But a murderous acolyte is the subject of the Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín’s dark comedy Mr. Larraín’s protagonist is an unsmiling 50-ish madman (Alfredo Castro) who, having taken “Saturday Night Fever” as a sacred text, nurtures fanatical fantasies of disco glory — an obsession complemented by a near-total disinterest in human contact.
“They know nothing of flower power or meditation, pansexuality, or mind expansion.” (Years later, Still, a few remnants of the counterculture are visible. Having gone from disco king to aspiring chorus boy, he lives in a world closer to a backstage Hollywood musical like “42nd Street” than “Mean Streets.” Tony’s apotheosis in the heavy-metal dance musical “Satan’s Alley” inspires incredulity; imagining Mr. Stallone delivering the lame wisecracks the script imposes on its star is even more entertaining.“One of the longest journeys in the world is the journey from Brooklyn to Manhattan — or at least from certain neighborhoods in Brooklyn to certain parts of Manhattan,” Norman Podhoretz began his memoir “Making It.” There would be no third movie following Tony’s odyssey from Bay Ridge to Broadway and beyond. Named for the trippiest movie of 1968, the 2001 Odyssey features a light show — strobes, moving beams and a translucent checkerboard dance floor lighted from below — nearly as cosmic as the climax of “Close Encounters.” In addition to the action in the club, “Saturday Night Fever” initially secured an R rating by dramatizing the closer physical encounters in the parking lot outside.The producer Robert Stigwood, the manager of the Bee Gees and responsible for the filmed rock operas “Jesus Christ Superstar” (1973) and “Tommy” (1975), bought the rights to Mr. Cohn’s story and assembled a package reuniting the writer Norman Wexler and the director John Avildsen, who had collaborated on the hard-hat-versus-hippie scare film “Joe” (1970), although Mr. Avildsen, who had since directed “Rocky,” would be replaced by John Badham.“Saturday Night Fever” opened at 700 theaters with a saturation ad campaign immeasurably helped by the release of the double-LP soundtrack album that would top the charts for months.
The magic of “Saturday Night Fever” derived almost entirely from the synergy between Mr. Travolta (who was then TV’s hottest high school student, featured in the sitcom “Welcome Back, Kotter,” also set in Brooklyn) and the Bee Gees, a passé pop group converted to disco.“Saturday Night Fever” originated in a New York magazine article by Nik Cohn reporting from Brooklyn on a new youth culture developed by working-class, mainly Italian-American teenagers. Variety called the movie “nothing more than an updated ’70s version of the Sam Katzman rock music cheapies of the ’50s.” Other reviewers noted the movie’s recycling of elements from “Mean Streets,” “American Graffiti” and “Rocky.”The most prescient notice was the New Yorker critic Pauline Kael’s.
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He attends his favorite movie as if it were Sunday Mass and at one point goes berserk upon discovering that the theater he frequents has replaced “Saturday Night Fever” with “Grease.”Set in the depths of the Pinochet dictatorship, “Tony Manero” has obvious political implications both in its satire of cultural imperialism and its antihero’s megalomania as he steals, betrays and murders in his quest to be Chile’s American idol.‘Saturday Night Fever’ at 40: You Should Still Be DancingFrom left, Julie Bovasso, Val Bisoglio and John Travolta in “Saturday Night Fever.” In 2006, Strocchi was on stage for two seasons as "Danny Zuko", in the National Italian Tour of In autumn 2011, he was Anthony, the young sailor in the Sondheim Musical In 2013, he went back to play the male lead, Danny Zuko again in One year later Filippo Strocchi played one of the main characters (Rum Tum Tugger) in the original British production of In 2015, he went back to Italy to play Che, the male lead, in In summer 2017, he played the lead "Tony Manero" in After his premiere in early autumn at the Musicaldome in In January 2019, Strocchi again took over the lead role in
Er war kitschig, lustig und hemmungslos. But it did offer an accessible vision of outer space, on the illuminated dance floor of the 2001 Odyssey disco, where a 19-year-old hardware store employee, Tony Manero (John Travolta), struts his stuff.“Star Wars” and “Close Encounters” were largely dependent on special effects.
Ich wundere mich schon seit längerer Zeit, warum Diskomusik (im altmodischen Sinne) ausstarb.
The first year of Jimmy Carter’s presidency was extraordinary for Hollywood: “Star Wars” opened in May 1977 and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” in November, followed weeks later by “Saturday Night Fever,” reissued this month in a Blu-ray director’s cut adding 15 minutes to the release version.“Star Wars” and “Close Encounters” were excitingly extraterrestrial; “Saturday Night Fever” was aggressively down to earth, set and largely shot in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
“Saturday Night Fever” originated in a New York magazine article by Nik Cohn reporting from Brooklyn on a new youth culture developed by working-class, mainly Italian-American teenagers.
Tranz Lyrics: Oscillate yourself tonight / When you're in your bed / Simulate the dopamine / Passing through your head / When you get back on a Saturday night / And the room is caving in / Do “They are not so chic, these kids,” he wrote.