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Is ‘Grease’ about conformity?

 Yeah! Random question for a blog right?

Okay so let me explain: ‘Grease’ is one of my mom’s ALL TIME favorite movies. She literally saw it in theaters 30+ times with her friends (this was when getting into the movies cost about as much as the small soda costs now…)

It was on TV Land a few nights ago and, of course, she HAD to watch it.

But as I was watching with her I kept seeing the trend of conformity. I’ve watched this move a ton of times in the past with her. Why? Cause she likes it…kinda like the way I like Wall-E (YaY Wal-E and Eve!!!)

Anywhooo…

You have cool talking, car fixing‘, greaser boy, 70’s Zac Efron Danny and girly, modest, 70’s Vanessa Hudgens Sandy. They fall in love over the4 summer, separate, and then find out that they go to the same school and yet--live TOTALLY different lives (imagine High School Musical in the 70’s with deeper topics and totally ol’ school dance moves…)

Anyway…midway into the movie, we come to the conclusion that Danny needs to become a good boy to date Sandy and Sandy needs to become a bad girl to date Danny. So in the end, they change their whole character to date each other. Danny starts wearing sweater vests and being nice to strangers, and Sandy starts smoking and becomes a pink lady. Then we have the whole ‘Sandy?! Danny?!’ encounter and sing ‘You’re The One That I Want’ and…the end…

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The issue of the conformity was never really addressed. They both changed and fell in love. And then their car started to fly…

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I mean, MAYBE I missed it…MAYBE it was a deleted scene and because there WERE no DVD’s back in the 70’s and 80’s, it was never seen.

 *Sigh* I’m not dissin’ ‘Grease‘. It’s a classic and it’s one of those movies that most people will see at LEAST once in their lifetime, like ‘Casablanca’, ‘Gone With the Wind’, ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and…er…‘Three Men and a Baby‘…

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MORAL: Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind- Romans 12:2. The ‘Danny/Sandy’ stories might be cute for the movies…but they aren’t real life.

Be who God made you to be and don’t change that for ANYONE. Love who you were made to be…and never ever forget to thank God for making you that way. :)