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There are also such examples as Of Thee I Sing and Finian's Rainbow and South Pacific, for pity's sake.
There are fluffy non-musicals too, so I'm not overwhelmed with the causality here.
the stage production, in which Frenchy has a pregnancy scare.
So there are two?
I saw it as saying love lets you expand who you are - he could be Greaser AND letterman, She could be nice girl AND wear hoochie pants. It's all good.
No, you're all fluffy and optimistic. They're both bending themselves out of shape to fit other limitations -- he'll be boozing and she'll be abusing Valium and they'll both be neglecting their (unplanned) kids within scant years.
It's a musical. I don't tend to have high expectations for their "message".
See also, Carousel.
See also NAZI SYMPATHIZERS ARE GREAT Evita.
The message of Les Miz was, IIRC, VIVE LA RESISTANCE!!!!1!
My wife loves The Fifth Element, but I'm with Jessica and Nutty: I'd almost rather listen to two hours of fingernails on blackboards.
ita, being a nice girl and wanting to wear tight black clothes scarcely seems too "out of shape." Unless you heve an awfully rigid view of humanity. Hmm, Stricty McRolepants?
See also NAZI SYMPATHIZERS ARE GREAT Evita.
Shut it. It's also about social climbing = great.
being a nice girl and wanting to wear tight black clothes scarcely seems too "out of shape." Unless you heve an awfully rigid view of humanity. Hmm, Stricty McRolepants?
Hell, I'm not a nice girl, but if I dressed like that to get ass, I'd get flak for it.
But she didn't just put on a pair of pants, not hardly.
They're both bending themselves out of shape to fit other limitations -- he'll be boozing and she'll be abusing Valium and they'll both be neglecting their (unplanned) kids within scant years.
ita has the right of it. I always hoped for a nice DUI/assault police arrest for Danny and maybe an overdose for ONJ. So, yes, a happy ending.
Grease is deliberately fluffy, the movie much more so than the stage production, in which Frenchy has a pregnancy scare.
Um, in the movie, it's transferred to Rizzo. And I'll forgive it, because it gives Stockard Channing the chance to nail the hell out of "There Are Worse Things I Could Do."
I saw it as saying love lets you expand who you are - he could be Greaser AND letterman, She could be nice girl AND wear hoochie pants. It's all good.
I'm with ita. Danny rips off the letter sweater the moment he sees Sandy in the hoochie pants. And we never see that Sandy remains the nice girl -- in fact, the reprise to "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee" suggests quite the opposite.
And I will always be haunted by the blank look on John Travolta's face during the close-ups during "Greased Lightning."