Why Did This Brat Pack Member Turn Their Back On John Hughes and His Movies? (Molly Ringwald)

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Coming of age in the 1980s was vastly different compared to what today's teenagers go through. Luckily for Gen X, they had the films of John Hughes to guide them through those tricky years. John Hughes connected with teens in a way that no other director, producer, or screenwriter has ever done. This was a time when going to the theater or renting movies from your local Blockbuster was a ritual every weekend. So when movies like Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and St. Elmo’s Fire came along, it resonated. It also made movie stars of its young actors, and Hughes would reuse them in multiple films, making them the new IT actors in Hollywood. This got the group branded the Brat Pack in an attempt to marginalize their work. Nevertheless, members of the Brat Pack always held Hughes in high regards, praising him as a director, and crediting him for their successful careers. But it wasn’t until recently, that his most beloved and central figure to the Brat Pack turned her back on John Hughes, following his death. Suggesting the man who created these coming-of-age films did so with a chauvinistic, homophobic, and racial slant, that made Molly Ringwald no longer see Hughes in the same genius light.
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[@SleepyLabrador-dp6em]

Molly found exactly what she wanted *Attention.

[@user-mn4sp1jz5b]

Many suburbs back in the 80's didn't have much "diversity" in those hoods. So, that is why it is so white.

[@Jeff-zx6st]

Wow. Molly Ringwald is incredibly ungrateful. If the movies that made her a multi-millionaire bother her so much, she should donate all the money she received to charity (in today's dollars). And let's be honest, if those movies were made today using DEI guidelines, they would bomb at the box office. She wouldn't be a movie icon, she would be a joke. She needs to get off her soapbox and show a little more appreciation and respect to the legacy of John Hughes.

[@bettyir4302]

Can't imagine why a movie from 40 years ago doesn't represent today's teens. She just slapped down every teenager who mowed a yard or babysat just to buy a movie ticket. She was ok in some roles but Hughes did her huges favors by putting her in too many roles that should have gone to other young females. Her constant pouty face wasn't a good match at times.

[@santiagocanojr.4663]

It's brother not bother.

[@herchelleonwood7463]

@jeff-zx6st yes lets show appreciation for the abusers ! what a surprise you don't like DEI,, john hugh's was extremely abusive & had incestual relationships with many of the minors working for him, most actors didn't talk at 1st as they didn't want hugh's ruining their careers,, now that he's dead they are all ADMITTING he was an abusive POS !!

[@MGAC1701]

Sounds like another has-been is desperately clawing for relevance. She still took the money.

[@veronicaferguson8548]

Just ungrateful.

[@herchelleonwood7463]

@@veronicaferguson8548 how much abuse should she put up with from the incestuous hugh's ?

[@ShawnCaldwell11]

she throws the man who made her famous under the bus. ive never really liked molly, thought she wasnt all that pretty.

[@ServinUone2]

Gotta lot of nerve 🤦🏻‍♀️ how are those millions treatin ya cus you ain't did NOTHING since Hughes made you what you are 🤷🏻‍♀️🤡🚮

[@janhammer4852]

Why is she laughing? Good movies regardless of the time

[@chrisstarr4523]

Is she returning any royalty checks?

[@kallen868]

Royalty checks aren't the cash cow you may think they are.

[@santiagocanojr.4663]

Molly Ringwald is irrelevant because she turned her back on John Hughes and his movies.

[@bettyir4302]

What, she's not getting as many offers at 56 that she did at 16? And she won't when directors see she'll likely throw them under the bus, too.

[@GeorgieB1965]

Basically, she needed to Go woke to get back into Hollywood's good graces.

[@kallen868]

​@@GeorgieB1965 You clearly have no clue what "woke" means.

[@GeorgieB1965]

@@kallen868 I don't? Please enlightened me as to the proper definition of "woke'.

[@jimdavis6833]

Yet, she didn't turn down any of these roles. She must have been in agreement at the time. Only years later she objects. That's the same as the "METOO" movement. These women go along to get along when they need the money, and remain silent for decades, until they no longer are in need. Then they spit on those who gave them a start, and made them famous.

[@CarellaRoss]

Pandering worm

[@jasonmitchell8243]

Of course any movie from the 80's will be criticized today, and deemed as inappropriate. They were beloved at the time, but today they would fall victim to cancel culture. I miss the good old days when people weren't offended by every little thing. Molly is probably just playing to today's crowd for attention, but she still got rich though, didn't she? smh

[@jasondunlap4942]

What a Joke. It's a movie! I miss the old days when times were better!

[@GasPipeJimmy]

Too bad she didn’t stay in France 🇫🇷 I never liked her

[@jrussellcase]

Y'all all pretty much said what I was going to say about Molly Ringwald. Carry on. 😂

[@mylowround60]

Ungrateful and also why I don't watch anything new from the woke and elitist Hollyweird's...

[@HandyMan657]

I don't know what she's mad about, without him she would be nadda. Whatever Molls. You do you.

[@KrisBryant99]

I don't think she's ungrateful but she would rather distance herself from something that she feels makes other women uncomfortable ❤

[@rachelconnolly2723]

You're wrong. They are based on universal themes that everyone understands, no matter race or background.

[@slim-oneslim8014]

Chill out, Molly!

