Talk:Sixteen Candles

message: I initially got my information on the filming locations for this movie from the website found at http://www.fast-rewind.com/sixteencandles.htm (scroll down on page).  However, since there has been some disagreement as to the accuracy of the site, I emailed the principal of Niles North High School to find out if anyone there remembers the filming there.  He in turn kindly emailed his staff and sent me the answers.  The most relevant ones are here, edited to preserve privacy:
:"I do not know if any of the film footage was used in the movie, but yes there was filming here at Niles North. It involved a cafeteria scene. Days before the filming crew arrived I was instructed to make two BBQ grills out of 55 gal. drums for their lunch."
 
:"The main part of the movie was done at Niles East, but the cafeteria scene was filmed in the east cafe and the hallway that goes through both cafes.  I was told that the autos room was used for the car scene during school, but im not positive about that."  
 
:"They were here that summer filming.  They were headquartered in the East Cafe.  You can call XXXXXX XXXXXXXX to confirm if you like.  I know he spoke with someone a few years ago (possibly the same people involved here) about it.  Someone was writing a book or doing a documentary."
 
:"I worked as an intern under XXXX XXXXXXXX, summer school principal several years ago.  Anyway, he told me that during summer school, John Hughes filmed the gym scenes and the auto shop scene here at Niles North.  He also told me that they provided all the students with lunch on the days that they were filming here." 
 
:"Filming took place at Niles West in the gym. (I was there working)"
 
:"According to the internet movie database, Niles North was listed as a used location. I was a freshman that year. They used Niles North as a site for tryouts for casting for small parts. Most of the shots for the movie were done at Niles East. The first part of the movie was shot at the track at Niles East in the basement of the school.  Anymore questions just call me. By the way classic movie. My friend XXXXX XXXXXXXX was in the movie as an extra as well."
:"I believe they only  did some filming at Niles East- because I was teaching at off campus then ( which was located at Niles East at that time) and had to clear out my room for the filming in June.  XXXX XXXXX was also teaching there at the time.   Niles North was not used.  I believe another high school was used. Possibly New Trier or Highland Park as I recall."
 
:"If memory serves (and that's a weak spot these days), it was all at Niles East and around Skokie.  FYI, "Risky Business" was also shot at East. The house interiors were sets built in the small gym, but the outside was in Highland Park. The NW baseball team was poised to be Tom Cruise's team mates, but by the time they were ready to shoot that scene it was so late into fall that not even Hollywood could have convinced anyone it was spring."
:"Well, I tried to get your answer by calling Glenbrook North to see if I could get retired Principal Duffy's phone number - Director John Hughes attended Glenbrook North when Dr. Duffy was principal, and they kept in touch (much of Breakfast Club was filmed at GBN).  Alas, I learned that Dr. Duffy died last year.  Having seen Sixteen Candles more times than I care to admit, I don't recognize anything that looks like North, but that's a pretty unscientific answer."
Anyone wishing the edited information may contact me. Crypticfirefly 05:23, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Filming locations 

message: While the discussion about the Long Duk Dong character is interesting, I feel it takes away from the article about Sixteen Candles.  Perhaps it merits its own separate entry in Wikipedia.
It's simply unacceptable to have an article about a major movie that is often accused of having explicitly racist content, and then not mentioning that in its article.  I've added it back in, in a way that should fit in with the general character of Wikipedia. 141.161.92.130 19:24, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the nonsense about this being a racist movie because there is no source cited.  Also, the crufty trivia section has no place in an encyclopedia article.  If anything from the trivia is important enough to be in the article, it needs to be sourced and written as prose into the main body of the article per WP:AVTRIV. K1ng l0v3 16:27, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with the removal...racism is thinking that mocking the character is racist. You can't mock people who are white (sorry, caucasians), because that is racist?, black? (Sorry, afro-americans) (sorry, some black people are not from USA), asian?. Come on. vaceituno 00:00, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Blogs are not acceptable as sources for this material. Unless independent reliable sources discuss this, we cannot include the claim. - SummerPhD (talk) 03:09, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Long Duk Dong 

message: I've removed the  tag from the plot summary because, at around 500 words, it's pretty concise. --Tony Sidaway 09:25, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: When I recently edited this plot summary in a good faith attempt to improve the wording, I accidentally overlooked another editor's good faith reversion of earlier attempts to improve the wording. Some of my edits re-introduced wording the other editor reverted. Sorry. David F (talk) 23:08, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Plot summary

message: Just for the record, we have discussed  imdb before and decided it isn't a reliable source. - SummerPhD (talk) 13:43, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Details sourced to imdb 

message: far lesser films have v extensive character descriptions, but not this teen classic. sad. please help. any fans out there? thanks! CrankyEditrix (talk) 23:55, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for character profiles 

message: I mean, come on. The guy's name sounds dirty. And, this article seems to imply that the kid's name is a reference to penises, too. Stonemason89 (talk) 03:54, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Long Duk Dong" a vulgar pun? 

