Saturday Night Fever (1977)
The
movie which single-handedly made disco the dominant force on the
planet for a brief period of the 70s and launched John Travolta to
stardom.
It also changed disco from the elite pastime of a
few drug-crazed Americans with liberal views on sex into a global
pastime for all the family. And it gave punk something else not to
sound like . . .
Tony Manero was the disco-dancing young Brooklynite brought to heel
by the love of a good girl (Karen Lynn Gomey).
Saturday Night Fever owed its success to more than the expert
marketing of its star-studded soundtrack.
Under John Badham's tight direction it emerged as an engrossing study
of the rites of passage of the working-class American male - Tony's
routine life during the day is transcended by his stunning skill on the
dance floor at night.
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