The film Grease was released in 1978, and directed by Randal Kleiser. It took place at Rydell High in Venice, California. This movie is a musical, drama, romance, and comedy. The lead actors in the movie were John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, and Didi Conn. They played Danny Zuko, Sandy Olsson, Betty Rizzo, and Frenchy respectively. The character that was played by Travolta was a leather bomber jacket wearing, slick back hair popular kid. The group of people with whom he associated himself were guys who called themselves the T-Birds and who held themselves higher than anyone else and prided themselves on how many girls they could “get with”. Sandy Olsson was an innocent, sweet girl who moved to Venice, California and attended
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The girl, Sandy, come September, is at a new school—the same school as the boy’s with whom she had fallen for, Danny. His friends were at odds with the girl’s now new friends. He acts different than how she knew him from that summer. They must face their differences and find a way to be together, and not lose their friends. Prominent themes in Grease are love, social stereotypes, competition, social expectations, and “experimenting”. Love comes from the main storyline of Danny and Sandy and their struggle to stay together even through differences of their friends. The differences between their friend groups lead into the theme of social expectations. Both Danny and Sandy’s friends expect them to be rivals and make it very difficult for the two to be together as they were during the summer. In one of the first musical numbers in the movie, we hear Danny and Sandy explaining their summers to their friends. Danny has to change his story to his friends in order for them to still respect him. He makes it seem as though he only told Sandy he loved/liked her so that he could “get with” her. Sandy on the other hand tells the girls how amazing he was and what a sweet guy this person was who she met during the summer. The heartbreaks expressed by Danny and Sandy have different tones because of who they are talking about. Danny
The girl, Sandy, come September, is at a new school—the same school as the boy’s with whom she had fallen for, Danny. His friends were at odds with the girl’s now new friends. He acts different than how she knew him from that summer. They must face their differences and find a way to be together, and not lose their friends. Prominent themes in Grease are love, social stereotypes, competition, social expectations, and “experimenting”. Love comes from the main storyline of Danny and Sandy and their struggle to stay together even through differences of their friends. The differences between their friend groups lead into the theme of social expectations. Both Danny and Sandy’s friends expect them to be rivals and make it very difficult for the two to be together as they were during the summer. In one of the first musical numbers in the movie, we hear Danny and Sandy explaining their summers to their friends. Danny has to change his story to his friends in order for them to still respect him. He makes it seem as though he only told Sandy he loved/liked her so that he could “get with” her. Sandy on the other hand tells the girls how amazing he was and what a sweet guy this person was who she met during the summer. The heartbreaks expressed by Danny and Sandy have different tones because of who they are talking about. Danny