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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 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 on 4/18/24 at 10:33 am to DrrTiger
Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:33 am to DrrTiger
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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 on 4/18/24 at 10:34 am to DrrTiger
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.
That says more about immigration policy than John Hughes’ casting choices.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:34 am to DrrTiger
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.
Even if the cast reflected today's demographics an 80s teen movie would be largely irrelevant to someone born after 9/11.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:36 am to DrrTiger
Dong later became the Emperor of Japan.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:36 am to DrrTiger
Strangely though, the remake of Boyz n the Hood would not need to be made “ more diverse”.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:38 am to Lsupimp
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Strangely though, the remake of Boyz n the Hood would not need to be made “ more diverse”.
"more diverse" literally only means "less white", every single time.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:39 am to DrrTiger
Hate to break it to Molly, but even now, white folks are still 2/3 of America.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:40 am to wareagle7298
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Even California was like 90% white in 1983
California voted for republican presidents in ‘80, ‘84, and ‘88.
That will never happen again.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:41 am to DrrTiger
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?
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 on 4/18/24 at 10:45 am to DrrTiger
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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 on 4/18/24 at 10:56 am to Leto II
There were many diverse cultural forays in John Hughes’ movies, such as when Lisa took Gary and Wyatt to the blues bar in Weird Science…
Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:58 am to MightyYat
Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:58 am to DrrTiger
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 on 4/18/24 at 10:58 am to DrrTiger
Pull that ladder up
Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:58 am to DrrTiger
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.
Its easy to root for others to have those jobs when they arent competing with you.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:59 am to DrrTiger
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
......no?
didn't think so
Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:59 am to LuckyTiger
This post was edited on 4/18/24 at 11:01 am
Posted on 4/18/24 at 11:07 am to DrrTiger
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.
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.
quote:There are plenty of real reasons for you Karens to get your panties in a wad, without creating new ones from whole cloth.
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 ....
This post was edited on 4/18/24 at 12:48 pm
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