#grease live!

[whitewaterpaper]

Den som väntar på något gott väntar aldrig för länge. @kulturdasset lär bli mäkta imponerad av några av månadens filmval. Det är klart. Värt att vänta på vad det också. 😜

65 (2023) [👍] Riktigt bra SF om en utomjording som hamnar på jorden under dinosauriernas regim.

Australiens (2014) [👎🆓] En budgetstinkare från Australien. Går på komisk knock men svingar vilt i luften.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) [👍🔁]

Grease Live! (2016) [👍🎭🔁]

Hairspray Live! (2016) [👍🎭🔁]

Hocus Pocus 2 (2023) [👍🔁]

Kapten Våghals / Captain Scarlett (1952) [🆓] Intressant, och mot alla odds, kombination av Robin Hood och Röda Nejlikan. Hollywood! Vi vill ha en remake franchise!

Lair, the (2022) [__] Neil Marshall, åter i samarbete med Charlotte Kirk, och precis som i The Reckoning inte dåligt men når heller inte riktigt ända fram.

Lost City, the (2022) [👍🔁]

Love of Three Queens / L'amante di Paride (1954) [👎🆓] Spretigt sömnpiller med Hedy Lamarr.

Mord i Venedig / A Haunting in Venice (2023) [👎] När jag tänker tillbaka till Kenneth Branagh föregående exkursion som Poirot (Döden på Nilen, 2020) kommer beskrivningen ”välpolerad yta och dyra färger” för mig. Men vad gör man inte för Michelle Yeoh liksom?

Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent, the (1957) [🔁🆓] Vikingraffel signerat Roger Corman. Den här hade jag tydligen sett tidigare... Ett upptäckt som är ett omdöme i sig.

Ski Troop Attack (1960) [🆓] Skidåkarraffel signerat Roger Corman, han har verkligen fått till det i den här filmen. Om oinspirerat sidåkar-pang-pang är vad man längtar efter. Jag tror storyn tog en annan nedfart, för den minns jag inte mycket av.

Totally Killer (2023) [👍] Hallå, hej! Amazon får till en underhållande liten skräckkomedi som andas klassiska grepp och tillbaka till framtiden. Me like! Kommer antagligen ses igen.

Vidioten / UHF (1989) [__] Idag kanske mer ett underhållande tidsdokument om tiden innan YouTube gjorde videostjärnor av svenssons.

WarGames (1983) [👍🔁] Idag, i skuggan av AI kanske ännu mer aktuell än någonsin. Står fortfarande stadigt utan behov av remakes. Lekte med tanken att se uppföljaren, tills jag såg att den bara fanns på hyr-tjänsterna.

@kulturdasset lär börja drägla över husguden Neil Marshalls senaste, hen bör dock trycka på play där med något nedskruvade förväntningar. Resten tycker jag skall ge Totally Killer eller Kapten Våghals en chans. Den senare är kanske inte A-klassad underhållning, men väl värd en chans.

För den nyfikne med ett sug efter en utmaning såg jag the Reckoning i februari 2021.

#månadens filmer #senast sedda film #65 #Australiens #Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves #Grease Live! #Hairspray Live! #Hocus Pocus 2 #Kapten Våghals #Captain Scarlett #The Lair #the Lost City #Love of Three Queens #L'amante di Paride #Mord i Venedig #A Haunting in Venice #the Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent #Ski Troop Attack #Totally Killer #Vidioten #UHF #WarGames #senast sedda filmer #The Viking Women and the Sea Serpent

[the-invisible-queer]

Choose a fictional Joe Jonas

#Joe Jonas #jonas brothers #shane gray #camp rock #camp rock 2 #joe lucas #jonas #j.o.n.a.s. #jonas la #the kraken #hotel transylvania 3 #johnny casino #grease live #grease live! #detective green #angie tribeca #cherub #night at the museum 2 #night at the museum 2: Battle at the Smithsonian #hot in cleveland

[ourownbelovedbohemians]

my taste in movies and shows and plays is weird because what I like can range from the literal darkest grittiest stuff (Like Minds, Les Mis (to a degree)) to the most ridiculously whimsical silly musicals ever (Grease, Wonka, etc.)

