Saturday Night Fever Page #6

Synopsis: Nineteen-year-old Brooklyn native Tony Manero lives for Saturday nights at the local disco, where he's king of the club, thanks to his stylish moves on the dance floor. But outside of the club, things don't look so rosy. At home, Tony fights constantly with his father and has to compete with his family's starry-eyed view of his older brother, a priest. Nor can he find satisfaction at his dead-end job at a small paint store. However, things begin to change when he spies Stephanie Mangano in the disco and starts training with her for the club's dance competition. Stephanie dreams of the world beyond Brooklyn, and her plans to move to Manhattan just over the bridge soon change Tony's life forever.
Genre: Drama, Music
Director(s): John Badham
Production: Paramount Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 11 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
77
Rotten Tomatoes:
85%
R
Year:
1977
118 min
4,205 Views


You told me

how horny a man gets when he's 19,

how much his balls ache

morning, noon and night,

six days a week, sometimes seven,

if he don't get it.

How do you remember those things?

Look, Annette, we're gonna be

spending a lot of time together,

you know, rehearsing,

practicing, whatnot.

If we was balling,

it would be like we was going together.

And I won't be going with you.

Look, I mean, what are you, anyway?

You a nice girl or you a c*nt?

I don't know. Both?

You can't be both. I mean, that's a thing

a girl's gotta decide early on.

You gotta decide whether

you're gonna be a nice girl or a c*nt.

- How you doing, Pete?

- Hey, Tony, my man.

- You got a studio free or what?

- Yeah, two is free.

- Good. Hey, how you doing?

- Steady at 65%.

Pete. He's always busting my onions.

I send him a lot of customers, you know.

He gives me free studio time when...

What did he mean, 65%?

Oh, that... Oh, that means that he...

He scores with 65% of the chicks

that come in here.

And one, two, three, two, two, three.

One, two, one, two, three.

One, two, three. Good.

Two, two, three. Good.

One, two, one, two, three.

Good, that's it.

Now do it again.

That's it, good. All right. All right. Again.

Tony, it's only dancing. Jesus.

Only dancing? Forget it, Annette.

If you're not gonna take this seriously,

I don't wanna dance.

- Don't get mad.

- "Don't get mad."

Jesus.

Look, I think we done

enough dancing for today.

So, why don't we... Why don't we

dance Wednesday, all right?

Yeah. Sure.

- All right. Here.

- You walking home now?

No. I'm gonna stick around

and talk to Peter a little bit,

and, you know,

work on some stuff myself.

- I'll see you later, all right?

- Yeah.

You was good today.

Hi. How you doing?

Hey, you know, you're

a very good dancer, you know that?

I would like to meet you.

Look, would you...

Would you mind just going away, okay?

- What?

- Don't be hurt, but I...

Don't be hurt?

Yeah, I wanna be by myself now,

you know?

Listen, I seen you at 2001

the other night.

Yeah, so? So?

Well, I mean, you was looking at me

and I was looking at you, remember?

Well, what is this? I look at a guy

longer than a millionth of a second,

already, he gets delusions of grandeur.

You know what you are?

I'm gonna tell you what you are.

I bet it begins with a "C," Mr. P.

Oh, fine. Fine. That's...

I know the type. I know the type. Fine.

What you doing up so late?

What is this? I walk in,

you don't got no criticism of me?

- Your brother's upstairs.

- You're kidding.

- Yo, Frankie!

- Tony.

- Hey, how you doing?

- Hiya, kid.

- It's good to see you.

- You, too.

Yeah. You look good.

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Norman Wexler

Norman Wexler (August 6, 1926 – August 23, 1999) was an American screenwriter whose work included such films as Saturday Night Fever, Serpico and Joe, for which he received an Oscar nomination in 1971. A Detroit native and 1944 Central High School graduate, Wexler attended Harvard University before moving to New York in 1951. more…

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