GREASE
Grease is a well known american musical film made in 1978 by Paramount Pictures following the journey of two teenager lovers Sandy and Danny that fall in love over the summer holidays. Grease genre has shown to be romance between the two lovers Sandy and Danny but also the relationships that develop throughout the movie between The Pink Ladies and the T-Birds
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THEME/TOPIC
- Romance (love/innocence)
- Musical
- Different cliques
- Social statuses
Locations:
- School
- Dinner
- Beach
In the film intro we come to see that there are many different binary oppositions
- Innocence vs Bad Boy
- The Pink Ladies vs T-Birds
- Sandy vs The Pink Ladies
- Youth vs Education
Also we see that there is binary opposition in the four technical areas
- Mise en scene
- Sound
- Camera
- Editing
Binary opposition in Mise en Scene
In the opening intro to Grease we quickly become aware of the different characters as The Pink Ladies are shown to be wearing pink dresses with a pink bomber jacket on top whereas the opposition T-Birds are shown to be wearing black leather jackets with a black T-Shirt tucked inside high waisted jeans.
Sandy body language is shown to be reserved and innocent as when we are first introduced to her character she is shown to be a shy person who later develops her personality.Whereas The Pink Ladies are shown to be more flirtatious and are confident girls as they are shown to be popular just like the T-Birds.
Cigarettes have shown to be the key prop in the movie Grease as we see that both T-Birds and The Pink Ladies smoke showing sense of rebellion highlighting common themes shown in teen movies.
Mise en scene has been used in the movie Grease as we see that both friendship have shown to have different hangout places which could show their class as The Pink Ladies are shown to hang out at the Diner which is sophisticated and modern whereas the binary opposition T-Birds hangout at the garage which is shown to be dirty, dull.
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