The title "Grease" refers to the Greasers on whom this movie focuses; specifically the T-Birds, Danny (John Travolta), Kenickie (Jeff Conaway), Sonny (Michael Tucci), Doody (Barry Pearl), and Putzie (Kelly Ward), who all grease their hair. Greasers were a popular subculture and community in the 1950s. The greaser subculture may have emerged in the post-World War II era amongst the motorcycle clubs and gangs of the late 1940s and the 1950s. The original greasers were aligned by a feeling of disillusion with American popular culture, either through a lack of economic opportunity in spite of the post-war boom, or a marginalization enacted by the general domestic shift towards homogeneity. Most were male, often of a non-WASP ethnicity, and working-class, and held interest in hotrod culture or motorcycling (which explains the "Greased Lightning" number in this movie, and the "Cool Riders" number in Grease 2 (1982)). A handful of middle class youth were drawn to the subculture for its rebellious attitude. This explains the rebellious attitudes of the T-Birds and their female counterparts the Pink Ladies in this movie.

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