#broadway #les miserables #les mis #aaron tveit #eddie redmayne #like minds #like minds 2006 #alex forbes #grease #grease live! #wonka #wonka movie

[onelegmissing]

"Grease" Backstories

Sandy Olsson/Yung/Dumbrowski

In “Grease Live!” Sandy’s family is from Utah, and her parents are extremely controlling, to the point of not allowing her to attend school dances. It’s believed that in this version, her family are strict Mormons.

This background works for most any time period. But if we want to tie her story closer to the ‘50s, and/or just want her to be from Australia or someplace else, here’s another idea:

Sandy’s father has a prestigious position in….some business or another. The “change of plans” that caused the family to abruptly move to another state/country/side of the globe happened when his longtime business associate was Blacklisted as a Communist. Mr. Olsen/Young/Whoever ended that partnership on the spot and moved his family as far away from that associate as possible.  He is obsessed with his family’s good, upstanding, “family values” reputation.

And Sandy of course just wants to be a teenager.

Danny Zuko:

“You’re lucky to have parents who care so much; mine don’t care about anything.”

~ Danny Zuko, “Grease Live!” (2016)

This single line goes worlds to explaining Danny’s dependence on the T-Birds, and why he’s drawn to a sensitive girl like Sandy.

So why don’t his parents care about anything?

Danny is the result of a shotgun wedding. Dad the veteran unknowingly knocked up Danny’s mom just before shipping out to Japan. Mr. Zuko returned from the War with untreated PTSD, and a son he didn’t plan on. Because of the time period, Danny’s parents were pressured to get married. They don’t exactly fight, they just exist in a loveless marriage, begrudgingly raising their kids in a house full of untreated PTSD and substance abuse.

Kenickie:

Note: I have absolutely no clue where the Grease Wiki gets the “Kenickie Murdock” from. The name “Murdock” is not given to Kenickie in either the movie or the TV version, and I can find no evidence of it being in the stage version either. The only “Murdock” in the play/movie is Mrs. Murdock the shop teacher, and there’s no indication of any relationship to Kenickie, bar maybe the car connection. In any case, Kenickie itself is a last name.

Kenickie’s “Mom” tattoo is pretty damn corny, but if you can get past that, it’s a detail that drops a bombshell of backstory hints.

For all his edgelord behavior, Kenickie is stunningly chivalrous when he learns Rizzo may be pregnant. Even nowadays, a true asshole would run out on her. Here it’s the ‘50s, he wants to be there for her and his hypothetical unplanned kid.  Rizzo knows what a hardass Kenickie is, yet thinks crying in front of him is “the worst thing I could do”--worse than dating his enemy and telling him “it’s someone else’s kid.”

Here’s my spin: Kenickie’s mom died from some disease like Cancer or radium poisoning. It was slow and emotionally scarring, and Rizzo knows about it. She knows seeing a woman he cares about in emotional distress again would break him.

His father is alive, but absent, if not literally then at least emotionally. Kenickie was apparently gone the entire summer, none of the other T-Birds knew where he was for three months. The Bargain City he was lugging boxes at was apparently out of town. Who was he living with for the summer? His grandparents? A friend of the family? Who knows.

Betty Rizzo:

She’s “the school tramp” (“Grease Live!”) and the neighborhood thinks she’s trashy. Yet she doesn’t seem to live in a ghetto or anything, if the opening cartoon is anything to go by. She’s from a working-class family that just has a bad reputation, probably for incredibly stupid reasons given that it’s the ‘50s.

Betty’s mom had her out of wedlock and didn’t bother to hide it. She did eventually get married—to the neighborhood gambling addict. The last person to find out that this guy wasn’t Betty’s rea father was Betty. Since having that bomb dropped on her, Betty’s one scruple is that she doesn’t lie.

Frenchie:

Has a relatively normal family. She’s Jewish (because Didi Cohn). No one in her nuclear family has any numbers tattooed on their arms though; they’ve been in the States since the Twenties. Why does she have her own TV in her room in the ‘50s? She doesn’t; the Pink Ladies just commandeered the family set for the night.

