Oklahoma & Grease

Although filmed over twenty years apart from each other, both movies use the story-telling convention of boy meets girl, boy loses girl, and then boy gets girl back. Yet, each movie chooses to tell this tale in its own unique fashion. This paper will compare and contrast the love story of Laurey and Curly in Oklahoma! to that of Danny and Sandy in Grease.

Laurey and Curly are from rural Oklahoma and their tale is set during the frontier movement of the nineteenth century, right in the middle of the conflict between the ranchers and the farmers. Laurey's family are farmers and though her parents have passed away, she is watched over by her Aunt Eller (Charlotte Greenwood), who attempts to guide her through life with parables and sayings. Although Laurey is young, and has the youthful urge to break some of society's rules as demonstrated in some of her slightly flirtatious actions with Jud, she still strives to do right and insists on remaining a lady demanding that Curly treat he

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ith the instrumental "Love is a Many Splendored Thing," and the audience observes Danny and Sandy saying goodbye to each other after a summer of love at the beach. The next scene then jumps to the chaotic first day of school, depicting Sandy as a lost innocent in the jungle of adolescents and teachers. In the midst of this chaos, Frenchy (Didi Conn) takes pity on Sandy and welcomes her into the girl gang, the Pink Ladies, to introduce her around and ask her about her summer. Meanwhile, Danny is telling the guys in his gang about the "babe" that he saw over the summer. What follows is the duet "Summer Nights," where two completely different stories of the same event emerge from the romantic Sandy and the raunchy Danny. This scene, and not the opening scene at the beach, is what sets the tone for the rest of the movie. The basic conflict existing between Sandy and Danny is that, unlike Laurey and Curly, they are from very different worlds with different expectations and different languages. As long as they were at the beach, which was neutral territory, this conflict was at a minimum. At the high school, however, which is Danny's world, this conflict puts extreme pressure on their relationship. In fact, not only is this pu
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page)