Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Saturday Night Fever

Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American drama film starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a young Italian-American man who spends his weekends dancing at a local disco and dealing daily with social and family tensions and disillusionment in his working-class ethnic neighborhood in Brooklyn. The music! Ah, the 70s! You can listen to the soundtrack on YouTube. I watched the movie on Amazon Prime.

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Roger Ebert has it on his list of Great Movies. 81% of Rotten Tomatoes critics give it a positive review.

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That volunteer coneflower is doing well.


16 comments:

  1. ...disco was never my thing, but coneflowers are.

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    1. I was the right age for disco, but I never learned any of the fancy steps.

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  2. After months of seeing Insta or F/B videos of people dancing or exercising to Staying Alive, we decided we HAD to see the movie. It did not disappoint. Your volunteer is quite tall & soon your little bird visitors will be enjoying the tick seeds.

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    1. I have several plants that have gone to seed but never see birds at them. Odd.

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  3. That movie is good but that rape scene is always a bit terrifying. And coneflowers are amazing, aren't they ? Is the volunteer phrase a variety of them from Tennessee? I am enjoying these garden views so thanks for sharing them Nita.

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    1. This is a native coneflower, but I didn't plant it. It volunteered in a pot I planted coreopsis in. I hope I get more volunteers of these wildflowers, maybe in a bed instead of other pots.

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  4. I loved this film, and still do! Your flowers look gorgeous! Have a great day, Valerie

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    1. I've been quite impressed by the coneflower :)

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  5. Who can not like this movie? Or at leas the soundtrack. I love it. Your coneflower is doing spectacular. Have a great day today.

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  6. I was NOT a fan of disco. The early 80s was dominated by it and I thought it sounded like bubble gum music. It had replaced what we now call "classic rock," which I only listened to. While my school friends were swaying and swinging, I was in my own world with Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, etc.

    What wonderful volunteer cone flowers. I hope they reseed and give you a bumper crop next year.

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    1. I think of disco as being a 70s thing -while I was in college. I started having kids in the 80s, and my music was lullabies and nursery songs lol

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  7. Love the music especially. Travolta was really good in this. If he wasn't--well, it does have a thin plot--lol! He can really dance--in several of his movies you can see he's a natural. :)

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    1. The music makes it, doesn't it... That opening walk...

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  8. Loved the music but this movie never was a favorite. I'll stick with the soundtrack. Gorgeous flowers!

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    1. The movie had some hard parts to watch.

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