Sharpay Evans......aka the child friendly version, of Regina George. Also the spin-off movie Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure PROVES she isn’t a villain. She’s more....a fabulous anti hero! :D
Aylin Dogan I like that! She really is. What I like about Sharpay is that she does have a conscience and she does what is right in the end. At least from what I remember
Amy Erlanger Still, she should have welcomed the chance to see just how good at performing she truly was. If she can't compete with two unqualified beginners, how can she hope to make it big on her own merit?
well in real life they wouldn't, if it was realistic there was no competition. but because its a movie and Troy and Gabriella get everything they want, its just handed to them without even trying
I’ve always liked Sharpay as a character. She was never evil, just career driven. P.S. Sharpay did not like Troy, she liked the power that he held. (Just my personal opinion)
Basically Troy at the end was saying: “I’d rather hang out and party with my friends than get into a good college and have my life turn out good. Basically I’d rather be irresponsible than make the wise choice of planning ahead.”
😂😂😂*Laughing* WHAT?! Is he a idiot, he's just being a total moron right now. Boy you actually think being irresponsible is good. Okay go ahead. I know about High School Musical but I didn't bother to watch movies because I will get bored easily. But now I already got Wi-Fi. I still don't bother. But I do watches reviews.
Bea Bianca He didn’t exactly say it like that but when Sharpay was like “what about your future and college” Troy was like “I care more about what my friends think of me”. If I were him I would tell my friends “this is a huge opportunity for me and I hope you can understand that”.
She was never the villain to me. She's just the sassy and confident queen. I wish I have her confidence. Her perseverance and hard work made me admire her
Audrey Romero yeah really mirable to try to steal a boyfriend I don’t care if it’s the main character or not you don’t try to do that that’s wrong. She wasn’t just confident when she didn’t get her way she was manipulative mean and selfish don’t forget those
I feel like i'm the only person that feels sorry for Ryan. Like I do agree with the whole Sharpay being the victim thing but Ryan is so rarely mentioned when, in the first movie, he went through the same stuff too and lost out as much as she did. Also if you look at the second film Sharpay and Ryan kind of just betrayed eachother, Sharpay by ditching Ryan for Troy and then Ryan for getting back at her and stopping her from performing, so they're kind of on even playing fields in that one in my opinion ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@martinski Wow shut up. Even if Ashley and Vanessa switched roles I still would've liked Sharpay more. Also, fix your grammar and wait till you mature more, then you can go and talk to me.
(Trust me this is coming from a theater kid) if you are late for an audition you don’t get a part much less the lead and if you’re late to an audition two times in a row you’re just showing a lack of dedication
Once Upon A Blink OK you can say the first time is their fault and they were denied the audition and then they sang Miss Darvis heard it and allow for callbacks that’s not their fault you can blame that on the teacher. The second time was completely on sharpay and Ryan who purposely try to sabotage them
I've always known Sharpay wasn't the villain and I've always liked her and Ryan more than Troy and Gabriella. Troy and Gabriella have good songs, but I don't like their characters or their singing voices. They just don't have as much talent, and they make EVERY song slow, boring and romantic. I once wrote a 10 page list of reasons Sharpay isn't the villain. One of the main ones is the fact that everyone says she tried to steal Troy, which isn't strictly true. She did help him a lot more than Gabriella did though. SHE OFFERED HIM A COLLEGE EDUCATION JUST FOR SINGING WITH HER!! She also promoted him at Lava Springs so he could earn more money, as he was struggling to pay for the college he wanted to go to. This isn't really trying to steal him, it's just being a good friend in my opinion. He was so ungrateful to her!! I could say much more about it, but this comment is long enough already. 🤣 Sorry about how long the comment is, I just talk for ages when it comes to HSM, especially when I'm trying to prove Sharpay's not the villain.
I Love Owl City they were great slow and romantic songs better than the very predictable bip bop music. They actually had more singing talent and have better voices. It is true that she tried to steal Troy he left early try to make sure and try to get him to have in our thing with her and when he said it was just him and Gabriella she pushed harder offering a scholarship and money and stuff like that while trying to get the Wildcats fired. I guess it’s OK to try to steal someone’s boyfriend as long as you’re offering him a scholarship she abused her money and power to try to get him. Gabriella was just fine as a girlfriend until shar-Pei got in the way and Troy kind of turned for a while and was kind of blowing her off. I guess being manipulative and trying to get a boyfriend to cheat on his girlfriend with you you’re not a villain or evil
Sally Magnani To be honest try and Gabriella were amazing Shar-Pei was the worst the only reason I like her is because of Ashley Tisdale but otherwise she was such a horrible person
@@sallymagnani6842 Gabriella was annoying. Troy is like the perfect boyfriend. Brings pizza, drives 100s of miles...he does everything for her 😍 Gabriella doesn't do nothin
As much as I love Gabriella I do admit she is my third favorite character while my second favorite is Sharpay, so I'll have to agree with you there. Troy Bolton is my number one favorite, meanwhile.
