Attention those with spare money -- buy the _Saturday Night Fever_ dancefloor

i didn't realize Odyssey 2001 had closed down. I wouldn't have minded seeing it, tho I hardly ever get out to Bay Ridge. Oh well. Another NYC institution destroyed.

Oh, I wish I was rich.

I was just watching Saturday Night Fever again the other night (for probably the 887th time). I don't even really understand my fascination with this movie, but it's probably in my top 5 movies of all time. I guess I don't even want the dancefloor, I'd just like to be in NYC in the 70s -- it seems kind of lame now.

No, I'm with you Leon -- last time I watched it I was thrilled with quite frankly how good it was. It has the sensibility of something like The French Connection in terms of how it's filmed, how it uses New York as set and landscape and terrain and etc, the dialogue and back-and-forths similarly have a 'slice of life' feel to them, it ends on a note of tragedy and calm resolution...there's a lot to this film that's quite underrated. One of my favorite moments is the exchange between Tony Manero and the female lead in the coffee shop or deli somewhere and they're just talking about goals and dreams and all that -- it works very well.

Random comparison -- something like The Warriors uses NYC of the time as stage set (and evocatively so), where SNL is much more like someplace people actually *live.* For a completely outside point of view like mine, I think it articulates the 'bridge and tunnel' divide in excellent fashion.

SNL, ha! SNF. I'm sure they live on SNL too somewhere, with G. E. Smith.

It's a great movie with a great soundtrack. Why don't they have dancefloors that light up any more? They are too much fun. Is it a cost thing or a safety thing?

SNF is a great movie, yeah.

(Has there been no Saturday Night Fever thread on here? Seems like not! Let's make this one. What are some of your favorite individual moments? And I don't mean the boom-mike dipping into shot in the Manhattan apartment or anything like that.)

the hair bit at the dinner table.

xypost: the floor at Passerby lights up.

Badham's commentary on the DVD is sometimes pretty wooden but there are some illuminating bits, like where he talks about having to fight a bit to keep the scene where Manero scratches his crotch in the film. Easily one of the most realistic moments, period!

Hair bit = astounding.

apparently the floor at the clapham grand lights up. and i know i've been somewhere else that did. we should have club FTs at a place with a light-up dancefloor, that would rock!

Ooh. I used to have an obsession with Saturday Night Fever. I watched it so many times I drove my parents CRAZY with it. This was back when I was around 10 - 11, shortly before I started getting into '80s music. Anyway, so I used to have this obsession, and I used to easily recall huge chunks of dialogue. As it is, even without having watched the movie in awhile (and having horrible memory), I can recall, "Hey, Father, my girlfriend says she's such a good Catholic she likes the taste of communion wafers," "You want a dream girl? Well, then go to sleep and have a nightmare," "You're turning God into a telephone operator," "One time we went on a date. You kept on talking about your one married sister and your other married sister, and all I got the impression was that you wanted to be a married sister yourself," "You think you can be friends with a GIRL?", "Oh yeah? Well, you know who I had lunch with the other day? Laurence Olivier!", "I noticed all the businesswomen in the office drank tea with lemon, so I started drinking tea with lemon myself," "Can you dig it? I knew that you could!", "A raise is, like, good. You know how many times someone's told me I was good? Twice, two times -- once today with that raise, and dancin', dancin' at the discotheque," "Hey, when are you gonna get some new tapes?", and other bits of dialogue. (Some of the above might be terribly off, BTW.)

Aaaallll Pacino!

My Mam still says this whenever Al Pacino is on telly.