Saturday Night Fever (1977)

Bald Move Prestige

Bald Move

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5 • 942 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Don the disco suit you keep in the back of your closet because we’re covering Gene Siskel’s favorite movie. Saturday Night Fever starts as a feature length commercial for disco music and then goes to dark places you wouldn’t expect. Does the movie hold up to modern sensibilities? What are we supposed to take away from this story? Jim and A.Ron discuss these questions and more in this episode of Bald Move Prestige. Hey there! Check out https://support.baldmove.com/ to find out how you can gain access to ALL of our premium content, as well as ad-free versions of the podcasts, for just $5 a month! Join the Club! Join the discussion: Email | Discord | Reddit | Forums Follow us: Twitch | YouTube | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Leave Us A Review on Apple Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody welcome back to another bald move prestige film we got a treat for you today
0:04.2	this is gene siskill Roger Ebert's better half wait the equally important half it's the
0:12.3	1977 dance drama Saturday Night Fever. It's directed by
0:17.6	John Batham who you probably don't recognize but he directed some some bangers from our youth if you're a
0:25.4	fellow Gen X or Blue Thunder war games short circuit.
0:30.6	Number five is still alive in my heart Jim
0:34.4	Screenplays written by Norman Wexler who also wrote Serpico
0:39.0	This guy had a lifelong battle with depression and bipolarism. He was arrested in 1972 for making a
0:45.3	credible threat against the life of President Richard Nixon. Wow. And an odd guy is based on the tribal rights of new Saturday nights by Nick
0:55.2	cone
0:56.7	uh he also wrote the novel I'm still the greatest says Johnny Angelo which legend
1:01.6	says inspired David Bowie's album to The Rise and Fall of Ziggi Star Dust and
1:05.7	spiders from Mars.
1:07.6	Um, going to be talking a lot about this, this, uh, this article in the main text of the podcast. It stars John Travolta. He's famous from Greece, face-off,
1:18.8	Battlefield Earth, a meteoric rise fall. meteoric second rise fall.
1:24.0	Karen Lynn Gorney plays his opposite.
1:29.4	Stephanie.
1:30.2	This was filmed on a shoestring budget. Most of these people were first timers only timers small Broadway off Broadway types
1:40.2	But it did know I did there was one other name that jumped out at me.
1:43.7	Face and voice jumped out at me. Friend Dresher shows up halfway through this film to just get
1:50.3	get shot on by Travolta.
1:54.7	I want to say this movie is streaming for free
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