Saturday Night Fever [30th Anniversary 2 Disc Special Edition] [1977] [DVD]

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Saturday Night Fever 1979 VHS, Latin Dancers/"K-Jee" by MSFB (Paramount Home Video)". YouTube. June 30, 2021 . Retrieved September 26, 2023. John Travolta plays Tony Manero ... a true life character ... and the movie follows his life (in Brooklyn, NY) over a period of about two weeks. He is a young man devoted to disco dancing, and in his world of violence, ignorance, and greed, this dancing gives him an anchor of sorts to which he can cling. In these sinful surroundings, Tony also tries to maintain a sort of code of decency and truth, but he is the only one on this team, and it is always an uphill battle. By contrast, Tony's older brother Frank is in the priesthood ... supposedly a bastion of decency ... but decides, in the course of the movie, to leave the church. 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 who spends his weekends dancing and drinking at a local discothèque while dealing with social tensions and disillusionment in his working-class ethnic neighborhood in Brooklyn. The story is based on " Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", a mostly fictional 1976 article by music writer Nik Cohn. Byrne, Katie (May 20, 2012). "Bee Gees' Robin Gibb Dead At 62". MTV. Archived from the original on April 19, 2013 . Retrieved March 5, 2013.

This "30th anniversary special collector's edition" is, incredibly, only the second DVD release of Saturday Night Fever, following a 2002 release that marked the film's 25th anniversary. Die-hard fans will want to hang onto the previous disc, since a trio of deleted scenes and a VH-1 special are missing from this release. I'll detail the differences further below. The DVD The first thing that people think about when they hear Saturday Night Fever is disco and bell bottoms, but the story is timeless. Travolta plays Tony Manero, a loser in a nowhere job who only feels alive when he is on the dance floor at the local disco. There he is adored by his friends, by women and by strangers. There he is king. Everywhere else he is nobody. Even at home. Sanburn, Josh (December 2, 2010). "On the Floor in Saturday Night Fever". Time . Retrieved September 26, 2023.Johanson, MaryAnn (May 25, 2007). "The 10 Best Movies of 1977 – Movies". Film.com. Archived from the original on June 20, 2010 . Retrieved April 11, 2011. No movie has ever had a greater impact on society than "Saturday Night Fever." Other movies have drawn bigger crowds, sold more, and made more money, but no other movie has ever effected any where near as great of a change on society's behavior as did "Saturday Night Fever." Tony Manero is a 19-year-old Italian-American from the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. He lives with his parents, grandmother, and younger sister, and works at a dead-end job in a small paint store. To escape his day-to-day life, Tony goes to 2001 Odyssey, a local discotheque, where he is king of the dance floor and receives the admiration and respect he craves. Tony has four close Italian-American friends from the neighborhood: Joey, Double J, Gus, and Bobby C. A fringe member of his group of friends is Annette, a neighborhood girl who is infatuated with Tony; however, he is not attracted to her. The heart of "Saturday Night Fever" is the dancing ... particularly Tony's dancing ... and it (the dancing) is a delight to watch. When Tony and Stephanie begin to dance together, it is as if something right is happening for the first time. The music, provided primarilly by The Bee Gees, is perfect ... giving us upbeat and fun rhythms ... as we imagine ourselves dancing right along with the characters on the screen. Tony agrees to be Annette's partner in an upcoming dance contest, but her happiness is short-lived when Tony is mesmerized by another woman at the club, Stephanie Mangano, whose dancing skills exceed Annette's. Although Stephanie rejects Tony's advances, she eventually agrees to be his partner in the dance competition, provided that their partnership remains professional.

