It's tough to imagine anything more quintessentially 70s than John Travolta's star-making entrance at the beginning of Saturday Night Fever. He plays Tony Manero, a young Italian-American with dreams of making a name for himself with his talent for disco-dancing. His charisma and self-confidence explode off the screen as he struts down the street carrying a paint can jauntily in one hand with the BeeGees screeching in the background. Disco may not have been a particularly long-lived fad, but no one can dispute the fact that Saturday Night Fever championed its stylistic elements like nothing else, and John Travolta as Tony Manero was its patron saint.
Audrey Fox is an ex-film student, which means that she prefers to spend her days in the dark, watching movies and pondering the director's use of diegetic sound. She currently works as an entertainment writer, joyfully rambling about all things film and television related. Add her on Twitter at @audonamission and check out her film blog at 1001moviesandbeyond.com.
