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.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Subterranean level.
Year Zero.
There’s still some off color words in the studio version of Grease’s soundtrack. The Catholic school I went to wouldn’t let Greased Lightin’ from the record be used for a student talent content performance.
And I rewatched both films for the first time in about 35 year. The second one has much more raunch in it and more of a rapey scene where the guys try to get a girl to give it up by playing an air raid siren outside of a bomb shelter.
Moderm online amateur critics hated on The Wanderers saying it was racist.
original trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5b-qJb4LM0
The book was a bit better but the film still holds up and the author wrote both and has a bit part in the film.
They want PEOPLE torn down.
Wow I hadn’t thought of that movie in years, a very weird ending. I think it was made to cash in on the success of The Warriors.
A number of the songs in the movie including the title song (written by the Bee Gees no less) weren’t part of the stage play. The character of Sandy on stage was called Dumbrowski changed to Olsen in the movie and from Australia to accomodate the accent of Olivia. 1977 when the movie was made and 78 when it was released was still the Disco era although it was on the wane I suppose.
Grease was gay kitsch.
It was written, produced, directed by homosexual men.
Criticism of it is ergo homophobic.
hehe.....yeah one could take that tack
The ending was in the book.
It probably had more to do with the success of Animal House (even casting one of the performers). And it wasn’t a lone entry in this competition.
The Baby Boomers were big market and mid-50s-mid-60s nostalgia was in bloom.
Big Wednesday trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hFH3q5bz1Q
Cooley High trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqWDOyESFTY
My favorite movie of that era is still “Hollywood Knights”.
You're talking about Kenickie and Rizzo. The scene in question is with Danny Zucco and Sandy Dumbrowski/Olsson.
In the latter scene, Danny puts the moves on Sandy, who rejects him and storms out of the car.
Song: All Alone in the Drive-In Movie (Broadway version)
When there's one minute to go
'Till the lights go down low,
I'll be holding the speaker knobs
Missing you so-o-o!
-PJ
Thanks for the correction/direction.
Joe Biden has shown more handiwork than Danny did in that scene.
#RussianHands
More like plain old hypocrites. Much of contemporary culture and lifestyle is straight from the sewer, and they are up to their necks in it.
“Everything changes. Always does.”
These same millennials all gave their date rapist comedian Aziz Ansari a collective pass when he invited a woman in the industry up to his apartment, proceeded to take his wang out, and repeatedly made efforts to grab her hand and pull it to his crotch.
He called it ‘clumsy dating technique’.
LOL, I never thought of it that way, but you're right.
Yes, their hypocrisy is stunning.
Me too. The 50s nostalgia theme never worked for me because the movie is too peppered with then contemporary 1970s feel. The only song in the whole movie that felt remotely “50’s” was Greased Lightning, because they did it in a sort of doo-wop style.
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