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Grease (1978)

★ 7.4 · 7,645 ratings on TMDB

Grease is the word.

Grease poster★ 7.4

Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?

DirectorRandal Kleiser
CastBarry Pearl, Didi Conn, Dinah Manoff, Jamie Donnelly, Jeff Conaway, John Travolta
GenresComedy, Romance
The emergence reading

Grease keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, love, rebellion, class, belonging.

zero-distanceUSidentityloverebellionclassbelonging
Also inFilms about classFilms about loveFilms about identity
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

Lady and the Tramp (2019)E8/E9 · belonging, classGrease 2 (1982)E8/E9 · class, identityThe Breakfast Club (1985)E8/E9 · belonging, classAladdin (1992)E8/E9 · class, identityMean Girls (2004)E8/E9 · belonging, classShrek 2 (2004)E8/E9 · class, identity

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

Æon Flux (2005)E4/E11 · rare rung · identity, rebellion

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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