![]() ![]() Sandy's shock is nothing compared to that of the audience, who have just watched a fairly conventional high-school musical that operates within normal rules of reality end with a car literally flying off towards a happy ending. Notably, Sandy is taken aback by the car taking off, which doesn't fit with it being a dream sequence. That only makes the final sequence of Grease all the more confusing, because when Danny and Sandy fly off from the carnival in Greased Lightnin' it happens in the real world with all the characters very obviously awake. Both are very much tied to dreams, even if "Greased Lightnin'" appears to play out in real-time. The latter is Didi Conn's Frenchy imagining the bleakness of her future if her dream fails. ![]() The former is the T-Birds imagining their triumphs and how well the car will boost their boyish boasts of machismo. It contains two big fantasy sequences for the songs "Greased Lightnin'" and "Beauty School Dropout", which very obviously play out in the imaginations of the characters singing those songs. Grease isn't all just a school-set realistic comedy-drama. ![]()
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