This is by far one of the most iconic opening scenes to a movie. Seeing John Travolta strutting down the street with the paint swinging and the Bee Gees music playing set the tone for the rest of the movie. Classic scene in cinema history.
No one ever mentions the great camerawork of this opening scene. The close up shots of his feet strutting alone are award worthy. Really the whole movie is a lesson in brilliant photography.
Agree. To me the camerwork has a darkly realistic but inner passionate and fleshy feel to it. Especially with colors Tony wears popping out like sirens through the washed environment he lives in .
39 and I've never actually seen the film or even the opening credits before, despite being a massive BeeGees fan and a somewhat fan of Travolta. This is so cool and funny I'm going to watch the whole thing this weekend.
Me and my girlfriend passed by the pizza place and ate pizza there . It’s still open after all these years . You all should stop by and check it out .. get the two slices on top of each other . There are pictures of John and Stallone on the wall ..
Will do, if I reach the hood. And you should get yourself over to Amore Pizzeria at the "Pathmark" mall in northern Flushing, if you haven't been there yet. Probably the best Pizza in NYC, hands down.
One thing about this sequence that I think is underappreciated is the editing that keeps him in time. The way he's perfectly stepping in tempo/downbeat regardless of the camera/cut changes is pretty remarkable. Keep in mind, this was the era before digital workstations and computer editing... That was all done by hand with grease pencil ✏ and razor blade 🔪! Old school analog film and audio tape splicing. I would imagine you'd have to basically mark out where beat "1" is and then measure how far along on the tape each 1/4 note is relative to the song (and tape/film speed). And there was NO undo button!!!! Even the paint can is timed line a swinging metronome, absolutely perfectly. The attention to detail one must have to do that type of post production is not for the faint of heart and is just downright IMPRESSIVE.. But, whoever did it: I appreciate it, all these decades later!! No matter who you are - this intro just grooves so hard. It's hard not to wanna get up and boogie.. Edit: notable mention to Brooklyn/Queens NYC. Besides the cars, clothing style, and perhaps a little less diversity, it's virtually unchanged, almost 50 years later.
In retrospectives with the producers and Travolta, they said they had a boombox strapped under the camera during the sequence so Travolta could hear the song playing and walk in time to it. So I imagine the editing required was pretty minimal.
I beg to disagree, I was actually quite annoyed by the first few shots because audio and picture are not well synced. Very first shot is off the beat, and during the following close up of the feet his steps are too fast. So they had to cut in while he's still behind the beat and then cut out before he's too far ahead. Syncing this up was hard at the time because you couldn't put a click track in his ear. But a boombox on set should have given them close enough of a measure. RUclips's upload and conversion algorithms have been notorious for creating sound sync issues, so this may also play some part here. But overall I'm pretty disappointed with how sloppy the timing of the edit is, and it really takes away from the whole opening scene.
the girl who served him the pizza is John's sister. the woman who buys the pail of paint (cut out here) was his mother. Useless tidbit of information for you.
@chakur25 Even JT doesn't know; she was just a local girl walking down the street and he made her part of the scene. The cameras weren't visible and it's likely she and the rest of those people had no idea who JT was.
This opening scene makes me so nostalgic. I remember my brother and sis-in-law snuck me out to see this movie with them when I was a teen. It was rated R and my parents would not have approved. I felt so grown up that night😊...And Lord! when I saw Travolta 's swag with that can I fell instantly in love!!! I have been his greatest fan ever since...he was sooo sexy in this...I also remember his beautiful blue eyes on one of the close up scenes! This was a awesome time for movies and music!...Great memories!!!😊
I grew up in Brooklyn from 1962-84 and in the spring of 78 saw this movie in a theater on the street where this scene was filmed. The "B" train that you see just as the song starts was on an "el" that went past the theater and about 40 blocks later, my house. Where I live now, I had to buy a can of paint. As I came out of the store "Stayin' Alive" started playing in my head and I walked back to my car like I was Travolta. Sadly, there was no pizza.