What do her parents think of her academic decisions? They’re a bit exasperated by her dropping out, pursuing that beauty-school pipe-dream, and having to stay in high school a bit longer to make up for it. But it’s not of the world. Frenchie has a relatively normal, if sit-commy family.

Jan:

The only thing really making her an outcast is that she eats a lot and she’s quirky. Mom frequently gives her grief for her unhealthy eating habits and sketchy friends, but on the whole Jan has a pretty normal life. Or maybe not-so-normal by ‘50s standards. Nothing gets Jan down. Not being called “fat,” not being compared to a cartoon beaver, nothing. Her family doesn’t adhere to the ridged rules of ‘50s society. Her parents are beanik-y artists.

Doody:

His skittish personality runs in the family.  His father is hyper-paranoid that the Russians will nuke us any day now, and upkeeps the family bomb shelter obsessively. Dad has so much unnecessary crap hoarded up for the supposed Armageddon that Doody has no trouble finding parts for Greased Lightning right at home.

Sonny Latierri:

…has been flukning school a lot. It’s implied in the TV version, and goes universes to explaining why he particularly looks so old in the movie even compared to the other “teenagers.”

Putzie:

Even with your slash-goggles off, his character screams “in the closet” pretty hard. He takes ogling girls to extremes, and “jokingly” feels up Kenickie during “Summer Nights” in the movie. The only indication that he might be into girls for real is his admittedly adorable flirtation with Jan, and even could just have been playground-romance. Or he could be bi.

Marty:

Having boy-toys all over the world means that Marty probably has some familiarity with the different subcultures overseas. She has a feu greasers here in the States and one in Canada; a Teddy Boy in England; a drag-racing Raggare in Sweden; a Bōsōzoku in Japan; and a wildly-dressed Halbstarke in Germany, who sends her the weirdest gifts.  

Crater-Face:

…is not the token racist, because that’s just lazy writing.  

Aside from that, I don’t know that I can give him a serious backstory, because his movie-counterpart is just so distractingly old for the part. I jokingly head-canon that he’s a conman in his 40s hiding from both the mafia and the law, trying unconvincingly to live the false identity of a high school student.  

Or maybe he’s a cop on assignment to infiltrate teenage drag-racing gangs.

Principal McGee:

The tight-laced principal doesn’t want any of her students to know that when she was in high school, in the Roaring Twenties, she was the wildest flapper in California.

Mrs. Murdock

As a young woman in the ‘30s, she was part of a small gang of robbers akin to Bonnie and Clyde or the Dillinger gang. This is what led to her prison time. She got a shortened sentence for her work as a wrench-wench during the War. She misses the old times, which is why she assists the T-Birds in their illicit vehicular activities.

#grease #grease 1978 #grease live! #head canon #backstory #danny zuko #sandy #betty rizzo #kenickie #frenchie #jan #sonny #doody #putzie #marty maraschino #principal mcgee #mrs murdock #leo balmudo #crater face #1950s #greaser #beatnik

[sapphosclown]

“i still hate you.” “okay!”

#lives so rent free in my mind #it’s so funny #ps cynthia in general in this scene. i am unwell #grease rise of the pink ladies #rise of the pink ladies #grotpl #rotpl #grease rotpl #cynthia zdunowski #buddy aldridge

[coolnonsenseworld]

Last piece ❤️💙

There are still leftovers of the Calendar as well as some A5 prints with calendar pieces 💞

linktr.ee/Mezzy (or check my Tumblr for links)

#klance fanart #klance #voltron legendary defender #ooofff you ever feel like you keep doing things and things are still to get done??? #i keep saying this every five posts #i start to think loving getting in the 'art zone' is my biggest vice #because sure i sketch or do some digital work from time to time but if i haven't sat down to draw for hours #until eyes sting and neck cant move and brain sleepy af? is it drawing anymore? is it living anymore? yeah i thought so #im the main person making grocery shopping in this house did you know? for three people #there is always something running out and like let me tell you i already answer business emails while eating #i cleaned the windows today before my first coffee #okay to be fair i started it but apparently i used the wrong bottle and i smeared anti grease all over the windows #and then finished my coffee staring at the curvy roads of a thin film painted between me and the world promising myself to never do anythin #before first coffee #either way i feel like i havent been very present or entertaining lately #by which i mean on and off for months #am i correct or am i partially correct or reimagining things? who knows #but i keep having so many things i want to do it just keeps on going #i'm starting with commissions now #BUT THEN!! #haha yeah i hope you are having a great November and enjoy this piece!! #sending hugs <3 if you like them if not #a gentle wave from a far

