Stereotypes In The Movie Grease

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.

In the end, Sandy and Danny compromise their differences with each other and their friends and end up being together and happy.The Medium of performance is the film and the production company of this film was RSO Records.
In the film, there were some restored behaviors. Some of the restored behaviors that I could identify was the characters going to school, eating food at the diner, dancing, having sex, running and just talking to eachother. Every action that the characters did was a restored behavior because their actions was an everyday thing. An example of a restored behavior in the film could be Danny and Sandy eating at the diner. Eating is an action that is done by everyone every single day.
This film dealt with very real themes such as teen pregnancy, bullying, peer pressure, drinking, smoking and gang violence. Some of the non- realistic behaviors that the characters did in the film, was when they were singing and dancing. In real life, a person does not just randomly start singing or having choreographoc dances. The scenes in the film were constructed in a way to show the audience what these high school kids have to go through and what they have to do to fit in back in the day. The locations of the film were usually taken place at the drive-in, a diner, driving race and the high school. These spots represent as the cool spots where the T-birds and The Pink Ladies hang out. There are not a lot of special effects except for when they are in the car chase and the car lifts off the ground and into a puddle when Danny is about to win the race.
The spectacle of the movie is intamcy and romance and it ties to the visual and the emotions which brings back to the 1950’s. The film includes music and the emotions of the characters in the film which shows the audience what they are feeling. It displays spectacle such as being heartbroken, dealing with bullies, trying to fit in within a certain crowd and dealing with social norms. This movie was set 1959 which back then it had gangs, cliques, school dances and drive in-theatres. From watching this film, the audience may feel like they are being transported back in time to 1959.
Grease apprehend the different stereotypes and cliques that are still relevant today.

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

free.
The form of the film made it more popular because this film had famous actors such as John Travolta and Olivia Newton John. If an audience knows that a popular actor is playing in a film, they are more likely to go see the film which brings in more revenue and popularity to it. Grease was the most popular movie in the 1970s and has got the reputation of the highest earning musical movie ever in the history of Hollywood.
The target audience would be for young adults. Since the film talks about sex, smoking, gang violence, peer pressure and teen pregnancy, it would more appropriate for the audience to be mature. Anyone could watch this film but I believe that when this film came out, people who’d experienced their teens in that early age of rock and roll can relate to the characters in this film. I think the film is meant to show the historical revolutions that were taking place at the end of the fifties heading into the sixties.