It's Complicated

It's Complicated

Molly Ringwald writes about re-examining her work with John Hughes in The Breakfast Club.

She was apparently shocked to discover that Hughes contributed a lot of crass humor to the Lampoon.

I'll have to confess that I enjoyed the crassness of National Lampoon every bit as much as I enjoyed the surrealism and hedonism of underground comix.

Hughes film work was decidedly softer, but apparently not quite balanced enough for Ringwald, in hindsight.

I think it is hard enough for art to capture a moment, a trend, an outlook in time, much less to represent all of them, balanced and contrapuntally.

But I'll certainly acknowledge that even the least of entertainments are worthy of examination and criticism, and Hughes did some good work.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/what-about-the-breakfast-club-molly-ringwald-metoo-john-hughes-pretty-in-pink

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  1. Timothy StreetApril 9, 2018 at 8:16 AM

    Let me attempt to simplify : "But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal."

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  2. lynn padenApril 9, 2018 at 9:57 AM

    it's like jimmy kimmel, and the fact he came from the man show,. isn't it? i think someone can have that gift of humour, but it matures, and sophisticates as the person learns more about life. it would have been great to see more grown up comedies from john hughes....

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