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Grease: Movie Analysis

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The movie Grease has many great elements that assisted its success. Grease is a teen movie focused on the love story between Danny and Sandy. During the course of the movie Sandy and Danny experience a rough relationship. Danny has a hard time dealing with his friends and his new relationship. Sandy on the other hand goes through a more significant journey. She deals with not fitting in with Danny’s friend because they are so different from her, so to make herself fit in with his friends she makes herself over into bad girl Sandy. As Michael Borgstorm says in his essay Suburban Queer: Reading Grease “…Sandy had more personal reasons for shedding her squeaky-clean image than pleasing Danny…” (Borgstorm 150-151). Borgstorm is correct in saying …show more content…

An innocent girl who is in love with bad boy Danny. The good girl image is not a problem for either character when it was just them during the summer at the beach. Once Sandy starts school at Rydell, that is when the whole problem begins. Danny wants to be with Sandy, but he also wants to preserve his role as leader of the T-Birds and that requires a tough guy act. Jenni Olson herself writes “…prompts his double talking and double acting to maintain his tough guy image.” (Olson 78). Sandy and Danny really do like each other, but they face a lot of peer pressure from their friends. The peer pressure forces Danny to act like a jerk to Sandy and exaggerate their summer romance. This provides a divide between the two that is reinforced by bad girl Rizzo who sings “Look At Me, I’m Sandra Dee” making fun of Sandy, saying she is just a good girl. Rizzo also mentions whilst talking with Frenchy that Sandy is “too pure to be pink” saying that Sandy would not fit in with their group. Sandy, however, still loves Danny no matter what, as proven by the song “Hopelessly Devoted to You”. Both want to be what they think each other wants in a significant other, but they face difficulties because of their

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