Stereotypes In The Movie Grease

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I watched the film Grease which was directed by Randal Kleiser. This film took place at Rydell high which was full ot, fun, crazy students. In the beginning, Sandy Dumbrowski the new girl in school, arrives to school. She explains how over the summer she and and a boy named Danny Zuko had a brief love affair. But it turns out he is a leader of the greaser gang called the T-Birds. Sandy tells her new classmates about Danny how sweet he was and how was different but she doesn’t know that he lies and make stories up about their relationship. From watching the show, you can tell that the kids at Rydell High have to deal with many issues. Some of the issues would be having relationship issues, teen pregnancy, high school drop outs, and friendship. …show more content…

At first, Grease was a musical written and was created into a film in the 1970’s. However, instead of the film being represented in the 1970’s, it was changed to represent the late 1950’s. This film was represented as a fun, lively, free, humurous movie. The youth of the 1950s conveyed as silly and sexually liberated. The movie and the characters were also heavily influenced by the 50s Rock ‘n’ roll. James Deen was a cultural icon for teenagers back in the 1950s. He wore leather jackets, all-black outfits, super skinny jeans and had densely “greased” hair, which as you can tell were mimicked by the boys in the film. Danny Zuko, who was one of the main characters, would always wear an all- black outfit with a leather jacket, which symbolized his bad ass personality. He would also always have a cigarrete in his mouth and constantly combing his hair. He had a reputation to uphold in the school community, because he was known by everyone in his school and this could be the reason why he would act differently with his friends than he would with Sandy. The characters in Grease and students today are much alike. They portray the same attitudes that high schoolers have. In high school, students face many of the same challenges and obstacles. Some of the challenges and obstacles would be bullying, peer pressure and even sex. After watching the movie, I see some similarities between my past high school experience and the scenes in the movie. All the scenes and the songs in the film matched the plot perfectly. The movie was trying to represent the teenagers back in the late 1950s, which were going through the act of being

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