Saturday Night Fever/Stayin' Alive

About

Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American drama film directed by John Badham and starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a working-class young man who spends his weekends dancing and drinking at a local Brooklyn discothèque.

Reception

A huge commercial success, the film significantly helped to popularize disco music around the world and made Travolta a household name. The film had a budget of $3.5 million and made $237.1 million at the box office. The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, featuring disco songs by the Bee Gees, is one of the best-selling soundtracks of all time. The film showcased aspects of the music, the dancing, and the subculture surrounding the disco era: symphony-orchestrated melodies; haute couture styles of clothing; pre-AIDS sexual promiscuity; and graceful choreography.

MEDIA REFERENCES

Due to the success of the film and its famous scenes and soundtrack it has entered the public conscious as the defacto disco movie and references to it in the media started early.

Saturday Night Live

The earliest pardoy came from SNL. John Belushi parodied the film as "Samurai Night Fever", one of his "Samurai" sketches on Saturday Night Live on 02/25/78

Dance Scene

one of the most parodied scenes is the dance scene with John Travolta

h3.Airplane!

the earliest and one of the most famous parodies of the Saturday Night Fever dancing scene came from Airplane! released in 1980

Walking scene

another oft repeated scene is the walking intro scene with Stayin' Alive playing as John Travolta character walks swauvely.

Night at the Roxbury

this scene was parodied in the movie Night at the Roxbury from 1998

there are multiple other parodies of Saturday Night Fever online some of which are included in the video and picture section of this page. these are often the walking scene or the dancing scene with the Stayin' Alive music. the stayin' alive music can be used to accompany any video for added comic effect.