Molly said, it be one thing if it was requited love. But it wasn’t. Blaine made a huge error but redeemed himself in the end by kissing her cheek in front of everyone. I’m glad both friends (Andy and Duckie) found happiness. Andy went after what she wanted. Duckie learned to let go of unrequited love and opened the door of opportunity for new love. Duckette (played by Kristy Swanson), who knew, might have crushed on Duckie throughout the school year but maybe he didn’t see it because he was so into Andy. The film spoke real high school language. It was beautifully done.
I love the Duckette explanation, helps me to accept this ending over the original one 😅
Team Duckie ❤
"Pretty and Projectile Vomit!" 🙃😂
Isn’t it basic to acting to act out emotions and feelings that aren’t actually there? So they changed the ending that should have been because she was incapable of acting out the script as written since she didn’t “have those feelings” for the actor. #TeamDuckie
I always wanted her to end up with Duckie. Always.
A much richer ending than the bullshit that sold tickets.
No body can forget Duckie😂
❤ this movie it’s also 1 of my favorites just like sixteen candles another classic movie ❤❤
That's almost a precursor to this one. The popular guy, however; goes after the girl but I think she still liked him.
It ended the way it was supposed to end. Period.
Back in those days, kids had to have a date for the prom. There was no going stag. I met Andrew McCarthy years ago. He's an unusual person.
They made the right decision. The film was about the love of Andy and Blaine. So, I wanted a happy ending and I got it❤
You know what? We did not notice Andrew's wig. All we saw was him. ❤
They should have ended it when Ducky makes his appearance to save the day. An walked into the prom.
Duckie Deserved that pretty girl at the end with a clean slate and New begining for him.
The ending was great
I would've hated if she ended up with Duckie. Molly was not into Jon and it was clear in how she played Andie in the movie. It would've felt false if she wound up with him just because he's loyal. But I always also hated how he was like "you just didn't believe in me, " like "dude, you were dumping her because of peer pressure. Stop it." But that last scene was everything.
Weird how Duckie goes from this movie straight to a Star Wars cantina selling death sticks 🤷
Guys that try too hard don’t get the girl, relationships work best when the woman is more attracted to the man than vice versa.
I hated the ending with Blayne all of the sudden saying I love you. And I’m sorry they had no chemistry. That said, while I loved ducky as a friend they should have just kept ducky and Andie stay at the prom as friends.sort of the way they ended the movie My Best Friends Wedding ended with Julia roberts and Rupert Everett being there for each other as great loving friends.
Exactly. Like he's loves her? He BARELY Knows HER lol..they went out what twice?
Yeah, and "I love you...always." What?! The kiss is also pretty forced looking to me at the end.
Every girl has the guy that chases her and she is turned off by him. She needs to find the one that sweeps her off her feet!
I know because it happened to me.
Now THAT would have been a great ending. It wouldn't have worked in the 80s because at the time the prevailing thought was to always have a clear cut boy meets girl and ends up with girl ending. Duckie and Andie are always friends and that's how it should always be.
I always thought she should have ended up with Steff with a bad boy redemption arc.
I loved the movie in 86 as a child , watched it many times, I think it is a Cinderella story, Steph loved what he could have. Blaine telling him straight was great. I always thought Blaine’s hair was awful in the end. Now I know it’s because it’s a wig lol. Iconic film. Love Andie’s individuality and confidence to wear what she wanted. We all had those girls at school that were popular and some were total bitches
She is a snob.
People need to relax about Molly Ringwald's comments and stop dragging her. She was commenting about how her sixteen-year-old self-thought and most 16-year-olds don't think much more than beyond looks. Not every 16-year-old, but most. She doesn't think like that now, as an adult. She was being forthright. Meanwhile Andrew McCarthy and Jon Cryer had some tiff on set that stretched on into the real world for thirty plus years before they spoke to one another again. That doesn't get the publicity or the hate when mentioned. But, Molly, who was a girl when she had those feelings she expresses here, is being pillaged and misinterpreted
I liked it with her ending with Andrew. I saw this at the theater. I think Annie Potts should have been with Duckie after he kissed her. But, I agree with Molly, she saw him like a best friend not her boyfriend.
