Saturday Night Fever Page #10

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
4,624 Views


Forget the number, Chief.

We ain't gonna find nothing

out there tonight.

Sh*t.

Ton?

Hey, Tony!

Stephanie?

- Is that you?

- Yeah, it's me, Stephanie.

Hey, look, look,

I'm really sorry about last night.

- You're sorry?

- Yeah, I'm sorry, Stephanie. I just...

Look, it won't happen again,

I promise you.

I just... I just, I really need to talk to you.

What are you talking about,

you need to talk to me?

It's just like what I said.

I need to talk to you.

Okay, listen. Now, if I open this door,

you're not gonna pull

any funny stuff on me, right?

No, of course not.

First time I ever let a known rapist

in my apartment.

Hey, look, I'll just stay right here,

all right?

So, that way you don't think that I'm

gonna, you know, jump you or nothing.

What's wrong with you, man?

Nothing. I'll tell you later. Right?

Well, you cant just stand there.

This is ridiculous. Come on.

I've been up all night

just walking and looking around.

And, you know,

I'm gonna get myself my own place.

You know what I'm gonna do?

I'm getting my money,

I'm coming back, you know.

'Cause I ain't going back there.

Wait a minute. Why don't you sit down,

okay? Come on.

- So, what are you doing?

- What am I doing?

I'm just not going back there, that's all.

They're a**holes back there.

- I'm fed up to here with it. It's bullshit.

- Okay. Okay.

What are you gonna do?

What do you do?

You come in. You get a job. You know.

Do what you do. Get a nice apartment.

Okay, what kind of job?

I don't know.

What did you do? You came in,

you couldn't do nothing, right?

I could type when I came.

No big deal. I'm an able person.

I mean, I can do these things.

Yeah, of course you can.

Tony, I wanna tell you something.

Now, you know, I said

all that stuff to you about...

Using you,

practicing my act on you, you know?

It wasn't true.

There's a lot of other reasons

that I was hanging around you.

- What do you mean?

- You made me feel better.

You gave me, like, admiration,

you know? Respect.

Support.

Stephanie, maybe now that, you know,

like, I'm gonna be in town like I planned,

maybe, like, we could see each other.

No, I don't mean like that.

I know what you're thinking.

You're thinking, like,

I'm promoting your p*ssy, but I ain't.

I mean, like, friends, right?

You know, like you once said,

we could help each other.

- Wanna be friends?

- Yeah. I'd like to be friends with you.

Think you know how, huh?

Think you could be friends with a girl?

Could you stand

being friends with a girl, huh?

- The truth?

- Yeah.

I don't know.

I don't know. I mean, I could try.

That's all I can say, Stephanie.

I could try.

Okay. Okay.

Let's be friends, all right?

We'll just be friends.

All right.

Okay.

Friends, man.

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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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