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Remember Jessica’s Scenes We Hate about Pretty in Pink last year? She wrote about how irksome it was that Andie ended up with Blane, and how it was all because terrible test screenings forced John Hughes to trash the original ending and have her go for the popular boy. Those first test-screening subjects were most likely pleased as pie with the ending that hit theaters, but it left many fans in many states of anger – something only slightly rectified when Keith ends up with Watts in Some Kind of Wonderful.
As Tampa Bay’s Stuck in the '80s reports, a number of Hughes’ original scripts have made their way online at Scriptcollector, including the original ending for Duckie and Andie. Head after the jump for all the production cues, but here’s the dialogue meant to end the film, as the new couple embrace and dance in front of masses of surprised onlookers:DUCKIE: “I can’t dance.”
ANDIE: “Either can I.”
DUCKIE: “Are we crazy?”
ANDIE: “Completely.”
What do you think? Was that the ending that should have wrapped the film? Did you envision a different way for Duckie and Andie to end up together? Weigh in below.
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