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The movie significantly helped to popularise disco music around the world, and made Travolta a household name. The soundtrack, featuring disco songs by the Bee Gees, was also hugely popular. See Saturday Night Fever soundtrack
The actual plot of the movie has been largely forgotten by history behind the music, dancing, and the perceived coolness of Travolta's image as the polyester-clad dancer. In fact, it is basically a rather gritty coming-of-age tale, as Tony Manero (Travolta), along with his friend and dancing partner, Stephanie, decides to leave behind the grit of his uneducated, working-class life in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and move with her to Manhattan.
The story is based upon a 1975 New York Magazine article by Nik CohnNik Cohn was a British rock journalist. He wrote the 1975 New York Magazine article "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", which was the source material for the movie Saturday Night Fever''. In the late 1990s, Cohn admitted that he had fabricated the s, " Tribal Rites of the New Saturday NightTribal Rites of the New Saturday Night was the title of a a 1975 New York Magazine article by British rock journalist Nik Cohn. It was the basis for the plot and characters in the movie Saturday Night Fever''. Around the time of the twentieth anniversary". In the late 1990sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s Years: Events and trends Computers, technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other techn, Cohn acknowledged that the article had been completely fabricated. A newcomer to the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in and a stranger to the disco lifestyle, the BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly Cohn was unable to make any sense of the subculture he had been assigned to write about. The characters who were to become Tony Manero and his friends sprang solely from his imagination.
The unsentimental depiction of the subculture of the main characters contrasts with another Travolta film, the sanitized GreaseGrease ( 1978) is the name of a film directed by Randal Kleiser and based on Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's musical, Grease''. The film stars John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Jeff Conaway and Stockard Channing. Plot Outline In the summer of 1958, Danny ( (a 1978 Travolta movie about the teenage subcultures of the 1950sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Years: 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 Events and trends Technology United States tests the first fusion bomb.).
There are two versions of the film: the "original" R version and the PG "edited version". The R-rated film is 119 minutes. The PG version was released in 1978 as a attempt to attract more youth audience. It is 112 minutes, with profanity dubbed over and several scenes shortened or cut. Both are on VHS.
A sequel, Staying Alive , was released in 1983; this sequel also starred John Travolta reprising his Tony Manero role from the first movie.
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