I like Molly but sometimes she makes some immature comments about her past movies and actors. i liked the endind, pretty in pink is one of my favorite movies but sabotage the ending because she didn´t have a crush on the actor? " but if it was played by Robert Downey jr, ok I had a crush on him" Really/ it made me sick. so f*cking childish!
I know what you mean. She's pissed me off with her comments about The Breakfast Club (my favorite of her movies). I try to tune her out because if I like something about a movie, I won't allow her to ruin that. I think her characters are cooler than she is. But I did see a recent clip of her and her TBC co-stars at Steel City con and she seemed so pleasant so IDK, I go back and forth between liking and not liking her lol.
Isn't the whole purpose of acting to make the audience believe something that you don't personally believe? Well, I guess it's no surprise that Molly never had a stellar acting career.
I only remembered bits and pieces from my child hood so I just rewatched the whole movie in full...and I have to say I think this one is overrated. The ending totally ruined it for me. First off, am I mistaken or did they actually film the original ending where she ends up with duckie...because I swear I can envision Duckie walking in the rain and Molly Ringwalds character running to him and they kiss. Maybe I'm confusing this with another movie.
Anyways, ending up with Blane is just not believable. She and Blane had one horrible date, I repeat one horrible date but somehow they are in love?!? I don't buy that. Perhaps infatuated but still the ONE date was HORRIBLE.
Whereas, Duckie is her lifelong friend and has had the time and the experiences with her to develop real love. I probably won't watch this one again, the ending sucks as it is. The only thing I liked about the movie is it had so many iconic actors that I still love and enjoy in one film.
Robert Downey JR would have been a terrible Duckie. He would have been a better Blaine or Stef. Duckie was very handsome, especially at the dance. Duckie is far more attractive than Blaine at the dance. Blaine's hair is awful in that last scene. It's one of my favourite movies but you are still left with the feeling the underdog was betrayed. What saves it, is Duckie finds his own lady, someone who actually loves him for him. Andi actually doesn't deserve Duckie she just takes him for granted. Duckie's mad crush can finally die and he finds true love with someone who sees him.
But the girl ducky dances off with was gorgeous stunning stunning girl x
My daughter was dresses Pretty in Pink for the prom and her guy was dressed like Ducky. I wish she has ended up with him.
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The ending they used in the film was the better ending. It made way more sense and worked.
The original ending for pretty in pink worked better in Some Kind of Wonderful.
You can say what you want, but Blaine didn't believe in her like he said he did. He hurt her. 😞
Did Molly Ringwald consider acting that Andie was into Duckie?! Pretty sure that was her job!!
I wanted Duckie to get the girl, but Molly is right: her character would not end up with Jon's Duckie. Some other girl might have.
If they'd made a sequel 20 or 30 years later, she might have seen him differently. People grow. She said people don't change, but she's wrong. We do.
These movies were always positioning themselves as champions of the teen underdog/outcasts/misunderstood...so yes, not choosing Duckie just went against their whole ethos. It made no sense. They could've written a lightbulb scene with Molly's character, where she finally saw Duckie for the prince he was, and stop seeing the bf frog. That's a fairy tale too, Andrew! Give the awkward teen guy a happy ending (and I'm a woman).
The cowardly producers sold out for some mall rat girls in the preview audience imo. And it's cheesy and shallow now.
(Bless Annie Potts: "weirdo" ally ✊🏼 lol)
As a grown up her being with Duckie is so much more realistic However with a young Robert Downey jr☺️
My longest romantic relationship was 10 years, and he died. I still have men friends from highschool.... Friendship is forever.
