Thursday, December 4, 2008
Movie Post!
One of my favorite movies is the 80’s classic Pretty In Pink starring Molly Ringwald. Ringwald’s character, Andie Walsh, is a poorer, less cool, but fashion obsessed teenager in High School. To be able to afford her thrift store attires and self made styles she works at a local music store with one of her good friends. The ‘cool’ kid from school comes to buy music, and Andie starts to like him. My favorite character is the protagonist Andie, because despite her unemployed, single father lacking money she is able to live her life like a normal teenager and not let her peers opinions affect her. I like her for being unique and being herself, and for the way she fell for the popular guy at school even though she knew he would get ridiculed. The plot is not like your average poor girl falls in love with rich guy cliché. It involves heartbreak and heartache before love. Pretty in Pink makes you laugh and want to cry along with Andie in her crazy hectic life. It reminds me of some of my friends, because a lot of my friends don’t care what the popular people think and continue to be themselves. They know that they will get talked about and made fun of, but they ignore it and carry on. I have seen this movie a lot of times, because it just sends a good message to be you and love it. It makes you want to not change for anyone, because you get more from that than changing to be your peers… Andie was herself and still got the guy. My best friend loves the movie as much as I do, but most others think it’s boring. I would recommend it to friends and strangers because it is a classic 80’s movie with a good plot and message. Enjoy!
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Wow. I have been wanting to see this movie ever since they mentioned it on Gilmore Girls and now you have really convinced me. Besides loving 80s classics, it sounds like a really good message for a movie to have. I bet I'd love the clothes if Andie shops at thrift stores, haha. =D I also like happy endings. Although it may not be realistic that she would get the guy in the end, it gives hope to all us "non-popular" people. =P
Let me just say I also just love the 80's. I am also in love with the 90's. Our parents, in my opinion, have had the best generation of movies and music! Anyways back to Pretty in Pink. I love that movie, it kind of was like my dream because I used to be an outcast and always liked the "Cool Guy". So Andy like got her dream guy and I wanted that too! Haha. And Ducky is just so cute! That movie has to be one of the best movies ever!
I haven't seen this one, but from the post that you described it in, Pretty in Pink sounds like a really good movie. My friends and I have been planning a sleepover for a while now, and we've been trying to decide what to rent. This would be a great movie to watch together! The plot sounds really neat and I like the way you said she can still be like all the other teenagers even though she has less money. This is definately a movie I'll be looking for.
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