Susan Dey, Laurie Partridge on The Partridge Family , was the original choice to play Sandy, but she listened to her manager and turned it down. The drag racing scene was pretty cool. Unfortunately the water under the bridge it was shot at in Los Angeles turned out to be contaminated, and multiple cast and crew members got ill as a result.
Offered director Randal Kleiser to vanityfair. The sexual revolution was happening, and porn stars were becoming somewhat accepted in media. But Paramount did. In the journey from stage to screen, some significant changes were made to Grease.
Explained director Randal Kleiser to movieline. Given the success of the first film, Paramount wanted to do a sequel, but there was apparently no follow through. If you remember the blue windbreaker that Danny wears at the beginning of the film, that was done as a tribute to actor James Dean and his film Rebel Without a Cause. There had been talks of a spin-off film called Summer School , with the wedding of Rizzo and Kenickie at the center of it. They were her own, but when the zipper broke she had to actually be sewn into them.
A highlight of the film is the school dance, but the gym it was shot in had no windows and over the course of the two weeks it took to do, temperatures were often more than degrees.
In both races, the spinning blades ripped out the sides of the opposing vehicle, but failed to destroy the wheels, and the hero was the victor. John Travolta revealed in a interview that Linda Ronstadt was considered for Sandy. In a interview discussing Survive! This was the top grossing movie of At the time it came out, it was the highest grossing musical of all time.
This was the last time a musical topped the box-office charts in the history of movies. The Scorpions' car is Mercury Custom. The car Danny takes to the drive-in the "sin wagon" is a Dodge Wayfarer. Of all of the actors and actresses in this movie, Frankie Avalon was the only one who was in a s musical - Jamboree! After the BBC aired the movie in Dec.
Soon after, co-star Olivia Newton-John said during an interview on the Australian podcast "A Life of Greatness" that those who criticize "Grease" and say it is sexist and lacking in diversity need to "relax a little bit" and called those comments "kind of silly.
It's a fun movie musical and not to be taken so seriously. I think everyone is taking everything so seriously. We need to relax a little bit and just enjoy things for what they are.
That's all. In a recent interview about this movie, Didi Conn said, " Susan Buckner? We all made fun of her and ignored her. Although Jeff Conaway admits in interviews he had an on-set fling with her. Ralph Bakshi , the famed adult animator in the s who did Fritz the Cat , originally attempted to buy the rights to Grease to do a full length animated musical out of it, but those plans fell through.
Bakshi wound up making The Lord of the Rings instead. They came to fame performing at the Woodstock Festival in Bethel, New York, had a popular television series, but were not in the original stage musical production. This movie did not win any Academy Awards, but Grease Live! In his book "Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll and Musicals" author Scott Miller dissects how revolutionary Grease was to the s scene, and to culture at the time in general.
It was very much in the tradition of Hair, right down to it's Hair-inspired title, and like its predecessor meant to be an anti-musical musical and a revolutionary and counter-cultural piece; that is it meant to shake up the conventions of the world of Broadway with raw conversations about sex and rebelliousness.
It's about the near carnal passion s teenagers felt for their rock and roll, the first art form that actually changed human sexuality.
The phrase rock and roll was originally African American urban slang for sexual intercourse, going as far back as the s, and it made its way onto many rhythm and blues recordings before the s. As theater, Grease finds its roots in the rawness, the rowdiness, the lack of polish that made Hair and other experimental pieces in the s such cultural phenomena.
The impact of Hair on Grease can even be seen in the two shows' titles, both taking as their primary symbols the hairstyles of young Americans as a form of rebellion and cultural declaration of independence. Just as the characters of Hair and Grease reject conformity and authority, so too do both Hair and Grease as theater pieces. When it came out, this movie was the top rated box-office musical of all time. Now April the list is as follows: 1. The Lion King 2. Mamma Mia!
Aladdin 4. Beauty and the Beast 5. La La Land 6. The Greatest Showman 7. Mary Poppins Returns 8. This movie. The famous men mentioned in the song "Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee" Troy Donahue, Elvis Presley, Rock Hudson, and, in the original stage version, Sal Mineo were all popular, highly desirable teen heartthrobs of the s, so their presences in the song are supposed to represent a sarcastic reinforcement of Sandy's virtue and imperviousness to sexual temptation the idea being that if even men as famously attractive as Donahue, Presley, Hudson, or Mineo couldn't tempt her into sexual impropriety, nobody could.
