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Torquemada posted:It was about 80 seconds long. A friend of mine recently tried to stage a high school production of Heathers, but was told to remove any mention of suicide. They were then asked to mash it up with something called Be Chill, which Wikipedia I forms me is about mind control chips that can be defeated through the power of monster energy drink. I'm glad that they enjoyed working on it, but there was no way I wasn't already going to have plans when the invite came...
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Baba Yaga Fanboy posted:...how? Grease is horny as gently caress. Is Rizzo even in it? This is some serious Dexter-edited-for-CBS poo poo. Well, now that I think about it, the "Let's have an orgy" with the hard G line was still in there, and it's not like they could edit the double entendres and euphemisms out of all the songs. But the pregnancy subplot was just excised.
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Sep 19, 2023 16:12
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Torquemada posted:It was about 80 seconds long. I was about to say it'd be an hour and a half of Greased Lightning, but I just looked up the lyrics, and well, even the song about the car is horny.
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Sep 19, 2023 17:19
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I wish my high school had staged Kustom Kar Kommandos instead of Grease.
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Sep 19, 2023 17:24
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There is a porn parody of Grease that actually included parodies of the songs. Clips from it were doing the rounds on twitter a while back. Those songs were only slightly more horny than the originals.
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Sep 19, 2023 17:32
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Elissimpark posted:I was about to say it'd be an hour and a half of Greased Lightning, but I just looked up the lyrics, and well, even the song about the car is horny. I mean, it's called Greased Lightning and you weren't expecting it to be horny? I don't think I could come up with more of a euphemism for a dick and/or an orgasm if I tried.
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Sep 19, 2023 18:00
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Randalor posted:I mean, it's called Greased Lightning and you weren't expecting it to be horny? I don't think I could come up with more of a euphemism for a dick and/or an orgasm if I tried. quote:Tutti Frutti, good booty
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Sep 19, 2023 18:17
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Grease was single handedly responsible for the fad in the late 70s to early 80s were sexual intercourse was referred to as “greasin”. It was a common phrase to hear people ask one another “you greasin?”
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Sep 20, 2023 05:02
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Really? Well I've had sex and lived in the 80's and I've never heard anyone use the phrase 'you greasin'.
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We managed a pretty much sexless version of Grease at school too. We also did parts of Chicago with the corsets and chairs just to balance it out. 
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We did Shrek and the school forced the kid w burn scars all over his face to be Shrek lol
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Chrpno posted:Really? Well I've had sex and lived in the 80's and I've never heard anyone use the phrase 'you greasin'. It was a regional dialect.
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Sep 20, 2023 15:22
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Albany? Utica?
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Sep 20, 2023 15:34
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Well I've never heard intercourse called greasin' before but I definitely have heard it called "Shrekin'".
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Sep 20, 2023 15:41
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Shrekin' 2: Electric Greasaloo
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Clam Chowdown posted:Well I've never heard intercourse called greasin' before but I definitely have heard it called "Shrekin'". The police report about your incident said 'shrieking' the officer just had bad handwriting.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Isn't the point of Grease that the sanitised image people had of the 50s wasn't true and that 50s teenagers swore and had underage sex and did petty crime just like 70s teens? Grease is fascinating to me because the original was very explicitly a send-up of uptight, conservative 50s teen movies (rom-coms, crime/exploitation dramas, musicals), but so much time has passed that we've completely lost that context and now a lot of people just think it's a movie from the 50s. Sandy, for example, becomes a slutty biker girl at the end, because it's parodying the fact that so many 50s teen movies had the pure girl turning the bad biker guy into a chaste dweeb like herself. Greased Lightnin' makes the subtext of 50s hot-rod movies literal, so the joke is that they're just singing "my big penis car will let me look at boobs and have sex". Beauty School Dropout features Frankie Avalon, who was a teen idol in the 50s, coming out of heaven as Frenchie's guardian angel to tell her that she's just a stupid idiot who will never amount to anything. The pre-Broadway version of Grease did indeed feature more swearing and sex, and they've performed that version a couple times here and there, but on Broadway and in the film it was still meant to be taken as satire. Over the years, though, Grease has been essentially reworked into just being a sincere version of the exact same thing that it was supposed to parody.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:
Sounds pretty cool
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Also the original Grease was very explicitly set in Chicago with a lot of local references that no one outside the general region would get that were removed when it went to Broadway. Also more characters were identifiably of Polish descent.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Grease is fascinating to me because the original was very explicitly a send-up of uptight, conservative 50s teen movies (rom-coms, crime/exploitation dramas, musicals), but so much time has passed that we've completely lost that context and now a lot of people just think it's a movie from the 50s. Sandy, for example, becomes a slutty biker girl at the end, because it's parodying the fact that so many 50s teen movies had the pure girl turning the bad biker guy into a chaste dweeb like herself. Greased Lightnin' makes the subtext of 50s hot-rod movies literal, so the joke is that they're just singing "my big penis car will let me look at boobs and have sex". Beauty School Dropout features Frankie Avalon, who was a teen idol in the 50s, coming out of heaven as Frenchie's guardian angel to tell her that she's just a stupid idiot who will never amount to anything. Countering Hayes Code era toothlessness by sensationalizing the sex lives of kids complete with romanticizing breaches of consent seems a bit  when viewed in the post metoo era
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If only it were possible to depict things happening in a story without endorsing them!
