Like Knnth, I saw Saturday Night Fever for the first time last Friday night. Shot after shot, line after line, the film blew me away. And the title sequence--
- with text in garish yet opulent shimmering red,
- with the at-once dinky and mesmerizing animated strobe of the title proper,
- with stunning shots of Tony's cocksure yet elegant gate,
- with its qualified flaneurism,
- with inverted camera angles both distorting and deifying Tony;
- with its move from silence (no sound until the shot which presents Travolta's name) to amazing disco groove--
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