I never liked Gabriella. Especially as a theater kid, having some new kid who’s never even been in play before take a lead roll.. I saw Sharpay’s reasoning to dislike Gabriella. Sharpay worked hard for her musical ability. I love her to this day.
I am a theatre kid and I always felt like they were trying to make a victim into a villain because Troy held so much power and got away for what he did.
How come blonde girls with makeup and are rich are always portrayed as the villain? After all, the parents probably worked damn hard to get so much money. She has a passion and Troy was just there to crush all her dreams.
I think it's pretty clear the real villain in the HSM movies is time. The first one was peer pressure, but the inevitability of growing up and the pressures of their future was clearly the most feared concept of the trilogy
Gabriela Centurion Neumann Don't get me started, I can't believe it's been 10 years since the third one came out. Every time I see a video like this I feel 12 years old again
She doesn't seem to be evil, to be honest I am starting to think that these so called heroes "Gabriella, Troy and the whole school" are the real villains and Sharpay was never a villain. I don't see why not one of these charecters like her...
I loved Sharpay, but these were terrible reasons! I think the only thing that disproves the whole "she's a villain" thing is the fact that she was doing fine until Gabriella showed up. Like, she didn't feel the need to do all these things to sabotage anyone because she never had anyone challenge her. Things always went her way, until, like I said, Gabriella showed up. So yeah...I mean, I loved her, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that she wasn't a villain. I wouldn't call her a victim either because it's not like Troy or Gabriella purposely tried to ruin her. They were more like, "Oh well, here we are. Might as well see where this theatre thing takes us."
The reason should have been someone calculated that the movies were over the course of a year menaing Gabrielle broke Troy's heart FOUR times in a year which is just ridiculous shows just what kind of girls she is when things get hard she runs Sharpay doesn't she works through it even if the whole school LITERALLY is against her she's also very kind despite her mask which is what I see it as a mask
She's not always a villain, but sometimes she is. Like when she's trying to split up Troy, and Gabrielle in the second movie, but at the same time she's not like in the third movie when she battles an English theater diva for the theater department of her school, and she came out a victor.
@Ks-101 Yeah let's be real here. Gabriella served no real plot purpose in HSM 2 at all. You could do the whole movie without her in it and it'd still be the same movie.
She's not a villain, nor was a victim. She's just an complexed adolescent that has serious talent for musical theater. As I am who so happens to be an athlete too.
@@bruhidk3069 She didn't want Gabriella to work there either, have you even watched the movie, it was Fulton. Sharpay only wanted to hire Troy at all costs, so he told Fulton to hire all his friends, INCLUDING Gabriella, gosh
@ally idk Sharpay ONLY wanted Troy to work there, and Troy ONLY wanted to work there if Gabriella and the Wildcats got the jobs too. Sharpay didn't have the choice, if she fires Gabriella then Troy will quit, you obv haven't seen the part where Sharpay tells Fulton to make Troy's friends want to quit, dammit
My head just exploded. Some of this is true, but the intentions behind her good actions were never selfless. She manipulated and mistreated people and played dirty to get what she wanted.
Mistreating is a bit of a stretch, I don't think getting people a summer job and doing everything you can to get ahead is mistreatment. I'm sure you would do the same if someone just came in and took everything that you worked hard for from right under you
Yeah, cuz when the main character of a movie/book/showtries to steal someone's girlfriend/boyfriend it is a fair fight, but when someone tries to break up the main couple they are doing something bad. WHAT A DOUBLE STANDARD! I don't condemn her attempt at stealing Troy; heck, I am against breaking couples that are happy together all the time, but it isn't fair to be angry at Sharpay for that when if Troy or Gabriela did it it would've been considered fair game.
