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Trinka's Change

posted 16 years ago by jescci
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Several characters change after the dance. Verena who was so anti-boy gets a major crush. Understandable. Abigail, also against co-education initially, joins the fight more or less in response to her mother's domineering. It could happen. But I'm confused about Trinka. She was pro-co-education because she was trampy, then seemed to reject the idea for reasons that were unclear (when she left snake hanging in the hallway after the kiss), then at the very end she goes riding off with Snake in the cherry-picker. None of this makes sense. Nor does the silly epilogue that announces she's gay.

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[–] profrabbit-2 16 years ago

btw it's Tinka not Trinka. Anyway she changes her mind abt St Ambrose because they or Tod Winslow anyway hurt Tweety and she sees that more of this kinda thing will happen if the 2 schools merge. she leaves Snake to go join the rest of the DAR in humiliating the boys so it's payback. But she's not leaving Snake or boys in general, she adores Snake cuz he beat up Tod Winslow and the others. She's just saying, see u later, I got business. Then about the epilogue, Tinka coming out, there's a whole thread here with people debating that. I think she was just saying anything to advance her acting career like Anne Heche who declared she was gay and then got married & had a baby and said she was abused. If she is gay, there's women who discover that later in life and they leave their husbands etc. but up to then nobody thinks they're gay and it seems to come out of nowhere.

[–] grlcookie5 16 years ago

when i saw this movie i thought it was like based on truth because the gay thing was so random. if shes not a real person what was even the point of that

[–] profrabbit-1 16 years ago

It's kind of a tradition with "teen" movies - starting with Animal House - to put a "what became of" at the end - and like AH it's done for laughs. I guess some people don't find it funny on this movie?

[–] kiwi_love 16 years ago

I think it's funny. It's meant to be coming out as gay, not coming out as a movie star, because why would she be interviewed by Barbara Walters if she was just nobody? But it's funny that she comes out as a lesbian because she was such a slut (with guys) throughout her younger years. It's ironic.

[–] hotnightcrasher 16 years ago

actually it isn't ironic at all. being gay early in life (especially if you take into consideration that this is in 1963) is extremely difficult for some people and while she theoretically may have been gay the entire time - pent up sexual frustration in an anti-gay time could easily lead to promiscuity.

everyone is different. some gay women never had any boyfriends at all, some date one or two men, some go back and forth for years until they themselves are comfortable enough to announce it... etc. to put a cap on why a woman would be promiscuous before coming out is really narrow-minded anyway.

all in all, it IS a movie and it seems futile to debate whether in her "what became of" was she REALLY gay or just saying that to further her career. i mean really... it's just an additive to the end of the story. maybe to play with Odette's first statement that she'd be trapped in the school with lesbians? ha.

[–] Paperback-Writer 16 years ago

Yeah, i'd like to toss in my few cents before this woman gets turned into an Anne Heche clone (crazy bitch).

I, myself am a lesbian, and the last 3 years i've had in highschool i probably dated more than 10 boys. You could say i was promiscuous, but apparently i was more of a heartbreaker because after we'd hit it off i got bored and broke up.

Possibly the reason why tinka was so promiscuous is because it is much easier to have sex than to fall in love. Love requires geniune romantic feelings. Sex means youre horny. I could have sex with a guy. In fact, i have, and I liked it. But I've never been nervous, or felt jittery, or imagined a future with a guy. I just can't. Even with really intelligent and hot guys. But put a half-way decent girl in the room and i feel like the heart is beating twice as fast as it was before.

This also happened with a girl who graduated a couple years back. This girl was KNOWN for being a whore, and not like a skanky one..kind of. lol. But my point, she had sex with EVERY guy. She even had a competition with her friend to sleep with as many guys in the school year as possible. She got laid by at least every weekend by a different person. Goes to college, and comes back a lesbian. She even had a girlfriend she was actually committed to.

SO yeah, i think they may have exaggerated her promiscuousness in the movie so that at the end when they say she's gay it's *beep* hilarious (i laughed for a good minute, and I totally didn't get it. I was thinking...came out as....what? Was she a recluse? i didn't expect it), but tinka in real life may been a full fledged d yke.

The Woman of My Dreams... Jill Bennett

[–] jess_sayin 16 years ago

I think it's supposed to be ironic. See, she was chasing after boys the whole time she was at an all-girl's school. Then she realizes she's gay, later in life. It's kind of a subtle joke.

[–] profrabbit-1 16 years ago

I still think she did it for her career to get some attention. Otherwise, why come out on TV?

[–] hotnightcrasher 16 years ago

ellen came out on tv... and she's genuinely gay AND completely fantastic. she made MOVIES about finding "Mr. Right" - anyone could see all of that was painfully awkward. a statement is a statement. if Tinka's story were real life, what is the difference between her coming out in an interview and Ellen writing it in to an episode?

alas, it's just a movie...

[–] enragedferret 16 years ago

I definitely thought it was to tie in with Odie's line about being trapped in a school of lesbians. Maybe I jump to conclusions too much, but I suspected someone would 'end up gay.'

[–] heat_like_burning 13 years ago

i totally saw sexual tension between tinka and verina. I think verina may have had a girl crush too

hey, yoda needs to give some better advice, or yoda needs to shut the *beep* up

[–] rc1990 7 years ago

She was the only girl who had sex, meaning she was a "tramp". However, her coming out shows that things are not always what they seem.