WEBVTT - Grease with Gracie Gillam 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:03.640 On the Beck Dol Cast, the questions asked if movies 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:07.360 have women in them, are all their discussions just boyfriends 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:11.560 and husbands, or do they have individualism? The patriarchy zef 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:17.040 invest start changing it with the bel cast. Tell me more, 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:22.400 tell me more? Is this the Beck Dol Cast? Okay, Okay, 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:25.600 I like this. You know, I'll be, I could be. 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:29.560 I could be a greaser. You could be you are supposed. 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:32.199 The thing that frustrates me about the Tea Birds is 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:34.879 that they have such good outfits, but then they're just 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:37.760 rampant misogynists. It's such a waste of a good outfit, 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:43.760 and they have the most the funniest um, the funniest voices. Yeah, 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:46.280 there's a They've got a lot going for them, and 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.680 then it's all squandered. The waste of a powerful aesthetic. 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:55.600 It's used for evil. That's true. Hello and welcome to 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:58.760 the Backtel Cast. My name is Caitlin Doronte Ames Jamie Loftus. 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:04.040 Sorry for totally bailing on the singing. You know, I'm 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:11.920 I'm used to it by now. Is that true before? No? 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.440 But I'm thinking so, I'm thinking back to our recent 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.520 Beauty and the Beast episode where you fully commit to 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:22.319 the song too much and pissing my pants laughing the 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:26.720 entire time. So it's not good singing. So we are there. 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:31.039 The Bechtel cast. We examine movies through an intersectional feminist lens, 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:35.440 using the Bechtel test simply as a jumping off point. Jamie, 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:40.759 what is it the Bechtel test? What is it? Well, 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:44.160 since you asked the Bechtel test, there's a media metric 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:48.080 invented by queer cartoonist Alison Bechdel, sometimes called the Bechdel 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:54.040 Wallace test, that, for our purposes, requires that two characters 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.280 with names of a marginalized gender speak to each other 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:01.440 about something other than uh may in it sounds like 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:03.760 it should be easy enough, but a lot of things 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:06.160 don't pass, and then some things that do pass. I'm 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.919 not foreshadowing in anyway. Um, some things that do pass 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:12.720 are still like really really not. It doesn't you know, 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.320 it doesn't vouch for content. It's not a metric that 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:19.320 vouches for content, But true, what was the worst one? 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:21.480 What the all time worst one? Is? Still? She's all 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:25.000 that right where it's like, oh yeah, Claire Duval is 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:30.280 like down you should kill yourself and Rachelieu cooks like, oh, no, 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:34.800 is that I forget how that comes? No? Thank you, 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:38.760 I don't remember. Well, h we have an amazing guest today. 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:42.600 I'm so existed. We do. She's an actor. You know 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:46.080 her from z Nation and Teen Beach Movie, which is 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:52.400 my favorite d com of all time. It's Gracie Gillum. Hi, everybody, welcome, Welcome, 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:59.640 I'm so active here. Wow? What so let's talk Greece, 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.280 shall we? I feel like your character in the Team 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:06.200 Beach movies is kind of like a grease or girl, 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:12.160 like a pink lady almost right, Yeah, definitely, it's all 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.720 coming together. Went back and watched it and I was like, wait, 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:21.079 it's all connected, It's all connected. And then well, Team 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.320 Beach movie is really supposed to take place like the 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.200 movie within a movie is more of a Frankie in 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:29.799 a Net movie. And then Greece definitely has Frankie avalon 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.040 and it and then has a joke about a Nets tips. 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.520 So it's pretty much the same movie as Team Beach movie, 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:40.280 same energy, energy, same energy. So apart from that, what 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:45.000 is your relationship with Greece? The movie? Grease the property 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:49.360 in general, tell us everything grease the word uh, Greece 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:53.680 is the word is the word? Is the word? Um? 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.600 Greece is a VHS tape that I had growing up. 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:58.680 It's a movie my dad I think went out of 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:00.960 his way to see three or more times in a theater. 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:07.280 I think it was serving me early, outdated, surface level 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:10.040 feminism in a way that really I loved as a child. 