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THE PERFECT SUMMER MOVIE
The movie version of "Grease" is the perfect summer movie, light,breezy,cheerful and maybe just a tad too squeeky clean for its'own good. The original Broadway show took place in 1972 and was the 10 year reunion of the class of Rydell High. The alumni do an extended sketch to show how they were in 1962. This concept neatly explains the advanced ages of the players.

The movie played it as a straight teenage musical and the Pink Ladies and the Burger Palace Boys(the boy gang original name) were all portrayed by actors well into their twenties with the exception of Stockard Channing who was uncomfortably nearing 40.

This explains why the critics originally were luke-warm or knocked the film.(The age problem) but the critics on Broadway wern't kind either-it was the audiences that loved it. The original show was also heavily laced with obscenities, mostly the f-bomb, which made perfect sense since the story was about a group of kids in their own little cliques who were trying to act tough and cool. The big joke was that beneath the thuggish and slutty behavior and potty mouths these wannabe juvenile delinquents were really nice-just adolescents starting to flex their wings. Another important difference between the original show was Rydell High was an inner-city midwestern school, and the movie version of the school was located somewhere in sunny California, probably Malibu.



Each subsequent stage version of "Grease" has been sanitized like the movie and while that doesn't detract from the high energy fun it loses the high energy but grit of the original.

The movie though was loaded with a slew of goodies--the peaches and cream beauty of Olivia Newton John, John Travolta in his prime and some well staged musical numbers including the "Born To Hand-Jive" prom number, "Beauty School Dropout" "Summer Nights" "We Go Together"(the original stage version of "We Go Together" was sexually explicit and you wouldn't believe what was going on during the refrain, Boogie Boogie,Booglia etc) and "Greased Lightnin" which surprisingly retains the racy lyrics from the 1972 show considering the almost simon-pure innocense of the rest of the movie.

I am only pointing out the difference in tone and attitude of the original from the movie but I enjoyed the film in 1978 and I still enjoy it in 2006 but it is just not the same as it was in 1972 and wowed audiences on Broadway for over eight years.

So this movis is still a great watch on a "Summer Night".



Two decades now
I've been watching this movie off and on for two decades now. The chemistry between Olivia and John Trovolta is electric. Aside from the music, which is some of the best around, the acting is very well done.

The story of innocent Sandy and Danny who is bound by the image his 'friends' have of him is the same as has played out in high schools throughout the years.

Innocent girl, who's very innocence almost gets in the way of a wonderful relationship.

And Danny. A street tough(well sort of) who must maintain the bad guy persona for his friends, and almost loses Sandy because of it.

Grease is a story of how these two individuals overcome what society believes them to be to become what they want to be. An excellent movie!!

Grease Movie
Wanted a copy of this classic and this one was great. Just what we wanted. Enjoyed it thoroughly and am sharing it with others who had never seen it. Very worth the money spent. Thanks!

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