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Line 1: {{work}} {{Multiple Works Need Separate Pages}} [[File:grease.png\|frame\|...is the word.]] A'''''Grease''''' is a [[The Musical\|musical]] play and film made in [[The Seventies]] about [[The Fifties]]. Danny Zuko is back in Rydell High School for senior year. He's a bad boy who wears a leather jacket and hangs out with others who do. He tells his friends about the great summer vacation he had at the beach with this girl Sandy. Line 10 ⟶ 11: They love each other. Can they get past their differences and get together before the end of senior year? Arguably the 1978 film version is more famous than the stage musical. ~~In that one,~~ Sandy was renamed from Sandy Dumbrowski to Sandy Olson, and her origin was changed from somewhere else in America to Australia to account for the star cast for the role: Olivia Newton-John. The film also featured John Travolta (in the role that solidified his fame after the 1977 blockbuster ''[[Saturday Night Fever]]'') as Danny, along with Jeff Conaway (who, ironically, played Danny in ~~the~~on ~~musical~~stage) and Stockard Channing as Rizzo. The soundtrack for the film - one of the biggest selling of all time - would turn out to be almost as successful as the movie itself, dominating the Billboard charts for much of 1978 (along with ''Saturday Night Fever''), launching a string of Transatlantic hit singles and selling eight million copies in America alone, and twenty-eight million worldwide. [[Grease 2\|There is a sequel]], which has practically no characters in common with the original (~~'cept~~except for Frenchy, who was held back a year, some of the school staff, and the Bad Guy), but the plot is almost entirely the same except that now the nice foreign kid is male, with a bad-girl love interest. It's only really worth watching for the [[So Bad It's Good]] factor and the "Reproduction" song (and for starring a young [[Michelle Pfeiffer]]). In 2015, [[FOX]] broadcast a live production oof f''Grease'' starring Julianne Hough as Sandy, Aaron Tveit as Danny, [[Vanessa Hudgens]] as Rizzo, and [[Carly Rae ~~Jepson~~Jepsen]] as Frenchy, along with [[The Cameo\|cameos]] by [[The Brady Bunch\|Eve Plumb]], Boyz II Men, and Didi Conn and Barry Pearl (who were both in the movie). ''Grease'' was named to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2020. ~~----~~ {{tropelist}} * [[Accidental Hug]]: Danny and Kenickie participate in one before the big race, complete with slicking back the hair to regain their cool. Line 38 ⟶ 40: * [[Award Bait Song]]: "Hopelessly Devoted To You". It was nominated for an Academy Award, but didn't win. * [[Bad Girl Song]]: "There Are Worse Things I Could Do" for Rizzo. * [[Be a Whore to Get Your Man]]: Sandy is the [[Trope Codifier]]. (But see our [[Grease/Analysis\|Analysis page]].) * [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: [[Tsundere\|Rizzo]] and [[Jerkass\|Kenickie]], who double as [[Beta Couple]]. * [[Big Eater]]: Jan, who's also [[Hollywood Pudgy]]. Line 89 ⟶ 91: * [[Kiss Kiss Slap]]: Rizzo and Kenickie. * [[Last-Name Basis]]: Betty Rizzo is usually called "Rizzo" or "Riz". When she's making out with Kenickie in his car, she asks him to call her by her first name, but has to tell him what it is. * [[Madonna-Whore Complex]]: Underlies Sandy's entire plot, and is brought into sharp focus with "Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee"; however, Rizzo's song "There Are Worse Things I Could Do" deconstructs the trope. * [[Magical Realism]]: The dream sequence in "Greased Lightning", The dream sequence in "Beauty School Drop Out", The flying car at the end. * [[Mooning]] Line 102 ⟶ 105: Sandy finds herself a convenient jock to date, after Danny rejects her. Kenickie and Rizzo also pull this one on each other. * [[Plot Irrelevant Villain]]: "Leo" (aka "Crater Face"). A pretty generic punk, there really wasn't much to distinguish this guy from the other Scorpions, or even most of the T-Birds, so it was never necessary to single him out at all. * [[Rage Against the Reflection]]: Less rage-y variation, movie only. * [[Random Events Plot]] Line 121 ⟶ 125: {{reflist}} {{Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time}} {{AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals}} [[Category:~~Grease~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:The Musical]] [[Category:The Fifties]] [[Category:Films of the 1970s]] ▲[[Category:Grease]] [[Category:Film]]▼ [[Category:Theatrical Productions]] [[Category:Notable Quotables]] [[Category:Theatre of the 1970s]] ▲[[Category:National Film Registry]]