Just imagine being in the cinema in 1978 watching this movie, and then John Travolta shows up doing his walk on this music, surrounding you. Must have been mind blowing 🕺
At the time, he was just some guy from a mediocre sit com and this was just some movie. So it was sort of like, huh...maybe this guy is a decent actor? It did make you want to watch the movie.
I was 8 years old in 1977 when I saw the movie Saturday Night Fever with my best friend. We went to the movies together once a week, every week, for alot of years from the 1970s-1980s. Saturday Night Fever was rated R, but where we lived, the movie theater owners and employees just don't care about us underaged kids watching R rated movies in their theaters. We were a couple of fanatics about the movies. We talked, read, ate, drank, and slept the movies. And we tried to see all the new movies that came out regardless of plot, genre (he loves horror movies, I prefer comedy), critics reviews, or who is starring in it. So, there is no specific, particular reason we went to see Saturday Night Fever except that it was a new movie that just came out. My friend lived in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn where some of the movie was filmed and takes place. I didn't live in Bensonhurst. I lived in a distant neighborhood and had to take a bus to get to and from his apartment. We had no idea that Saturday Night Fever was filmed around his neighborhood, let alone within walking distance from his place, and on the very streets we have hung out on many times before. One of the several movie theaters my friend and I went to every now and then, The Benson, can be briefly seen in the opening. So, imagine our surprise when the movie opened and showed John Travolta strutting down the very same sidewalks we've walked on and were quite familiar with. "Hey! That's 86th street!!!"
I did, Staten Island NY. I always heard about a disco over the VZ bridge in Brooklyn called 2001 Space Odyssey but was too young to go plus I was growing into rock music.
It seems like yesterday when this movie changed my life. I was exactly 19 years old just like the character, and yes I dressed and had a DA haircut. Even the Jewelry. The great times I had will never be matched by anyone today. I danced all over New York and New Jersey. I danced in Florida Discos and in Acapulco, Mexico. There were so many discos in the late 1970's. I had a disco for every night even on Monday. I still remember watching the movie. What a great thing for the young generation, as this movie just pushed young people to dance. There was nothing better than to do the Hustle with a dance partner, girlfriend or even a stranger that you just met. I remember dancing the Hustle with two young women at the Copacabana Club at the same time, and it seemed like we danced together for years. You will never see that today. I watch young people today can't get off their cell phones and just not in good shape for their age, disturbs me. I would never trade those days with the present. I continued to dance and was invited on a local dance show on TV and became a regular dancer. That was in 1978 and met the likes of Blondie, Musique, Melba Moore, Karen Young, Amii Stewart, Anita Ward, Patrick Hernandez, A young Stephanie Mills and Peaches and Herb. What great times. And yes, my name is really Tony and 100% Italian American. And yes, people start identifying me as Tony Manero after they watched me dance.
John Travolta walking with swagger alongside the El in Brooklyn while swinging a can of paint is one of the greatest opening sequences in the history of film. Great music, great Bee Gee vocals, great photography.
One of the best movies intros ever. I was a subway train operator and always got a kick out of operating the train (D Line now) on the same tracks that you see in the intro. Cool looking down below to the street.
This is just one of those truly riveting opening scenes. Terrific cinematography. Right up there with the opening scene of Top Gun or The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Iconic.
So Mr. Fusco sends Tony out on an urgent errand and he stops for Pizza, to put money down for a shirt and to hit on some chick??? And this is one of the best employees he has?
i love that i lived in that neighborhood. i love that i've ridden that el train hundreds of times. i loved that i've walked down that street (86th) more times than i can remember. hell, i love that i've been to that movie theatre, the oriental plenty of times. yeah man. bensonhurst.
0:52 I love how the music starts as soon as you see John Travolta’s name in the credits, like just his name alone initiates the movie. It’s a pretty sweet character introduction. 2:32 The bucket swinging in sync with the music is also a nice touch.
