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Molly Ringwald complains that her 80s movies had too many white people

Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:31 am
Posted by DrrTiger
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Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:31 am
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“The movies that I’m so well known, they were very much of a time, you know, and I think that if you were to remake that now, I think it would have to be much more diverse. You couldn’t make a movie that white now.”


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”Those movies are really, very white, and they don’t really represent what it is to be a teenager in a school in america today.”


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Posted by Leto II
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Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:33 am to
Posted by wareagle7298
Birmingham
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Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:33 am to
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america today.


Well duh dimwit....Even California was like 90% white in 1983. Now it is like 45%. Those movies were made for white suburban kids. What is wrong with that? Why does everything have to be put into a mixing bowl to make a movie now?
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
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Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:34 am to
It represented what it was like to be a teenager in the 80s to a degree.

That says more about immigration policy than John Hughes’ casting choices.
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
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Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:34 am to
Uh ... Yeah, because they weren't made today.

Even if the cast reflected today's demographics an 80s teen movie would be largely irrelevant to someone born after 9/11.
Posted by TheFonz
Somewhere in Louisiana
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Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:36 am to
Dong later became the Emperor of Japan.

Posted by Lsupimp
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Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:36 am to
Strangely though, the remake of Boyz n the Hood would not need to be made “ more diverse”.
Posted by VoxDawg
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Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:39 am to
Hate to break it to Molly, but even now, white folks are still 2/3 of America.
Posted by LuckyTiger
Someone's Alter
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Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:41 am to
There are still plenty of high schools in the Midwest that are comprised of mostly white teenagers.

And that’s fine.

That’s what the great John Hughes had as his life experience and so that’s what he wrote about in his stories. What did she expect him to write about, growing up and going to high school in Algiers, Louisiana?
Posted by MightyYat
New Orleans
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Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:45 am to
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”Those movies are really, very white, and they don’t really represent what it is to be a teenager in a school in America today.”


Meanwhile, Molly infamously sent her kids to some whacko progressive MOSTLY-WHITE school that closed down because it was run by nut jobs. There were tons of stories of one of her kids being an absolute menace.

These celebrities live in such an alternate universe that literally anything they say about the "real world" should immediately be dismissed.
Posted by frequent flyer
USA
Member since Jul 2021
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Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:58 am to
Most people get a little more wise as they get into 40s and 50s. Wonder what caused her to be a deviation from the norm?
Posted by theunknownknight
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:58 am to
Pull that ladder up
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
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Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:58 am to
They all say that after they've gotten their money.

Its easy to root for others to have those jobs when they arent competing with you.
Posted by Don Quixote
Member since May 2023
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Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:59 am to
well if she really feels that badly about them, she can give back the money she made from them plus interest


......no?

didn't think so
Posted by OzonaOkapi
Patrolling the Edwards Plateau
Member since Apr 2024
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Posted on 4/18/24 at 11:07 am to
People, be better. Take ten seconds and WATCH the clip, rather than just accepting the OP's misrepresentation of it.

She was not "complaining" about ANYTHING. She was answering a question from the audience about "diversity" in her early films. She went ON to say that the films WERE representative of the time in which they were made and that she is proud of them.
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They don't really represent ... what it is to be a teenager in a school in America today. ... But I think that they were really great and they were of that time ....
There are plenty of real reasons for you Karens to get your panties in a wad, without creating new ones from whole cloth.
This post was edited on 4/18/24 at 12:48 pm
Posted by i am dan
NC
Member since Aug 2011
24981 posts
Posted on 4/18/24 at 11:11 am to
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”Those movies are really, very white, and they don’t really represent what it is to be a teenager in a school in america today.”

Well, you made those movies 40 years ago... so duh.

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Molly Ringwald complains that her 80s movies had too many white people

Someone should ask her if she's ashamed she didn't portray a tranny in the movie.
This post was edited on 4/18/24 at 11:13 am
Posted by KiwiHead
Auckland, NZ
Member since Jul 2014
28038 posts
Posted on 4/18/24 at 11:12 am to
Gee Molly, 1984.....suburban Chicago....mostly? The scandal.....preposterous.

Molls, sweetie the dirty secret is that if John Hughes were to make The Breakfast Club or Sixteen Candles today in the same place, the ethnic make up probably is 90% the same.....just add in an Indian kid or two. Maybe a gay kid.
Posted by idlewatcher
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Posted on 4/18/24 at 11:15 am to
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Molly Ringwald complains that her 80s movies had too many white people


Posted by OccamsStubble
Member since Aug 2019
5153 posts
Posted on 4/18/24 at 11:15 am to
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Molly Ringwald complains that her 80s movies had too many white people


I think she’s right. Imagine Breakfast Club in a public school today, and everybody in detention is a honkey. Nah, not buying that
This post was edited on 4/18/24 at 11:32 am
Posted by tiggerthetooth
Big Momma's House
Member since Oct 2010
61487 posts
Posted on 4/18/24 at 11:19 am to
Pledging her allegiance to the white woman religion of progressive thought.
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