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    The movie Grease illustrates the fifth scene of life (ages 30-40). Randal Kleiser directed Grease and on June 16‚ 1978 (USA)‚ Grease released. Grease is a classic that thousands of girls grew up watching. This scene is a vital stage in life‚ in the sense that‚ this is the stage you distinguish what is significant to you from what is not. During this scene‚ it is crucial that you evaluate and rid yourself of anything that could be holding you from being the best version of yourself. Entering this

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    Grease”‚ originally a musical play write in 1971‚ was brought to the big screen in 1978 by producers Robert Stigwood and Allen Carr. Set to reflect the 1950’s era‚ “Grease” explores real life situations that several high school students during this time period were faced with – developing relationships‚ teen pregnancy‚ bullying‚ and peer pressure‚ drinking and gang violence. The use of unrealistic song and dance outbursts to portray the character’s emotions and views of life was a way to add comedic

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    The live theatre production I decided to review was Hairspray by Margo Lion. The musical Hairspray is based off the film by John Waters. The play focus on a teenage girl‚ Tracy Turnblad. Tracy is a high schooler who love dancing and is obsessed with a popular local dance show called “The Corny Collins Show”. Tracy auditions and is soon given a spot on the popular show. Tracy is excited to be on the show and excited to inform everyone of her plans to integrate The Corny Collins Show. Though this comedy

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    Performing Arts homework: ‘Write about Bugsy Malone‚ High School Musical and Grease. Bugsy Malone: It’s a 1976 British American musical gangster film‚ very loosely based on events in Chicago from the early 1920’s to 1931 in the prohibition era‚ specifically the exploits of gangsters like Al Capone and Bugs Moran‚ as dramatized in cinema. Featuring only child actors (with singing voices provided by adults). A gangster movie where all the gangsters are played by children. Instead of real bullets they

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    Grease” v. “The Breakfast Club”: Finding Yourself The films “Grease” and “The Breakfast Club” feature the same strong theme: finding your identity. This theme is universal through many books‚ movies and even real life. The fact that these two films were filmed so far apart‚ “Grease” being filmed in 1959 and directed by Randal Kleiser and “The Breakfast Club” in 1985 directed by John Hughes‚ shows that this is a strong theme that sticks throughout the industry. These films have many characters

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    Death by Grease: America’s Obsession with Fast Food Introduction Have you ever seen a movie named Fast Food Nation? It is a movie that shows us how fast food affect people’s lives and heath through three stories‚ and how much Americans like fast food. Americans’ reactions about the effects of food safety is obvious. Before I came to the United States‚ I had heard that American people eat fast food very often‚ then I did my research‚ which indicated that currently‚ fast food has been a key role

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    Textual Analysis of the Movie Grease Using Narrative Paradigm THE THEORY Walter Fisher was the founder of the narrative paradigm. (1984) He stated that through the narrative paradigm‚ men would have an alternative approach to understand how human beings acted. In the narrative worldview‚ humans were considered as “storytellers” and human communications were regarded as “stories”. According to Fisher‚ stories that were made of good reasons were the “communication expression of social reality”

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    but has subsequently become a cult classic and spawned a Broadway musical of the same name. John Waters first went mainstream with the 1988 classic Hairspray and then defied fans’ opinion. They complained he had gone all lame and mainstream by daring to follow it up with a full-on musical comedy. The film is a parody of teen musicals (particularly Grease) and centers on a group of delinquents that refer to themselves as "drapes" and their interaction with the rest of the town and its other subculture

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    with other people and soon we all became really close like one huge family. Even the relationships between the students and the teachers were close. One teacher that really helped a lot of people find their talents was Mr. Tracey. When he did Hairspray and Grease I bet there was a lot of people who participated‚ and they never would have been comfortable getting on that stage in front of all those people and showing off their talents without him. Then 8th grade comes along‚ our last year at Sedgwick

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    Greasers Subculture Values and Beliefs: History- Greasers originated in the early 1950’s increasingly popular toward the 1960’s. They originated in the young northeaster and southern united states street gangs and changed rapidly unto other type of individuals. Initially it arose from working class families that didn’t have access to the greatest educational resources. They existed before gangs were dependent on violence and drugs. The greasers of the 1950s took their name from the “Greaser Act”

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