So here’s an extended treatment:
The film will begin with the screen split into two mini-film images side by side. One side will show the ‘poor side’ of the tracks, and the film will be comprised of scenes of white American poverty with repeated emphasis on the cycle of life and death. The white viewers will feel both shame and compassion to see members of their own race failing to make their dreams a reality. The other side will showcase the ‘rich side’ of the tracks and will strive to encapsulate as best as possible that both dreams and happiness are banal to the rich people, and rather than utilize life cycle to hammer the intended metaphor in the viewers’ minds, the life cycle of the ‘rich side’ will be frozen at the stage of 17-23 year-olds.
The remainder of the first act will remain largely the same, with exception of a brutal classroom fight which erupts between subculture misfit Duckie and the tyrannical rich boy Steff. The fight is a result of a class discussion of the Baeder-Meinhoff Gang, in which Duckie argues that post-Nazi german establishment had retained too many benefits of the former fascist regime, and Steff, who has argued that the radical left has reacted too harshly against a regime which may potentially be redeemed by future history. Steff receives a light suspension, and Duckie receives severe physical admonishment for his statements by ‘rich tracks’-sympathetic school administrators. This further divides the student body which is torn between ‘poor’ & ‘rich’ tracks factions.
The second act remains largely intact, though the party that Andie and Blane attend on their date that has been thrown by Steff has now been changed to include a theme to the party. The party is themed ‘poor tracks’ and attended solely by ‘rich tracks’ kids, with the exception of Andie. The character of Andie suffers more severe anger than in the original film, and upon exiting Steff’s house, Andie whispers to Steff the has had a premonition in which she has seen poor children play in a gutter red with Steff’s blood.
The third act will begin with a clandestine meeting in which a network of ‘poor tracks’ citizens plan a proletariat uprising in the town. The plan begins with the poor population removing all their funds from the town bank simultaneously. A member of the meeting asks if by removing their funds it will harm the rich. A downtrodden city official stands and says that the poor comprise 85% of the town population, and the bank will not be able to loan the rich money to gentrify the poor parts of town. The chief of police is in attendance, and he pledges not only personal involvement in the plan, but his officers are under instruction to not interfere with the uprising. Ducky reveals himself to be mastermind of the plan and that he will install Andie’s father a mid-level management position in the post-revolt city government.
Andie visits her friend / boss Iona. Iona is still in search for companionship, and greats Andie at the door dressed as a yuppie. Andie is initially shocked, and Iona explains that her date that night is with a yuppie man from the middle class. Iona confesses that she realizes that the middle class is an invention by the bourgeoisie to circumvent proletarian movements, but as a middle class citizen, Iona feels respect and revulsion by the poor; simultaneously, she feels motivated to be among the rich on their side of the tracks. Andie confesses that she feels confused; she feels sympathetic for those in her own economic strata and she is sympathetic for Iona and her perspective. She wonders if her romance with Blane is at all metaphoric for Iona’s romance with the yuppie man.
The night of the prom arrives. The students fill the gym. A band plays. Kids dance. Andie arrives in a dress modified out of an old dress her father gave her, partially to mirror her sentiments upon leaving Iona’s apartment. Blane is in tow. Duckie hugs her and promises her that their lives will improve. Later, Duckie passes Steff, the alpha-male rich student. Steff initially teases Duckie for leaving the prom early and alone, but Duckie assures him that he merely ‘has to get to the bank when it opens’ the next day.
The final shot of the prom will be framed on Andie and Blane slow-dancing. Slowly, the camera will pull back to reveal the students dancing in their fancy clothes. Eventually, the camera will pull back with greater speed, passing back out of the high school, out of the town, out of North America, away from the planet Earth, out of the solar system, through the galaxy, and eventually the known universe. Fade to black. Roll credits.
