Grease, a “sexist, misogynistic film that promotes the culture of rape”? Olivia Newton-John's response

After

Disney's

and

,

Andersen's

,

Fleming's

it's the turn of

, the rose-watered musical that made Olivia Newton-John famous there is already over forty years, to attract the wrath of neo-feminists and other statues debunkers on social networks.

These critical apprentices, who definitely have a keen sense of nuance, see in this cinematographic bluette, "

".

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or the

to avoid “dated or negative representations of minorities”

The now sulphurous and dangerous character of this film will therefore still have pleased almost six million spectators in 1978, in France alone, who will make this musical the greatest success of the genre, ahead of the mythical

and the cult

.

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Incendiary tweets in support, the contemptors and especially the contempers of

do not hesitate to denounce not only the poverty of history but also "

"Since Sandy Olsson (Olivia Newton-John)"

"to please the slicked macho (Grease means gomina, NDLR) played by John Travolta.

Failing to write a learned critical device intended to put into perspective the film which made her an international star Olivia Newton-John has stepped up to the plate in the British newspaper The

and in the Australian podcast

, to put it simply. what she thought of this musical which sold nearly thirty million albums of the film's soundtrack worldwide.

Avoiding anachronisms and relativizing the importance of this film, Olivia Newton-John said what she thought of the alleged clichés conveyed by this high school romance: “

"

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, a film returns to the origins of the love between Danny and Sandy

Will the controversy die out on its own or will it serve as a springboard for the new series inspired by the love affairs of Danny and Sandy produced by HBO or the prequel

envisaged by Paramount?

It's possible.

In any case, the writers will have to show an unwavering vigilance so that these news "Summer Nights" of the XXIst century are irreproachable ...