However, there is a double meaning to the Hudson and Mineo mentions: both men were gay, though their homosexuality was not widely known outside of the gay community during either the time Grease was set the s or first staged the early s. Barry Pearl choreographed the slapstick routine based on The Three Stooges.
Thousands auditioned to be one of the twenty principal dancers, who were each given characters to portray. Director Randal Kleiser got the idea for the swings from his hometown drive-in theater in Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
In , the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Kelly Ward Putzie came to auditions to help out Choreographer Patricia Birch and ended up getting cast. The "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee" number was supposed to suggest a class conflict between Rizzo and Sandy, and also between the Greasers and the preppies. Broadway musical Producers Warren Casey and Jim Jacobs said in interviews that they were biased towards the Greasers in this class conflict, and just as Rizzo skewers Sandy for her uptight and rigid values, Jim Jacobs was also satirizing uptight and phony middle class shallowness and prudishness with that number as well.
When Sandy "conforms" to the Greasers at the end, they felt that she was being liberated from this "phony" value system. This movie inevitably gets compared to Saturday Night Fever , the other big John Travolta musical.
Here's what Roger Ebert had to say about this movie in comparison with Saturday Night Fever : "The movie is worth seeing for nostalgia, or for a look at vintage Travolta, but its underlying problem is that it sees the material as silly camp: It neuters it.
Romance and breaking-up are matters of life and death for teenagers, and a crisis of self-esteem can be a crushing burden. Saturday Night Fever does. In this movie and in Saturday Night Fever , John Travolta 's character wins a big dance contest.
Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey , who wrote the original stage play, were originally supposed to serve as Executive Producers of this movie, but Writer and Producer Allan Carr kicked them off the set. Grease 2 brought s stars Connie Stevens and Tab Hunter into the mix. Some scenes of the exterior of the high school feature a white statue of three figures.
The central standing figure represents Myrna Loy. The three statues were created in , when Loy was a sixteen-year-old student at Venice High School, several years before she became a famous actress. The crumbling statue was replaced in with bronze statue of Loy.
Laserblast is known as Eddie Deezen 's acting debut, but this movie was filmed first. There's a scene in Saturday Night Fever and this movie where John Travolta 's character sexually assaults his leading lady, leading to a confrontation and a temporary break-up in the relationship.
The movie was so popular during its release that some cinemas were playing the film literally back-to-back to meet demand; however, they couldn't 'turnover' the audience quick enough - by the time the last viewers to enter the screening took their seats, the movie had already started and was at least partway through. This increased demand for viewings even further as people had to attend the cinema several times in order to try and catch the whole movie.
He became popular playing stock nerd characters in movies. His other famous role was Malvin in WarGames Jeff Conaway played Kenickie in this movie as well as appearing in the Broadway production before starring as Bobby Wheeler on Taxi Marilu Henner , another Taxi star, also starred in the original off-Broadway production of "Grease". John Travolta had also starred in the Broadway production as Doody, one of the supporting characters, not Danny. Travolta and Henner appeared in Perfect He said it was "a contemporary fantasy about a s teenage musical - a larger, funnier, wittier, and more imaginative-than-Hollywood movie with a life all its own.
She possesses true screen presence, as well as a sweet, sure singing voice. He also said "'Grease' stands outside the traditions it mimics. Its sensibility is not tied to the past, but to a free-wheeling, well informed, high-spirited present. The other big Hollywood adaptation of , The Wiz , was a bomb. In contrast to this movie, which became the biggest hit of the year. The Wiz was a huge bust critically and commercially.
Steve Krantz and Ralph Bakshi originally had the rights to the movie adaptation to Grease, and had wanted to do it as an animated musical. When Krantz and Bakshi's partnership fell through, Producer Robert Stigwood acquired the movie rights.
This is just one of many love triangles featured in this movie. In the original stage musical, which was set in Chicago, Illinois, Sandy was a Polish Catholic girl, and her last name was "Dumbrowski". In this movie and many of the subsequent stage versions that have come out since this movie her last name is "Olsson".