The most iconic walk on any movie ever and definitely one of the most iconic movie opening scene. The music is inseparable from the movie and vice versa
I am born and raised in Brooklyn. Those were precious times. That's 86th street , I / we used to cruise 86th street back in the day . It doesn't look like that anymore ! Last time I drove down it I felt like I was in China ! Alot of the stores actually have Chinese writing on the signs . Something how things have changed through the years
I saw this in the theater when it first came out. Now even more than before, I appreciate John Travolta's genius. Hr was mesmerizing. No one could have dominated or perfected this role more than he did.
A genius is someone who is excellent at a variety of things. Dancing, acting, singing and being an excellent pilot of various types of aircraft might qualify John Travolta as a genius even if three of those skills don’t match the level achieved by those who were extraordinarily brilliant, far more so at one, thing. Leonardi da Vinci might have been a better example. Painter, sculptor, inventor, engineer, architect, scientist and draughtsman.
Just iconic...Fun Facts: the girl at Lenny's Pizza is Travolta's sister in real life, and the lady waiting for the paint (although they cut this scene too short) is his mom! ❤
And then the store owner calmly walked to the front of the store, pulled the blue shirt from the display window and put it on special lay away for that very good looking confident young man who put 5 dollars down.
Everything about this movie was perfect. The plot of the movie, the acting, and especially the soundtrack. Saturday Night Fever defined the disco era, and for many the 1970s.
The near 4 minutes captures the whole of buzzing 70's NY.... plus the music is just Cream 🍦 I don't know if anyone on this green planet can walk straight listening to this music 🎼🎶
You can't teach those looks & charisma and facial expressions in front of a camera during acting class. But when you have the total package in your repertoire in addition to doing the work. Movie Star! This scene beautifully describes Tony's character, mindset, bravado & masked insecurities using less than 15 words.
No man ever carried a bucket of paint with more groove and swagger and no other man could.
New York mon rêve ❣️
tim brooke-taylor in the goodies episode saturday night grease
Maybe it was empty?
@Jay Bray "Just stack the cans moron"
@Jay Bray 😂🤣😂😅😂😅🤣
This is by far one of the most iconic opening scenes to a movie. Seeing John Travolta strutting down the street with the paint swinging and the Bee Gees music playing set the tone for the rest of the movie. Classic scene in cinema history.
Iconic!!!!
Tell me about it, I can’t tell you how many times this one opening has been parodied!
86th street Brooklyn. Still iconic.
You knew he was going to be a star as soon as he walked down the street!
when Brooklyn was Brooklyn @@michaelcuttita4316
This is why John Travolta became a movie star. It's entertaining just watching him walk and eat pizza.
grease
And 15 years later get blown away in the crapper by Bruce Willis.
That pizza looked awful and amazing...totally NYC
Mark W dude he put both pizzas in each other and ate it
Two, two. Yeah two, that's good. 😎
No one ever mentions the great camerawork of this opening scene. The close up shots of his feet strutting alone are award worthy. Really the whole movie is a lesson in brilliant photography.
I always liked the shoe's -eye view of his platforms
on some mirror polished red shoes.. with bold letters in red.. a red shirt.. a red can.. it's greatly "casual"
The cut to the metro train with the line of the track running directly down the middle of the screen was also a really nice shot 👌🏼
The disco dance scenes i thought were great
Agree. To me the camerwork has a darkly realistic but inner passionate and fleshy feel to it. Especially with colors Tony wears popping out like sirens through the washed environment he lives in .
39 and I've never actually seen the film or even the opening credits before, despite being a massive BeeGees fan and a somewhat fan of Travolta. This is so cool and funny I'm going to watch the whole thing this weekend.
I dare you to try to walk normally down the street listening to Staying alive
It can’t be done
Simon Yacob just did it.
Dasani Drip I don’t believe you
Actually, you can't walk down THAT street ( 86th Street in Brooklyn NY ) without humming this song to yourself. Maybe that me I was there.
