Grease: You’re the one that I want

Posted by Blokeman on October 20, 2008 under General Bloke Stuff | Read the First Comment

There are two types of people in this world, those who like the movie Grease, and those that don’t. Personally I fall into the former group, and find it difficult to understand how anyone can’t find them selves, singing-a-long to Grease Lightening, “You’re the one that I want” and so on, even occasionally uttering some of the lines.

However, after sitting down to watch it on TV last night with my fiance, I found I had at least one, if not several questions that I don’t know if I can watch the film again until they are answered.

1 – During “Summer Loving” when the girls are singing and the bitch with the curly hair (Riz??) kicks “Sandy” and the other bitch off the seat, why does Sandy, and the rest of the spontaneous singers who all magically know the song, continue to sing? I mean wouldn’t you have gotten up and unleashed hell on anyone who kicked you off a seat on your first day at school, when you had just managed to have the entire school spontaneously break into song? Talk about ruining the massive amount of street cred you had just built up!

2 – As a follow on, how does everyone automatically know these songs, I mean I went to high school, trust me, I lived it, sure it was a public and somewhat dubious school full of malcontents, runaways, thugs and criminals and me, but not once did the entire school, or even a minor sub-section or group break spontaneously into song and dance all at once. True, anyone doing so likely would have been lucky to escape with their lives and the only spontaneous group activity people participated in were large scale fights and brawls between various groups, but does this spontaneous gayness and dancing happen anywhere, besides musical theatre and drama schools?

3 – And this is possibly the most puzzling of them all, I am not sure I will sleep again until I know this, but during the “Go Grease Lightening” scene, where the car goes, from shit heap bomb to a “Fully sick”, “fully hectic”, “Put the hectic in hecticness bro”, pumped up, beefed up, chick cruising, beast of a car, why, at one point does Danny (John Travolta) pick up a box/roll of cling film (Glad Wrap/saran wrap) and do a lap of the car with it, then throw it behind him?
Try as I might, I can think of no logical reason for a roll of plastic cling film, normally used for wrapping up sandwiches and keeping food fresh, to be in that scene, it has no right being there. The one explanation I came up with was they for some reason they used it during the spray painting of the car, but by the time it makes it’s uncalled for and unneeded appearance, the car has well and truly been sprayed.
Now I don’t want to hear it is there for dramatic effect, you can stick that explanation right up your clacker buddy, there were other props, like masking tape that could have been used, logically for the same dramatic effect.

I fell asleep sometime during the band stand scene, so I wont go on with any more anomalies, as they are not fresh in my mind, though the backup singers for hte band in that scene have a lot to answer for, for those gold jackets and weird clap spin dance thing they do…it just isn’t time to question that right now.

But can someone please explain these others to me?