Hairspray: Difference between revisions

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* [[Big Fun]]: Tracy's a rare female example.

* [[Billing Displacement]]: It was advertised starring John Travolta (in drag!). Nikkie Blonsky gets an "And introducing" after the long list of all the other celebrities "starring" in the movie.

* [[Blonde Brunette Redhead]]: Amber, Tracy, and Penny.

* [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead]]: Amber, Tracy, and Penny.

* [[The Brainless Beauty]]: Link Larkin is a light, male version

* [[Broken Smile]]: {{spoiler|Velma Von Tussle displays a perfect example when the show is finally integrated.}}

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She was the new girl in... town! }}

* [[Hey It's That Guy]]: In the Broadway version [[Glee|Will Schuester]] plays Link

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: In the Broadway version [[Glee|Will Schuester]] plays Link

* [[Historical In-Joke]]: When Penny rushes to show the Turnblads Tracy's TV debut, Edna misunderstands and thinks she's trying to show them the footage of John Glenn's space trip. She chastises her, saying "Oh, I've seen it! It's all some studio out in Hollywood. Do they really expect me to believe he's up there?"

** In the script of the stage version, (or at least the high school version, which kept most of the crap that got past the radar), it's "Oh no, don't tell me Khrushchev has his shoes off again!"

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* [[One Head Taller]]: Inverted with Penny and Seaweed. She is noticeably taller than him.

* [[The Plan]]: How the main characters get Tracy into the Miss Teenage Hairspray pageant in the end of the stage musical and newer movie.

* [[Politically-Incorrect Villain]]: Velma Von Tussle is quite the racist bitch in the second movie, where she seems to revel in her own misdeeds. In the first film and the [[Screen to Stage Adaptation]], she's more of a [[Selfish Good Selfish Evil|Lawful Selfish]] [[Stage Mom]] who's willing to court segregationist attitudes to look respectable.

* [[Politically-Incorrect Villain]]: Velma Von Tussle is quite the racist bitch in the second movie, where she seems to revel in her own misdeeds. In the first film and the [[Screen to Stage Adaptation]], she's more of a [[Selfish Good, Selfish Evil|Lawful Selfish]] [[Stage Mom]] who's willing to court segregationist attitudes to look respectable.

* [[Popular Is Dumb]]: The openly embraced creed of the Nicest Kids in Town:

{{quote| ''Who cares about sleep, when you can snooze in school?''<br />

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* [[Sassy Black Woman]]: Motormouth Maybelle, the Dynamites

* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Link in the original 1988 film, and to a lesser extent in the 2007 film. Delibarately subverted in the stage musical, where his [[Character Development]] is about stopping being a shallow tool and doing things for himself.

* [[Shout Out]]: For the 2007 film, director Adam Shankman included several homages to and winks at the films that were his inspiration. The opening shot is a mix of the opening shots for ''[[West Side Story]]'' and ''[[The Sound of Music]]''. Penny's dress at the end of the film is made from her curtains, just like the Von Trapp childrens' play clothes that Maria makes out of old curtains in ''The Sound of Music''. Several of Tracy's scenes - such as her ride atop the garbage truck - are taken from the Barbra Streissand film version of ''[[Funny Girl]]''. Link singing to Tracy's photograph, which sings back, is directly inspired from ''The Broadway Melody of 1938'', in which [[Judy Garland]] sings to a photo of Clark Gable.

* [[Shout-Out]]: For the 2007 film, director Adam Shankman included several homages to and winks at the films that were his inspiration. The opening shot is a mix of the opening shots for ''[[West Side Story]]'' and ''[[The Sound of Music]]''. Penny's dress at the end of the film is made from her curtains, just like the Von Trapp childrens' play clothes that Maria makes out of old curtains in ''The Sound of Music''. Several of Tracy's scenes - such as her ride atop the garbage truck - are taken from the Barbra Streissand film version of ''[[Funny Girl]]''. Link singing to Tracy's photograph, which sings back, is directly inspired from ''The Broadway Melody of 1938'', in which [[Judy Garland]] sings to a photo of Clark Gable.

** The stage musical contains a few references to [[Gypsy]]. In the beginning, these references were quite timely, as Hairspray premiered on Broadway in the same season as a revival of Gypsy starring Bernadette Peters. By the time Hairspray closed, these references would again become timely, as a new revival starring Patti LuPone had just started its run.

* [[Sidekick Song]]: "Run and Tell That" and "Big, Blonde, and Beautiful"

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* [[The Theme Park Version]]: Of [[The Sixties]], particularly the anti-segregation movement. [[Tropes Are Not Bad|Doesn't mean the movie's bad, though]].

* [[Took a Level In Kindness]]: Tracy and Edna could be pretty surly and offputting on several occasions in the original film (Edna in particular due to being played by Divine, the inspiration for [[The Little Mermaid|Ursula]], and it shows), but are very nice people in the musical.

* [[Ugly Hero Good Looking Villain]]: The Turnblads and the Von Tussles, except that Tracey's not exactly ugly.

* [[Ugly Hero, Good-Looking Villain]]: The Turnblads and the Von Tussles, except that Tracey's not exactly ugly.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: James Marsden beat out his X-Men co-star [[Hugh Jackman]] and [[N Sync|Joey McIntyre]] for the part of Corny Collins.

** Queen Latifah won out over Aretha Franklin.