[mxbaggins]

Big Theatre: “we can’t record live theatre shows, then no one will come see them!!!!” 😡

Me, watching Phantom of the Opera for the millionth time: “I would give literally anything to be sitting under than chandelier again.” 😭😭😭

#musicals #theatre #musical theatre #musical theater #theater #phantom of the opera #live theatre #les miserables #the lion king #newsies #mamma mia #grease #the lightning thief #les mis #avenue q #something rotten #rent #heathers #jersey boys

[usergrantaire]

GREASE LIVE (2016) SCHMIGADOON! (2021 – ) | 2×03: Bells and Whistles

#aaron tveit #grease live #schmigadoon #tveitedit #schmigadoonedit #tvedit #dailyflicks #tvandfilm #cinemapix #tvcentric #musicalsgifs #usernoah #usertheseus #userteresa #userelliee #userrlaura #usermorph #userrobin #useramelias #*mine #this colouring is so wonky. ah well

[ashleyslorens]

AARON TVEIT + The Eras Tour Poster

#aaron tveit #aarontveitedit #theatreedit #musicaltheatreedit #broadwayedit #wicked #les mis #rent #grease live #schmigadoon #next to normal #company #moulin rouge! the musical #catch me if you can #* #i'm still laughing at him saying he couldn't get tickets to the eras tour #he's so me #this was fun to make and i rlly like the way it turned out!

[shes-a-cowboyyy-killer]

“Do you think these glasses make me look smarter?” -Marty Maraschino (Grease 1978)

#me #thick and tatted #thick gorgeous curvy #thick thighs and pretty eyes #thick thighs save lives #team thicc #thick baddie #thick babe #thick vibes only #thick and curvy #inked and curvy #curvy baddie #curvy babe #curvy cowgirl #curvy redhead #curvyconfidence #curvy and beautiful #girls who wear glasses #grease #marty maraschino #grease 1978

[vinylandcoffeecollection]

I can’t. I’m DEAD.

See right here Matty- THIS is the hair. You should never have another hairstyle, ever, and most importantly you should NEVER stop wearing those glasses.

🔥🔥🔥

#jfc though #in his hottest era since ABIIOR #you just know it’ll be greased back in MSG tho #he lives to deny me #the 1975 #the 1975 fanfic #the 1975 fanfiction #matty healy #1975 smut #gatty

[cyansadness]

this is how i think season 2 of grease rise of the pink ladies should start

we open on the facciano’s old apartment in new york. it’s snowing outside. the house is full of boxes. this is the night before they are set to move to rydell. frenchie is walking to her room when she hears yelling from jane’s room.

being a nosy younger sister, she leans closer to try to hear the conversation better. frenchie can’t really hear much. just jane yelling and a male voice yelling back. we can only hear bits and pieces of the conversation.

‘i never want to hear from you or see you again.’ ‘come on, don’t be like that jane.’ ‘i mean it zuko, get out.” ‘calm down facciano.’

frenchie hears footsteps approaching the door so she dives into her own room just as jane opens her own. frenchie watches the interaction from a crack in the door.

the conversation now is crystal clear as jane forces zuko out of her room. he goes to grab her forearm but she pushes him away.

‘come on jane, what are you going to do, huh? move to california and just forget about everything that happened?” he would ask, getting closer to jane but she would take a few steps back. the camera is facing his back, we still can see his face.