Dasani Drip prove it
IDK where you are from but my 25 year old ass walks just like that down the same neighborhood that this was filmed
And that is how you introduce a character
100% agree
@@Ethan7545-q6z absolutely!
Yup
The opening scene of Shaft is very similar. Both excellent.
Captain Jack Sparrow was also iconic!
I don't care who you are. You will never be as cool as him during that strut.
Maybe beacuse nowadays people passing by would call him gay.
Ytrewq Wertyq You actually have a point there.
I can think of three brothers Barry, Robin,and Maurice Gibb...
Boy aint that the truth!
@@mysoncrumphaseveryinjury3853 nah hell nah that walk is pure confidence.
John Travolta is literally this emoji 🕺
😂😂 yes!
This scene and movie perfectly encapsulates 70s NYC
this and a movie made 1-2 years later "The Warriors"
John Travolta at his best.
Yea but he was pretty good in Urban Cowboy too!
Pulp. Fiction.
Grease definitely is his best
Blow out is JT at his finest, acting wise that is. Criminally underrated.
@@candyc.3163 and PULP Fiction
Not only are Travolta's footsteps in perfect time with the music, the swinging paint can is as well. Brilliant!
If your footsteps are in sync with the music, the swinging of your arms will follow accordingly. Its not movie magic, its just how it is.
Look at that walk, that's Brooklyn right there.
He's a Jersey boy, but I get your point.
Weird that they had to use a stunt double for it.
@@mikereiss4216 They didn't use a stunt double for that.
@@swarzeoz2550 They most certainly did(for the parts just showing his feet; those are not his feet other than the full body shots that zoom up).
@@mikereiss4216 I was on the set of this movie, and there was no stunt double.
Me and my girlfriend passed by the pizza place and ate pizza there . It’s still open after all these years . You all should stop by and check it out .. get the two slices on top of each other . There are pictures of John and Stallone on the wall ..
Will do, if I reach the hood.
And you should get yourself over to Amore Pizzeria at the "Pathmark" mall in northern Flushing, if you haven't been there yet. Probably the best Pizza in NYC, hands down.
What's the pizzeria called man????? Is it actually called lennys pizza???!
@@conorsmith8551 yes it is you can look it up!
Lenny’s is the best! The pizza den on 18th ave isn’t bad either, got me through many drunken nights
@@forgotmyun lol makes 2 of us....walkN back home or takN the b1 lol. (Live N bay ridge)
One thing about this sequence that I think is underappreciated is the editing that keeps him in time. The way he's perfectly stepping in tempo/downbeat regardless of the camera/cut changes is pretty remarkable. Keep in mind, this was the era before digital workstations and computer editing... That was all done by hand with grease pencil ✏ and razor blade 🔪! Old school analog film and audio tape splicing. I would imagine you'd have to basically mark out where beat "1" is and then measure how far along on the tape each 1/4 note is relative to the song (and tape/film speed). And there was NO undo button!!!! Even the paint can is timed line a swinging metronome, absolutely perfectly. The attention to detail one must have to do that type of post production is not for the faint of heart and is just downright IMPRESSIVE.. But, whoever did it: I appreciate it, all these decades later!! No matter who you are - this intro just grooves so hard. It's hard not to wanna get up and boogie..
Edit: notable mention to Brooklyn/Queens NYC. Besides the cars, clothing style, and perhaps a little less diversity, it's virtually unchanged, almost 50 years later.
AGREED!
This is one of my favorite comments, and you're absolutely right. I've seen this movie countless times for over 4 decades and never even noticed that.
it would've been very easy to edit as the song is at 120 bpm, meaning you get a 1/4 every second!
In retrospectives with the producers and Travolta, they said they had a boombox strapped under the camera during the sequence so Travolta could hear the song playing and walk in time to it. So I imagine the editing required was pretty minimal.
