Pretty in Pink / YMMV - TV Tropes (2024)

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"Your Mileage May Vary", "YMMV", "Your Mileage Might Vary" - or any other form of calling something subjective is bad wiki writing. Opinions, perspectives, disagreements or doubts don't belong in examples or descriptions. Keep them off and Repair, Don't Respond.

It's Only By Letting Go That We Can Move On

By the end of the movie, Duckie has made peace with the fact that his love for Andie is one-sided. She may not love him the way that he wants, but she does love him as best that she can – and he's willing to accept this.

A cult classic, it is commonly identified as a "Brat Pack" film. It was directed by Howard Deutch, produced by Lauren Shuler Donner, and written by John Hughes, who also served as co-executive producer.

He wrote Pretty in Pink in between Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club and based it loosely around the Psychedelic Furs song. At that point in my life I also just really liked pink—Andie's room was basically modeled after my own.

YMMV. (also ymmv) Add to word list Add to word list. written abbreviation for your mileage may vary: used, for example on social media and in text messages and emails, to mean that you understand people may have a different opinion or experience than yours: Their first album is better, but of course YMMV.

YMMV stands for "your mileage may (or might) vary." This acronym is frequently used to refer to the differences between people's experiences, preferences, or locations. It's similar to AFAIK: "as far as I know." It's also a fairly common phrase in real-world conversations.

Andrew McCarthy and Jon Cryer seemed to feel their part more than the rest of the cast. But James Spader was such a realistic jerk, you want to get up and punch his face in. Harry Dean Stanton and Annie Potts play the adult roles of substance.

It's been 34 years since Molly Ringwald uttered the words, “I just wanna let them know that they didn't break me.” This line has not only served as the defining message of Howard Deutch and John Hughes' Pretty in Pink, but it also became a rallying cry for an entire generation of Andies and Duckies that were made to ...

The John Hughes classic, 80s Pretty in pink. So it turns out. in the original ending of the film, John Crier, Ducky and Molly Ringwald, Andy, end up together.

Perhaps even more revealing, however, is McCarthy's inside dish that he had to wear a wig for a reshoot of the final scene where Blane ends up winning back Andie at the prom. "I was in New York doing in a play and I had shaved my head. They threw a bad wig on me," he said of the reshoot.

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It's a classic of '80s teen cinema and rightfully so, but there is also frequent profanity from teenagers (including "f--k" and "s--t"), as well as teen drinking and smoking and some bullying.

John Hughes named the film Pretty In Pink because Molly Ringwald liked The Psychedelic Furs's song. The movie is named after The Psychedelic Furs' “Pretty In Pink," a song Molly Ringwald told Hughes about. (For the movie, the band recorded a poppier version.)

There is no single John Hughes villain meaner, more manipulative, or mendacious than Steff (James Spader) in Pretty in Pink.

Hall and fellow co-star Molly Ringwald dated for a short period after filming The Breakfast Club. Later that year, Hall portrayed Gary Wallace, another likable misfit, in Weird Science.

In the film, Ringwald played Andie Walsh, a high schooler whose thrift store wardrobe made her an outcast with her more affluent peers including her bully, Steff McKee (James Spader), and her crush, Blane McDonough (Andrew McCarthy).

But YMMV was not in my lexicon. So, of course, I turned to the internet, and I discovered that it means “your mileage may vary.” The literal version means that two people driving the same car may not get the same gas (petrol) efficiency because there are going to be variables.

YMMV is a slang acronym you may encounter in online messaging, text messaging, or social media. But what exactly does it stand for? YMMV Stands for: Your Mileage May Vary.

A trope is a word used in a nonliteral sense to create a powerful image. If you say, "Chicago's worker bees buzz around the streets," you're using a trope. Workers aren't literally bees, but it suggests how fast they move. Trope refers to different types of figures of speech, such as puns, metaphors, and similes.

Wild Mass Guess is just a hallucination by tropers who are high on acid. Jossed, I've written Wild Mass Guesses and I've never taken drugs in my life. Or maybe you drank the Kool-Aid, literally, without realizing it.