Did you ever wonder if Sandy Olsson was dead?

[Ome]

There's a story going round that Sandy Olsson was in fact dead for pretty much the entire film. Or at least dying…

In fact, Danny didn't actually save Sandy's life and she drowned (goodbye to Sandra Dee) - so the whole film is just a fantasy.





A tweet from Buffy...

Has anyone heard this theory about the movie GREASE At the end of the movie, Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson fly off in a red convertible as they wave goodbye to their friends on the solid ground below, leading to the conclusion that the flying car was the final result of Sandy’s fantasy. (As in she is dead)
During the song “Summer Nights,” Danny and Sandy recount how they first met and started a summer fling. The line, “I saved her life, she nearly drowned,” suggests that Sandy actually did drown and the whole movie is an elaborate musical fantasy due to the lack of oxygen getting to her brain. The flying red convertible also suggests that Sandy is happily being whisked away to heaven at the end of the movie.



Anyway, the Reddit user (who created the rumour) is a fake and phoney and we wish we'd never laid eyes on that theory - because it's NOT true. Phew!

Speaking to TMZ the co-writer of the original book and musical, Jim Jacobs said: "Whoever made up the theory must have been on acid.

"Sandy was very much alive."​

 

[Ome]

 

[Mel O'Drama]

The "heaven" part in the flying car has always seemed pretty obvious, but I never got the connection with the "drowning" line.

It gives me hope of having a slutty crossing over makeover. Maybe it's not too late after all.

It also explains the presence of Teen Angel, with the implication that all the people she met at Rydell are versions of people she's known throughout her life who had already died, some of whom have been equally tarted up.

Perhaps Rydell itself is purgatory. Aren't most schools, after all?

 

[Ome]

The "heaven" part in the flying car has always seemed pretty obvious

I never caught on to any of it.

It also explains the presence of Teen Angel, with the implication that all the people she met at Rydell are versions of people she's known throughout her life who had already died, some of whom have been equally tarted up.

Now we're talking...

It gives me hope of having a slutty crossing over makeover. Maybe it's not too late after all.

 

[ClassyCo]

I've seen Grease many times over the years, but I don't think I've ever heard this theory before. When the facts are all together like this, especially the photo @Ome provided, it makes one think that this is actually the way the movie could be interpreted, although the quote by Jim Jacobs leads one to believe that it shouldn't be interpreted as a fantasy. I guess, it can be reality or fantasy, depending on one's own personal preference? I'm conflicted... All these years I thought Sandy actually got her summer and following school year with Danny.

 

[That Bowie Girl]

I've seen Grease many times over the years, but I don't think I've ever heard this theory before. When the facts are all together like this, especially the photo @Ome provided, it makes one think that this is actually the way the movie could be interpreted, although the quote by Jim Jacobs leads one to believe that it shouldn't be interpreted as a fantasy. I guess, it can be reality or fantasy, depending on one's own personal preference? I'm conflicted... All these years I thought Sandy actually got her summer and following school year with Danny.

I can't think of it any other way so I am sticking with they did get their summer together.......but I do think that a lot of the movie was made as a fantasy.

This was really bothering me lol....so I checked it out and I feel better now

Well-a, well-a, well-a, nope.

“Grease” co-creator Jim Jacobs urged fans not to get too hopelessly devoted to a macabre, recently resurfaced theory that sweet Sandy Olsson was dead the whole time.

Jacobs, who co-wrote the original 1971 musical, told TMZ that the bonkers Reddit user — who posited that “Sandy actually did drown on the beach that day” and “the entire movie was a drowning woman’s coma fantasy” — was likely on acid, according to the site.

The bold hypothesis, first put forth in 2013 and re-popularized this week thanks to actress Sarah Michelle Gellar, begins at the movie’s improbable end — when Danny (John Travolta) and Sandy (Olivia Newton-John) drive off in a suddenly airborne Greased Lightning.

“How did the car fly?” asks the Redditor.

He or she answers that question by zeroing in on a line from the film’s opening number, “Summer Nights,” which chronicles the couple’s infatuated summer lovin’: “Saved her life, she nearly drowned.”

