Hughes “had the end of the stick”
Psychedelic Furs frontman revealed that John Hughes “had the look of the stick” on his band’s 1981 single, which encouraged a romantic comedy of the same call in 1986.
Richard Butler said the American filmmaker had assumed the look of the letter and focused his film Pretty In Pink, starring Molly Ringwald, on a lovely woman in a pink dress. But Butler used a metaphor to describe a naked, rebellious woman.
“May God have his soul,” Butler told Sky News, “[Hughes] had the look of the stick with this song.
“It was literally done by a woman who was dressed in a pink dress and had nothing to do with it. She was an unsatisfied woman. I said “pretty pink” meant someone who’s naked. It was a metaphor … Given that, the film did us a lot of good.
“Pretty In Pink” (1986). CREDIT: Allstar Picture Library Ltd. / Alamy Stock Photo
Butler added that Hughes’ decision to write a film about the back of the London band’s song “is a double-edged sword.”
“Our audience raised, but many other people who were the darkest band of our enthusiasts thought, “It’s the scene of a children’s movie now and we don’t like it,” he said.
Pretty In Pink is one of The Breakfast Club’s “brat” films (1985).
Butler was, however, more complimentary about the use of his band’s 1982 song ‘Love My Way’ in Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name (2017) starring Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer.
“I have it very well, ” said Butler to the post. “It could almost have been a long video for this song in terms of parallelism with its meaning.”
In addition, The Psychedelic Furs released “Made Of Rain”, their first studio album in nearly 30 years, last month.