message: *http://www.highschoolmovies.com/mainTimeLine.swf
*http://www.highschoolmovies.com/high_school.html
WhisperToMe (talk) 21:32, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Website files 

message: I really think that the "Rating" section needs to be added again. It seems to be an important topic that should be mentioned when describing this movie. Alphius (talk) 01:53, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: We've been through this repeatedly. We need independent reliable sources for anything you'd like to add. The standard for inclusion is verifiability not truth. - SummerPhD (talk) 02:45, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rating! 

message: To whomever cares enough about "Sixteen Candles" to edit its Wikipedia page:
My name is Alison MacAdam, and an NPR story I reported is mentioned in this article. The brief quote suggests that I, unlike Roger Ebert, believe Long Duk Dong is extremely offensive.
It may be worth noting in the article that I interviewed the actor who played him for my NPR piece. He, in fact, thought it was funny, and added about playing the character: "It was a great experience because I was making people laugh."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.153.36.170 (talk) 15:11, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Alison, I fixed the passage so it quotes the full passage and no longer seems like it is your opinion. Regarding your point about the actor, I reviewed the article here, and it says, "Watanabe says making Sixteen Candles was a great experience, but one that, in retrospect, he realizes he was 'a bit naive' about. 'I was making people laugh,' he says. 'I didn't realize how it was going to affect people.'" I think that is different from just saying "great experience". He had fun with it at the time but realizes in retrospect that it was offensive to others. Would something along these lines work? Erik (talk | contribs) 15:33, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inaccurate information in this article 

message: "In 2005, Ringwald was reported to be producing a sequel to the film. As of March 2010, Ringwald stated that she thought it was not a good idea to do remakes of great classic films."
After reading these two confusing sentences, one can't help but marvel at the misfortunes of the Molly Ringwald who lives only in the world of whomever wrote them — a world where Ms. Ringwald ostensibly produces sequels because she dislikes the idea of remakes — to then, only have that sequel cancelled. According to the first source, Ringwald was producing a sequel. The second source (a dead link) stated the following:
"As for a 2010 remake of a Molly Ringwald classic, don’t hold your breath. Molly is not a fan of the idea, telling us, “I’m not a huge fan of remakes if the movie was great the first time around.  I think, you know, if a movie has a good idea and they didn’t really execute it very well, then why not remake it if it’s obscure and no one knows it, but why take a classic and remake it, it just doesn’t make a lot of sense.”
In this quote she is discussing a remake. The first source mentions only a sequel. As is common knowledge, a sequel is not the same thing as a remake. It appears that in one instance in 2005 she discussed at the MTV Movie Awards thinking about doing a sequel. Then, 5 years later at the Academy Awards tribute to John Hughes, she mentioned her opposition to a remake. There's no way to determine from the sources whether she was talking about something completely different in the two interviews, or whether she simply confused the two concepts and meant sequel when she was mentioning her dislike of a remake. Either way, the section is misleading because in neither of the sources does she mention explicitly that a sequel was cancelled. The Wikipedia editor who wrote Cancelled sequel as the heading clears up this confusion nicely for us——by deciding that he/she knows what Ms. Ringwald meant, and that she must have meant the sequel was a bad idea——and thus, the sequel must have been cancelled. But that's not his/her clarification to make, or if it is, he/she need only provide the sourced citation to back it up. Spintendo (talk) 23:05, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Producing a Cancelled Sequel 'cause Remakes are Bad 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: User:TheOldJacobite continues to revert work of others without giving an explanation. Most movie plots on Wikipedia include the hyperlinked names of the actors. I do not see anything in the WP’s specifically disallowing this. What’s up with that?
MissTofATX (talk) 22:42, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I personally don't really see the point in adding the wikilinks. All of them are already listed in the cast section just one section below.  †dismas†|(talk) 22:51, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with .  It's just unnecessary repetition. ---The Old JacobiteThe '45 02:26, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Actor names in plot 

message: When Sam tells Ted Farmer that her family forgot her birthday, he breaks out into snippets of two Beatles songs, "Birthday" and "Hey Jude." Those aren't listed in the movie's end credits. Should these songs be noted in the Soundtrack and songs section? PatConolly (talk) 08:06, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beatles songs