• @AngryCommieKender
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    185 hours ago

    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.”

    • Jo Miran
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      103 hours ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      3 hours ago

      Yea and that “Did she put up a fight?” line in Summer Nights always creeped me out.

    • @Duamerthrax
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      104 hours ago

      To be fair, people don’t really watch musicals for their plots.