While Sharpay does have a kind side, she was the antagonist. #5: "She gets Troy a summer job." She only wanted Troy to get the job so she could steal him from Gabriella. She practically yelled at her mom and Fulton to get everyone except Troy fired or make them want to quit. #4: "She liked theatre before it was cool." You are right about this one. Sharpay doesn't deserve to be ridiculed or looked at differently for liking theatre. #3: "Troy and Gabriella have other priorities." So? It's a school play, not Broadway. They are allowed to have a life outside of theater. They managed to practice their duet while balancing their other commitments, and the only reason they were late the second time was bc of Sharpay. #2: "Sharpay has more training than Troy and Gabriella." Experience and training isn't the only requirement/criteria in theatre. Talent also matters and Troy and Gabriella are just as talented as Sharpay, if not more. Experience and training don't natter if there's anyone else who is shown to have the appropriate talent suitable for the role. Troy and Gabriella were able to display the romantic chemistry that Ryan and Sharpay couldn't. #1: "She doesn't act like a diva." Sharpay does have a kind side, but sge was still selfish.
Yeah💯 and anyway I think she’s gotten the lead so many times over shouldn’t not be someone else’s turn and it doesn’t make sense for twins to play a couple
I know, she does SO much for him but he seems to not realise it. It's like he's so full of himself that he thinks every other girl wants to steal him, so he rejects her help as an attempt to steal him from Gabriella, when in fact, she is just trying to be a good friend.
I Love Owl City in what way is he Full of himself she was not just trying to be a good friend. She was literally trying to steal another women’s man . if she was truly being a great friend she would have offered the scholarship not forced him to be in the talent show and not try to get in between Troy and Gabriella and not try to get the Wildcats fired because they were in her way. I didn’t know being deceitful and trying to encourage cheating on your girlfriend was being a good friend
Retro Vybz no I think people are ungrateful with Troy and think too little of what Sharpay does. Troy is just trying to get a scholarship but also being faithful he was extremely worried about the scholarship and he just lost himself for a bit. Sharpay does every Manipulative thing in the book and all three rooms to try to get with Troy
They may have been a bit rude in the first movie, but Ryan and Sharpay were completely cheated out of their roles in the first movie. Not to mention *they were late*
To me, HSM is one of those stories in which there really is no true hero or villain. Just a bunch of kids at odds with each other who all become closer in the end because of it
@@ghosty2317 Sharpay is my favourite character and not a villain, but I don't get how Troy is a villain. I don't like him, but I don't see him as a villain.
Hmmm...I haven't seen the Film Theory video so I can't talk about that, but a few of these points were recently said by Lucas aka Fred....what a strange coincidence :)
When my high school did Oklahoma!, a brother and sister got cast as Ali Hakim and Gertie Cummins so it's not it's impossible for brother and sister to play love interests
When I was younger me and my sisters used to play pretend and one of us sometimes act as if we were lovers raising a child so I don’t really find it wrong if siblings are to act as lovers in a play or TV show/movie.
in hocus pocus, director garry marshall and his sister penny marshall played husband and wife in the part where the sanderson sisters had thought they found their "master" .
Even when i was younger i didnt really like Gabriella and always preferred sharpay. Its weird cuz everyone hated me because i liked the rich blonde "mean" girl instead of the lead female.
I'm sorry but in my humble opinion if you're looking for a specific villain in this trilogy, then you're really not looking at the big picture. If you really look and watch all of these three movies you come to realize that the main villains of these movies are actually themselves. Now Disney might focus on Sharpay a little more because she was such a big influence in East High, but if you pay close attention to it all you actually see that she is the villain of her own story by trying to be Gabriella. Just as Troy is the villain of his own story by trying to please everyone around him but himself. Just as Gabriella is the villain of her own story by trying to say goodbye to everyone around her before she even has to because she is so used to it. Pay close attention to the film and you will truly see that the villain of the High School Musical trilogy isn't just one person but it's all of them, they are their own main villains because of their insecurities or expectations. There isn't just one villain in High School Musical and no one is making Sharpay the main Villain.
I'm just saying maybe other people have more advantages than you and are favored, but that doesn't give you license to be rude and use some really questionable methods to get what you want. I'm not saying she's evil, just that she acts without thinking and hurts other people in the process
Agree with this video. After graduation, Gabriella had no interest in theater - she studied pre-law, and in the first movie, her interest was in chemistry and science. Sharpay’s dream was always theater, making a *career* out of it. - At graduation, Troy chose basketball and theater, but before the first movie and meeting Gabriella, he had absolutely no interest in theater. His dreams and interests were just basketball.
