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Few simple lines of dialog added at the end would have saved this movie

posted 8 years ago by shango7200
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..............from being MORALLY BANKRUPT.

Danny to Sandy: Oh Sandy - you don't have to CHANGE for me. I love/like you the way you are--like that day we met on the beach.
Sandy: Oh Danny............(hugs and kisses him dearly).(Coughs) And I didn't really care for that stinky cigarette anyway. (Laughs)

What was up ? Why not resolve this "issue"? Makes me feel all weird that Sandy has to slut-it-up to be accepted....and she now SMOKES ! I mean what about coming out with a crack pipe and NO top? Maybe that would have been wonderful?!

Oh well......

"In every dimension , there's another YOU!"

[–] Rocksterious 8 years ago

Way to judge a 70's movie, set in the 1950's, by today's "Millennial" standards!
Hey... while we're on the subject, how sexist were those disgraceful, misogynistic Laurel and Hardy flicks?

[–] mcdemuth 8 years ago

Way to judge a 70's movie, set in the 1950's, by today's "Millennial" standards!

Yeah...

I am so tired of all these "Millenials" opening their uniformed mouths, as if their opinion is more important than anyone else's.

Times were different back then. You have to judge this film, based on the year it was released, and that was 1978! If "Millenials" can't accept that, then they need to stop watching older films, or shut their stupid faces.

What right do they have to judge how things were back then anyway?

Now, If this movie came out today, then it would be different.

[–] marktayloruk (2502) 2 years ago

Values have mainly changed for the worse!

[–] butaneggbert 8 years ago

This was not a movie designed to teach moral lessons.

How boring if all movies were.

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Nothing to see here, move along.

[–] RonaldMcdonaldMiller 8 years ago

Danny to Sandy: Oh Sandy - you don't have to CHANGE for me. I love/like you the way you are--like that day we met on the beach.

Did you completely miss the part of the movie right before "bad" Sandy comes out where Danny lets his T-Bird friends know they would be taking a back seat to Sandy. Where Danny specifically tells them Sandy means a lot to him and he was going to do anything to get her back? This was mentioned before Sandy came out as "bad." Danny did in fact want her just the way she was. She didnt have to change because it didnt matter to him. I dont see how people always seem to miss this point

[–] Washingtonnative (2613) 7 years ago

I never did.

[–] strntz (12259) 7 years ago

I'm 60 as I write this, but always thought about the ending just as OP did.

Yes, Danny was going to do anything to get Sandy back, including changing to a geek if need be. Sandy did the same, only turning into a ciggie smoking tramp to get Danny. Fair enough.

BUT, instead of finding a compromise (like being themselves as they were at the beach), they end up with Sandy staying the tramp at the end much to Danny's enthusiasm.

Not a big deal really and it doesn't bother me in the least, but I did give that a bit of thought.

[–] Culburn (3638) 7 years ago

But, once Danny breaks his nut a few times, perhaps even once he'll forever long for & be trapped in boundless search for beach (Sandy). And she'll be gone forever.

[–] strntz (12259) 7 years ago

touche...

[–] skipper (316) 2 years ago

Just because Sandy changed the way she looked doesn’t mean that she became a tramp and we don’t know if she continued with her new look because we never saw what happened after the day that she debuted it. She didn’t exactly have time to change her clothes and hair.

[–] strntz (12259) 2 years ago

True, but we saw Danny enthusiastically and immediately shed his letterman's sweater and Sandy start dirty dancing with him. They both changed to win back the other but Danny didn't meet Sandy in the middle.

And no, I didn't literally mean Sandy became a tramp.

What she did do was change her look and mannerisms for Danny and Danny not (at least) going back to the way he was at the beach when he met Sandy.

[–] Zarkoff (1859) 7 months ago

Giod point. They were both willing to change. I guess Sandy beat him to it

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

It's a good ending as he showed flexibility becoming a "jock". She's showing flexibility by not being the little innocent girl. I never thought it was a permanent change.

[–] liscarkat (18410) 6 years ago

No, I never got the impression her change was permanent. She was just fooling around to get his attention and prove she had a sense of humor about her good-girl image.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Exactly!

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21470) 2 years ago

No one thought that Danny was going to continue running track or that Sandy was going to continue smoking or dressing that way. They were both trying to please the other and that’s all.

[–] Whom (528) 2 years ago

Yeah, this whole story is just a wild take on ‘The Gift of the Magi’

[–] Kimmie (353) 2 years ago

No, danny needs to change for sandy, he is a dead beat low life and he is destined to growup to be trash, sandy deserves better

Danny won Sandy's heart pretending to be the good boy, sandy sgould have dumped him the instant she found out he was not

[–] SteveRes (508) 7 months ago

Why does this movie have to have a "moral message"? This is the problem with culture today, all the fun's been sucked out of it by morons like you.

[–] KiwiJim (1242) 7 months ago

100%

You could just as easily say the moral of the story is that true love always wins, but I suppose some would prefer to clutch at their pearls over a perm, a pair of leather pants and a cigarette.