I will personally admit to watching Grease on a monthly basis. Usually with wine and (related) exuberant karaoke. A fan-theory has emerged on Reddit though that adds a somewhat darker hue to the otherwise happy-go-lucky 70s song-fest.
The theory says that Sandy was actually dead, or at the very least dying, for the majority of the film. You know that playful beach frolic memory that kicks off Summer Nights? Well some are saying that Danny didn’t ‘save her life, she nearly drowned’. She actually drowned. And the rest of the film is her dying dream.
One Reddit user cited the almost unbelievable perfection of the ending as evidence of this, saying ‘EVERYTHING is suddenly ok, just the way that sweet, innocent Sandy would have wanted it to be.’
Or was it Danny who was the dying one? (Why must there always be a dying one?!)
Another theory argues that the film is his dream as he is in the process of dying on the beach, hence why he imagines Olivia Newton John’s name to be Sandy. The perfection of the ending is cited again, as he imagines building his dream car and beating his rival just before graduation.
The ideas have been shot down pretty quickly, with users complaining of ‘cop out’ it-was-all-in-their-head theories. Wasn’t that always the ending you came up with in primary school…?
Okay, so the glittering Grease Lightning sequence and the flying car at the end might be the tiniest bit far-fetched. But then it was the 70s. A ticket for The Rolling Stones cost $8.
Everything was far-fetched, right?
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.