Im gonna have to disagree a little in HSM2 Sharpay was trying to give Troy almost everything he wanted. Troy was literally in a relationship with gabriella and she kept intervening with that. Sharpay was definitely a home wrecker.
Something to note in regards to Sharpay helping Troy with his future. She got him the job. She got him talking with the necessary people for college and stuff. But, she knows that he loves basketball more than performing. She gets him talking about a BASKETBALL scholarship. Not a music scholarship, or major.
5: she gets the team a job yes but there was ulterior motives behind that job, thus tainting it 4: she liked theater before it was cool yes and she got to where she was by stepping on others, we can assume that gabrella wasnt the first time someone challenged her, not only that she also stepped on the toes of kelsey and her own brother 3: troy and gabrella have other priorities yes and thats normal, people can have multiple intrests, but again these intrests wouldnt have collided had sharpay not changed the date on them beacuse of her propensity for stepping on others 2: sharpay has more training than troy or gabrella yes and? nerratively that was a hurdle that had to be leaped, also in theater personality is everything, as well in school a good teacher would give others a chance to be in the lead roles 1: she doesnt act like a diva in the end and that folks is what we call character growth, if she hadnt lost she likely would have acted like a diva and guess what we dont really see her acting as much like a diva in the other 2 films, and in the last she is a genuinely nice person
I think that on the second film she brought it all on herself. She could've had a great summer without any "Wlidcats ruining her show," though I must admit Ryan was so mean betraying her at that ending.
December Vesalius ... No .. They were just jerks ... To be honest they were treating Sharpay horrible and to mot even at least get to sing a song in return for EVERYTHING as if it's the end of the world ... Made Troy an even more horrible person then he already was ....
Personal Personal Troy was just confused trying to do the best he could to get a scholarship because of how expensive colleges and Shar-Pei took a vantage of that and try to get him a scholarship try to get him a job and when he wasn’t alone so she could seduce him into cheating she tried to get everybody else fired and basically bribe him to be her boyfriend. Troy is not perfect but he did nothing malicious in the series and is one of the best characters and Gabriella second probably Sharpay about fifth. The only one who did villainess things was Sharpay by being malicious and deceitful
I’m so surprised that this theory is NOW catching wind when it surfaced on Twitter a year ago! I wish Ms. Mojo & the Film Theorist gave credit, I did a similar video to this theory & included the Buzzfeed article with all of the Twitter info in the description of it
I think it stems to their nurturing. Sharpay is a very powerful personality and her brother, well isn't as strong as her. So growing up she probably always managed to get her way. Not because she's mean or cruel but just because she's a stronger personality. With no one telling her no or that what she is doing is wrong and her brother just going along with it she never realized what she was doing was wrong. She learns though and while its hard to change what you always have done she makes strides in how she treats others and especially her brother. I agree with many of these points on why Sharpay is not a villain, but i agree that her brother was just as much of a victim as his sister Sharpay. As for the betrayal thing I would like to point out is probably worse for Sharpay then Ryan. Ryan is used to his sister doing these things and while its not nice and certainly will hurt no matter how many times it happens its not new to him. To Sharpay though this is the first time her brother has hurt her. Although because inside she truly is a nice person she comes to understand her brother's position and amends her actions in the end. Of Course this is all my opinion from what I've seen so I'm not trying to offend anyone's views.
Villain is too strong a word except in 2. She was using her wealth, social status, and emotional manipulation to steal Gabriella’s boyfriend, to have him as her prize and also become the most popular girl in school again.
To be fair, that was about the only time she was really some kind of "villain". Other times she was too busy chasing after Zeke and his cookies, like I feel like Troy was probably just going to be a summer fling for her. Also, she never really lost her popularity. Sharpay was still practically the school's it girl. There wasn't really a sign that told me that Gabriella was ever the most popular girl. Like she was dating the school's it guy but that doesn't really make her popular. Like no-one was really running up to her and begging her to sign their yearbooks unlike Troy and Sharpay.