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:13.280 So I've seen this movie way more times than I 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:17.880 could possibly count. And then my high school ended up 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:19.880 doing Greece, even though it was kind of a fancy 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.080 arts high school that wouldn't do a show like Greece, 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:26.120 but Governor Rick Perry was going to cut arts funding 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:27.839 for the entire state of Texas, so we had to 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.080 prove that we could make money during the spring we 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:34.960 did Greece. That is so bleak. You're like forced to 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:37.520 do Greece so that you can continue to get an 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:42.160 arts education. Very chill, Rick Perry, very chill. Um. It 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.520 is how I got my first Hollywood agent as he 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:47.839 saw me play Rizzo in Greece and gave me his 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:53.360 business card after the show. What you got discovered through 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:58.960 Greece in Texas. It's a really old school kind of 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:04.359 story that's beautiful, And you played Rizzo. That's amazing. Yeah, 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:06.120 You're like, here's my card, kid, And I was like, 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:07.839 I have a four point three to g p A, 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:11.040 I'm going to college guy, And then I didn't nice 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:17.240 love that colleges a scam. So you know, I have 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:21.680 not seen Greece since I performed it my senior year 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.919 of high school. So I, oh, sorry, I have rewatched 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.880 it for this podcast. I've watched it a few times 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:31.880 within the span of a very few days. WHOA that 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.240 is like that's like a very deep relationship with Greece, 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:39.480 Like we can't follow that. Yeah, yeah, Jamie, what's your 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:46.000 pitiful history with It's nothing, No, it's um, it's just less. 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:52.039 My grand should be. Really, my grandma had the vhs 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.360 and she would make us watch like she's like two 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.159 vhs and one was Greece and one was River Dance, 0:05:57.520 --> 0:05:59.760 and so I would always choose Greece, just kind of 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:03.000 like because I didn't want to watch River Dance. Um. 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.360 So I've seen that. I've seen the movie a bunch, 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.080 but then I feel like I've seen so many community 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.720 performances of it, Like my school didn't do it, but 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:15.520 like friends schools did it, and like summer theater always 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:17.520 would do Grease, and so I think I've seen the 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:20.280 movie a ton and then like five or six different 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.800 local productions and they're all mixed up in my head. 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.880 And yeah, I think I think that's that's kind of it. 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:34.800 I still the music is still so goddamn catchy. I know. Yeah, Caitlyn, 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.480 what's your history with it? I didn't grow up with 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.360 this movie. In fact, I'm not even sure I might 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:42.960 not have seen it until so it's kind of hard 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:46.559 to know because it's so cultural, like Osmo City for sure, 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:51.560 and like the songs would especially like Summer Nights and 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.760 You're the one that I want, and like maybe Grease Lightning, 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.480 and like some of the more popular songs devoted to you, 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:59.800 Like there's so many that you're just like, even if 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.200 you haven't been within ten feet of this movie, you 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.680 know what it sounds though with that song, those songs 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:08.880 would like play it like school Dances in our cafeteria 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.160 and like junior high and stuff like that. But I 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.120 don't think I really saw I don't think I really 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:17.480 saw the movie for the first time until honestly, I don't. 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.600 I think I may be like watched it once in college, 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.400 but then I rewatched it when we covered Greece too, 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.960 which we have done on the podcast years ago with 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:29.520 follow in Georgia. Yes, you know, for some reason we're like, 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:34.760 screw Grease, We're going to cover Greece too first, and 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:37.920 then we'll get to the first Greece four full years later. 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:44.040 How it was intended. Um So, I really have little 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:48.200 exposure to the movie itself, but I know the characters 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:52.360 like Danny Zuko and Sandy and Rizzo like their iconic characters. 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:54.520 The songs are iconic. It was yeah, very much just 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:58.920 like a cultural osmosis thing. It also was like re 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:03.120 released in theater several times for different you know, like anniversaries, 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:06.200 and it's definitely like one of those like Unkillable Proper 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.800 because there's like I was looking online to see because 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:12.360 I remember there was like one of those TV stage 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.200 productions that starred Vanessa Hudgens a couple of years ago. 