An Evaluation of Grease

An Evaluation of Grease

My film that I choose was Grease because it contains music, dancing

and humor. It is a cross between comedy and teen movies. It is a

tribute to the Broadway show of the 1950's. It was directed by Randal

Klieser and was released on July 7th 1978. 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

lived up to each and every single one of them. I learnt about this

film through television and newspapers.

We used three simple words from everyday media. Firstly narrative is

from the Latin word narra, meaning the way a story is told. Many

theories have been applied to the creation of stories. Tzvetan

Torodovs 5stages of narrative. He said that all plots had 5 major

components. These 5 components are equilibrium, disruption,

complications, climax and resolutions (also called new equilibrium.

The story begins with a situation of normality although not

necessarily a positive one. An event changes the story, which involves

the struggle of the characters to restore the equilibrium or reach

their goal. The story reaches a point where the equilibrium or goal

hangs in the balance. Normally the equilibrium is restored or a new

equilibrium is established. Grease used this theory because the

equilibrium is Rydell high the normal high school, the disr...

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mistakes in it. The four typicals are settings, tag names, genre, and

narrative. The typical settings are the high school and the diners.

The typical tag names is a blonde, an exchange student, the grunger,

the rebel, the geek, the beautiful girl, the ugly girl, the stupid

parents, the teacher and the popular guy. The typical genre is comedy,

romance and a teen movie. Finally the typical narrative is Tzvetan

Torodovs 5stages of narrative. The main things that I found out bout

Grease was that the narrative and the settings were surprisingly good

and the best bit of the film is that it is a mix of genre so it suits

everybody's needs and the worse thing would have to be settings

because all teen movies are always set in America and I personally

think that they should set a Grease like film over in England.