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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."
Pbbbbt!
Although I think Rizzo and Kenickie are headed for big trouble.
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.
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??
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.
I just wish we could swap the ending with THELMA & LOUISE.
Accidental but absolutely PERFECT X-post the with empress. Bwah!
the stage production, in which Frenchy has a pregnancy scare.
So there are two?
No, I just have no brain.
All Rizzo and Kenickie had in common were hormones.
But she didn't just put on a pair of pants, not hardly.
The cigarette and hair explosion are other signs. "Tell me about it...stud" is just window dressing, by that point.
Although I think Rizzo and Kenickie are headed for big trouble.
I can see them going either way. I can also see them settling down and becoming the strictest parents on the block ("I know that trick. I used that trick. You aren't going to get away with it like I did.")
Shut it. It's also about social climbing = great.
And Nazi sympathizers. Don't forget the Nazi sympathizers.