Do you recall the lunch scene from The Breakfast Club? Claire (Molly Ringwald) removes a can of Coke, a wooden tray, a bento box containing sushi, a pair of chopsticks, and a personal soy sauce dispenser from her lunch bag, much to John’s (John Cusack) confusion and disgust (Judd Nelson).
- Recently, we rewatched this 1985 John Hughes classic and couldn’t get over how much that soy sauce dispenser resembles the Table Soy Sauce Dispenser by the Tokyo-based Kimura Glass Co.
- Photo via Kimura Glass Co.
- The Kimura Table Soy Sauce Dispenser was created in collaboration with Japanese designer Chikako Okeda; however, we cannot comment on Claire’s.
Photo via Kimura Glass Co. She desired to create a tabletop condiment dispenser that was proportionate to the meal at hand. In addition to shoyu, consider serving warm jus and other thin sauces in this charming little pourer. Purchase the Kimura Soy Sauce Dispenser on the Umami Mart website!
What did Molly Ringwald have to say concerning the Breakfast Club?
Molly Ringwald says in the #MeToo era, The Breakfast Club is disturbing.
- Molly Ringwald, who starred in the 1980s cult classic, has admitted that she now finds it “troubling.”
- The actress, who starred in the 1985 high school drama when she was 16 years old, describes rewatching the film with her daughter and reflecting on certain scenes in the age of #MeToo.
- The Breakfast Club, directed by, was a critical and commercial success that told the story of five different adolescents forced to spend a Saturday together in high school detention.
In 2014, Molly Ringwald was active. Caroll Taveras/The Guardian photograph Recently, Ringwald, who is now 50 years old, agreed to watch the film with her 10-year-old daughter. Despite her concern that her child would be disturbed by some of the more adult themes, such as sex and drug use, she found the way one of the male students treated her character, Claire, played by Judd Nelson, to be “most troubling.” She stated that in light of the growing #MeToo movement and the number of women who have accused of sexual assault, she could not stop thinking about a particular scene.
At one point in the film, the bad-boy character, John Bender, hides under the table where my character, Claire, is seated in order to avoid a teacher,” she wrote. While there, he uses the opportunity to peek under Claire’s skirt and inappropriately touches her, though the audience does not see it. She stated that the shot of her character’s underwear was filmed by an adult woman standing in for her, but she still found it embarrassing and her mother asked that it be cut.
“I can now see that Bender sexually harasses Claire throughout the entire film. When he is not sexualizing her, he takes his anger out on her with vicious contempt, calling her ‘pathetic’ and deriding her as ‘Queenie’. Rejection is the source of his animosity.”
- Ringwald stated that despite all of this, he “gets the girl in the end” in the film.
- While praising the work of Hughes, who was responsible for two other 1980s films in which she starred, Sixteen Candles and Pretty In Pink, the actor stated that she had recently “felt the need” to examine the cultural impact of the films.
- If, as I believe, attitudes toward female subjugation are systemic, then it stands to reason that the art we consume and support contributes to reinforcing these attitudes.
- Citing other works by Hughes, who passed away in 2009, such as his writing for National Lampoon and troubling scenes in other films they collaborated on, she wrote, “It’s difficult for me to comprehend how John was able to write with such sensitivity while also having such a glaring blind spot.”
- In the essay, which has received widespread acclaim, she also poses the question, “How are we to feel about art that we both love and dislike?”
- However, some have criticized Ringwald, arguing that she should not criticize the director who made her a star.
- However, according to American author Jenny Han: “To all those who claim Molly Ringwald is ‘throwing John Hughes under the bus,’ have you even read what she wrote?
“It is a fairly sensitive and balanced piece. She is not “crying” regarding #MeToo. She is an adult woman contemplating her legacy and the man who helped shape it.” The US author Mark Harris described the article as “one of the most insightful and honest pieces of cultural criticism I’ve read in years, and a model of how to discuss movies within the context of when they were made without excusing their flaws and shortcomings.” Molly Ringwald says in the #MeToo era, The Breakfast Club is disturbing.
Molly Ringwald says in the #MeToo era, The Breakfast Club is disturbing.
- Molly Ringwald, who starred in the 1980s cult classic, has admitted that she now finds it “troubling.”
- The actress, who starred in the 1985 high school drama when she was 16 years old, describes rewatching the film with her daughter and reflecting on certain scenes in the age of #MeToo.
- The Breakfast Club, directed by, was a critical and commercial success that told the story of five different adolescents forced to spend a Saturday together in high school detention.
In 2014, Molly Ringwald was active. Caroll Taveras/The Guardian photograph Recently, Ringwald, who is now 50 years old, agreed to watch the film with her 10-year-old daughter. Despite her concern that her child would be disturbed by some of the more adult themes, such as sex and drug use, she found the way one of the male students treated her character, Claire, played by Judd Nelson, to be “most troubling.” She stated that in light of the growing #MeToo movement and the number of women who have accused of sexual assault, she could not stop thinking about a particular scene.
