Grease Film Analysis

Based off Charles Webb’s 1963 novel by the same name, The Graduate is an American romantic comedy/drama released in the United States on December 21, 1967 starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, and William Daniels. The film was directed by Mike Nichols, produced by Lawrence Turman and the screenplay written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham. The film was produced by Lawrence Turman/Mike Nichols productions starting in March of 1967. Mike Nichols has also directed other well known films such as Catch-22 (1970), Working Girl (1988), and more recently Closer (2004). The film was distributed by AVCO Embassy Pictures nationally and United Artists internationally. AVCO Embassy Pictures studio, founded by Joseph E. Levine, the films executive producer, also claims production/distribution for other hit films such as Godzilla, King of Monsters! (1956), The Fog (1980), and Prom Night (1980). The movie was well received due to its $104 million dollar box office opening tab. The score was produced by Dave Grusin and the songs written by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.

In this paper I am going to write about the movie “Grease.” Specifically, on the two main characters Sandy and Danny. I will be describing and analyzing their interpersonal communication, but mainly on the conflict of their communication.

Grease was a musical production performed by the Metropolitan State University of Denver's department of theatre, in later September and early October of 2015. Grease is a musical mainly about two characters Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson. These two fell in love over the summer, but then reality hits them when it's time for school to start again. Well, Sandy ends up transferring to Rydell High School where Danny attends. Danny acts like he doesn't know Sandy and wants nothing to do with her, but Sandy just wants their summer love back and is willing to completely change herself for Danny to love her again.

There are many characters that display different levels of Grit throughout the course of the movie. However between the father-son relationship, Marlin wins the Grit prize because he proves that it is possible to overcome a traumatic experience and although it was extremely difficult he got to the point where he was able to become vulnerable again. He was real and expressed understandable apprehension in situations that he had no control over. He truly deserves the credit because unlike most of the other characters, he has been through a horrific ordeal. Although it is gradual and with some prodding, Marlin develops the Grit it will take to step outside of his fears and embrace the uncertainty that will come with

In his directorial debut, Jordan Peele steers away from his comedic reputation to make the suspenseful thriller that is Get Out. The film is very intriguing and keeps you guessing and on the edge of your seat throughout from start to finish as you follow Chris Washington, a young african american man, who travels with his white girlfriend to her family’s house when he uncovers a dark secret. For the typical fan of horror/thriller, it's a must see.

Most people know the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, the personification of teen rebellion and independence. It illustrates the free-spirit disobedience that lies in the hearts of teenagers. In T. Coraghessan Boyle’s “Greasy Lake” and Anne Tyler’s “Teenage Wasteland,” the reader is given a glimpse of the turbulent times encompassed during teenage years, including the questioning of authority. Through the authors’ style of writing, the theme of both stories are almost identical; the reader can conclude that both authors have diverse tactics in the way they tell the stories. Both characters in each story go through teen rebellion but have different perspectives on how to approach these issues.

The primary source that I have chosen to analyze is a scene from the movie Grease. This movie was released in June of 1978 and is about a so-called good girl named Sandy falling in love with bad boy greaser Danny over the summer. Once it’s time for class to be back in session, they find out they attend the same high school and challenges face them as to how they can rekindle their prior romance with the eyes of their friends focused on them. Sandy is the typical good girl who obeys the rules and does what she is told. She falls in love with Danny who is a polar opposite to her. So instead of the typical movie ending where the bad boy turns into a good guy for the girl he is in love with, the writers threw in a plot twist and it ends up being Sandy who changes the most. She alters from a goody two shoes into a “hot and sexy bad girl” as co-creator Jim Jacobs states in an interview about the meaning to the ending of the film. I think that this movie is a prime example of the way gender roles have been visualized among society for a very long time. Additionally, it also doubles as an example as to how gender roles have changed as well throughout the decades that have passed by.

