Some cast members had been quite vocal about their disappointment over the fact that some of their dialogue could no longer be heard. The most disheartening change for me about the new 1997 audio mix, was how the once-background music now often drowned out dialogue. Also among the now-missing sounds, was the cymbal that enhances the wave crashing into Sandy and Danny at the beach. Was the car horns that tell Danny he's casting a shadow on the drive-in screen. One of the missing-for-exact-reasons-unknown original sound effects from the drive-in scene, Some sounds were added just for the heck of it, like the bushes audibly rustling when Sonny pushes Putzie into them, and the chains on the drive-in swings rattling when Danny bumps against them during the song Sandy. In attempt to both replace the sound elements that could not be saved, and provide 5-channel surround sound, new sound effects were added.
A slow low-temperature baking process to dry them out worked to a great degree, but some elements were ultimately unsalvageable. Unfortunately, some of those sound reels had become gooey from decades of storage. In effort to do it right, Randal went into the Paramount vault to get all of the original celluloid sound reel elements, to be remixed and mastered from scratch. The project was so well-received, that George suggested to Randal that he do the same thing with Grease, for its own 20th anniversary. George had just given all three Star Wars movies a THX digital makeover, and re-released them to theaters in celebration of the original film's 20th anniversary.
CHARACTERS IN GREASE LIGHTNING TV
These later TV versions contained a still-edited, but longer version of Greased Lightning, allowing Danny to still utter the line, The chicks'll cream.īut the biggest changes to Grease's spectacular sound came in 1997, when a very well-meaning George Lucas contacted his former college room mate and director of Grease, Randal Kleiser. This is the version that TV channels used for decades, until networks that were then-owned by mogul Ted Turner started showing more current TV versions, that weren't as censored. That different delivery of Rizzo's line is actually heard in the film's original theatrical trailer. And Stockard Channing's delivery of the line, You pig! in response to Jeff Conaway's remarks about hickies, was also slightly different. The opening credits in this version were missing Vince Vontaine's patter over the instrumental intro of Frankie Valli's title track, during which he hits the post. Bowser also does more MC'ing as Danny and Sandy take over the floor during the Hand Jive. The first time Grease was shown on ABC TV in 1981, the sound had a more ceramic quality, with Olivia Newton-John's second moan as John Travolta kisses her at the beach, being turned up. Grease has been re-released to home video and TV outlets various times, each time containing subtle changes in the audio track.
The reason this particular moment sticks out in my mind more vividly than any other, is because although I had seen Olivia Newton-John made up this way on the cover of the soundtrack album, I had absolutely no idea who she was when she came on screen. The one thing that I remember most about seeing Grease for the very first time, is Sandy being presented during the film's finale.
CHARACTERS IN GREASE LIGHTNING MOVIE
Since album cover art didn't contain Parental Advisories back then, my mom - who also had not ever seen the movie yet - wasn't too happy when she heard the lyrics to Look At Me I'm Sandra Dee or Greased Lightning. But I had never actually seen the movie itself, until it came to HBO (one of only two then-competing premium cable channels) sometime later. Of course, I had heard of Grease from both radio airplay of the chart-topping songs, and my aunt Kelly, who was our family's resident John Travolta disciple. For me, my love of Grease started at 6 years old, when I received the original 2-disc vinyl And the aforementioned plethora of sources certainly includes my own experiences with, and feelings about, this originally- dismissed-by-everyone-including-its-creators masterpiece. Grease is an institution that's been celebrated for the past 40 years. Grease Is Still the Positively Energized Way We Are Feeling!Īs I started to research material to include for this article, I certainly had a plethora to pick from.
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