Sharpay is just fighting for her dream that Gabriella stole from her but you can see from the Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure that she succeed and became the broadway queen Fact: Sharpay is the reason why I'm gay my entire life hahaha
Sharpay isn’t actually the villain in the movies she is the victim she worked so hard for everything she wanted and was held down, delayed opportunities and humiliated by others Troy ruined everything for her and so did Ryan everyone seems to be against her and she just takes it as a kid I always hated her and saw her as the villain but as an adult I saw her as the victim and the hated one and that the protagonists were the real villains Sharpay deserved so much better yes she’s a bit of a diva and maybe a bit full of herself but she knows what she wants and her dream to become a famous actor is one of her biggest passions and she didn’t try and step on others to climb to the top she climbed herself to the top even if it meant doing things she didn’t want to do ❤️. Sharpay is a true queen! 😁
No, Sharpay ruined everything for herself. HSM : She sabotaged Troy and Gabriella so they would be late and she still didn't get the part. HSM 2: She bans the Wildcats from performing in the talent show because she knew they had a good chance at winning. This caused Troy to quit because he knew what Sharpay did was messed up. Then when she tried to get Ryan to perform with her, he said no because at the beginning of the movie, she ditched him and left him to perform with Troy. So, now that she has no one to perform with, she acts like she's the victim when she's not. And Troy was still nice enough to invite her onto the stage despite everything she did to him and his friends HSM 3: She shows Troy a confidential letter that belonged to Gabriella and manipulates Troy into convincing her to leave just to have her role. So naturally Tiara would take over Sharpay's role because she's her understudy. Then Gabriella comes back at the last minute and she humiliated herself. This is all because she schemed and manipulated people. She stomped on everyone to get to the top but she forgot she would have to meet those same people on the way down. In conclusion, she might have got the lead role in the first movie if she hadn't sabotaged. She could have sung with Ryan and possibly won if she hadn't schemed. And she might have got her scholarship to Juilliard if she hadn't manipulated. She is not a victim in any way, she's 100% the villain and she only gave Troy a scholarship and free opportunities to bribe him into performing with her. She ruined everything for herself, it's nobody's fault but herself
Her getting kelsi a job was nice but troy getting a job was part of a different thing she was doing so I kinda agree but she didn't actually get the Wildcats jobs she was mad when they got there and tried to sabotage them and make them quit Having said that I do like sharpay one of my favorite characters and she is not the villain but like come on she was kinda mean in the second I am not hating sharpay I like her but she had done a few things
The thing is, being more qualified and motivated doesn't take away from her selfish actions. I do have to admit, though, that she's not really rotten to the core: like stated in the video, she accepts defeat with surprising graciousness. The one thing I liked most about HSM was watching her learn to share the spotlight, even if she wants it for herself. Learning she can't always have what she wants is important (though it seems to take a lot to remind her of that).
Gabriella was selfish too, she didn't want to help Kelsi pick up those papers that all fell. Now I know her and sharpay agreed they didn't audition and they weren't. Since they didn't and they werent it really should NEVER have gone to her or her and troy. That wasn't an audition, she needed to tell Ms. Darbus that we didn't audition kelsi was only showing us the song. That would have been selfless, do you know when kelsi tripped on the stage she had looked entirely irritated she didn't want to help that timid girl, but troy did. The expectation that Gabriella is a goody two shoes is far off and I hardly think any instances where she was entirely selfless. So you want to do all this stuff to your boyfriend leaving this person to have to step in she was only destroying troys future and making troy think its what he wanted to do too. Maybe chad and taylor had been in cahoots against him seeing he had said she was cute in the first movie, first movie you see she believes in troy the second she believes in him again, but doesn't mind helping him out how was connecting troy to the school he talked to his dad about going to help her? She had opportunity to be fully selfish, but imagine this persons mind being so poisoned on you its not even on their own but under influence from his friends the same ones that could tell him when he tells them shes cute that a mountain lion is too. Or on the flip side obliterated their relationship just cause they thought he wasnt as focused on playing basketball but was distracted by Gabriella (the girl) and singing in the musical putting the weight of the school but worse than that the schools basketball legacy on his shoulders telling him the school is coming apart because of his singing thing. The shot for sharpay with troy was shot down even before Troy and Gabriella even had their first kiss with him kissing her on the cheek. Sharpay is a consistant character feminine classy with a very feminine interest in theater everyone took as a joke she liked theater before the school she had boundaries and she was provoked. I think they did bully her again and again she needed to have that summer away from all of them or could have gotten heads up. Like none I want to say notifying your mom isn't the same as notifying you. He discussed it with her mom, great, he still should have discussed it with her.
