The message of Les Miz was, IIRC, VIVE LA RESISTANCE!!!!1!
Sir? I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.
Zoe ,'The Train Job'
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Steph L. - Apr 08, 2005 8:53:39 am PDT #1667 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Hayden - Apr 08, 2005 8:53:42 am PDT #1668 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
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.
Scrappy - Apr 08, 2005 8:55:48 am PDT #1669 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
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?
Aims - Apr 08, 2005 8:57:23 am PDT #1670 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
See also NAZI SYMPATHIZERS ARE GREAT Evita.
Shut it. It's also about social climbing = great.
§ ita § - Apr 08, 2005 8:58:45 am PDT #1671 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
JohnSweden - Apr 08, 2005 8:59:04 am PDT #1672 of 10002
I can't even.
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.
Fred Pete - Apr 08, 2005 9:00:29 am PDT #1673 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
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."
Scrappy - Apr 08, 2005 9:01:42 am PDT #1674 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Pbbbbt!
Although I think Rizzo and Kenickie are headed for big trouble.
DXMachina - Apr 08, 2005 9:01:50 am PDT #1675 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I love The Fifth Element. The thing is, there's a ton of stuff in it that would irritate the hell out of me normally, but taken together it all works.
when was the last time you played a random game of volleyball? Who does that, like, ever, (outside of college)?
Pretty much any time I get together with my meatspace friends.
Aims - Apr 08, 2005 9:03:15 am PDT #1676 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Funny, I've always hated the ending of Grease, but never said anything to anyone but my sister cause I thought I was reading too much into it. Also, WTF flying car??