one of the most powerful scenes in the movie comes at the end where, after ellie confronts jacks dad in his body, jack returns as himself to a very heartfelt apology from his father for being too hard on him the explicit message (”boys can cry”) is paired with an open expression of love and appreciation for his kids that he didnt feel comfortable displaying until his son set an example through honest communication. jack learns that emotional expression is good, healthy, and especially essential to the grieving process. ellie realizes that relationships dont have to be complex, confusing, and painful, and that its okay to not live up to appearances and images. The value of this movie is the subtle, but genuine way it shows the characters growing through being given the space to act in conflicting ways to their expected norms. this movie is not perfect by any means, but it is severely underrated for the amount of substance it adds to sharpays character. she becomes a star through her own merit and determination, rather than through money and connections. and in the end, when she finally has her big moment, we’re happy for her bc she worked hard to get there. she faces actual adversity and works through it, asking herself what she truly wants and what shes capable of. throughout the movie we see her learn, from her love interests example, how to care for others and be considerate. we saw true vulnerability from her, instead of the basic ass “mean girl is sad bc shes actually just super insecure” trope (cough cough radio rebel), and this opened us up to finally learn about and care about her character. they did this by showing actual real growth and putting her outside of her sphere of influence and control. in focusing on sharpay as the main character, they finally had to make her likeable. she was NOT the victim in the main franchise, and she did not seem to exhibit any growth or introspection either.Īnd that!!! is why sharpays fabulous adventure was so important. I do not agree with the “uwu sharpay was the real victim in hsm” arguments bc in their efforts to look galaxy brained the people who say that overlook the fact that she was a rich white woman who used her power and status to exercise control over opportunities that should have been fairly and freely available for all they were not “making a mockery of her theater” in the first movie, they were literally just kids who wanted to try out a new school activity that everyone was supposed to be allowed to participate in and despite allegedly learning her lesson and singing we’re all in this together with everyone at the end of the first movie, she literally showed no growth in the second movie as she fostered an openly hostile environment and favored troy so heavily that it literally cost him his friends, all as part of yet another jealous plan to take things away from people who already have less than her.
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