Pretty Pretty Pink Princess


I was watching The Loved Ones, a creepy Australian prom movie that my sister showed me the trailer of before Thanksgiving night.  I was still relatively in the beginning of the story—where the boy is kidnapped—and it was up to the part where the father comes into Lola's room to give her a pretty pink prom dress.  And I could not help but think, is this Pretty in Pink if it were a serial-killer-thriller, where Molly Ringwald and her father, Harry Dean Stanton, kidnap Blane (Andrew McCarthy) and torture him?

 Lola and her father live together, seemingly apart from the rest of the town, secluded on farm-like property, away from the woods. Her father looks as if he is a janitor of some sort, struggling to make a living for his daughter and himself, just as Harry Dean Stanton's character is portrayed in the 80s John Hughes' film. 


(side note: I have decided that all Australian horror movies are crazy scary—some of the most frightening horror movies made recently [don't believe me? Watch The Snowtown Murders—based on a true story—screw it, just watch The Loved Ones already]).

Lola's character in The Loved Ones is psychotically seductive, especially when it comes to the sexual tension between herself and her father. Take for example that scene I hinted at before, where Lola's daddy comes into her room as she is scrapbooking.  This scene is a modern replica of the retro scene in Pretty in Pink, where Harry Dean Stanton gives Molly Ringwald a dress he saved up for, to buy her for prom—a dress she would later destroy to make a horrendous outfit of her own. (And I was always pissed and disappointed that Molly Ringwald destroyed two perfectly pretty dresses [esp. the pink polka-dotted one] to make that potato sack at the end of Pretty in Pink.)

 On top is the dress before Ringwald ruined it, underneath is her final product—baggy and giving her no shape whatsoever.


Anyway, I could not find an actual clip of the scene mentioned above (the one from The Loved Ones) but here are pictures that showcase perfectly, the vision her father sees as she rides the dress up the curves of her body.

Now look, look at her daddy watching from the doorway, biting his lip to avoid actually touching her,

until he gets to dance with his Princess underneath the disco ball in their torture-chamber living room.

Here is a clip of a sort of teaser trailer for Pretty in Pink; tell me not, Stanton's looking kinda scary in this one, kinda jealous in all the right places—just like Daddy.

But finally, imagine—if you will—Molly Ringwald's character, Andie, snapping.  Would she not then be Lola Stone?
She just had to have him.

BONUS: Here is a video worth sharing, which showcases what I have been talking about—if only it were the other way around.


(Oh wait!  Then we would just be watching The Loved Ones all over again) 

DOUBLE BONUS:
And isn't she 
Pretty in Pink?


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