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Halloween Jack posted:If only it were possible to depict things happening in a story without endorsing them! Careful friend. You're getting dangerously close to explaining something, and we remember what that means.
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Voyager I posted:Careful friend. You're getting dangerously close to explaining something, and we remember what that means. Ban this poster for doxxing
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Halloween Jack posted:If only it were possible to depict things happening in a story without endorsing them! It's whole ethos is "that sanitized happy days stuff is bullshit and this is what all the kids think is really cool and fun." Not an endorsement per se, but it's making it look real snazzy and hip.
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Sep 20, 2023 20:28
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emSparkly posted:Countering Hayes Code era toothlessness by sensationalizing the sex lives of kids complete with romanticizing breaches of consent seems a bit The 70s were all about how hosed up everything was. Like people only remember the dance scenes from Saturday Night Fever but nobody remembers that most of the film is about crushing poverty, rape, violence, and working class disillusionment.
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FreudianSlippers posted:The 70s were all about how hosed up everything was. My favorite part of that movie is that one kid who got his girlfriend knocked up and it's clear nobody cares about how worried he is in that situation and he even asks if he thinks the pope himself will give him permission for her to get an abortion and then he ends up killing himself.
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FreudianSlippers posted:The 70s were all about how hosed up everything was.
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Like case in point for the difference between the gritty earthy 70s and the shallow right-wing 80s is two different Stallone series. In the original Rocky the titular character is a dumb as poo poo thug with a heart of gold who tries his best but loses. In the sequels he's a multimillionaire best boxer ever who wins the cold war by being a Real American Hero. In the original First Blood Rambo is a mentally ill veteran who freaks out when tortured by hick cops and ends up killing one (1) dude. In the sequels he's a muscle golem who goes back to Vietnam to free the totally not fictional MIA POWs and win the war for real and then helps the Taliban drive out the Soviets in both cases killing dozens upon dozens of foreign dudes.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Like case in point for the difference between the gritty earthy 70s and the shallow right-wing 80s is two different Stallone series. This says more about the studios than Stallone, though. It's also quite unfair to the Rocky franchise; Rocky II is cut from much the same cloth as the original, and Rocky Balboa returned to the roots. If you jettison the three 80s movies - which Rocky Balboa does - you're left with a tight trilogy of character movies that happen to be about a boxer.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Like case in point for the difference between the gritty earthy 70s and the shallow right-wing 80s is two different Stallone series. There were already seeds of the right-wing turn in the first one, though. "Nothing is over! Nothing! You just don't turn it off! It wasn't my war! You asked me, I didn't ask you! And I did what I had to do to win! But somebody wouldn't let us win! And I come back to the world and I see all those maggots at the airport, protesting me, spitting. Calling me baby killer and all kinds of vile crap! Who are they to protest me, huh? Who are they? Unless they've been me and been there and know what the hell they're yelling about!"
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In Rambo, Rambo kills 1 man. Then in Rambo, Rambo kills approximately 700 men.
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In the original ending for Rambo, he kills himself. It was decided this was too dark for movie audiences.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Like case in point for the difference between the gritty earthy 70s and the shallow right-wing 80s is two different Stallone series. First Blood came out in 1982, and the 1972 book that its based on has him killing way more people
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Rocky has the titular character telling a child she shouldn't talk like a whore because it'll cause her to act like a whore, and Mickey uses a bunch of racial slurs, and the lovable loser Pauly is super abusive to his sister. She gets away from him but Rocky won't let her leave his apartment, physically blocking her. It's pretty gross. I mean fantastic movie but it's all pretty horrible.
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Grease getting turned into what it parodies feels like the result of later casts and audiences genuinely not being able to imagine just how uptight, repressed and saccharine Hayes Code era media usually had to be. Something similar with 80s action movies probably, a lot of the excesses of an era become so ridiculous in hindsight that it's hard to get people to believe they even existed.
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Action movies got self-parodying pretty quickly. You can't tell me Commando, from 1985, wasn't being somewhat satirical even as it worked with the same tropes sincerely on some level.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Action movies got self-parodying pretty quickly. You can't tell me Commando, from 1985, wasn't being somewhat satirical even as it worked with the same tropes sincerely on some level. It's why The Last Action Hero is the best Arnold movie. It knows exactly what it is, it has one of the best villain actors of the era in Charles Dance and it just rolls with it being nonsense. Not a GREAT movie by any stretch but it nailed what it was. It could've been action move Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but it never quite got there.
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