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:18.760 As Sandy can't say, I watched it well because there 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.040 was only one Vanessa Hudgens in it, and it's like, 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:22.720 if you're not going to have more than one Vanessa 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.720 Hudgens in your movie, why bother wast waste my time? 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:30.040 She's doing one accent one accent per movie. I just 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:32.280 know she's capable of so much more, and so I 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:38.120 can't watch it. Um. But then there's also like a 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.560 new series, a paramount series called Grease, Rise of the 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:45.320 Pink Ladies coming out like next year, and then there's 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:49.640 another there's a prequel about the summer where they're loving 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:54.000 and it's like it's very interesting to me because in 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.080 like researching like where is I was like, I don't 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.880 know where grease discourses, I guess, and it seems to 0:08:59.920 --> 0:09:03.440 be both like very like it is like not a 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.000 hot take by any means to say, like most of 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:10.320 Greece's plot points age exceptionally badly, but then also they're 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:14.559 still like making grease stuff. It's weird, but also at 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:16.880 the same by that same token, I could see, like 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:21.840 by nineteen eight standards and like the stage production first 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:25.440 one up and I think seventy one, I could see 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:31.640 like some components of the story being like kind of 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:35.960 progressive and maybe even like feminists for that time. Very 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:41.040 second wavy. Yeah, so you know it's it's a it's 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:45.560 nestled in an interesting place in history, and yeah, we're 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:50.480 we're still uh you know, adapting it to prequels and uh, 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.080 spinoffs and all kinds of stuff. So I truly can't 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.600 think of I'm like, what, Maybe it will be great, 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:57.920 but I'm like, who cares about the summer? Where they love? 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:00.080 And I learned everything I needed to know. And in 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.400 the first minute, right he's on the beach. It was summer, 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:07.080 they were loving. That's all I needed to know. But 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.320 what about those summer nights. Don't you want to know 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:13.240 about the summer nights? You're right, I didn't know enough. 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:14.960 I only saw them during the day and that was 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.800 That's what I'm saying. Um, well, should I dive into 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:26.800 the recap and we'll go from there. Yeah, let's party. Okay, 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:30.400 So we are in the late nineteen fifties. I think 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:36.080 we're in California in the movie, although it's not fully specified, 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:38.920 I feel like they're the race at the end, they're 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:42.959 like driving along the l A l A River. Yeah, 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.960 I think that I looked at I don't I know 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:51.520 that the stage play takes place in correct New York. Okay, 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:53.599 it's supposed to be upstate in New York, which is 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.480 why everyone in the play is like pretty explicitly Italian. 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:00.960 That makes so much more sense because explicitly a schell 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:04.880 it kind of This is a horrible connection, but it 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:06.960 kind of reminded me because I thought they were in 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.160 Socall in this movie, but I wasn't sure. I also 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.600 saw somewhere that it was supposed to be Delaware, and 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.920 I don't even know what Delaware looks like. So well, 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:18.640 Google has a beach like that. But maybe they were 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:24.520 vacationing the same place. Yeah, I well, the one of 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:28.160 the writers of the stage production based off of his 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:32.360 high school in Chicago. But yeah, for I don't know, yeah, 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.559 the movie. I googled like, where does Grease the movie 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:38.080 take place? And then someone like California came up, But 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:39.520 it was just because I think it was just shot 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:42.600 in California. I don't. It looks like California, but they 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.719 all sound like they have fifties New York New York. Right. 