What does John Travolta have to say about Saturday Night Fever?
Much of the 70’s lifestyle is today associated with disco. Yet in the early years disco was considered an underground, seedy form of entertainment becoming the focus of a protest group calling their selves “Disco Sucks!” At the same time a magazine article called “Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night” based on the disco subculture, was circulating, surely there was no one mad enough to create a movie based on disco? Saturday Night Fever (25th Anniversary Edition) Movie Tony Manero (John Travolta) is a working class racist, homophobic, punk kid from Brooklyn who’s found himself on the wrong side of the tracks. He spends much of the day working in a small hardware store selling paint to locals. Essentially he’s working in a job with nothing to look up to and with little short-term reward. He has overbearing parents always looking down on him and a brother of the cloth whose persona he can never match. Tony’s only highlight is his weekends, or more specifically – Saturday nights. Along
