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How It Was Supposed to End:

Nah, that's all bullshit, according to John Hughes. If he'd gotten his way, Andie would have stayed with Duckie, not Blane -- in Hughes' original script, Andie and Duckie arrive together at the prom, and at the moment where Blane should show up and talk to her, Andie starts dancing with Duckie (because this movie didn't have enough Jon Cryer dance moves). Then "Andie squeezes [Duckie] tight and lifts him off his feet." Freeze image, cue credits.

What about the whole thing about love crossing socioeconomic boundaries? That doesn't happen in life, says Hughes, so it shouldn't happen in movies either. Never mind the fact that Andie doesn't return Duckie's affections and explicitly says so throughout the entire movie. John Hughes' advice to girls wondering if they're not good enough for true love and thinking about settling for the nearest spaz who will take them is "Yes, yes you should." On the other hand, this would have been a great pre-emptive victory for Internet nerds who shout "friendzone!" at anything with boobs.

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He devotedly came to her house and studied with her. Of course he's entitled to some action.

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So why the change? Apparently audiences had a problem with the leading lady making smoochy faces with her best friend instead of the guy who was painted as her romantic interest for the whole movie. A new ending was shot, and the band OMD had to write a new song for it in 24 hours ... accidentally resulting in their biggest U.S. hit. To give you an idea of how last-minute the change was, Duckie still gets the girl in the movie's novelization, since it was based on the script.

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