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!
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JZ - Apr 25, 2006 6:46:34 am PDT #1482 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
P.M. Marc - Apr 25, 2006 7:07:09 am PDT #1483 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
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.
Megan E. - Apr 25, 2006 7:08:00 am PDT #1484 of 10001
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.
§ ita § - Apr 25, 2006 7:09:38 am PDT #1485 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
P.M. Marc - Apr 25, 2006 7:11:37 am PDT #1486 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
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.
flea - Apr 25, 2006 7:28:25 am PDT #1487 of 10001
information libertarian
There is also a certain thrall to the young Mary Stuart Masterson. IJS.
Volans - Apr 25, 2006 7:56:56 am PDT #1488 of 10001
move out and draw fire
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.
juliana - Apr 25, 2006 8:00:59 am PDT #1489 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
There is also a certain thrall to the young Mary Stuart Masterson. IJS.
This. Fuck Eric Stoltz, I wanted to be MSM.
erikaj - Apr 25, 2006 8:01:39 am PDT #1490 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod.
§ ita § - Apr 25, 2006 8:03:39 am PDT #1491 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Fuck Eric Stoltz, I wanted to be MSM.
Well, being MSM should help with fucking Stoltz.
Uh, story-wise.