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:52.440 It reminds me of really terrible connection, but it reminds 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.800 me of really where. It's like Ben Affleck's Grace. Have 0:11:55.880 --> 0:12:02.079 you seen Gelie? I'm sorry, definitely don't watch it. It 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.400 starts like Ben Affleck. It's another movie that takes place 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:08.280 in l A where like Ben Affleck has this like 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.200 weird Newsy's accent. The whole time. We were like, how 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.400 is this possible? He's wearing like a heavy coat the 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:18.079 whole movie, even though it's agree he's wearing a leather coat. 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:27.200 He's has his hair all slipped back. It's out of control. Um. Anyway, 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:32.400 so we are in an unclear location. Um, But Danny 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:36.600 Zuko that's John Travolta of course, and Sandy is Olivia 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.760 Newton John are teenagers who have just spent a romantic 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.200 summer together at the beach, but the romance has to 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:44.360 come to an end because Sandy has to go back 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.680 to Australia. I love that. I didn't realize that she 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.240 is not Australian in the in the play, and it's 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:56.040 just because Olivia Newton John couldn't do a passable American American. 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:00.240 I love it and the play. It's a surprise that 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.240 he is at that school because he lies about going 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.760 to a private school to her over the summer. So interesting, 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:10.360 that's a more effective plot point. Yeah, she was going 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.199 to go to the Catholic girls school and he was 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:15.000 going to go to the boys school or whatever, and 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:16.880 they both end up at the public school, but because 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:21.120 that's where he actually does so was he trying to 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:24.240 make him seem like a higher class, like a higher 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.760 economic class than he is and like less of us? Lad? 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:31.320 I guess yeah, sure love it. Um. First we cut 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:34.440 to right l High. It's the first day of senior 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:38.240 year for Danny and his greaser friends who call themselves 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:44.400 the t Birds, which also thirty five years old. There's 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:48.520 it's been held back so much. Even watching this movie 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:52.040 on in three a DP on to be I was like, 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:57.920 these these men are simply not seventeen air forty, especially 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.520 who was like the word like one of the most 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.880 misogynistic guy. This is not helpful, But I think his 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:08.400 name is Sunny Sonny the Dog. Yeah. First of all 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.720 upsetting for me because I already lived with a misogynist 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:15.840 named Sonny and it's my dad. But that the guy 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.760 who plays Sonny especially, I'm like, you're a father, Like 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.680 what do you? How did you? But then you're like, oh, 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.040 he's a he's a good dancer. He's a good dancer. 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.240 I think he's actually thirty one in that movie, although 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:30.120 I agree that he looks thirty eight. Rough break, rough break. 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:34.640 For Sonny, he's had a difficult life. Maybe yeah. Well, 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:39.320 in addition to Sonny, there's k Nicky and Putsy and Duty. 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:43.200 They run with a group of girls called the Pink Ladies. 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:48.680 Rizzo is the leader. Uh Stalkard Channing plays this rendition 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:53.040 of of Rizzo. Gracie Gillum has played an incredible version 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:59.240 of Rizzo, just saying many icons have played this role. Um. 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:02.720 And then there's also Jan Marty and Frenchy and French. 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:06.360 She introduces the Pink Ladies to Sandy, who ended up 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:09.200 not going back to Australia and who is instead going 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:13.600 to high school at Rydel this year. Um. But Danny 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.320 and Sandy don't know yet that they are both at 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.840 the same school. Then we get the Summer Night Song 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.480 where Danny tells the t Birds about the girl he 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.040 met over the summer, and Sandy tells the Pink Ladies 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.400 about the boy she met and that his name is 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:31.200 Danny Zuko and they're like, oh, oh, no scandal. Then 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:35.040 at a football game, the Pink Ladies are like, hey, Sandy, 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:39.160 look who it is, and it's Danny. But Danny, because 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:42.040 he's in front of his like tough guy friends, he 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.960 feels that he can't be vulnerable and show his feelings 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:48.239 for Sandy, so he plays it all cool and aloof 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:52.440 like he doesn't really care about her, which of course 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:57.600 hurts Sandy's feelings, and she runs off. She loves Sandy 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:01.680 does be running off. She runs off so many times. 