She had ms Darbus Change the call back date and rearrange the decathlon and basketball game so that Troy and Gabriella wouldn’t make it to the audition so she could get the part. That’s kinda selfish tbh lol
Philip Moore - Still, Sharpay was the one with musical dreams, even *after graduation.* Troy had basketball, Gabriella had science. If they met and became close another way instead of singing on karaoke night, they wouldn’t have thought about theater. They had no interest in theater before meeting again at East High - in the 3rd movie, Troy says at graduation that Gabriella will be studying pre-law. Only Troy has chosen theater (and of course, basketball). Music and theater is not a priority to Gabriella. Gabriella may have a wonderful voice and great singing, but it wasn’t her dream at all. You still think Gab wasn’t selfish? There’s a difference between enjoying singing, and making a career out of it (like Sharpay did). Can you imagine dreaming of going into theater, working your way up to the top, making a career out of it - and this couple (like Troy&Gabriella) takes your place as the top performers even though they have other plans for their future?
NoGoodDeed Goes Unpunished why is it her rightful place their auditions for a reason. If you want to blame anybody don’t blame Gabriella or Troy. You have to blame Miss Darvis who after hearing this song is saying gave them a shot. Troy loves to say even if it was a little late that is irrelevant it was still before the auditions in Gabriella love to sing with Troy. Who cares if Sharpay was doing something out for high school why should that matter. If you’re that good then beat them out. In high school you do things because you want to do them and they are fun so there’s nothing wrong with what they did. All the manipulating in the three movies by Sharpay now that was wrong
@@nogooddeedgoesunpunished362 it is a high school musical... and that doesnt make gabriella or troy selfish, it’s not their fault that they got the role. u shouldn’t discourage someone to go after something they really wanna do just bc someone else is more qualified. they didn’t deserve the roles imo either but that’s literally nobody’s fault but mrs. darbus
I LOVE SHARPAY AND HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL Me:*watches all movies in one day* Me:This is the best movie ever Me:*Screams* Me:*Cries with happiness* Me:BEST MOVIE EVER 🙂
Gabriella didn't steal Troy because Troy was never her's to begin with. Troy made it very clear he was never interested in her. So, she didn't steal him
i always see comments saying things like "sharpays innocent " or gabriella and troy are the real villains" but in my opinion no none of them are the villains and i get they all have there own sides and points of view but how is gabriella the villain? she just sang a song and met a guy i get sharpays annoyed but that does not make gabriella the villain. i always see comments like that but like i sain NONE OF THE CHARACTERS ARE THE VILLAIN they are both good characters i get if you like sharpay but that does not mean gabriella s the villain p.s this is my opinion its fine if you like sharpay all im saying is that none of them are the villain (:
I agree. People love to say Gabriella is the villain but can't explain how or why she's the villain because Gabriella did nothing wrong. Imo, Sharpay is the villain. She tried to homewreck on Troy and Gabriella's relationship. She bullied Kelsi. She betrayed Ryan. She treated the Wildcats bad
@@thelovelyone2828 I agree, when i saw a comment that says "who loved sharpay but hated gabriella?" and i was like "you gotta be kidding me?" like that is majorly ridiculous
First of all Sharpay was a petty bitch. Secondly she spent most of the movies trying to steal someone elses boyfriend. Thirdly, Gabriella and Troy did not take the starring role from her. The music teacher who's name I can't remember right now Gave it to them. Even if you don't like the way things summed up, they never actually tried to take anything from Sharpay, while she was actively doing things to mess up their lives. In my eyes that makes her a villain, however likable
PHSDM104 - Ah, but after graduation, Gabriella had no interest in theater or performing - she studied pre-law, and in HSM1, it was chemistry. Sharpay’s dream was always theater, making a *career* out of it. At graduation, Troy chose basketball and theater, but before HSM1, he had absolutely no interest in theater.