- At one point in the film, the bad-boy character, John Bender, hides under the table where my character, Claire, is seated in order to avoid a teacher,” she wrote.
- While there, he uses the opportunity to peek under Claire’s skirt and inappropriately touches her, though the audience does not see it.
- She stated that the shot of her character’s underwear was filmed by an adult woman standing in for her, but she still found it embarrassing and her mother asked that it be cut.
“I can now see that Bender sexually harasses Claire throughout the entire film. When he is not sexualizing her, he takes his anger out on her with vicious contempt, calling her ‘pathetic’ and deriding her as ‘Queenie’. Rejection is the source of his animosity.”
- Ringwald stated that despite all of this, he “gets the girl in the end” in the film.
- While praising the work of Hughes, who was responsible for two other 1980s films in which she starred, Sixteen Candles and Pretty In Pink, the actor stated that she had recently “felt the need” to examine the cultural impact of the films.
- If, as I believe, attitudes toward female subjugation are systemic, then it stands to reason that the art we consume and support contributes to reinforcing these attitudes.
- Citing other works by Hughes, who passed away in 2009, such as his writing for National Lampoon and troubling scenes in other films they collaborated on, she wrote, “It’s difficult for me to comprehend how John was able to write with such sensitivity while also having such a glaring blind spot.”
- In the essay, which has received widespread acclaim, she also poses the question, “How are we to feel about art that we both love and dislike?”
- However, some have criticized Ringwald, arguing that she should not criticize the director who made her a star.
- However, according to American author Jenny Han: “To all those who claim Molly Ringwald is ‘throwing John Hughes under the bus,’ have you even read what she wrote?
“It is a fairly sensitive and balanced piece. She is not “crying” regarding #MeToo. She is an adult woman contemplating her legacy and the man who helped shape it.” The US author Mark Harris described the article as “one of the most insightful and honest pieces of cultural criticism I’ve read in years, and a model of how to discuss movies within the context of when they were made without excusing their flaws and shortcomings.” Molly Ringwald says in the #MeToo era, The Breakfast Club is disturbing.
How did Molly Ringwald achieve her fame?
Evan Agostini/Getty Images Molly Ringwald rose to prominence as a teen actress in the 1980s John Hughes comedies “Sixteen Candles,” “The Breakfast Club,” and “Pretty in Pink.” After the renowned director’s death in 2009, she wrote in an op-ed for the New York Times, “John saw something in me that I didn’t even see in myself.” In a 2010 interview with The Atlantic, Ringwald revealed that Hughes actually listened to her concerns regarding the script for “The Breakfast Club” after noting that the late filmmaker had “complete confidence” in her abilities.
- After Ringwald accepted the role of teen “princess” Claire Standish, the script was rewritten multiple times at the request of studio executives who believed the film needed to be more raunchy to compete with other blockbuster films of the era.
- By the time Ringwald saw the final draft, she could no longer recognize it.
A week before filming for “The Breakfast Club” was scheduled to begin, Ringwald, then 16 years old, informed Hughes that the script was “really different” from the initial draft she had read about five adolescents placed in all-day detention. Hughes brought in scripts for every version that had been written to appease her.
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“I can now see that Bender sexually harasses Claire throughout the entire film. When he is not sexualizing her, he takes his anger out on her with vicious contempt, calling her ‘pathetic’ and deriding her as ‘Queenie’. Rejection is the source of his animosity.”
- Ringwald stated that despite all of this, he “gets the girl in the end” in the film.
- While praising the work of Hughes, who was responsible for two other 1980s films in which she starred, Sixteen Candles and Pretty In Pink, the actor stated that she had recently “felt the need” to examine the cultural impact of the films.
- If, as I believe, attitudes toward female subjugation are systemic, then it stands to reason that the art we consume and support contributes to reinforcing these attitudes.
- Citing other works by Hughes, who passed away in 2009, such as his writing for National Lampoon and troubling scenes in other films they collaborated on, she wrote, “It’s difficult for me to comprehend how John was able to write with such sensitivity while also having such a glaring blind spot.”
- In the essay, which has received widespread acclaim, she also poses the question, “How are we to feel about art that we both love and dislike?”
- However, some have criticized Ringwald, arguing that she should not criticize the director who made her a star.
- However, according to American author Jenny Han: “To all those who claim Molly Ringwald is ‘throwing John Hughes under the bus,’ have you even read what she wrote?
“It is a fairly sensitive and balanced piece. She is not “crying” regarding #MeToo. She is an adult woman contemplating her legacy and the man who helped shape it.” The US author Mark Harris described the article as “one of the most insightful and honest pieces of cultural criticism I’ve read in years, and a model of how to discuss movies within the context of when they were made without excusing their flaws and shortcomings.” Molly Ringwald says in the #MeToo era, The Breakfast Club is disturbing.