I beg to disagree, I was actually quite annoyed by the first few shots because audio and picture are not well synced. Very first shot is off the beat, and during the following close up of the feet his steps are too fast. So they had to cut in while he's still behind the beat and then cut out before he's too far ahead. Syncing this up was hard at the time because you couldn't put a click track in his ear. But a boombox on set should have given them close enough of a measure. RUclips's upload and conversion algorithms have been notorious for creating sound sync issues, so this may also play some part here. But overall I'm pretty disappointed with how sloppy the timing of the edit is, and it really takes away from the whole opening scene.
the girl who served him the pizza is John's sister. the woman who buys the pail of paint (cut out here) was his mother. Useless tidbit of information for you.
Nobody cares
I do
@chakur25 Even JT doesn't know; she was just a local girl walking down the street and he made her part of the scene. The cameras weren't visible and it's likely she and the rest of those people had no idea who JT was.
I love useless tidbits!
@@Mikemyers2948 ok?
This opening scene makes me so nostalgic. I remember my brother and sis-in-law snuck me out to see this movie with them when I was a teen. It was rated R and my parents would not have approved. I felt so grown up that night😊...And Lord! when I saw Travolta 's swag with that can I fell instantly in love!!! I have been his greatest fan ever since...he was sooo sexy in this...I also remember his beautiful blue eyes on one of the close up scenes! This was a awesome time for movies and music!...Great memories!!!😊
Me too!. I was twelve but we snuck in.
Ok boomer
@@sham9505 stfu
@@luckyluke4276 I honestly don’t know why I wrote that. I guess I was in a bad mood that day.
@@sham9505 understandable, have a nice day
The most rhythmic, memorable, iconic, and imitated walk in the history of motion pictures.
The type of confidence everyone should have .... best opening to a movie ever.
Even corey feldman?
The editor is the unsung hero of this scene. Beat is flawlessly matched to foot steps, head movement, paint can swing. Bravo!
Don't forget the beautiful girls 😍
Bucket of paint: free
2 pizzas: 2.95
Reservation on blue shirt: 5 dollar
Telling your boss the paint cost 7.95 : priceless
Sarah Connor There are some things money can’t buy.
For everything else...
😉
Hey, you know that the bucket is full of grease....not paint actually
A slice of pizza was less than a dollar in 1977.
Pizza is still a dollar in midtown Manhattan
@@Apollodidyourmom most slices cost 5 cents to make.
Wow, that's still the greatest opening scene...forty two years later
Yesss
Lethal weapon all the way for me, pretty decent this one too tho
True that, never get tired of it. A star was born accompanied by a classic piece of music.
Up to 45 years ago now
We understand this character perfectly by just watching him walk. That's some acting!
Yeah, you can tell by the way he uses his walk he’s a woman's man!!
That and the way he a stalks strange women !!
One of the BEST movie intros EVER
I grew up in Brooklyn from 1962-84 and in the spring of 78 saw this movie in a theater on the street where this scene was filmed. The "B" train that you see just as the song starts was on an "el" that went past the theater and about 40 blocks later, my house.
Where I live now, I had to buy a can of paint. As I came out of the store "Stayin' Alive" started playing in my head and I walked back to my car like I was Travolta. Sadly, there was no pizza.
What brand of paint? -Barry McCauckiner
Even sadder.... Lenny's is now closing
That's some great memories!
Just imagine being in the cinema in 1978 watching this movie, and then John Travolta shows up doing his walk on this music, surrounding you. Must have been mind blowing 🕺
Probably we won't be able to hear anything due to everyone in the theatre cheering for him.
At the time, he was just some guy from a mediocre sit com and this was just some movie. So it was sort of like, huh...maybe this guy is a decent actor? It did make you want to watch the movie.
I was 8 years old in 1977 when I saw the movie Saturday Night Fever with my best friend. We went to the movies together once a week, every week, for alot of years from the 1970s-1980s. Saturday Night Fever was rated R, but where we lived, the movie theater owners and employees just don't care about us underaged kids watching R rated movies in their theaters.
