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The real moral of Grease


Grease has a bad moral of the story. Sandy turns from good to "bad" so she would fit in. She spent the entire year trying to make friends with the pink ladies and only succeeds at the end of the year. What was the point of her changing than? It was the end of the year, she was presumably going to a university while everyone else became townee's and got pregnant. It was not necessary for her to make friends with them if she was going to college anyway. But she didn't. She chose Danny Zuko instead, and subsequently, that sweet girl was sucked into a vortex known as "mediocrity". She gave up her hopes and dreams, and eventually being successful for some guy who dances and uses too much grease. Danny Zuko- (5 years later, babies are crying in the background, in a cigarette smoke filled house with minimal lighting) "Hey Babe, I found a box of unmarked cans outside. Could be peaches. Could be dog food." All the while Sandy is standing by breast feeding a baby and smoking a cigarette thinking "Holy *beep* I gave it all up for this."

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If you're going to come up with deep and meaningful crap, can you at least use paragraphs so we can comprehend you?


This is not Sparta. This is much worse.

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Truthfully, I was high when I wrote that. So we're lucky it's even legible.

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Cool story...but you know the rules about pot. One puff and pass it on.


This is not Sparta. This is much worse.

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I tend to do my best writing while smoking. I think that's what got Hemingway started. ;)

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Gimme some ;)


This is not Sparta. This is much worse.

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you try it after a joint

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You are right. I tend to receive my best ideas just as I'm coming down.

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Huh. Who knew Brian Griffin had an imdb account?

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I tend to do my best writing while smoking. I think that's what got Hemingway started. ;)

just don't shoot yourself over a loved one!

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Moral of this post? don't get high when posting on a message board

Its LeviOsa, not levioSA!

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Grease is not prescribing, it's describing. The real world is like that. It's not this movie's fault. For each success story there are a hundred just like what you described.

But, since we're talking the biological basics here (and that's really at the bottom of this whole wonderful film), in a way a Sandy with five crying toddlers and babies around the house is a lot more successful than a Professor Sandy with only one child.

From a biological point of view, whoever leaves more offspring wins. And, well, nothing is more basic than dancing. Even a parrot can do it. So no matter how cerebral you are and how much of the cynicism you can detect in the film, if your feet don't start moving with Summer Nights, you should be dead already. :)

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that is pretty absurd conclusion. your genes may win but not you. you die regardless and probably much sooner if you have more offspring...

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Happy and contented is success.I think it likely that Danny and co would have soon been drafted.

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haha yep, sad but true =[

Jayne Mansfield: A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.

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This is you.

http://i47.tinypic.com/2hpit7m.jpg

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I think I know that guy....

Schemers try to control their little worlds.

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I see the moral as...if you want a relationship to work, you both have to make compromises. Danny tried to change for her, and she acknowledged and did the same. Everybody had a fun laugh about it at the end and realized how stupid it all was.

Not a bad lesson.

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That's exactly how I see it!! I think it just throws people off when Danny took off his lettermans jacket making people forget the change he did make in the movie. He should've kept it on the message would've been more clearer

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Umm, the last part happened in Look Who's Talking, not Grease.

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Yeah, I know. It was more of a John Travolta movie nod.

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