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starring: John Travolta directed by: John Badham

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Average Rating: Rating: - Catch The Fever Saturday Night Fever was not only the film that made John Travolta a superstar, but also it defined the style of a generation. Disco started to infiltrate the music scene as early as 1974 (with hits like "Rock Your Baby" by George McRae). Discos were wildly popular in New York City by 1976 and they provided an outlet for the youth of the city to escape reality and dance away the night amid drinks, drugs and sex. Inspired by an article in the New Yorker magazine that described the scene, producer Robert Stigwood wanted to capture it in a movie. He realized the music is what drove the discos and he recruited his biggest act, The Bee Gees to record songs for the film. This proved ingenious as the soundtrack and the movie are inseparable. Although the band does not physically appear in the film, they are the co-stars of the film with Mr. Travolta. The film and soundtrack became huge hits in late 1977 and into 1978 and disco moved from the urban cities to the heartland of America. The film itself seems a bit dated, but it is saved from being a complete period piece by Mr. Travolta's superb acting. He completely embodies the character of Brooklynite Tony Manero who works in a paint store during the week and lives to dance at the local disco on the weekends. At work and at home, he's a nobody, but at the disco, he is the king. The dancing scenes are classics and often imitated, but Mr. Travolta is the real deal on the dance floor. Mr. Travolta earned the first of his two Best Actor Academy Award nominations for the film and it was richly deserved. The soundtrack went on to spend 24 weeks at number one, spawn 4 number one singles and for a time was the biggest selling album in music history. Rating: - The Disco Era Classic Film In 1977 not everybody knew what the innovative disco music was, and to what extent night clubing was going on. This film depicts John Travolta as Brookyn's Tony Manero, hero to the dance floor. His dead end job at a paint store makes him live for The Saturday Night disco scene. Travolta meets Karen Gorney and enters a dance contest with her but she refuses his sexuall advances. Gorney sees herself going to Manhattan to move on with her life. Travolta sees her as a snob. One local girl played by Donna Pescow likes Travolta but is pushed away by him for Gorneys character since she's a better dancer and Pescow is considered boring. What underlies is Trvoltas often at odds relationship with his family. Racial gang wars and a friend you can't help but wonder about his sexuality. Not only did this movie imitate the era, it influenced the next seven years with it's record selling soundtrack and the great timing in which some of the best nightclubs in America remained open. The movies message is vague but lets you fill in the blanks as Travoltas (Manero) becomes fed up with his existing lifestyle. Moviegoers became so enthralled with it, it would continue into the mid 80's. A PG version was recut to feature the dancing and less social conciousness with virtually no explicit language. This movie had one of the biggest impacts of late 70's films! Rating: - Cool Disco classic Seeing John Travolta dance is quite a treat. It's almost hard to imagine now that John Travolta could do what he did during the late '70s. The music was cool too, being a fan of almost all kinds of music (including oldies/disco) the songs, especially the Bee Gees songs, really captures the fun of what music used to be. I also like this film because I also like to dance, so it stimulates my interest in that aspect. Although I like the film, I also would not show this to a younger audience because of the graphic scenes of sex, violence, and family dispute. The darker side of the film does exist, the reality of how hard life could be when living in poverty and the abuse and mistreatment of women sends out a strong message to the audience, but suprisingly even with this, it still has that tint of hope for a brighter future for John Travolta's character which makes you want to believe he can escape his bondage of his troubled life and start fresh to a new beginning. So this isn't your typical feel good dance movie. It is still a classic although it shows the darker side of American pop culture in the late '70s. The film sends out a lot of messages, both the positive and negative , but the parts I want to remember most about the film is the parts when John Travolta hits the dance floor, it's magic.

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