Comparing Singin' in the Rain and Grease — Eduqas GCSE Film Studies C670
Eduqas GCSE Film Studies · C670
Comparing Singin' in the Rain and Grease
Comparison
What you need to know
How the musical changed between 1952 and 1978: a studio musical at the height of the studio system and a 1970s film adapted from the stage.
Both films look back: Singin' in the Rain to the 1920s and Grease to the 1950s, and what each film's nostalgia leaves out.
Genre conventions compared: song and dance numbers, the romantic couple, stars and spectacle.
Narrative compared: what keeps each couple apart, the turning points and the endings.
Representation compared: Kathy and Sandy, Lina and Rizzo, Don and Danny.
Kept to what the comparison question rewards: points of comparison in genre, narrative, context and representation, each linking an era's context to a specific choice in that film; film form appears only as brief support for a comparison, since each film's form has a lesson of its own.
A plan and model paragraphs for the 20-mark comparison question, with both films given equal weight.
Worked answers with their marks, and practice questions to try, each headed 'Practice question' with its marks.
Quote only short lines of dialogue you're sure of, a few words at a time, and base every point on what happens in the finished film.