Michael Biehn has an uncredited role as "Mike"-Athletic guy. He is the guy Danny John Travolta punches during the basketball game to get the ball from him. This was years before Biehn started in The Terminator and Aliens.
John Michael Graham who played Bob in Halloween which came out the same year, has an uncredited role as a background dancer can be seen at the very end of Grease when the cast all line up for the car to drive to drive through. He's one of the first people on the left, albeit without glasses which he wears in Halloween.
Before "Grease", the last big period musicals on Broadway and in Hollywood were Singin' in the Rain , a movie about the twenties; On Moonlight Bay , which was about the turn of the century; and In the Good Old Summertime , which was also about the turn of the century.
There was also Cabaret , which was about the thirties. There was Thoroughly Modern Millie , which was about the twenties. There was The Boy Friend , which was about the twenties. There was The Sound of Music , which was about the forties. The last big era to be memorialized in musicals and nostalgia pieces, before the fifties, was the twenties. The most notorious fan theory suggests that Sandy is in fact dying throughout the movie and the story only plays out in her imagination.
Arguably one of the most famous movie theories of all time, it offers a completely different perspective on the movie's otherwise mostly upbeat tone, adding darkness to the musical's joyous light. And while the theory has its detractors, it remains incredibly popular, because it is tied to the film's strangest mystery: what its end really means.
It is precisely because of that ending's weirdness and one particularly pertinent line from Grease's first big musical number - "Summer Nights" that a fan theory suggested a grim undercurrent to the classical musical including a dying teenage girl living her last moments "down in the sand". The fantasy sequences of "Greased Lightnin'" and "Beauty School Dropout", which very much play out in the imaginations of the characters singing those songs.
The former is the T-Birds imagining their triumphs and how well the car will boost their boyish boasts of machismo, while the latter is Didi Conn's Frenchy imagining the bleakness of her future if her dream fails. Both are very much tied to dreams, but that makes the final sequence of Grease all the more confusing, because when Danny and Sandy fly off from the carnival in Greased Lightnin' it happens in real-time in the real world.
Sandy's shock is nothing compared to that of the audience, who have just watched a fairly conventional high-school musical that operates within normal rules of reality end with a car literally flying off into the distance. In that respect, it was no wonder that there was an opportunity for a fan theory to fill in the gap in logic. The starting point of the theory, which was initially posted on Reddit, is one of the lines in "Summer Night" dedicated Sandy and Danny telling each of their listening audiences what happened during their holiday romance at the beach.
While the Grease prequel, 'Summer Lovin', will tell the actual story of what happened during that tryst, the only account the audience can trust is the mention of the young couple bowling in the arcade, holding hands, and drinking lemonade. Crucially, the lyrics suggest that Danny and Sandy met when she got a cramp while swimming and Danny saved her from drowning, before showing off "splashing around". While it might sound like empty bragging, the theory suggests that Sandy actually did drown and everything that follows is Sandy fantasizing about what her life could have been as she dies.
From the prolog onwards, every event that happens plays out in Sandy's mind, and the reason everything wraps up so perfectly for every character, despite all of the conflict on the way to the finale is that it's all Sandy's tragic wish fulfillment. As a newcomer to Rydell High, Sandy would have been an outsider, but her reality plays out just as a dream would; she is immediately accepted by the coolest group the Pink Ladies , meets the boy of her dreams again , and overcomes every issue.
And it's not just her: Rizzo's pregnancy scare, the dance competition that Danny wins albeit with Cha-Cha , the drag race on Thunder Road Everything ends with a happy ending, no matter what the seeming obstacles. It's all a little too convenient and then when Greased Lightnin' takes off for its maiden flight, the reason becomes clear.
It's all a fantasy. In that respect, the image of Greased Lightnin' flying off with Danny alongside Sandy at the end of Grease is actually symbolic of her ascending to the afterlife and her transformation is not one of self-realization, but of death.
That metaphorical rise, then, is her rising to heaven in the final moments of her life eking out with her final breaths on the sand. Zoe Saldana Samuel L. All rights reserved. Google Play. Vudu , Vudu , Vudu. Show all releases. September 24th, by Paramount Home Video. Mamma Mia! Create your own comparison chart…. John Travolta.
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