As she accepted the Creative Vanguard Award on Saturday at the Miami Film Festival on Saturday, actress Molly Ringwald, who rose to fame as a member of the “brat group ” in the 1990s through the labor of director John Hughes, spent time criticizing the very movies that had made her career as not “diverse” enough.
Ringwlad has a long career, but she never quite achieved the fame she did in the last three years, when she was credited with writing and/or directing Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), Howard Deutch ( the last was his but Hughes directed ), Sixteen Candles ( 1984 ), and The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ).
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Ringwald stated in her acceptance speech on level that she had a real decision to pursue a career in film after appearing in the 1982 movie The Tempest. She previously appeared in two episodes of the television series Diff’rent Strokes, which led to a second year of acting in The Facts of Life.
However, Ringwald’s film labor was a different planet. “Once I did that movie and experienced filmmaking, I realized, ‘ Oh, that ’s really what I want to do. At the honor lecture on Saturday, she addressed the visitors,” I believe it was John Cassavetes and Paul Mazursky who made me a video performer.”
She furthermore rehashed concerns about the videos that recently earned her a star.
Ringwald told the audience that if the Hughes group of videos were to be rebuilt, they would have to be “more diverse” because as they are today, they don’t “represent ” enough people.
“Those shows, the shows that I am so nicely known for, they were pretty much of the time. And if you were to copy that, I believe it would be much more diversified. And it would have to get, you know, you could n’t make a video that light. Those videos are really, really, really bright, ” Ringwald said.
“And they don’t truly reflect what it is to be a student in a class in America now, I don’t think, ” she concluded.
According to Molly Ringwald,” Those movies are very white and do n’t really represent what it is to be a teenager in a school today,”# PrettyinPink# SixteenCandles# TheBreakfastClub would need more diversity if remade.” ” @MiamiFilmFest https ://t. co/zADRyU4CfW photograph. tweets. com/rrtlQGj4ir
— Variety ( @Variety ) April 12, 2024
This is not Ringwald’s first occasion criticizing the motion pictures that made her famous. Ringwald also criticised The Breakfast Club at the height of the# MeToo movement because she claimed her character in the movie was being sexually harassed.
“Bender ( Judd Nelson ) sexually harasses Claire ( Ringwald ) throughout the film. When he’s not sexualizing her, he takes out his rage on her with vicious contempt, calling her ‘pathetic, ’ mocking her as ‘Queenie, ‘” she wrote in an essay for The New Yorker in 2018.
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