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''Grease'' is a 1978 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Randal Kleiser and produced by Paramount Pictures. It is based on Warren Casey and Jim Jacobs' 1971 musical of the same name about two lovers in a 1950s high school. The film stars John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, and Jeff Conaway. It was successful both critically and at the box office. Its soundtrack album ended 1978 as the second-best selling album of the year in the United States, behind the soundtrack of ''Saturday Night Fever'', another film starring Travolta.〔 A sequel, ''Grease 2'', was released in 1982, featuring few cast members reprising their roles. == Plot == In the summer of 1958, Sandy Olsson (Olivia Newton-John) meets local boy Danny Zuko (John Travolta) at the beach while on vacation and they soon fall in love. As the summer comes to an end, Sandy worries about returning home to Australia and never seeing Danny again, but he assures her that it is only the beginning for them. On the first day of their senior year at Rydell High, Danny, the leader of a greaser gang known as the T-Birds, arrives with his friends Kenickie (Jeff Conaway), Sonny (Michael Tucci), Doodie (Barry Pearl) and Putzie (Kelly Ward), and they all catch up on what they did over the summer. Danny briefly mentions that he met a girl but brushes it off as nothing special. Meanwhile, their group's counterpart, the Pink Ladies, consisting of Betty Rizzo (Stockard Channing), Frenchy (Didi Conn), Jan (Jamie Donnelly) and Marty (Dinah Manoff) also arrive and soon meet Sandy, who is enrolling at Rydell after her parents decided not to return home. She befriends Frenchy who tries to fit her in with the group, but Rizzo, the group's leader, is initially skeptical, noting that she looks "too pure to be pink". At lunch, Sandy tells them about meeting a boy over the summer and falling in love ("Summer Nights") and, when Rizzo realizes she is speaking of Danny Zuko, her ex-boyfriend, she arranges a surprise meeting at a pep rally in order to cause drama. Despite his initial excitement, Danny acts indifferently in an effort to protect his cool reputation and spurn Sandy's affections, causing Sandy to run off in disgust. To cheer her up, Frenchy invites her over to her house to join the rest of the girls for a slumber party that night. Rizzo starts to mock Sandy ("Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee") and the other girls join in, until Sandy overhears and goes downstairs to be alone where she laments missing Danny ("Hopelessly Devoted to You"). Meanwhile, the T-Birds show up to crash the party and Rizzo goes off to be with Kenickie, and they start casually dating. They are interrupted by the Scorpions, a rival greaser gang led by Leo Balmudo (Dennis Stewart), who damages Kenickie's car. The boys then work with Kenickie to get his heap back in shape ("Greased Lightning"). After realizing he still cares for Sandy, who has begun seeing football player Tom Chisum (Lorenzo Lamas), Danny asks Coach Calhoun (Sid Caesar) to help him find a sport to impress Sandy. After trying basketball, wrestling, and baseball, he eventually discovers an aptitude for track and rekindles his relationship with Sandy. They attempt to go on a date to the Frosty Palace but it is crashed by both the Pink Ladies and the T-Birds, who are gradually pairing off. Kenickie and Rizzo have an argument and the two groups depart, leaving Frenchy alone to ponder the wisdom of dropping out of high school to attend beauty school after a mistake in hair dyeing class turned her hair bubblegum pink. She is then visited by her guardian angel, Frankie Avalon, who urges her to return to high school ("Beauty School Dropout"). A few weeks later, the school dance arrives. Rydell High has been picked for a live national TV broadcast on ''National Bandstand'', hosted by DJ Vince Fontaine (a fictional version of Alan Freed), who flirts with Marty throughout the night. Rizzo and Kenickie attempt to score off one another by bringing Leo and his on-and-off girlfriend Cha-Cha (Annette Charles) respectively as their dates, while Danny and Sandy go together. During the final dance, Danny and Cha-Cha (who were also once boyfriend and girlfriend) perform together and win the national dance-off ("Hand Jive"), which hurts Sandy's feelings; she leaves alone. Days later, Danny takes her to a drive-in movie and gives Sandy his class ring to apologise, but then makes advances on her that she is not ready for and sends her running again ("Sandy"). At the drive-in, Rizzo tells Marty in confidence that she thinks she might be pregnant. This is overheard and quickly relayed to Kenickie, who is the potential father. He attempts to make things right with Rizzo, offering to marry her as was the custom at the time in this situation. However, the way he phrases it offends her and she tells him it was someone else (although it appears that she says it more out of bitterness than truth). Rizzo becomes subject to rumors and whispering around school ("There Are Worse Things I Could Do"). Sandy finds her and offers her support, and the two finally become friends. At a challenge race between Leo and Kenickie to settle who is the better greaser, Kenickie is inadvertently concussed by his car door after Putzie carelessly opens it into him. Realizing he cannot get behind the wheel in his condition, he asks Danny to take his place while Sandy watches from afar. Danny outdrives Leo and wins the race, but he cannot celebrate completely because Sandy is still mad at him. Meanwhile, Sandy realizes she loves Danny despite everything that has happened, and decides to change herself in order to be with him ("Sandra Dee (Reprise)"). As the school year comes to a close, the students attend a carnival held on school grounds. Rizzo and Kenickie reunite after she finds that she is not pregnant after all. He proposes again, and this time is accepted. Danny has earned a letter in Track, having become a jock to impress Sandy. She turns up dressed in skintight black clothing, which stuns everyone. Now with the bad girl image, she and Danny share a dance together while proclaiming their love for each other ("You're the One That I Want") until they come to the end of the carnival and climb into ''Greased Lightning,'' which takes flight while everyone is singing ("We Go Together"). Sandy and Danny turn back to wave at their friends as they soar away into the sky. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grease (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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