Hey guys welcome back to
Think Tank, Hannah and John here.
So if you have been on Facebook or
Twitter this weekend you might have
noticed that Greece is the word.
Greece has been trending
all weekend.
Because there's a new fan theory,
well it's an old fan theory
that resurfaced.
>> Mm-hm.
>> With the help of Greece fans and
Sarah Michelle Geller.
Who I missed her.
>> Probably Buzzfeed was involved.
>> Maybe >> Very possible.
But basically the fan theory is
that Sandy, played by
Olivia Newton-John in the movie, is
lying dying in a coma on the beach.
Now, in Summer Nights,
Danny doesn't manage to save her
from drowning after all.
The line, Goodbye to Sandra Dee is
supposedly a clear
reference that she didn't survive.
So the whole concept of this theory
is that she's dead the entire time.
And this is all sort of a dream.
Now according to the theory there
are clues scattered throughout
the 1978 film, not least that
the flying car is a metaphor for
a dying Sandy ascending to Heaven.
So the theory states that the plot
strands of the film
end too happily, right.
So with Rizzo not
pregnant after all and Kenickie
deciding that he does love Rizzo.
Everything is suddenly okay,
just the way sweet Sandy would
have wanted it to be.
>> That doesn't make any sense.
>> This was a thread on Reddit that
kind of resurfaced.
And during the thread another user
speculated that it's actually
Danny, played by John Travolta- who
is dying, not Sandy.
He drowns in his attempts
to save Sandy, inventing her name
because they're on a sandy beach.
The rest of the film is
his vision of how he would have
liked his life to pay out.
A whirlwind romance,
building his dream car.
Beating his rival and
graduating high school.
>> That makes more sense.
>> That makes a little bit
more sense.
Everybody is talking about this.
They are getting all up in arms and
getting excited about this.
But unfortunately
the creator of Grease just
dispelled all the rumors and
said that's not how it happens.
>> The creator of the movie or
the person who initially
wrote the play or whatever.
>> The person who initially wrote
it, yeah, Jim Jacobs.
>> Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, and
then neither of these, look you can
make the case for the Sandy one.
If this had happened the following
year but
she has this dream where Rizzo
doesn't actually end up pregnant.
She'd hadn't even met Rizzo at
this point.
She would never ended up going to
the school if she'd died
that summer.
>> Yeah. >> She didn't meet all
these characters until she goes to
the beach and
then goes to the school after.
>> Right. I think that Danny Fan
theory or conspiracy theory
whatever it is makes more sense.
But I don't think the creator needs
to say this is what happens and
this is what doesn't happen.
>> Yes he does.
>> No because at one
point the movie is art and you
pushes out into the universe and
people are allowed to have their
interpretations.
>> He's not dead though.
>> But he can still have their, and
people can have their
interpretations of
what they think happened.
>> You can interpret what
would be interesting, but you don't
get to say, no that's what it was.
>> No, it's just a theory.
They're like, I think this
might have happened.
>> [LAUGH] Yeah.
Yeah and look, the flying off,
that's weird and everything.
And the whole thing is weird.
I get that.
>> It's a great movie.
>> Yeah, it's fine.
I like it. I think that both
the leads were good and the other
characters blah, blah, blah.
I think, not Rizzo, who's Frenchy.
I like Frenchy.
But, anyway, yeah,
it's a cool movie and the theories
are interesting, and they're
obviously lying in Summer Nights.
I mean neither version of what they
said actually is what happened.
>> That is true.
>> [CROSSTALK] fly off at the end.
It's bizarre.
And I do think the fact that they
made it so much cleaner and
happy go lucky at the end in
the movie version makes it easier
to make these sorts of theories.
>> Right. >> But I don't think that
stuff actually happened.
>> Well, it's not always up to you.
>> My theory is it was an extended
analogy for the Cold War.
>> [LAUGH] Guys, let us know if you
believe in this fan theory that
Sandy's actually dead, maybe that
Danny's dead or if you have another
theory about the Grease movie or if
you just think there's flying cars.
Let us know about that in
the comments down below and
we'll see you soon.
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