We were a couple of fanatics about the movies. We talked, read, ate, drank, and slept the movies. And we tried to see all the new movies that came out regardless of plot, genre (he loves horror movies, I prefer comedy), critics reviews, or who is starring in it. So, there is no specific, particular reason we went to see Saturday Night Fever except that it was a new movie that just came out.
My friend lived in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn where some of the movie was filmed and takes place. I didn't live in Bensonhurst. I lived in a distant neighborhood and had to take a bus to get to and from his apartment.
We had no idea that Saturday Night Fever was filmed around his neighborhood, let alone within walking distance from his place, and on the very streets we have hung out on many times before. One of the several movie theaters my friend and I went to every now and then, The Benson, can be briefly seen in the opening.
So, imagine our surprise when the movie opened and showed John Travolta strutting down the very same sidewalks we've walked on and were quite familiar with.
"Hey! That's 86th street!!!"
I did, Staten Island NY.
I always heard about a disco over the VZ bridge in Brooklyn called 2001 Space Odyssey but was too young to go plus I was growing into rock music.
It was
One of the most iconic movie intros in Hollywood ever.
Ahhh, I’m not sure about that. There were so many iconic movies in the 70-80-90s..I’ll have to see it I can beat it.
I used to walk like this when I was younger. Confidence.
Freddy Marcel-Marcum its feel good right sir
delusional lol
I used to walk when I was younger.
You don't have to stop walking like that! ;)
We ALL did buddy.... now at 60 with 2 knees full of arthritis. No way. But in my head....!!!!!! Lol. You bet her ass I still do...🤣🤣🤣🤣
hands down the BEST movie opening of all times 😍
agree.....
The hardware store (Six Brothers) was owned by my grandfather and family. Love that this movie memorialized it!
Proof?
Proof that you're @@joeblack6384?
Bay Ridge Bklyn. 5th Ave between 73rd and 74th. NOT Bensonhurst 86th st where the previous scenes took place...nearly 2 miles away.
you sure? looks like 86th to me.
He's the epitome of a young Italian guy in the disco era, I remember so many guys who looked like this.
He more Irish that Italian lol
@@johnwick7583 lol no
He had the perfect face and eyes
So good looking 👌
@@lenseclipse yep he just leaned more into his Italian roots to get those good Hollywood roles 😂
The Bee Gees music enhances this movie no end.
It seems like yesterday when this movie changed my life. I was exactly 19 years old just like the character, and yes I dressed and had a DA haircut. Even the Jewelry. The great times I had will never be matched by anyone today. I danced all over New York and New Jersey. I danced in Florida Discos and in Acapulco, Mexico. There were so many discos in the late 1970's. I had a disco for every night even on Monday. I still remember watching the movie. What a great thing for the young generation, as this movie just pushed young people to dance. There was nothing better than to do the Hustle with a dance partner, girlfriend or even a stranger that you just met. I remember dancing the Hustle with two young women at the Copacabana Club at the same time, and it seemed like we danced together for years. You will never see that today. I watch young people today can't get off their cell phones and just not in good shape for their age, disturbs me. I would never trade those days with the present. I continued to dance and was invited on a local dance show on TV and became a regular dancer. That was in 1978 and met the likes of Blondie, Musique, Melba Moore, Karen Young, Amii Stewart, Anita Ward, Patrick Hernandez, A young Stephanie Mills and Peaches and Herb. What great times. And yes, my name is really Tony and 100% Italian American. And yes, people start identifying me as Tony Manero after they watched me dance.
I love stories like this. Thanks for sharing!
Fun story, Dude!
sweet! Have you seen the new Capital One commercial with Travolta renacting the opener scene as Santa Claus? I kid you not. Look it up.
@@Smithworks2 I watched it. In fact it was John Travolta birthday and I wished him a happy birthday. He or his people wrote me back and thanked me.
Were you ever on solid gold?
My dad use to dress like that in the 70s also. With the shirt collar out and platform shoes Lol 😂 70s Fashion Indeed!
my parents first date was to see this movie
mastermonarch that’s so cute!
Mine too, lol
Scary thought: What if you were conceived to this music? Try to un-see that image. 😂
Hot Soup, thx a lot 🖕🏻😕
Hot Soup and daddy had a bucket of paint
This never gets old.
Movie magic.
So clever....
A proper film with acting & a meaning & top quality music better than grab these days poor films & acting who agrees ? ❤❤❤❤❤❤
So true!
John Travolta walking with swagger alongside the El in Brooklyn while swinging a can of paint is one of the greatest opening sequences in the history of film. Great music, great Bee Gee vocals, great photography.
Great looking beautiful girls too!!! 😍😘
One of the best movies intros ever. I was a subway train operator and always got a kick out of operating the train (D Line now) on the same tracks that you see in the intro. Cool looking down below to the street.
At that time the B train ran the West End Line along 86 th Street
This song never gets old, it's what gave the Beegees Grammys.
That $27.50 shirt in 1977 comes out to $134.45 in 2022 dollars. Insane.
Lol ikr? smh I mean talk about times back then being better than now.
That can of housepaint comes out to 38.95 in 2024.
Inflation 💵, that's why
The greatest opening of a film ever
Eats two slices at one time, legend 🍕 🍕
When you saw the feet and heard the beat, you automatically knew history was being made.
2...2...gimme 2 thass good...
People from Brooklyn repeat themselves to make sure they are heard...people from the Bronx speak in superlatives.
@@golfalot1 In traditional Jewish numerology, saying something twice or three times was how you did superlatives.
I always eat pizza like Travolta
Well...thats a New Yorker for you..we all repeat ourselves
Brooklyn pizza was the best at that time that i use to live there.
Loved all the music.
Love his walk
I watch this when I want to feel cool vicariously.
This is just one of those truly riveting opening scenes. Terrific cinematography. Right up there with the opening scene of Top Gun or The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Iconic.
WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?!!!!!!!!!! 😮
Best opening scene ...EVER!!!!
walking to the rhythm of music with a bucket of paint... genius act that only a Thetan can do.
So Mr. Fusco sends Tony out on an urgent errand and he stops for Pizza, to put money down for a shirt and to hit on some chick??? And this is one of the best employees he has?
Customers liked him.
Space Ace who is the chic ?
Space Ace maybe he went on his break to pick up the paint
@@joere-uploader5766 thanks for the tip I'll be sure to get around it so you're the snitch
@@joere-uploader5766 what you the grammar police I edited I wonder where it went freaking snitch
i love that i lived in that neighborhood. i love that i've ridden that el train hundreds of times. i loved that i've walked down that street (86th) more times than i can remember. hell, i love that i've been to that movie theatre, the oriental plenty of times.
yeah man. bensonhurst.
The guy had it all!
0:52 I love how the music starts as soon as you see John Travolta’s name in the credits, like just his name alone initiates the movie. It’s a pretty sweet character introduction.
2:32 The bucket swinging in sync with the music is also a nice touch.
Great memories of my childhood LOVE THIS. I remember everybody wanted to walk like that. BeeGees Greatest of all time. 🔥🔥🔥
This is what happened to Danny Zuko after he graduated high school.
Which is ironic because this came out before Grease lol.
He Became a Cowboy After he graduated high school
Great comment mate
And before he became a hitman
What?
Where?
John travolta in the best
Nobody fucking cooler than this, in his day he was the fucking man!!!!!!!!!!!
One of the greatest openings in America Cinema
The silence in the beginning followed by the train and then the music 🎵 that was brilliant film making
The most iconic walk on any movie ever and definitely one of the most iconic movie opening scene. The music is inseparable from the movie and vice versa
There’s NO WAY you can walk normally while listening to this song.
