Ages of "Rent" cast....

[sidneybruhl]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:26pm

How about the cast of "Grease" playing high school students:

Stockard Channing 34
Olivia Newton-John 30
John Travolta 24
Didi Conn 27

[Kringas]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:28pm

Apples and oranges. Grease didn't take itself nearly as seriously as Rent does.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:30pm

*HEAD.DESK*

[sidneybruhl]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:31pm

Explain how taking it "seriously" makes a difference as far as age is concerned...

Updated On: 1/4/06 at 09:31 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:32pm

Grease was *meant* to be campy. The age factor has a completely different connotation with intended campiness. It looks ridiculous, and that's not exactly awful.

[sidneybruhl]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:34pm

Oh please...a camera is a camera and old is old..."camp" has nothing to do with it.
Updated On: 1/4/06 at 09:34 PM

[iwearshoes]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:35pm

there seems to have been a lot of 'headdesking' lately...

[Kringas]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:36pm

Look at the success of Grease vs the lack of success of Rent. Perhaps the age isn't the issue; it's the execution.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:36pm

Sure it does. You're not *supposed* to laugh at Rent, are you? Perhaps you might if you're so caught up in physical appearances, but it's not the intention. Grease is supposed to be campy, so it's okay if you laugh. I'm not saying age discrepencies don't contiunue to exist, camp or no camp, but I'm saying that it's hardly so huge a deal in Grease as people are making of it with Rent, because of intended tone. How does that have nothing to do with it? Enlighten me.

Updated On: 1/4/06 at 09:36 PM

[sidneybruhl]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:38pm

How do we know that the film version of "Grease" was meant to be "campy?"

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:40pm

Just look at it! Tell me THAT much camp is unintentional and they just had no idea what they were doing and severely f*cked up. Oy. Then you wouldn't have a classic, you'd just have a really bad movie.

Updated On: 1/4/06 at 09:40 PM

[Kringas]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:41pm

Sidney, what's the point you're trying to make? I'm lost.

And why was campy in quotes?

Updated On: 1/4/06 at 09:41 PM

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:41pm

Well.... the car flying off into the sky at the end is a pretty big tip-off, to me anyway.

No, seriously... there's campiness throughout the entire movie.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:42pm

I was just going to say... dude, what IS your point? That the Rent cast was too old but the cast of Grease wasn't? Or how funny it is that everybody's just a bunch of old hags? What? Comparing the two movies is kind of... moot.

[sidneybruhl]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:46pm

The point I'm trying to make is that the creators of the film version of "Grease" were not "intentionally" trying for "camp."

[Kringas]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:46pm

Last night, at Show Tune Tuesday, they played "Cool Rider" from Grease 2. It made me so happy.

[Stage Addict]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:46pm

Sorry if this is a really dumb question, but can someone explain what "camp" means?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:47pm

Sure they weren't.

I think (I hope!) my work here is finished.

[sidneybruhl]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:50pm

Sometimes I wonder why I even bother to start threads...

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:51pm

Me too!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:51pm

Honey, think about the fact that your assumption might just be incorrect. People are allowed to disagree. Don't start threads if you only want people to go "yeah, that's so right!" when you're blatantly not.

Gee, I hoped wrong.

Updated On: 1/4/06 at 09:51 PM

[sidneybruhl]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:53pm

luvtheEmcee...let's just end it now...I was "incorrect."

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:54pm

You enjoy those "quotes."

Updated On: 1/4/06 at 09:54 PM

[sidneybruhl]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:54pm

And don't call me "honey."

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:55pm

K.