John Tucker Must Die vs. High School Musical
OK.
So, I am probably overthinking here.
But, after watching High School Musical again, I realized something kind of neat:
Both High School Musical and John Tucker Must die have one exact same scene happen in both movies.
I'll set the scene:
The star of the basketball team (Jesse "Abs" Metcalfe, Zac "Bangs" Efron) likes a very sweet girl (Brittany "Blond" Snow, Vanessa Anne "Ethnic" Hudgens), and his basketball teammates think that it is distracting him from The Team. And they confront him in the locker room about this. But they don't know that the sweet girl's brainy friend (Arielle "Maxim 100 Hottest Girls 2005" Kebbel, Monique "Dancing with the Stars" Coleman) IS SECRETLY CAPTURING THIS CONVERSATION VIA WEBCAM.
And what happens? Well, Abs/Bangs, feeling demasculated by his teammates, says something kind of mean about the sweet girl. In the case of Abs, he says something along the lines of "I am going to pork her tonight", followed by raunchy movements. In the case of the more gentlemanly Bangs, he says something along the lines of "Hey, the team is more important to me than the girl," followed by saying the team chant.
And what happens? Blond/Ethnic is confronted with this webcam footage - and she realizes that he's been playing her all along! Although, that was the exact OPPOSITE of what was happening in both cases -- Abs/Bangs really felt something for Blond/Ethnic -- and Abs/Bangs was just SAVING FACE in front of the guys. How was he to know that Maxim/Dancing was capturing the whole thing on webcam?
Anyway. I am sure you will be relieved to know that both movies mostly deviate at this point - Blond sets out to wreck Abs' life and the full cast winds up in a cake-fight in John Tucker Must Die; in High School Musical, the team apologizes to Bangs, and he apologizes to Ethnic, and then everybody does a big song and dance number.
But still... two movies. Both from 2006. One starring 28-year-olds, the other starring 18-year-olds. One features a scene of "lesbian" "kissing", a man running about in a thong, and a lot of discussion of one character's sluttiness. The other features creme brulee, a rooftop garden, and far too many pleather pageboy caps. But both movies? Feature THE EXACT SAME PLOT POINT.
Kind of interesting.
Here is a visual comparison:
