Grease Cultural Identity

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Grease is a romantic musical film that was released in summer of 1978 and directed by Randal Kleiser. The film was set in the 1950s and the story was based on young true love between two different individuals, Sandy Olsson (Olivia Newton) and Danny Zuko (John Travolta). Both were high school teenagers who fell in love over the summer aka “summer fling” or “hot summer love”. Sandy originally was going to move back to Australia, but then the plan changed. She ended up attending to the same high school, Rydell High, unaware of the fact that Danny Zuko is a student there as well. That’s where they rekindled their love. Nevertheless, they’ve gone through many obstacles and hardships because both of their worlds clashed with one another. Sandy Olsson …show more content…
Sandy is a typical 1950s girl next door: pretty girl with blonde hair in curled ponytail with ribbon, piercing blue eyes, and fair skin. Sandy is associated with light and pastel colors. Her fashion wardrobe consisted of feminine clothes such as skirt and sweater set in light, pastel colors such as pink, blue, yellow, green and so on forth. On the other hand, Danny is a common 1950s Greaser guy: devilishly handsome man with jet black hair and, intense blue eyes, and tanned skin. Danny is associated with black that’s represented as “cool, bad guy”. His fashion apparel is usually a T-shirt in white, black, or red color with black leather jacket with T-Birds logo on the back, black jeans and black …show more content…
Danny did take Sandy to the Prom as her date. Yet, he had somehow ended up being Cha Cha’s (Annette Charles) dance partner. Cha Cha is a former lover of Danny. She’s portrayed as a sexy brunette with dark brown eyes, dressed in sultry outfits. She’s considered as one of the Greaser chicks and is associated with black and bold colors such as blue, emerald green, and yellow. Cha Cha’s color palette complemented with Danny’s and had strong chemistry on the dance floor. Cha Cha and Danny won the Dance-off competition; that’s when Sandy finally grasped that she would never be Danny’s chick unless she changes her entire identity and persona aka her color palette. The noticeably compatible color palette between Cha Cha and Danny intensified the existence of inharmonious color palette between Sandy and Danny. The color palette is represented as personality and their own world in this

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