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April 7, 2023… #movieoftheday is Saturday Night Fever (1977)
“Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American dance drama film directed by John Badham and produced by Robert Stigwood . It stars John Travolta as Tony Manero, a young Italian-American man from Brooklyn , New York . Manero spends his weekends dancing and drinking at a local discothèque while dealing with social tensions and disillusionment, feeling directionless and trapped in his working-class ethnic neighborhood. The story is based on " Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night ", a mostly fictional article by music writer Nik Cohn , first published in a June 1976 issue of New York magazine. The film features music by the Bee Gees and many other prominent artists of the disco era.
“A major critical and commercial success, Saturday Night Fever had a tremendous impact on popular culture of the late 1970s. The film helped to popularize disco music around the world and initiated a series of collaborations between film studios and record labels. It also made Travolta, already well known from his role in the TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter , a household name. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, becoming the fifth-youngest nominee in the category. The film showcases aspects of the music, dancing, and subculture surrounding the disco era, including symphony-orchestrated melodies, haute couture styles of clothing, pre-AIDS sexual promiscuity, and graceful choreography. The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack , featuring disco songs by the Bee Gees , is one of the best-selling soundtrack albums worldwide. John Travolta reprised his role of Tony Manero in Staying Alive in 1983, which was panned by critics despite being successful at the box office.
“In 2010, Saturday Night Fever was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry .” – more at #wikipedia
“Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American dance drama film directed by John Badham and produced by Robert Stigwood . It stars John Travolta as Tony Manero, a young Italian-American man from Brooklyn , New York . Manero spends his weekends dancing and drinking at a local discothèque while dealing with social tensions and disillusionment, feeling directionless and trapped in his working-class ethnic neighborhood. The story is based on " Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night ", a mostly fictional article by music writer Nik Cohn , first published in a June 1976 issue of New York magazine. The film features music by the Bee Gees and many other prominent artists of the disco era.
“A major critical and commercial success, Saturday Night Fever had a tremendous impact on popular culture of the late 1970s. The film helped to popularize disco music around the world and initiated a series of collaborations between film studios and record labels. It also made Travolta, already well known from his role in the TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter , a household name. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, becoming the fifth-youngest nominee in the category. The film showcases aspects of the music, dancing, and subculture surrounding the disco era, including symphony-orchestrated melodies, haute couture styles of clothing, pre-AIDS sexual promiscuity, and graceful choreography. The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack , featuring disco songs by the Bee Gees , is one of the best-selling soundtrack albums worldwide. John Travolta reprised his role of Tony Manero in Staying Alive in 1983, which was panned by critics despite being successful at the box office.
“In 2010, Saturday Night Fever was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry .” – more at #wikipedia
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