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:06.440 She's just like, exit left. I can't handle this. She 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.960 is exiting the scene constantly. There. I liked that. That 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:14.160 was another fun like place where the whole Australia thing 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:19.160 um just sounds really bizarre. Where he's like, how did 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:21.600 you like? How are you here? I thought you were 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:26.520 going back to Australia. She's like, we change change. You 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:31.320 moved to like Echo Park instead of home to Australia. Wild, 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:35.560 I know. Um. So Sandy is very sad she has 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.520 run off, and to cheer her up French she invites 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:42.239 Sandy over to her house for like a pink lady's sleepover, 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.720 But then they all just end up like mocking Sandy 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:49.280 for being like a goody two shoes, and then the 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:52.320 tea birds show up, and then Rizzo goes off with 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:55.280 Knicky and then they have unprotected sex in the back 0:16:55.440 --> 0:17:00.960 of his car. Meanwhile, Sandy is still sad about Danny 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:04.000 being a jerk. So she sings a song about being 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:08.160 hopelessly devoted to him. It's cute. I like the end 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.680 where it's like the water and then you just see 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.440 a John Travolta floating in the water and you're like, oh, 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:18.080 that's I love how she puts Marty's nice stationary into 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:20.760 a cave pool and then he leaves it like an asshole. 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:26.880 What a weird choice, Sandy. Someone had to clean that up, Sandy. 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:32.119 And then she runs off, and she loves to run off. 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:35.919 It is stunning how many I should have counted. She 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.520 runs off so much. I I think I have a 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:44.040 pretty good count in the recap alone here. But um so, Meanwhile, 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:47.240 so there's this other group. There's like a rival group 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:51.280 of Greaser's called the Scorpions, which is just like a 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:56.360 Jets and Sharks thing, right, Yeah, I think I think 0:17:56.400 --> 0:18:00.320 maybe the Scorpions don't go to Rydell or some thing. 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.439 I'm not totally sin. You can't not be going to 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:07.600 ride all. That's not good. Their leader is someone who 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.040 I think is named Leo. I don't know if they 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:11.840 even never say his name. In the movie. They call 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:15.399 him crater Face. I think maybe that's his nickname. Anyway, 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:19.639 there's this guy who bangs up Kinnicky's car, so the 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.040 Tea Birds have to fix up this car. And this 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.199 is when we get the Grease Lightning song, which I 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:27.000 think is also the name of the car. A lot 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:29.959 of stuff around this that is pretty unclear for me, 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:33.720 as you can tell um that dance sequence is still 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.040 so good and the outfits the tea though, when the 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:39.720 Tea Birds do the outfit change in Grease Lightning, I'm like, 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:43.920 where do I get a silver one es for men? 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:49.000 Like I really want that? Something that I find fascinating 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:52.199 about this type of movie featuring this type of character 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:55.480 who are like these like macho grease or tough guys, 0:18:56.400 --> 0:19:00.680 the kind of like cognitive dissonance of then them busting 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:05.960 out into like choreographed songs with like these flashy outfits 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:09.000 and they're dancing and they're singing, but it's like they're 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.000 supposed to be these like tough masculine guys, and like, 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:15.359 I just think that that dissonance is very funny. Chats 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.000 and Sharks Baby the best, Like that's like the most 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:24.480 iconic like like hyper masculinity and uh, while also like 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:31.240 effortlessly executing a dance right, very masculine combing of the hair, 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:36.960 you know how it's supermanly to constantly be grooming yourself. 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:42.200 Um um okay. So meanwhile, Danny goes and tries to 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:45.800 apologize to Sandy for being all aloof like he was, 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:50.480 but Sandy's like, screw you, I'm dating Tom. Now, who 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:55.359 is this football jock? So Danny starts to try to 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:58.679 be a jock also to impress Sandy, and then we 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:01.200 get this very long sequence where he tries a bunch 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:03.480 of different sports and sucks at all of them. I 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:07.240 did not remember that sequence at all. I honestly didn't 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:11.000 remember because I think that there's so much like valid conversation, 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:13.600 but like a lot of conversation about how Sandy changes 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:18.119 for Danny. I forgot that he also tries to change 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:20.800 everything about himself. The tone of it's a little different, 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:24.439 but like it's just I was like, oh right, huh okay, 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:27.359 I yeah, I totally did not remember that that happens. 