Even with the casting choices, I’m flabbergasted that Grease became a cult classic. As far as I can tell the overall message of the film is: “if a woman wants to keep her man, she must act like a dirty slut.”
Didn’t Travolta’s Greaser character turn clean-cut in order to be with her? I always thought the point was that they originally liked each other for who they were, without pretense but society was forcing them to conform to standards and pigeonhole them.
Or maybe it was all about the dancing and singing and we are trying to get too deep into it.
Even with the casting choices, I’m flabbergasted that Grease became a cult classic. As far as I can tell the overall message of the film is: “if a woman wants to keep her man, she must act like a dirty slut.”
Didn’t Travolta’s Greaser character turn clean-cut in order to be with her? I always thought the point was that they originally liked each other for who they were, without pretense but society was forcing them to conform to standards and pigeonhole them.
Or maybe it was all about the dancing and singing and we are trying to get too deep into it.
Yea and that “Did she put up a fight?” line in Summer Nights always creeped me out.
very related: https://lemmy.ml/post/24852141/16134297
To be fair, people don’t really watch musicals for their plots.
That’s only true of badly (or barely) written musicals like Cats.
Great musicals like Les Miserables or Hedwig and the Angry Inch have plots as good as the songs or, in the latter case, even better!