Was Kenickie hurting...
...or truly thankful that it wasn't his beans sprayed up Rizzo's muff that made her pregnant, hana!?
Hurting.
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Yes, I agree with Sam, he was definitely hurting.
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He heard she was knocked up, and he knew that they were recently intimate without any protection. So, he approaches her and tells her what he knows. She asks "What's it to you?" In response, he offers to "do something" and she confirms by saying "You did enough." In other words, he already DID his part. She's trying to down play the whole situation, because crying in front of him is the Worst thing she can do.
His response to her was the WRONG response, he said "I don't run away from my mistakes."
To Rizzo, he just called their night together a 'mistake', or the Baby a 'mistake.' His wording reflects regret over what they did, and now she's the one who's hurt and offended.
So, with quick thinking, she let's him off the hook from his 'responsibility' by telling him not to worry about it, "It was somebody else's mistake" meaning, somebody else is the daddy, not him. Of course, she lied. She doesn't want him 'doing anything' if he considers what they did a mistake, so just brush him off and set him free.
His response to that is perhaps the WORST and shows what a real JERK he is. He laughs and says "Thanks a lot, kid." He KNOWS the baby is his, but she just offered him a way out, and he actually TOOK IT! What a Coward. What a Creep! He then walks away from her.
When he turns to walk away, you can see the look of hurt and pain on her face and sarcastically, she responds "Any Time" while the pain of being left alone sinks in.
I never took this scene as Kenickie hurting, he was actually relieved that she wasn't going to hold him responsible. He walked away smiling from relief.
RIZZO was the one left hurting. And THAT'S what initiated her song later where she sings "But to cry in front of you, that's the worst thing I could do."
Does she lie? I doubt if he was the only bloke she'd slept with!
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We don't actually know. She could have been a virgin with Kenickie, but it really doesn't matter. From what we saw in the film, Kenichie *was* the father.
As far as the poster you replied to, he/she got a few things wrong, but there's no sense dragging that up now.
From Grease/The Director’s Notebook by Randal Kleiser, page 161:
KENICKIE: I don’t run away from my mistakes.
RIZZO: Don’t worry about it, Kenickie. It was somebody else’s mistake.
He is hurt and astounded. He is about to say something when he looks around to see the Pink Ladies and T-Birds standing nearby and eavesdropping. He reasserts his air of macho indifference.
KENICKIE: Huh? Thanks a lot, kid.
RIZZO: Any time.
I definitely felt he was hurting in that scene.
My question is - if she told him she cheated on him, why go back to her?
I would say that he had time to think and figured out what he wanted. Many people have taken back somebody who was unfaithful to them.
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I never got that Kenickie thought that Rizzo was pregnant from someone else, at least from how it was film and despite the director's notes. He didn't look that hurt and not astounded at all to me. I took it that he was relieved that Rizzo was going to let him off the hook and later realized that he loved her and had to do the right thing.
In There Are Worse Things I Could Do, Rizzo says (sings) that she doesn’t lie. For someone who doesn’t lie, telling her ex-boyfriend that somebody else fathered her suspected unborn child when he really did is a doozy. Also, I have never thought that Kenickie looked relieved. He always looked very hurt to me. Agree to disagree.
shareIn There Are Worse Things I Could Do, Rizzo says (sings) that she doesn’t lie. For someone who doesn’t lie, telling her ex-boyfriend that somebody else fathered her suspected unborn child when he really did is a doozy.
Agree to disagree