Stereotypes In The Movie 'Grease'

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Grease, one of the most well known ‘coming of age’ movies, a movie about a new girl who moves to a new country, falls in love with a boy and makes new friends who empower her to embrace her true self and become who she really is. No. Grease is a movie that teaches young girls that it’s okay to change who you are just to grasp the attention of the boy you like, and that you must not be a prude. A movie that is full of sexual innuendos all to make the good girl look bad and have amazing stories to tell friends. That is the real storyline of Grease and how it explains the stereotypes given to teenagers.
The first real insight in Sandy Olsson’s need to change who she is, is during the song “summer loving”, during this number there are two very different portrayals as to how the summer went between Danny Zuko and Sandy, in Danny’s mind the big selling feature was that “she got friendly in the sand” where as in Sandy’s explanation of the summer she was happy when “he got friendly, holding [her] hand”. In Danny’s story it was not good enough for him and Sandy to just be holding hands, he had to tell his friends that they went further, that, more specifically she wanted to go further. This number in Grease is just the first sign that a girl must follow what it is the boy desires in her, not just what she is herself. …show more content…

In this scene Rizzo is comparing Sandy to goody-two-shoes Sandara Dee. Rizzo is known in the film as the bad girl, the one that most men desire, so it is easy for her to judge Sandy for being “lousy with virginity” and that she “won’t go to bed till [she’s] legally wed”. Rizzo is explaining how Sandy is a bore and a prude and this is making it so that she will never be with Danny if she continues to act this way. Sandy is made to feel bad about who she is and decides that she must find a way to change herself. This leads to the final stage of her

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