The theory in question has been around for a few years, but really gained some steam after a post on Imgur laid the theory out. The theory argued that the entire events of Grease were simply playing out in the mind of a comatose Sandy. In "Summer Nights," Danny Zuko tells his friends that he met Sandy after he saved her life when she nearly drowned. The idea postures the idea that she actually did drown, and that in the final moments of her life she fantasizes a life where she dates her rescuer, sings some songs, dances some dances, and becomes a cool girl in black leather pants. When Sandy and Danny take off at the end of the movie in their magical flying car, it's actually a metaphor for Sandy slowly rising to heaven. (Does that make Grease 2 her heaven? You gotta dream a little bigger there, Sandy).
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