Grease is an American musical comedy which takes place in the summer of 1958. The Protagonist, Danny Zuko, meets Sandy Olsson at the beach while she vacationed away from her native country, Australia. They shared a romantic summer together and fell in love, but her projected return to Australia left them out of touch. Once summer is over and school starts, Sandy worries because she is going to a new school in America and is scared she will not make friends. Once she is there she quickly befriends “The pink ladies” ( a popular clique of girl greasers at Rydell High.) Danny Zuko, also a greaser, is the leader of the clique

Think of a place you would go to, either as a teenager or even a young adult. A place that had no authority. Somewhere teenagers would go to drink and partake in other illicit behaviors. In T. Coraghessan Boyle’s short story “Greasy Lake,” three eighteen year old boys are looking for mischief during their third night of summer break from college, sometime in the late 60’s. After driving through the streets of a town, they end up at Greasy Lake, the worst ecologically conditioned lake.This setting not only motivated the three boys to engage in dangerous behaviors but was the main influence on the majority of the plot and even the main theme, corruption.

The music and dance scenes are what attracted me to Grease. My favorite characters are John Travolta and Jeff Conaway who play Danny and Kenickie. I like these two because they are your typical high school popular boys who are always looking out for each other, looking good and they are always trying to get the beautiful girls but at the same time acting cool like it doesn't bother them. I had high expectations of Grease and I

In his 2017 horror film Get Out, Jordan Peele not only makes his director debut, but delivers a particularly insightful view into the state of racial affairs in modern America.The stories narrative follows an African American man named Chris, who goes to visit his white girlfriend's parents at their rural home only to uncover a horrifying plot in which the girlfriend and her parents are in fact racist and have been abducting black people and using their bodies in medical experiments involving the transfer of consciousness. On a surface level, the plot of the film has the ability to come across as quite simplistic in scope, an obvious labeling of privileged American whites as racist; however, a deeper analysis reveals careful consideration to

Grease is a classic American film that takes place in the 1950s and explores ideas of gender and sexuality. The film was produced in 1978 by Robert Stigwood and Allen Carr and was directed by Rundel Kleiser. The film was not set in the 1970s because it would have to tell a different story; in the 1970s there was birth control and an abundance of sexual liberation, unlike the 1950s. The producers were able to connect the concepts of events from the 1950s into the film. Grease explores the ideas of gender and sexuality through specific gender roles. On one hand, there are characters in the film who are sexually good and are innocent, they are pure. On the other hand, there are characters who are sexually bad and have a tendency to sin,

Watch the classical film Grease and one can understand how relationships function in Western Society. The film tells a story of a boy (Danny) and a girl (Sandy) who falls in love. Through a series of misunderstandings they break up, but still somehow care for each other. Through ballads such as Summer Night’s that are still popular today, the film shows how differently males and females view relationships. Films like Grease are like a mirror, reflecting societal values and how it socializes its members. It makes it clear that in relationships, males are socialized to view relationships as mostly a physical, sexual endeavor, while females view it as a perpetual bond –a deeper connection between the two individuals within a relationship.

Get Out is a film by Jordan Peele, which was release on February 24, 2017. Get Out is a social thriller, which follows an interracial couple, Rose and Chris. Chris and Rose take a weekend to visit her family, the Armitage family, home in a isolated area surrounded by a forest. The plot spirals out of control following many disturbing discoveries by Chris and in turn, Chris must get out of the Armitage household.

I chose to write this project on the movie Grease. Growing up, this was my favorite movie. I chose to write about this movie because I haven't watched it since I was a child, and wanted to look back and reflect if there was anything I hadn’t picked up when I was younger watching this movie. The movie was made in 1978 by director Randal Kleiser, and was based on high school teens in the 50’s. Since it was based in the 50’s and most of us grew up watching this famous movie, I thought that there had to be social norms and stereotypes written and performed throughout the whole movie. The movie stars the famous actor John Travolta, who was a very young and upcoming actor in the 70’s. Since this was created in the late 70’s, there was a big push for equal rights of gays and lesbians going on in the real world at this time. I thought this movie would be a great example of gender, and other social political conflicts to help shape younger kids in the way “we are supposed to be”.