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Saturday night fever was the first mainstream hollywood movie to feature the phrase blow job. Saturday night fever 1977 movies, tv, celebs, and more. Saturday night fever filming locations during our latest trip to nyc, we decided to spend more time in brooklyn. Filming locations for saturday night fever 1977, around. Nyc film locations for saturday night fever untapped new york. John travolta celebrates saturday night fever milestone. When you were filming it, do you recall feeling that it was going to be something special that we would still be talking about and. They came up with the title staying alive, and wexler wrote a script. Saturday night fever always manages to deceive the viewer. John travolta is bloody and unrecognizable filming new. Find video, photos, forums, blogs and shop for some of.

Saturday night fever producer and writer robert stigwood and norman wexler started planning a sequel soon after the original film came out in 1977, due to the film s success. While there, we scoped out some of the locations used in saturday night fever. These are movies that represent what i yearned for at one time in my life, and to. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and. Director john badhams new cut of saturday night fever. The disco blockbuster saturday night fever premiered in theaters on dec. The manero home is 221 79th street, bay ridge, in a smart middle class area of the borough. Avildsen, and directing travolta in the sequel was stallone one of tonys idols, whom manero does a. Turner classic movies presents the greatest motion pictures of all time from one of the largest film libraries in the world. Saturday night fever was a huge commercial success. Saturday night fever follows young john travolta throughout bay ridgebensonhurst, brooklyn. An interesting group of photos and narration about the movie locations and how they look today. Saturday night fever film locations 40 years later. Donna pescow reminisces on the 40th anniversary of.

The alluring darkness beneath saturday night fevers disco. Its also a great coming of age film with travolta excellent dancing in ridiculous clothing. Other ingredients travolta and the bee gees helped make saturday night fever a masterpiece. See inside the house where saturday night fever was shot 40. Despite having one of the biggest selling soundtracks of all time, none of the songs that the bee gees contributed were nominated for best song. Filming in brooklyn brought a whole new set of challenges. How the mafia almost scuppered saturday night fever. Saturday night fever 1977 filming locations, brooklyn, john travolta, karen lynn gorney, barry miller, joseph cali, paul pape, donna pescow. When the 1977 film beginswith john travoltas tony manero strutting down the street, flares swinging along to bee gees stayin. Saturday night fever was gene siskels favorite movie, and he watched it at least 17 times. It stars john travolta as tony manero, a workingclass young man who.

The film significantly helped to popularize disco music around the world and made travolta, already well known from his role on tvs welcome back, kotter, a household name. John travolta recalls his saturday night fever, face. Super fans boogied the night away at the very location where those dance scenes were shot at 2001 odyssey disco. Saturday night fever was considered in 1977 for liberal or funky people an icon movie such as rebel without a cause was. Travel guide to filming locations for saturday night fever 1977, around new york. All the details from the filming of the disco classicfrom producer robert stigwoods casting bet to john travoltas famous stayin alive strut. We all have movies like that, titles that transcend ordinary categories of good and bad, and penetrate straight to our hearts. Saturday night fever was originally assigned to rocky director john g. Fun, frivolity and freedom the sweeping silhouette made famous in the era of saturday night fever is back in full swing. Heres what the saturday night fever house looks like today. For better or worse saturday night fever best defines the groovy music and fashion era of the 70s. John travolta celebrates saturday night fever milestone amid creepy role in forthcoming film moose.

A musical collage of the filming locations then and now. We still look at saturday night fever as symbolic of bay ridge, said ted general, a trustee of the bay ridge historical society and a local journalist. Saturday night fever 1977 filming locations the movie district. Movie location scenes for the movie saturday nigtht fever. By the time saturday night fever began filming in midmarch 1977, disco had been ascendant for at least three years. John travolta is bloody and unrecognizable filming new movie sarah elmahmoud. The film saturday night fever was released 40 years ago this week, and soon became one of the biggest dance movies of all time. It was a rough place, and the production started to have some neighborhood problems. It was recognisable for years but has recently been given a thorough. Saturday night fever and studio 54 may have caught the worlds attention but many of the original scenesters thought the film and the club had caught the disco wave just as. A new show looks at how saturday night fever transformed dance in the 1970s and made john travolta a star but there were a couple of times the film was almost abandoned. Nyc film locations for saturday night fever untapped new.

Saturday night fever is on roger eberts great movies list. Saturday night fever movie locations part 1 youtube. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. It was recognisable for years but has recently been given a thorough makeover. Saturday night fever introduced bay ridge to the world. We revive disco and take a look at whats happened to these film locations.