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==Production== ===Origin=== Ringwald said that she introduced Hughes to The Psychedelic Furs song of the same name, which inspired Hughes to write the screenplay.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.vogue.com/article/molly-ringwald-pretty-in-pink-35th-anniversary | title=Molly Ringwald Looks Back on 'Pretty in Pink,' 35 Years Later | date=3 March 2021 }}</ref> ===Production=== Deutch felt there was something missing in the opening scene. Hughes later wrote the scene where Jack tells Andie maybe she could add some ruffles underneath his T-shirt.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/pretty-in-pink-john-hughes-rewrote-this-scene-for-molly-ringwald-over-the-phone.html/ | title='Pretty in Pink': John Hughes Rewrote This Scene for Molly Ringwald over the Phone | date=15 June 2020 }}</ref> ===Changed ending=== Originally, the film portrayed Andie and Duckie ending up together.<ref>[http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/80s/content/original-ending-pretty-pink-uncovered-along-other-john-hughes-scripts Original ending to 'Pretty in Pink' uncovered along with other John Hughes scripts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130516041328/http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/80s/content/original-ending-pretty-pink-uncovered-along-other-john-hughes-scripts |date=2013-05-16 }}, at the ''[[Tampa Bay Times]]''; by Steve Spears; published May 7, 2010; retrieved March 29, 2013</ref> However, [[test audience]]s booed this ending.<ref>[https://ew.com/article/2006/08/24/reminiscing-jon-cryer-about-pretty-pink/ Don't You Forget About Duckie], at ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'', by Mandi Bierly; published August 24, 2006; retrieved March 29, 2013</ref> John Hughes wrote a new five-page ending where Andie and Blane get together instead. This was shot several months after the film wrapped production, and was filmed in one day on a soundstage designed to look like the Los Angeles hotel ballroom where the first ending had been filmed.<ref name="EndingShocks2021">{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2021/02/26/pretty-pink-anniversary-35-changed-ending-andie-duckie-blane/4551885001/|title='Pretty In Pink' still shocks at 35 with changed ending: Andie chose rich Blane over poor Duckie'|last=Alexander|first=Bryan|date=February 26, 2021|website=[[USA Today]]|access-date=April 11, 2021|archive-date=December 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211228131300/https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2021/02/26/pretty-pink-anniversary-35-changed-ending-andie-duckie-blane/4551885001/|url-status=live}}</ref> When called back to film the new scene, [[Andrew McCarthy]] was in pre-production for a stage play, and had lost weight and cut his hair for the stage role, so he was fitted with a wig for the re-shoot.<ref>[https://www.accessonline.com/articles/andrew-mccarthy-i-wore-a-wig-in-pretty-in-pinks-last-scene-123858 Andrew McCarthy: I Wore A Wig in Pretty in Pink's Last Scene] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026021336/https://www.accessonline.com/articles/andrew-mccarthy-i-wore-a-wig-in-pretty-in-pinks-last-scene-123858 |date=2021-10-26 }}, at ''Access Online'', by Jesse Spero; published October 1, 2012; retrieved October 25, 2021</ref> Molly Ringwald had anticipated that audiences would be dissatisfied with the original ending, saying: "It didn't make sense to have the entire movie be this Cinderella story [yet] she doesn't get to end up with the guy she wants." Ringwald has said Duckie was based on her best friend, who was gay and with whom she "had an extremely nonromantic relationship".<ref name="RingwaldVogue2021">{{cite web|url=https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/molly-ringwald-interview|title='Molly Ringwald Revisits The Crazy Fashion (& Sexual Politics) Of 'Pretty In Pink', 35 Years On|last=Bell|first=Keaton|date=March 3, 2021|website=[[British Vogue|Vogue]]|access-date=April 11, 2021|archive-date=April 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411054512/https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/molly-ringwald-interview|url-status=live}}</ref> Jon Cryer has stated that he was shocked that the test audience was unhappy about the pairing, and felt that the whole film was built around Andie and Duckie ending up together.<ref>{{cite news|first=Patrick|last=Kelleher|title=Pretty in Pink director confirms once and for all whether Duckie was gay|url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/18/pretty-in-pink-john-hughes-howard-deutch-jon-cryer-duckie-gay-molly-ringwald/|website=[[PinkNews]]|date=July 18, 2020|access-date=July 28, 2020|archive-date=July 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200719172725/https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/18/pretty-in-pink-john-hughes-howard-deutch-jon-cryer-duckie-gay-molly-ringwald/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="trivia">{{cite web|url=http://www.somekindofwonderful.org/movie/trivia.html|title=Trivia|publisher=Some Kind of Wonderful|access-date=2020-07-30|archive-date=2010-11-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101129185802/http://somekindofwonderful.org/movie/trivia.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Hughes aimed "to protect Duckie's character" in the new ending by having another girl at the prom show interest in him, played by [[Kristy Swanson]] in her first theatrical film role and credited as "Duckette".<ref name="EndingShocks2021" /> Paramount executives were also apprehensive about the original ending, worried that the film might be perceived as [[classist]] and as suggesting that wealthy people and poor people should not interact. [[Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark]] had written the song "Goddess of Love" for the original ending (which they later rewrote and released on the album ''[[The Pacific Age]]'').<ref name="discog">{{cite web|url=https://www.omd.uk.com/discography/the-pacific-age/|title=''The Pacific Age''|publisher=[[Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark|OMD]]|access-date=4 October 2022|archive-date=4 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004054054/https://www.omd.uk.com/discography/the-pacific-age/|url-status=live}}</ref> Hughes didn't consider the song a good fit for the newly re-shot Andie/Blane ending and asked the band to write something else. With only two days before going on tour, OMD wrote "[[If You Leave (song)|If You Leave]]" in less than 24 hours.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/magazine/omds-plot-against-rock.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|title=The Plot Against Rock|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|first=Hugo|last=Lindgren|date=May 10, 2013|accessdate=May 10, 2013|archive-date=May 15, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515163956/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/magazine/omds-plot-against-rock.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|url-status=live}}</ref> Paramount has said that they have been unable to locate the footage of the original ending.<ref name="RingwaldVogue2021" /> ===Dedication=== In the closing credits, the film is dedicated to actress [[Alexa Kenin]] and set designer [[Bruce Weintraub]], both of whom died shortly after production had finished. ===Novel=== The film was adapted into a novel written by [[H. B. Gilmour]] and Randi Reisfield, released in 1986. It was published by [[Bantam Books]] ({{ISBN|0-553-25944-X}}. {{ISBN|978-0553259445}}). The book was written before the last scene was changed, so it has the original ending in which Andie ends up with Duckie instead of Blane.
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