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Post by Cartman on Aug 14, 2021 22:49:47 GMT
I've just rewatched this classic for about the 10th time and I can't see a thread for it on here? It brings back some great memories of going to discos at that time, and I remember going on the bus to the Mayfair cinema at Whitefield with a mate in early 78 when it came out. The soundtrack is just fantastic, Night Fever, Staying Alive, if I can't have you, etc, all classics by the Bee Gees, they became so associated with the film that many people thought they appeared in it! I've still got the double album of the soundtrack which I bought at the time. There's not that much of a story really, but the music and dancing more than make up for it, and I liked the 64 Chevy Impala which the gang drove, I suppose they would have been the equivalent of something like a Mark 1 Cortina at that time. A great bit of nostalgia, take me back to 78, someone please
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Post by Three Litre on Aug 15, 2021 8:45:54 GMT
I've just rewatched this classic for about the 10th time and I can't see a thread for it on here? It brings back some great memories of going to discos at that time, and I remember going on the bus to the Mayfair cinema at Whitefield with a mate in early 78 when it came out. The soundtrack is just fantastic, Night Fever, Staying Alive, if I can't have you, etc, all classics by the Bee Gees, they became so associated with the film that many people thought they appeared in it! I've still got the double album of the soundtrack which I bought at the time. There's not that much of a story really, but the music and dancing more than make up for it, and I liked the 64 Chevy Impala which the gang drove, I suppose they would have been the equivalent of something like a Mark 1 Cortina at that time. A great bit of nostalgia, take me back to 78, someone please Great soundtrack, The Bee Gees created some classics of the age, love it when they come on the radio when I'm driving. Back to 78? I'll pick you up in the Mk3 shortly ..............
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Post by Cartman on Aug 15, 2021 9:12:17 GMT
It's brilliant. The film was shot entirely on location in Brooklyn, and had a very low budget, the club, Odyssey 2000, was an actual disco which they simply used, and apart from Travolta, all the cast were pretty much unknown.
It was based on an article in a magazine about discos by a British journalist, Nik Cohn, who later admitted that the whole article was a complete fabrication and he just made it up. I
I suppose the story was a young lad in a dead end job who comes alive at the weekend and used this as an escape from his mundane life, until he meets this more intelligent girl, and realised that there is more to life.
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Post by Bojan Scores on Aug 15, 2021 13:30:32 GMT
It's brilliant. The film was shot entirely on location in Brooklyn, and had a very low budget, the club, Odyssey 2000, was an actual disco which they simply used, and apart from Travolta, all the cast were pretty much unknown. It was based on an article in a magazine about discos by a British journalist, Nik Cohn, who later admitted that the whole article was a complete fabrication and he just made it up. I I suppose the story was a young lad in a dead end job who comes alive at the weekend and used this as an escape from his mundane life, until he meets this more intelligent girl, and realised that there is more to life. I believe the film was influenced by the British Mod youth cult. Just as you say, it’s about a good looking, fashionable guy in a dead end job who comes alive at the weekend, much the same as mods in the early 60s living for clothes, girls and dance halls. A nicely ironic thing being that the film in turn was influential on late 70s British pop culture. And yes, it’s a great film and one that’s forgotten or underrated.
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Post by Cartman on Aug 15, 2021 13:40:02 GMT
I like the locations too. I like 70s New York, it was a bit shabby, but had so much character, reminds me a bit of Sweeney era London.
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Post by Bojan Scores on Aug 15, 2021 13:48:13 GMT
I like the locations too. I like 70s New York, it was a bit shabby, but had so much character, reminds me a bit of Sweeney era London. An interesting comparison between New York and London. Both were getting shabby and run down, and New York nearly went bankrupt in 1975 and couldn’t pay for public services. Both cities were used to great effect as back drops to many films and TV series, the French Connection probably at the top of the pile.
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Post by Nightfly on Aug 15, 2021 15:32:34 GMT
When interviewed about the film, The Bee Gees always seem to play down their role. "We had some spare songs left over for an album and Robert Stigwood asked if he could use them for the movie". Well maybe, but it created a culture at the end of the 70s that would never be forgotten. A great bit of nostalgia, take me back to 78, someone please Great soundtrack, The Bee Gees created some classics of the age, love it when they come on the radio when I'm driving. Back to 78? I'll pick you up in the Mk3 shortly .............. Got room for a little 'un, Three Litre ? I'd time travel back to 78 in a heartbeat... or a Mk3
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Aug 15, 2021 16:14:41 GMT
It totally is a landmark classic film, Travolta's moves are perfectly choreographed, and how many lads after that film wanted to be him on the dancefloors?! The Bee Gees soundtrack is flawless and I think they couldn't have got anyone better for the soundtrack and as people have said the storyline would have been perfect for a British lad at the time in the UK, except he would have been going along to the Northern Soul clubs!
And a snapshot of 1977 New York is cool to see too.
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Post by Cartman on Aug 15, 2021 16:24:14 GMT
I tried to be Travolta on the dancefloor after I saw the film. Didn't really succeed though
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Post by Three Litre on Aug 15, 2021 16:39:17 GMT
When interviewed about the film, The Bee Gees always seem to play down their role. "We had some spare songs left over for an album and Robert Stigwood asked if he could use them for the movie". Well maybe, but it created a culture at the end of the 70s that would never be forgotten. Great soundtrack, The Bee Gees created some classics of the age, love it when they come on the radio when I'm driving. Back to 78? I'll pick you up in the Mk3 shortly .............. Got room for a little 'un, Three Litre ? I'd time travel back to 78 in a heartbeat... or a Mk3 No problem matey, stop me getting lonely!
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