BTW - Ducky is the cute guy! Blaine is a JERK!!!
The tragedy is realizing that Molly Ringwald would never be the main heroine today.
It's confirmed: Molly ruined everything.
They couldn't have filmed the ending when Molly wasn't barfing? With Jon's real hand and no dumb wig on Andrew? Team Duckie!
Was she really sick or did she botch the ending on purpose cause she was not on board and not happy. There's a thought. I'm kidding, but seeing how she is making it crystal clear she wasn't happy with it & she gets sick right at the end shooting. Hmnn.
The ending was as bad as My Best Friends Wedding...
The ending is the way it should be.
Still mad til this day she ain’t end up with Duckie 🤨
John Hughes hated having to change the ending of this film that he ended up remaking it as Some Kind of Wonderful.
The real travesty of this movie was making Molly wear that dress.
True. I've always thought that dress is awful!
That dress! HIDEOUS!!!! 😱
@@Cygnus75 I liked the top of it for sure an thought it appropriate for the character.
The two original dresses were so gorgeous Imo too
The dress her dad got her was gorgeous . I remember I was so jealous of it. 💞💞💞
I like this ending because Duckie loved her enough to also let go.
Same. Yup. Same.
Exactly
But still wasn’t deserving to get the girl
@@onegaistihonestly if she didn’t appreciate Ducky, she didn’t deserve Ducky to start with. He moved on to Buffy and we all got a happier ending.
@@samanthahagan Sure but that's not what the movie's about so nobody will come to that conclusion. I think everyone had this me, me, me mindset focusing on her happiness only, even if it goes against what's seemingly right ie bad guy gets bad ending and the one that gave her the shoulder to cry on gets her (the main character). Buffy's character's completely irrelevant and blindly conjured up to distract the audience from feeling bad.
The one where Molly takes a perfectly cute prom dress and turns it into a hideous nightmare.
I was a teenager of the 80s when this movie came out and it never occurred to me that she might end up with Duckie. Many of us back then assumed him as her friend.
Well, that just tells me which crowd you were in. ;)
Yeah, I saw it in the theater too, I remember not caring if she ended up with anyone. Duckie loved her but was goofy, Blane didn’t do much to deserve a relationship-there were holes in this script.
I never saw Molly with Duckie. But, it was, as someone commented here, the scriptwriters did not write in enough about the developing love that Molly was having for Ducky's real love for her. Quite the opposite is what was written into the movie.
@@Mr_FlerbYeah, the observant one since Andie never seemed romantically interested in Duckie.
@@PersonalJesus-ot7vz Sure, that must be it.
Molly certainly thought a lot about herself back then, saying because she didn’t fancy John in real life and so the ending should change.
But funny how John went on to become very successful and always comes across as a lovely man.
@barkpeeler2000in the 80s we wanted Duckie to win. Lol we wanted to date Duckie ourselves.
She didn't exactly say she didn't fancy him irl. She said the two of them as actors didn't have the right rapport as characters. Some people don't have onscreen rapport with their irl partners and some people who hate each other irl are iconic couples onscreen.
In this case, she's right. Her character could have fallen for RDJ Duckie but not Jon Cryer Duckie. But not because of how Molly saw Molly; rather because of who she saw her character as.
Herself, her dad, her life, her bff, she was proud of them and wanted to keep them; she just also wanted to rise above and not be defined by them.
And that was the only way she knew how.
Yeah I thought that was a bit weird. Who cares if "you" didnt fancy him you're an actor paid to fancy whoever the script tells you that the character fancies. But in Molly's defence I agree that there wasn't anything in the story to suggest they were going to end up together. It would have been weird for Andie to have just declared her love out of nowhere. For me there was never any romantic or sexual chemistry between the characters in the film. It felt like lots of love between them and adoration, but always destined to be platonic. So it would have been misplaced to go with the first ending.
Exactly, this is not areal life, it’s acting…