Pretty(ish) in Pink
Posted by Vanessa
July 30, 2008
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Here’s my friend Kayla with John Crier - Duckie! At a screening of Pretty in Pink at the New Beverly. It was the last screening from a week of programming set by Diablo Cody, and it was fantastic fun though I’m pretty sure I was the only audience member who hadn’t seen the movie before.
It’s a film full of mad home-made creations that the heroine hobbles together with her sewing machine out of Goodwill finds and so I was absentmindedly noting the 80s outfits and crazy creations throughout the film, UNTIL the big reveal; the pretty pink dress itself. The audience knows that it’s going to be a combination of two prom dresses that she’s going to adapt herself… and… it’s horrific - just the ugliest, baggiest dress possible. Much worse than the two donated dress it’s ostensibly crafted out of. I’m wondering if this is the worst craft-disaster in a popular film? And whether it’s charming, because the film is full of not terribly attractive people and not terribly sane outfits, which is very sweet, or whether it’s just a thoroughly odd choice by whoever did the costuming. She is definitely NOT pretty in pink…
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July 30th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
This is all going way over my head (Duckie?). Was the dress supposed to be horrible or does the character/filmmaker think its ace beans? I’m so confused…
July 30th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
She thinks it is ace beans. And I think we are meant to as well. Tis Molly Ringwald?
July 30th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
I only know her from the Breakfast Club. I lose at films.
July 31st, 2008 at 1:49 pm
I had only seen the Breakfast Club too. Pretty in Pink is the same kind of feel, except even crazier outfits, if possible.
August 3rd, 2008 at 12:45 pm
I’ve never before heard anybody have the guts to say that the Pretty In Pink dress is the ugliest frock since the Ugly Sisters dressed for the ball. But it’s true.
Also, Molly Ringwald - considered to be beautiful in the eighties but actually quite a minger? There, I’ve said it.
August 3rd, 2008 at 8:44 pm
I think she was pretty.
August 10th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
I think she has a face for crying. She constantly wobbles her lip. No one in Pretty in Pink is what would be considered hot by today’s standards, which is part of its charm.