‘yeah, i’m not letting you ruin this second chance for me. you’ve done enough zuko. just leave me alone, for good this time.’ jane said, crossing her arms in front of her. ‘good-bye zuko.’ jane said, throwing something small at him. it bounced out off his chest and landed on the floor.

jane stepped back into her room and shut the door. zuko bent down to pick up what jane threw at him. a gold ring with a dark red gem in the center. he huffed before going to leave the facciano’s residence for the last time.

frenchie has a confused look on her face. what happened? what did they do? why were they arguing? so many questions and one sister unwilling to answer them.

we see jane through her small window that leads to a fire escape. the window is frosted over. as the camera pans out, we see her packing the last things in a suitcase.

the camera lifts up to show the night sky before quickly dropping back down where we are back in rydell.

this is right after the last scene of season 1. we see jane storm into the frosty palace, everyone jumping out of her way because calamity jane is on a warpath.

she’s angry but under all that anger, there’s fear. she has her back to the door as it jingles again. the pink ladies followed her, obviously.

they talk over each other as they question everything they just saw. as jane was about to start talking, the bell jingles again. jane looks up again and zuko is standing at the door, a smirk on his face like he’s been waiting for this day to come. this is the first time we’re seeing his face.

with that proud smirk on his face, he looks at jane dead in the eyes. “hey facciano, long time, no see.’

then we get our iconic title card and theme

bam, mic drop

now we just need a season 2.

#grease rise of the pink ladies #grease: rise of the pink ladies #save rise of the pink ladies #jane facciano #olivia valdovinos #cynthia zdunowski #nancy nakagawa #hazel robertson #i need them back #this has been living in my head rent free for months

[the-invisible-queer]

#joe jonas #shane gray #johnny casino #camp rock #camp rock 2 #camp rock 2: the final jam #grease live!

[ourownbelovedbohemians]

guilty pleasure = dramatically lip-syncing to ''Sandy'' from Grease when I'm alone

#broadway #grease #grease live! #aaron tveit #john travolta #julianne hough #olivia newton-john

[onelegmissing]

Grease Live! (2016)

In terms of the music, there’s no contest. The songs in this TV stage adaptation range from okay to atrocious, and the opening theme is unfortunately the worst by far. But “Grease Live!” makes up for that by doing so much more with the characters and story than the film version does. 

The entire cast is great, giving their own spins on the characters. My only complaint is that the T-Birds are hard to tell apart at times, due to all having such similar hair and coats in this version. 

In this version, Sandy has ultra-controlling parents. Thus, her bad-girl makeover at the end comes off more like her own choice, rather than giving into peer pressure. Danny is also considerably more likable, bar his big lie at the beach, which gives Sandy more of a reason to be upset when they reunite at Rydell. 

THAT FRIGGIN DINER ! 

Cameo! 

Marty is arguably the biggest improvement in this version. In the 1978 version I found her to be the least interesting or memorable character. Keke Palmer gives Marty her own swag. Though she also has the unfair advantage of getting to sing Marty’s one solo “Freddie My Love,” deleted from the movie version.

Vanessa Hudgens’ father died the night before “Grease Live” premiered--live--on TV. But she performed phenomenally as Rizzo.  

Eugene plays a more significant role in this version, not the least of which contributes to making Danny more likable than in the movie. 

If you’re a Rizzo/Kenickie fan, this version is definitely worth checking out. She comes to Thunder Road, this time. 

“Beauty School Dropout,” sadly, is another point against this version. Not the least because you can barely hear the singers!

Just a funny pause. Caption at your leisure. 

I love how this version ties Kenickie’s head-injury into his plotline with Rizzo. And I also love the face of that one guy on the right (Sonny I think?) 

Danny’s reaction to Sandy’s makeover. 

If you love “Grease,” give this version a shot...even if you have to skip through some of the music numbers. 

#grease live! #vanessa hudgens #sandy #danny zuko #kenickie murdoch #betty rizzo #marty maraschino #frenchie #jan #eugene #didi cohn #julianne hough #aaron teveit #carlos penavega #keke palmer #stage #screencap #rizzo #carley rae jepsen #frak it i can't tag them all #review

[sapphosclown]

i would like to officially put it out there

lydia calling cynthia handsome and pretty boy

#no bc #no but bc #lydia using masc compliments for cynthia lives sooo rent free in my head #cynthia always blushes really bad which makes lydia do it even more #i commented this in the tags of someone else’s post but i keep think ab it #grease rise of the pink ladies #rise of the pink ladies #rotpl #cynthia zdunowski #lydia rotpl #cynthia x lydia #lynthia