I watched it tonight for the first time in probably 20 years.
Most of the actors playing these high school characters are in their 30s! Lordy, why didn't they just put in some jokes about them having been held back 15 years?
And why, having re-set the thing in California, did they retain the strong [and somewhat annoying] Brooklyn dialects?
And did greasers in the 1950s really walk that way? They guys swagger so much that their hips are almost popping and it looks like they're almost skipping.
Don't get me wrong -- it's a fun movie, and I remember going to see it at the drive-in with several friends the summer it came out. But now it just looks perplexingly odd.
2007-10-14
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