In almost every case, boys and girls, the 'quirky' character is rewarded by getting a conventionally hot popular person to like them. The theme of mismatched couples carries through all the John Hughes movies, I think, almost without exception. In 'Sixteen Candles,' they lose themselves in Budweiser. In 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' the characters lose themselves in the forest. 'prep' - you can see people for who they really are. Not to get too heady about it (and certainly not to dismiss their weirdness), but there's something almost Shakespearean about all these scenes: It's all about mistaken identity and this idea that when one literally drops one's mask - in high school 'nerd' vs. When she finds out he's actually a nerd, she tells off her arrogant jock boyfriend and makes it clear that the nerd is way, way better in bed than he is. (' Observe and Report' had a similar scene, but it was meant to be envelope-pushing and outrageous, and a sign of the character's moral depravity.) The 'Sixteen Candles'В scene echoes an even weirder scene in 'Revenge of the Nerds,' when the head cheerleader goes into an amusement park fun house with the head nerd, who is wearing a mask. Even in a randy teen comedy, you would never see two sympathetic male characters conspiring to take advantage of a drunk chick these days. The scene only works because people were stupid about date rape at the time. In other words, when she's drunk, she can get past appearances and stupid popular girl prejudices and see that, actually, he's a really great guy.

She wakes up in the morning in the Rolls with her hair chopped off and says something to the effect that she doesn't remember what she did, but she thinks she liked it. 'I could violate her 10 different ways if I wanted to.' Ladies and gentleman: Our romantic hero.) Over martinis with the Geek, played by Anthony Michael Hall, Jake hatches a plan, letting Anthony Michael Hall cart her off in his parents' Rolls Royce at the end of the night when she's too drunk to anything - including, um, consent.

('I have Caroline passed out in the bed upstairs,' Jakes muses at one point, trying to put his finger on what's missing in his relationship with her, and why he feels drawn to Sam. An epic party at Jake's place leaves her leveled. I believe he says 'be my guest.''ДЇor those who don't remember - it has, after all, been a quarter century since the film came out - the barely conscious drunk girlfriend in question is Caroline, the evil prom queen. It wasn't long after John Hughes died that online commenters began to poke holes in his legacy: There was, of course, the unforgivable issue of Long Duk Dong, but even on Broadsheet, letter writers brought up a different dark moment from 'Sixteen Candles.' As commenter Nona put it: 'Let's not forget the barely conscious drunk girlfriend the Jake Ryan character sends off to be raped by the Geek in Sixteen Candles.

Movie quote fuck the prom queen