Posted on 02/07/2021 10:36:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind
This is a dumb story about dumb hot takes. We live in a dumb time full of overly serious people who left to their own devices will destroy art and usher in another dark age. That’s where we are thanks to social media, which was supposed to connect and enlighten us all.
Fortunately, Olivia Newton-John is having none of it.
Olivia Newton-John spoke out against fans who have recently slammed her iconic film “Grease” calling it sexist and misogynist.
“I think it’s kind of silly,” the 72-year-old said on the podcast A Life Of Greatness. “I mean, this movie was made in the 1970s about the 1950s.”
The BBC, which once aired the likes of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Blackadder, and Yes, Prime Minister — which were all deliberately insane and often offensive on purpose — showed the anodyne Grease over the Christmas period. Grease is the tame-by-today’s-standards musical in which Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta played 1950s teenagers despite both being in their mid to late 20s at the time.
And John Travolta sang.
Granted, making John Travolta sing in public could be offensive. But it’s not what the haters are hating.
People with quicker fingers than their woke brains commented.
One person said, “The drive-in/botched make-out session between Danny and Sandy hasn’t aged well. Film kinda glides right into song (“Sandy”) before viewers register the date rapey vibe of the scene they just saw #Grease.”
Another said, “Ahhh man. Just watching #Grease one of my favorite films and it’s so of its time. Misogynistic, sexist and a bit rapey.”
The woke moment should have jumped several sharks and nuked a warehouse full of fridges by now. It’s annoying, scoldy, and played out. Newton-John agrees.
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I never cared for it because I wasn’t interested in the subject matter. I’m more of a “Fiddler on the Roof” guy.
But isn’t it nice to know that we live in a time that is full of people who are so pure of body, mind, and spirit as to be beyond reproach? You’d think our current culture was produced by hardshell Baptists or old-fashioned monastics. /S!
What they really object to is that the movie was “too white”, but can’t bring themselves around to say it.
Travolta looks better in the second photo than the first. I honestly wasn’t fond of the “tramp” phase of ONJ’s career but her career needed a new trajectory and it definitely paid off for her.
Can we agree that wokeness is just stupid, trying to retrofit 2020 ethos into previous historical areas. I’m glad Ms. Newton-John is having none of it.
They also wouldn’t apply the same standards to their hero, the one and only Bubba Klintoon, of “one free grope” fame.
That sums it all up right there.
Anyway, one of my very first dates involved taking my girl to "Grease" in the summer of 1978. She loved it and it was a way better choice than "Animal House" (which I wisely went to see with just the guys a little later on). Good times.
Fast forward about 15 years. I was at a Karaoke bar with my wife and after having a great amount of alcohol in me, I decided I would do "You're The One That I Want" with her.
Let's just say I'm very fortunate that cellphones and YouTube did not exist in those days or I would be RUINED.
People love to make fun of Travolta's singing ability but it is not as easy as it looks. (My wife did carry off Olivia's part reasonably well.)
She was absolutely gorgeous and had a tremendous voice.
He, I considered, was very below average looking and always wondered why he was picked to be the lead.
Grease also didn’t have the mandatory woke-ish 12.1% blacks in the cast . . . mandatory now, doncha’ know, with at least one in every commercial.
Wake me up when these same standards are applied to rap “music” made today.
I’d love to see their heads explode over Blazing Saddles or All in the Family!
“I must admit I always found it weird that the Theme song to Grease was done in a disco style.”
Yes, it was an early form of culture appropriation.
I don’t think I could post the lyrics of any random RAP song on FR.
She had breast cancer years (maybe decades) ago, but kicked it.
Secular Puritans or Puritan Secularists. May have to morph it into Hedonistic Puritans.
We performed Grease my senior year in HS (1984), and those raunchy lines were still in the version we had. I remember that clearly because we had to have a “rewrite” session to clean it up.
We actually used 1954 Studebaker Commander “Convertible” (the top was cut off) for Greased Lightning on stage. Getting that car through the doors (had to tip it on it’s side, and slide it through) and lifted onto the stage was the proudest achievement of my teenage life.
I remember the audience would gasp the first time it appeared each night.
They ain’t gonna stop with a few statues. They want it all torn down.
I had no interest in seeing Grease. Garbage entertainment.
But these “criticisms” are stupid.
Maybe it was their way of reproducing the opening to the stage show, which was set as a flashback after the "Class of 1959" meets at a future (20-year) high school reunion.
MISS LYNCH: However, the small portion of alumni I notice missing tonight are certainly not missing from our fond memories of them... and I’m sure they’d want us to know that they’re fully present and accounted for in spirit, just the way we always remember them.[Begin Flashback]
In the movie, the story begins during the summer break before the Class of 1959 goes back to high school.
So, the disco version of "Grease" is their way of anchoring the audience to the present as they look back into the past.
-PJ
Do they feel the same way about every time the boys on Happy Days want to go to Make-Out Point?
-PJ
I’ll take Grease over ANYTHING from Cardi B.
That’s setting a pretty low bar.
The sex in the car was consensual. Even when she knew his condom was no good, she said something like WTH. In today’s culture that means YOLO.
And she spent a good portion of the movie thinking she was pregnant, rejecting his offer to step in and do the right thing and marry her and she tells him it isn’t even his.
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