Everything I read about TLB and Heathers makes me realize that the 80’s doesn’t fit in with today’s sensibilities, at least not theatrically speaking. It was a real “fuck your feelings” decade and any attempt to soften or explain it away with a trauma plot ruins it. There was glitter in the blood that the characters drank in the film, it’s not that serious.
Everything I read about TLB and Heathers makes me realize that the 80’s doesn’t fit in with today’s sensibilities, at least not theatrically speaking. It was a real “fuck your feelings” decade and any attempt to soften or explain it away with a trauma plot ruins it. There was glitter in the blood that the characters drank in the film, it’s not that serious.
This is such a fascinating take! Now I'm trying to think of other musicals based on 80s dark comedies. I wonder if they have the same problem...