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:29.760 Does that happen in the play as well? No, you 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:32.359 can't have that many costume changes in a play. Also, 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:35.280 plays don't really have fun and games sections the way 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:38.520 that movies do, and kind of a very literal fun 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:42.800 and game section of this movie. Yeah, he's just playing 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:45.960 a bunch of different games. It's just like John Travolta 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:50.080 in a series of different pairs of shorts and the 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:53.240 play it's just track. Yeah, And there's kind of no 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:56.080 metaphor for the long distance running that the coach kind 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:57.840 of gives where you go like, oh, because he has 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:00.560 to go long distance running because Sandy is a long 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:07.919 game win. Oh. I didn't even catch that. And the 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:10.400 movie it does the passage of time in a way 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:12.560 that I didn't get until I watched this with my 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:16.000 boyfriend because he was like, oh, because he's trying out 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:20.320 for sports in season order, and so he starts off 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:24.040 with like a false sport and then he's in track 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:26.399 and that gets us to it being the spring Dance 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:31.879 about so this is a year long quest for him. Yeah. Yeah, 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:34.960 he like grows and changes actually for a long time 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:37.760 if he's doing these different sports. And that's our passage 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:40.760 of time in the plot, which is so bizarre because yeah, 0:21:40.880 --> 0:21:43.040 like the the beginning of the movie, it's their first 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:44.720 day of school. The end of the movie, it's like 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:48.400 their graduation basically, But the movie seems like it takes 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:51.360 place over the course of like a week, so it's 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:55.119 really more dissonance that I can't really wrap my head around. 0:21:55.720 --> 0:21:59.280 But yeah, so in the movie, he does land on track, 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:02.080 which we don't even find out until the end, but 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:05.800 we see him kind of like practicing track and Sandy 0:22:05.840 --> 0:22:09.320 sees this and she is impressed because I guess she 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:12.960 loves jocks. I guess she loves athletes. Yeah. Also, the 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:16.640 other started, so much of this movie is weird at 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:20.560 this school, Like cheerleaders and jocks are like not cool 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:23.800 or they're like less cool. They're not cool by the 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:28.680 greaser standards. So yeah, right right, it's like it's an 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:31.600 all the kids running high school never heard of it, 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:37.680 Like pretty fascinating concept, but I can't relate. Well that's 0:22:37.680 --> 0:22:42.040 another I'm like, are they like, how popular are they? 0:22:42.200 --> 0:22:45.800 Is it just that we because we are following their story, 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:48.920 you know, we're seeing it through their perspectives, so they're like, Oh, 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:51.640 these must be like the cool kids around. But are 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:53.600 they I don't know. I don't know. It seems like 0:22:53.560 --> 0:22:56.080 they're ruled the school with an iron fist, maybe because 0:22:56.119 --> 0:23:00.399 I could because they're thirty years old that much. Well, 0:23:00.400 --> 0:23:05.240 that's true. Because the the the cheerleader girl. I think Patty, Yeah, 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:10.200 Patty like it's throwing herself at Danny Zuko, so yeah yeah, 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:12.920 and she wants Rizzo to like think she's cool kind 0:23:12.960 --> 0:23:15.159 of when she comes up to the lunch table and 0:23:15.200 --> 0:23:17.400 it's like trying to fit in with the I think 0:23:17.400 --> 0:23:20.199 the pink ladies ruled the school with an iron fist. 0:23:21.560 --> 0:23:24.840 I like, I'll allow it. I mean horny all kids 0:23:24.920 --> 0:23:32.080 running the school as a concept, I like same. So 0:23:32.600 --> 0:23:35.879 Sandy is now impressed with Danny again and she's like, Hey, 0:23:35.920 --> 0:23:38.240 there's this dance coming up. You should take me to it, 0:23:38.280 --> 0:23:42.360 and he's like okay. But before that, Danny takes Sandy 0:23:42.440 --> 0:23:45.639 to this diner, but Danny is embarrassed because his friends 0:23:45.640 --> 0:23:49.240 are there, and things kind of fall apart for everyone. 0:23:49.280 --> 0:23:52.880 We also get the Beauty School dropout song because there's 0:23:52.920 --> 0:23:55.639 a random subplot where French she has dropped out of 0:23:55.720 --> 0:23:58.840 high school to go to beauty school. Then the dance 0:23:58.880 --> 0:24:03.600 happens where the National Bandstand TV show is there to 0:24:03.800 --> 0:24:08.399 televise this like dance competition, and Danny ends up winning 0:24:08.400 --> 0:24:12.760 the competition, but it's by dancing with another girl cha chaw. 0:24:13.720 --> 0:24:17.359 So Sandy sees this dance with Cha Chaw and she'll 0:24:17.400 --> 0:24:20.960 never guess what she does. She gets jealous and runs off. 0:24:21.920 --> 0:24:25.960 So another very weird scene. Yeah. Then we cut to 0:24:26.560 --> 0:24:30.240 a drive in movie theater and Rizzo she thinks she 0:24:30.320 --> 0:24:33.439 might be pregnant. The whole school finds out about it 0:24:33.440 --> 0:24:36.800 in like ten seconds. I think we're missing that. Marty 0:24:36.920 --> 0:24:41.119