NoGoodDeed Goes Unpunished what does that have to do with the price of tea in China it is irrelevant. In high school it is all about being able to try new things that you love so if you want to try our singing that is not on Troy and Gabriella that is on sure pay for being so horrible to them especially the second movie
I love Sharpay but she was the antagonist(which doesn't mean villain, it's the character against the main characters whom are troy and Gabriella) who does have a good heart. However, she was still selfish and entitled in the High school musical movies. 5. Yeah it was nice of her to get Troy and the others jobs and help him with his college stuff, but she pretty much did it with selfish motives. 4. That is true, but that doesn't entitle Ryan and Sharpay to leads all the time. 3. Theater kids are allowed to have other priorities/activities outside of theater. In fact, it's unhealthy to have one's life only revolve around one thing. You are right about Sharpay and Ryan being better prepared though. 2. Experience isn't the only thing that matters in theater, as long as there is also talent and good sportsmanship. Troy and Gabriella both showed good sportsmanship to Kelsi by doing the duet the way she wrote it and they proved that they are just as talented as Ryan and Sharpay. Sharpay, on the other hand, completely changed the key and tempo of the duet and literally told Kelsi rudely that because she is experienced, she has more power over the duet than the composer Kelsi. Again, Sharpay's level of experience doesn't give her the right to control how the duet goes. Experience alone doesn't guarantee anyone the lead. 1. This one is right. Which proves that she truly is good at heart.
1. She gets Troy a summer job because she was BRIBING and MANIPULATING him to guilt-trip him to performing with her (with the bigger picture being she wants Troy to be with her instead of Gabriella). She was USING her privilege, wealth and power to GET WHAT SHE WANTS. Gabriella didn't have that same position of privilege but she's always been supportive and doesn't hinder his endeavors until she sees it changing him for the worse. 2. She's viewed as an outsider because she STEPS ON OTHER PEOPLE. Like how she treated Kelsi at the start of the video. How she disrespected Kelsi's work and efforts also and the song that was probably written with a more mellow tone because it was more appropriate for the corresponding scene. She's so selfish and self-centered that she even pushed away her brother and took him for granted. And despite everything, Troy and Gabriella mostly ignores her petty but damaging antics until it becomes too much for them to tolerate. They generally treat her with respect and don't harbor grudges against her too. But they're not close. Can you blame them? 3. It's true that she had dedicated her entire world to theater, but that does NOT excuse her attitude. When Gabriella and Troy came into the picture, she couldn't handle the competition. They had always played FAIRLY while Sharpay tried different antics to stop them, so they reacted. Just because she was there first doesn't mean she's the only one who had the right to be there. She doesn't know how to share the spotlight or be in healthy competition with someone. Besides, I think the point of the contrast between her very big production numbers to the ones Gabriella and Troy have is trying to emphasize the importance of HEART and SINCERITY. Sharpay performs to put herself on the spotlight. Gabriella and Troy perform to tell a story. It may not be their entire lives but that doesn't make it any less important. 4. Why are we acting as if she was never given a spotlight? She did. She said it herself, she had starred in 17 productions. And just because she's more trained doesn't automatically means she is best for the roles. Do veteran actors always get the lead roles? A lot of productions cast newcomers as leads and more veteran ones as supporting roles. It doesn't automatically mean they were robbed of the roles. She should know how to share the spotlight and stop thinking so lowly of other roles besides the lead. She's very proud. Roles are given to actors who can best portray them. Judging from the movie, the production called for a simpler, subtle portrayal. When she performs, Sharpay is all pizzazz and no substance. When Gabriella performs, it's simple but there's heart. That's the contrast between their two characters and probably why Gabriella was more fit for the role. Besides, so what are YOU teaching kids? That Sharpay's actions are okay??? They're not. Throughout the series she's been manipulative and vindictive in getting what she wants. 5. It's true that she always plays the good sport at the end of the movie. But then that is negated by how she's pretty much back to square one by the start of the next movie. Btw, are we supposed to forget how SHE BETRAYED AND MISTREATED HER BROTHER? All Ryan did was not let her perform at the talent show for the nth time in a row. But Sharpay had always treated her brother like a lackey, doesn't give him proper credit and cuts him off from performances in a snap. RYAN DESERVED THAT AWARD AND JULLIARD. He had worked on directing that number with the group. He put in great, substantial work. He found a group of people who appreciated his individual personality and talents. Sharpay took him for granted.
5) She does this in order to try to steal him from Gabriella... She was FURIOUS that the other Wildcats were there, and actively made it harder for them. 4) That doesn't make her a hero or less than a villain. 3) It's High School. Besides, if she hadn't changed the dates it would've been a non-issue. And the end of HSM 3) shows that Troy also considered theatre a priority. 2) Which makes her more of a villain, because she's trying to make sure other students aren't given an opportunity to try new things. 1) Only decent point... If it had ended with the first movie, she could be seen as someone protective of her club and department. The second one turned her into a complete witch until she got her comeuppance after screwing over her brother who paid her back and DESERVED that Julliard scholarship.