The 2018 film Ready Player One features a dance scene that references Saturday Night Fever, particularly the red, yellow, and blue dance floor from the 2001 Odyssey night club in the film. [70] Siskel, Gene (December 16, 1977). "Energy, reality make 'Fever' dance". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved May 20, 2022.Saturday Night Fever version comparison (R and PG-rated)". movie-censorship.com . Retrieved September 18, 2023. Both theatrical versions were released on VHS. The PG-rated version never had a home video release on Laserdisc. It was first released to DVD by Paramount on October 8, 2002, as an R-rated special-edition, which included most of the deleted scenes present on the PG version, as well as a director's commentary and "Behind the Music" featurettes. [31] Ramsey, James (December 14, 2017). "Wednesday Night Fever: The One-Night Return of the 2001 Odyssey Disco". WNYC . Retrieved September 26, 2023. Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie.

Gold & Platinum – November 30, 2009". RIAA. Archived from the original on August 20, 2010 . Retrieved November 30, 2009. I am 31 so I was 3 when this movie came out. The first time I saw Saturday Night Fever was the "Edited For Television" version probably when I was 6 or 7 years old. At that point, it was about the music, the dance scenes and the clothes.

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Tony works a dead-end job at a hardware store and hangs out with his gang of friends in his off time. He lives at home with his italian family (father, mother, sister, and grandmother), but really lives at the disco he and his friends go to every Saturday night. While at the disco one night he spots a new girl, Stephanie (played by Karen Lynn Gorney), and he engineers a meeting. The two of them agree to partner for an upcoming dance contest, and, throughout the course of their practicing, a mutual affection develops. In Tony, Stephanie finds a person she can at last trust, and in Stephanie, Tony finds someone who not only has dancing talents on a par with his own, but, in her, he also sees a doorway of sorts out of the world he is increasingly coming to detest. The ending of "Saturday Night Fever" is tender and delicate. The movie itself is a roller coaster ride of arguing, violence, and indecency, but the ending is soft and sweet. Starting in the late 1990s, VH1, TBS and TNT began showing the original R-rated version with a TV-14 rating, although with nudity removed/censored, and the stronger profanity either being edited or (on recent airings) silenced. [ citation needed] However, this version of the TV cut included some innuendo included in the original theatrical release that was edited or removed from the PG version. Turner Classic Movies has aired the film in both versions: the original R-rated version (rated TV-MA on the network) is the cut commonly broadcast, although the PG cut has been presented as part of TCM's family-oriented "Funday Night at the Movies" and "Essentials Jr." film showcases. In the United States, the album was certified 16× Platinum for shipments of at least 16 million units. [10] The album stayed atop the charts for 24 straight weeks from January to July 1978 and stayed on Billboard 's album charts for 120 weeks until March 1980. Three singles from the album contributed by the Bee Gees—" How Deep Is Your Love", " Stayin' Alive" and " Night Fever"—along with Yvonne Elliman's " If I Can't Have You", all reached No. 1 in the US. In the UK, the album spent 18 consecutive weeks at No. 1. The album epitomized the disco phenomenon on both sides of the Atlantic and was an international sensation. [11] The album has been added to the National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress in 2014 for being culturally significant. [12]

The Red Hot Chili Peppers 2016 music video for their song " Go Robot" is heavily inspired by the film and recreates the opening scene and classic characters from the film who are portrayed by each band member. [69] What makes Saturday Night Fever work so much for me is Tony is very typical of a lot of males who would rather have a good time and party now than build something toward the future. Bars are full of guys like Tony. Guys who are super stars in their local drinking establishments, but have no life outside of the night life. Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Seminal Classic Saturday Night Fever". Fathom Events. March 30, 2017 . Retrieved September 18, 2023.Jedoch muss ich sagen, dass die Handlung nicht unbedingt sehr tiefgründig ist und der Film eher oberflächlich bleibt. Auch die Rollen der Frauen sind sehr stereotypisch und klischeehaft. Gene Siskel's Top Ten Lists 1969–1998". Alumnus.caltech.edu. February 20, 1999 . Retrieved April 11, 2011. The song "K-Jee" was used during the dance contest with the Puerto Rican couple that competed against Tony and Stephanie. Some VHS cassettes used a more traditional Latin-style song instead. [14] The DVD restores the original recording. a b c d e f g Harmetz, Aljean (January 11, 1979). "Fever' Redone for PG Rating". The New York Times . Retrieved September 18, 2023.