According to this visionary, Sandy’s leather-jacketed savior was less than successful.


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“As she drowned, her brain deprived of oxygen, she had a vivid coma fantasy involving her summer fling Danny, where they shared a magical year of high school together,” the user muses.

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“The visions get increasingly outlandish as time passes, until finally, as Danny desperately tries to resuscitate her on the beach, she sees herself flying into Heaven in her dying moments.”

Sandy: alive.
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The internet forgot about the bizarre theory for a few years, but re-embraced it Wednesday as the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” alum stumbled across it.

“Wait this has blown my mind- has anyone heard this theory about the movie #Grease,” she wrote on Facebook.

And the chills, they multiplied.

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[ClassyCo]

I can't think of it any other way so I am sticking with they did get their summer together.......but I do think that a lot of the movie was made as a fantasy.

Yes, I don't think I will let the "Sandy was dead" concept affect the way I view the film itself. I agree with you @Ms. Paige, in my own little world, Sandy was alive and she did actually get her summer with Danny. Others can view it as they wish...

 

[Ome]

It also explains the presence of Teen Angel, with the implication that all the people she met at Rydell are versions of people she's known throughout her life who had already died, some of whom have been equally tarted up.

I was thinking about this earlier - Did Sandy see this scene?

 

[Mel O'Drama]

I was thinking about this earlier - Did Sandy see this scene?

No, it was Frenchie when she was left alone at the diner. But it's easily conceivable that Sandy could be picturing Frenchie meeting Teen Angel. I mean, if Pam Ewing can dream up a doppelgänger for her cousin-in-law, surely Sandy could summon a guardian angel for her friend.

 

[Ome]

No, it was Frenchie when she was left alone at the diner. But it's easily conceivable that Sandy could be picturing Frenchie meeting Teen Angel. I mean, if Pam Ewing can dream up a doppelgänger for her cousin-in-law, surely Sandy could summon a guardian angel for her friend.

I like your thinking

 

[Mel O'Drama]

I like your thinking

And I just liked your post, so you could say I like your liking my thinking.

 

[Jessie]

I have never heard this theory before. I will continue to believe she was alive, and well and got her happy ending to her summer romance.

 

[Karin Schill]

I love "Grease" but the title of this thread totally confused me.
I've never heard that Sandy's last name was supposed to be Olsson before.
It sounds Swedish!

But no I never for a second thought the character could have been dead all along in the movie.

 

[Kevmac]

It gives me hope of having a slutty crossing over makeover. Maybe it's not too late after all.

...

Sandy was alive and she did actually get her summer with Danny. Others can view it as they wish...

Quite right, ClassyCo. How could she possibly be dead...??

Clearly, Sandy did enjoy her summer and "Happy ever After" with Danny Zuko..... otherwise, what's the point....??

..... and perchance, if you don't believe this....?

Well......

You can just :-

 

[Alexis]

I suspected she drown in the paddling pool during Hopelessly Devoted To You.

 

[Kevmac]

Oh, well..... Guess mine is not the first heart broken....

 

[Ome]

Guess mine is not the first heart broken....

 

[Ome]

Olivia Newton-John responds to that Grease fan theory that Sandy was dead all along

Last month, there was a totally wild rumour doing the rounds that Sandy in Grease was actually dead the whole time, or at the very least dying. Cheery.


Rather than saving Sandy's life when she "nearly drowned" on one of those infamous summer ni-hiiights, some viewers took it that Danny couldn't manage it, and the final scene where Danny and Sandy fly off into the sunset is actually Sandy being flown "to heaven".


Well, we were not on board with this fan theory - and neither was co-writer Jim Jacobs, who said "whoever made up the theory must have been on acid".

And if that didn't allay your fears that the film was actually just Sandra Dee's comatose fantasy, then perhaps Olivia Newton-John's say on the matter will.


As part of an interview discussing her latest musical venture LIV ON, Olivia was asked what she thought when she first heard the theory.

It starts at the 12:50 mark where she's talking about the film and the theory is brought up.

 

[Karin Schill]

Thanks for this Ome. I love her response.