Tuesday, June 24, 2008

GREASE




The movie Grease was released the 16 of June 1978, it was directed by Randal Kleiser and written by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The genre of the movie is comedy, musical, and romance. The movie Grease was very popular in the 70’s, it is said that it was an unexpected hit. Grease is a story about a summer love that started in a beach, then the love was lost in the middle of the teenage social an peer prejudices of the last year of high school and than it was found again.

The most important actors in the movie are:
John Travolta as Danny Zuko, Olivia Newton as Sandy Olsson, Stockard Channing as Betty Rizzo, Jeff Conaway as Kenickie, Barry Pearl as Doody, Michael Tucci as Sonny Kelly Ward as Putzie, Didi Conn as Frenchy, Jamie Donnelly as Jan, Dinah Manoff as Marty Maraschino, Eve Arden as Principal McGee, Frankie Avalon as The Teen Angel, Joan Blondell as Vi, Edd Byrnes as Vince Fontaine, and Sid Caesar as Coach Calhoun. For more http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077631/

The movie was shot in California. Paramount Pictures released it. It has a great soundtrack including songs like Grease, We go together, Freddy my love, Summer nights and You’re the one that I want. A dance mix of songs form the movie Grease was released in 1997 and the movie was re-released in 1998. The movie was also re=released due to the 20th anniversary of the original one. Grease had a lot of critiques about the acting and the singing but despite that it was still a big hit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease_(film)

In this link there is a scene where they are singing You’re the one that I like. I think it gives a good overview of the movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHdRdfhGKJs

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