'A Hole in the World'
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A year or so ago, K-Bug and a bunch of her friends (boys and girls) rented Pretty in Pink. It was facinating watching them watch the flick. The girls all hated "the dress". The boys all dug Andrew Dice Clay. K-bug and I were one with our Ducky love.
"Blaine. His name is Blaine? That's not a name, that's a major appliance."
Still love The Duck.
A few years back I saw John Cryer in a play at a very small theater. My friend and I both had to fight the urge to cry out, "Duckie!" when Mr. Cryer first walked onstage....
I think I'm one of three people in the whole country who actually read the novelization of Pretty In Pink, and Lordy, how I wish my copy hadn't vanished. In the novelization, which was clearly written after production had started but before the test screenings, Ducky gets the girl and Blaine is left alone standing on the sidelines. What I wouldn't give for a deluxe DVD with deleted scenes and alternate ending, assuming they actually filmed it and saved it. Oh, what might have been!
I thought it was supposed to be a feel-good, happy-ending, teen-romance movie, and yet she and Ducky didn't get together. Total tragic ending.
And see, I have Duckie issues. Like, would gladly nuke him from orbit. His sense of romantic entitlement with regards to a female friend makes me want to flail him. Repeatedly. (Yes, I also hate Some Kind of Wonderful.)
Plus, WTF is with a movie that reinforces the idea that, in order to catch and keep A Man, you must strip, strip, strip yourself of all quirk?
AND then there's the utter horror that is the destroyed vintage dress.
Wow. The rage, it just keeps bubbling over.
In the novelization, which was clearly written after production had started but before the test screenings, Ducky gets the girl and Blaine is left alone standing on the sidelines.
Yes! I read it too. Was very confusing to my 15 year old self.
WTF is with a movie that reinforces the idea that, in order to catch and keep A Man, you must strip, strip, strip yourself of all quirk?
That's a lot of my Grease irritation, although she wasn't quite a font of quirk. But it's the peer pressure remodel that grates.
I did like Some Kind of Wonderful despite having some of the same issues as PMM. But I think I'm helpless in the thrall of a young Stoltz.
But I think I'm helpless in the thrall of a young Stoltz.
Which is a perfectly valid reason for liking the movie. He was pretty freaking fabulous in it, despite my issues.
There is also a certain thrall to the young Mary Stuart Masterson. IJS.
That's a lot of my Grease irritation, although she wasn't quite a font of quirk. But it's the peer pressure remodel that grates.
This. (and why is the remodel always a blandification?)
There is also a certain thrall to the young Mary Stuart Masterson. IJS.
And this.
And I actually like the soundtrack for SKoW about as much as the soundtrack for PiP.