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* FakeNationality: Long Duk Dong is a Japanese foreign exchange student, his character's actor Gedde Watanabe is American and was born in Ogden, Utah.
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* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/JohnHughes cast Creator/MollyRingwald after seeing her headshot. Inspired by her appearance, he put it up over his desk and wrote the film just over a weekend, with her specifically in mind for the lead role. He cast Creator/AnthonyMichaelHall having worked with him on ''Film/NationalLampoonsVacation''.
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* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/JohnHughes cast Creator/MollyRingwald after seeing her headshot. Inspired by her appearance, he put it up over his desk and wrote the film just over a weekend, with her specifically in mind for the lead role. He cast Creator/AnthonyMichaelHall having worked with him on ''Film/NationalLampoonsVacation''.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: There are TWO versions of the film, the original theatrical version and the version that airs on TV and was released onto VHS during the 80s and 90s, which purged nearly all of the pop songs from the film and replaces it with generic muzak. The reason was that most of the songs for the film were secured only for the theatrical release of the film and not TV/home video release. The original soundtrack has since been restored for DVD and later TV prints since the early 00s, leaving the VHS version out in the cold.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: There are TWO versions of the film, the original theatrical version and the version that airs on TV and was released onto VHS during the 80s and 90s, which purged nearly all of the pop songs from the film and replaces it with generic muzak. The reason was that most of the songs for the film were secured only for the theatrical release of the film and not TV/home video release. The original soundtrack has since been restored for DVD and later TV prints since the early 00s, leaving the VHS version out in the cold.cold until Arrow Video included both soundtracks on their 2020 Blu-ray.
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* CreatorBacklash: Molly Ringwald herself discussed this in [[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/what-about-the-breakfast-club-molly-ringwald-metoo-john-hughes-pretty-in-pink a 2018 article]] for the ''New Yorker'', where she talks about the movie's ValuesDissonance aspects. She specifically cites the scenes with Jake and Ted trading Caroline for Samantha's underwear, Ted taking photos of the unconscious Caroline, and Ted and Caroline waking up after having drunk sex. She also discusses a conversation she had with Caroline's actress Haviland Morris, who initially didn't see any issues with the movie, but later emailed Molly and said that she thought about it and realized that she had issues with Jake's comments about violating Caroline, and Ted and Caroline's reckless behavior.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: In the scene where Long Duk Dong is drunk, Gedde Watanabe was supposed to laugh but was having some trouble. Creator/JohnHughes actually tickled his bare feet to get him to laugh hysterically.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: In the scene where Long Duk Dong is drunk, Gedde Watanabe was supposed to laugh but was having some trouble. He was very ticklish, and so Creator/JohnHughes actually tickled his bare feet to get him to laugh hysterically.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: In the scene where Long Duk Dong is drunk, Gedde Watanabe was supposed to laugh but was having some trouble. He was very ticklish, so Creator/JohnHughes actually tickled his bare feet to get him to laugh hysterically.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: In the scene where Long Duk Dong is drunk, Gedde Watanabe was supposed to laugh but was having some trouble. He was very ticklish, so Creator/JohnHughes actually tickled his bare feet to get him to laugh hysterically.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: In the scene where Long Duk Dong is drunk, Gedde Watanabe was supposed to laugh but was having some trouble. He was very ticklish, so Creator/JohnHughes actually tickled his feet to get him to laugh hysterically.
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* {{Corpsing}}: During the scene at the dinner table, many of the younger cast members can be seen trying to hold back laughter or smiles. This was due to the fact that while filming, Creator/GeddeWatanabe was doing things off-camera while reading his lines. According to Creator/MollyRingwald, one of the things he did was stick grapes up his nostrils.
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** [[Creator/JohnCusack John]] and Creator/JoanCusack appear together. This was the only time they played siblings.
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** [[Creator/JohnCusack John]] Creator/{{John| Cusack}} and Creator/JoanCusack appear together. This was the only time they played siblings.
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** Haviland Morris is actually a natural redhead. Creator/JohnHughes only wanted one redhead in the movie, therefore she had to wear a wig.
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** Haviland Morris Creator/HavilandMorris is actually a natural redhead. Creator/JohnHughes only wanted one redhead in the movie, therefore she had to wear a wig.
