It portrays a message that you need to change yourself to get your man. Not only does she transform herself, but the song is also centered around her needing a man. Some critics argue that Sandy's transformation is her becoming her true self.
Like Hair before it and The Rocky Horror Show which would come a year later, Grease is a show about repression versus freedom in American sexuality, about the clumsy, tentative, but clearly emerging sexual freedom of the late 1950s, seen through the lens of the middle of the Sexual Revolution in the 1970s.
Grease follows the romance between Sandy Olsson (Olivia Newton-John) and Danny Zuko (played by a young John Travolta) and their group of friends as they navigate their senior year of high school and their fears about graduating and becoming adults.
The 1950s high school dream is about to explode in this rollicking musical that is both an homage to the idealism of the fifties and a satire of high schoolers' age-old desire to be rebellious, provocative and rebellious.
The film depicts the lives of greaser Danny Zuko (John Travolta) and Australian transfer student Sandy Olsson (Olivia Newton-John), who develop an attraction for each other during a summer romance. Grease was released in the United States on June 16, 1978, by Paramount Pictures.
Grease takes place in and around Rydell High, which was based in part on Radnor High School in Delaware County, as director Randal Kleiser told the Inquirer in 1998. A 1964 Radnor alum, Kleiser claimed that “a lot of the stuff we put in Grease is sort of based” on the school.
It has a great plot line and incredible music. It is a fun musical that makes you want to get up and dance. Grease is the story of Danny Zucko and Sandy Olsen (or Dumbruski) two high school seniors who fall in love over the summer. They have a wonderful summer together and are sad to see it end.
Not only is Sandy's decision to embrace her wild side a fitting cap to her arc and a parallel to Danny's decision to change for her, showing how their love lets them become more alike, but it also reflects the film's attitude toward female sexuality.
Producer Allan Carr had a deal to feature Pepsi in Grease. But the prop manager didn't get the memo and put a Coca-Cola sign in the Frosty Palace, according to Kleiser. Carr blew a gasket when he saw the scene after production wrapped. "He made us blur it with 1978 technology, which looks terrible," says Kleiser.
Upbeat movie musicals don't usually lend themselves to dark fan theories surrounding the death of a lead character, but some fans are convinced that Grease's Sandy, played by Olivia Newton-John, actually died at the start of the film.
The film is satirizing not the real, but the fictionalized '50s. Songs such as "Sandra Dee" and "Beauty School Drop-Out" were spoofs of the sounds of that time; in the film, they are weak references to other caricatures.
In Grease, Rizzo is painted as one of the villains, seemingly bullying Sandy when she turns up at Rydell High - partly because of her resentment at Sandy's moral purity and how easily she is accepted by the school's social hierarchy.
Which actor turned down the role of Danny in Grease?
Happy Days star Henry Winkler rejected Grease role for fear of being typecast. The actor's memoir titled Being Henry: The Fonz… And Beyond is set for release on October 31. Henry Winkler said his fear of being typecast after years playing “The Fonz” led to him rejecting the lead role in 1978 hit film Grease.
Named after the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as greasers, the musical is set in 1959 at the fictional Rydell High School in Northwest Chicago. This fictional high school was based on Taft High School in Chicago, Illinois, and named after rock singer Bobby Rydell.
"Greased Lightnin'" is a song from the 1971 musical Grease which was also adapted into the 1978 film Grease. A soundtrack recording from the film version, with John Travolta on lead vocals, peaked at No.
By the time Grease was a hit – and the studio realised a sequel might not be such a bad idea after all – Travolta and Newton-John had moved on to other things. Director Randal Kleiser also gave it a miss. Instead, Patricia Birch, choreographer of the original stage musical and the first film, was put at the helm.
Grease 2 is often regarded as one of the worst sequels in movie history; it's pointless, a complete copy of the original (minus all the good parts), and the songs are forgettable for the most part.
John Travolta, who starred as Danny Zuko in Grease, famously stood out as younger than much of the rest of Grease's principal cast during filming in summer 1977 at age 23.
Grease from 1978 became a cult classic musical/romance movie that helped skyrocket John Travolta to stardom. The movie is often tagged as being one the greatest as it was an adaptation of its original musical from 1971. It was the story of a greaser T-Bird who falls in love with a wholesome exchange student.
Her fashion statement is innocence. Yet, by the film's end, Sandy is fierce in a pair of skin-tight black leather pants and a sexy off-the-shoulder blouse. Her hair is a mess of tousled curls.
Rydell High School is the primary setting of the 1978 film Grease and its sequel Grease 2 (1982). Set in Los Angeles, California 1958 and modeled after Venice High School and Excelsior High school. It is where Danny Zuko/John Travolta and Sandy Olsson (Olivia Newton-john) enrolled in, along with many characters.
Osmond became the front-runner but dropped out in protest over Grease's ending and Carr turned to Olivia Newton-John instead. Rather than her be flattered, Newton-John was reluctant to commit because her musical career was going well and her film debut, Toomorrow, had tanked and she didn't want to make another flop.
The Grease girls, who played memorable best buds and cousins Sandy and Frenchy in the 1978 classic, joined one another on stage at the Flamingo Hotel & Casino during Newton-John's show.