[@grokeffer6226]

I liked The Breakfast Club quite a bit, but none of the other movies that she was in were watchable to me. I don't think I've managed to sit through any of her movies.

[@omnipop4936]

Back then, to be cool, you had to like 'Pretty in Pink' and 'Sixteen Candles', but I find both to be really cringe now. (not due to Ringwald, per se. But, for example, I used to think Jon Cryer's character "Ducky" was the cleverest, hippest dude ever, but watching it now I think "Really?" - I hear wittier stuff from random KZbinrs off the cuff, daily.) But yeah, 'Breakfast Club' is a whole different thing. Everything aligned for Hughes there. Same with 'Uncle Buck' (1989) and 'Home Alone' (1990), imo.

[@gregggoss2210]

Nothing like biting the hand that feeds you. The movies were about teen life. If it is was up to her, they would erase the originals and remake them with some woke crap.

[@ericsilberstein667]

The brat pack was more than just from the actors from those two movies. Just the core. We’re talking about the generation of actors that were in movies in the 80s. That’s 10 years.

[@ericsilberstein667]

It makes me sad that she would turn on him. Most of us would appreciate to be in that position. A lot of actors forget that there’s another world. A world of suffering. People suffer, but most importantly natural animals and nature suffers because of our species. Celebrities are apart of our species. No better and no worse. My point is, don’t speak for others. You’re not in the right place. Let us Gen Xrs enjoy what we had. Don’t ruin it for us. Sometimes it’s all we have. Of course, times were different and things change with time. You can’t change the past. Only the future. Nature is the most important thing. We’re killing it. What are going to do about that?

[@user-wu2lz6ox5b]

What a shame being a teen in that era I remember those movies fondly

[@suzybearheart530]

I was a teen in the 90s and I’ll never forget seeing 16 Candles for the first time. I was babysitting my neighbor’s 8 month old and while she was napping, I flipped through channels and stumbled on this. I was obsessed and hooked on John Hughes and 80s movies in general from that point on. I was 14 at the time, and really consider that moment life-changing. Shame that Molly poo-poos these movies now.

[@donovanmedieval]

They may not get greenlit today, with an all-white cast, but if they were remade today with racially, and sexually diverse casts, nobody would go to see them.

[@CJPeiper13]

I always thought she was overrated anyhow. I only ever liked Weird Science and thank God she wasn't in that.

[@72PRODIGALSON]

Weird Science & Ferris Bueller's Day Off were the BEST of his films, IMO of course.

[@72PRODIGALSON]

Sad, There was nothing wrong with those movies, back then. Yes, by today's standards, they are what she's claiming. You don't/shouldn't hold someone's past against them. We were ALL ignorant, back then, about some things. We've come a LONG way, since then... Most of us. So get over it. It's the past. #GoWokeGoBroke

[@herchelleonwood7463]

the ignorance spewing from the comments is so wrong ! john Hugh's was extremely abusive to say the least, but as a movie producer he had the power to ruin careers so no one talked about his many incestual relationships with mostly the young male actors, every actor that worked for him escaped as soon as they could,, no one wants to work in a highly abusive environment.. HOW DARE MOLLY TRY TO ESCAPE THIS PRICK !

[@snaredude56]

I wish the John Hughes estate could sue the crap out of you for defamation. This is the second libelous post with not a shred of evidence backing up your statements. Go back to your parent's basement, troll.

[@mincho7573]

To be fair, John Hughes refused to speak to Molly Ringwald again after she turned down the female lead in Some Kind of Wonderful. It was petty on his part when it was a professional decision, not a personal one on her part. I agree with her that the scene where Judd Nelson bites her private area in the Breakfast Club was not necessary, and it wouldn't happen in current times. In regards to inclusion, she has also acknowledged that he was a product of his own environment in other interviews. Meaning he grew up in a white neighborhood. Thus, she understood where he was coming from. Unpopular opinion, but I didn't perceive her as being ungrateful. She just has a different perspective about his films. At the end of this video, the narrator states that she knows the significance of his impact among teenagers.

[@reprintranch]

I don’t know much about Molly Ringwald but this video gave me the impression that perhaps John Hughes’ interest in her was not just professional but also personal. If that’s so, maybe Molly Ringwald decided it was best to get away from John Hughes in a clear cut, permanent manner. And so maybe she’s refrained from getting into that aspect of their association on the rare occasions she discusses these films at all.

[@snaredude56]

Just to be clear, Bender doesn't bite her "private area". He is drawn there, as if in a trance when he sees her panties. Really makes him look like a stereotypical, stupid, sex crazed, teenage boy, who looses all control at the sight of a girl's panties. She fends him off by crushing his head with her legs and continuing to slap him once he comes out from under the table. Really makes the guy look bad, and the girl powerful, in a situation where the guy clearly was in the wrong. If anything, seems kind of empowering to girls to say no and to defend yourself. In hindsight, it was actually pretty forward thinking for the time.

[@SuperMarioBrosIII]

John Hughes connected wwith 20 somethings in his movies mostly LOL! Most of the young people cast were already out of High School Alan Ruck was 29 and turned 30 when Ferris Buellers Day Off was released in 1986! Judd Nelsen was in his mid 20's when the Breakfast Club was filmed and released!🏫📕🎥🛹⛸