No way.
I tend to walk like George Jefferson to this. Lol
I feel like a a boss everytime
i tried this yesterday and it felt so good! i was feeling like i was Travolta in this scene😂
Hahahhhaja you right
How about goose-stepping like in a military parade?
It seems like yesterday I was 14 when I saw that movie sort of young but I got in ,what a blast from the past
That is a man with confidence!
Classic camera work and hero the music touch in that time mind blowing
I am born and raised in Brooklyn. Those were precious times. That's 86th street , I / we used to cruise 86th street back in the day . It doesn't look like that anymore ! Last time I drove down it I felt like I was in China ! Alot of the stores actually have Chinese writing on the signs . Something how things have changed through the years
Lenny's was the last of an old tradition there. The parlor closed in February 2023.
South Brooklyn is done
One of the most iconic movie walks. Love it
Those BEAUTIFUL TOWERS!! I miss them. One of the best movies ever.
1970's groove. Gotta love it.
Travolta was king at playing a New Yorker in the seventies. Still iconic.
I saw this in the theater when it first came out. Now even more than before, I appreciate John Travolta's genius. Hr was mesmerizing. No one could have dominated or perfected this role more than he did.
Issac Newton was a genius. Mozart was a genius. John Travolta? Not so much
A genius is someone who is excellent at a variety of things. Dancing, acting, singing and being an excellent pilot of various types of aircraft might qualify John Travolta as a genius even if three of those skills don’t match the level achieved by those who were extraordinarily brilliant, far more so at one, thing. Leonardi da Vinci might have been a better example. Painter, sculptor, inventor, engineer, architect, scientist and draughtsman.
A whole new meaning to: "I'm walking here!"
Classic walk
Listening to this while walking is an instant confidence booster
Whenever you want to walk with confidence, you really must play this song in your head.
Weird thing to notice, but at 1:19 the camera was perfectly in sync with his strut and followed the movement of his head.
Iconic opening scene!!!!
Just iconic...Fun Facts: the girl at Lenny's Pizza is Travolta's sister in real life, and the lady waiting for the paint (although they cut this scene too short) is his mom! ❤
who was the chick with the nice butt?
Classic and his walk is the best!!
Never has one song gave the ability to walk look cool.
That woman in the peach dress at 03:04 nearly stopped the whole movie! 💃
Why she is walking like a model
who is she?
And then the store owner calmly walked to the front of the store, pulled the blue shirt from the display window and put it on special lay away for that very good looking confident young man who put 5 dollars down.
Still awesome in 2023 y'all ❤️❤️❤️
One of my favorite movies and movie sound track.
Luvin how he does the New York double up on the pizza,..luv New York!!
One of the BEST character introductions of ALL TIMES in Cinema HISTORY
How to create a star :)
Shaft
Before he met Marcellus, Jules and shot Marvin ;)
Drifterz what do they call a quarter pounder with cheese in Paris?
@@alid2507 Royale with Cheese
and before he was killed by butch
Really sets a great sense of place and of how Tony feels in it.
I love this movie, the soundtrack is timeless. Bee Gees are 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🫶🏿🥹.
Greatest soundtrack of all time?
Yes 🎈🎈
Staying Alive By The Bee Gees 😎🕺🪩
This is literally one of the best introductions to a character
This movie is still a classic with greatness all over.
Everything about this movie was perfect. The plot of the movie, the acting, and especially the soundtrack. Saturday Night Fever defined the disco era, and for many the 1970s.
One of THE most iconic opening scenes!!!
Please don’t trust me! lol what a great line.
This will be me the first day after the quarantine ends.
The near 4 minutes captures the whole of buzzing 70's NY.... plus the music is just Cream 🍦
I don't know if anyone on this green planet can walk straight listening to this music 🎼🎶
This scene is the pinacle of SWAG in cinema history.
BOOOOOOOCA
You can't teach those looks & charisma and facial expressions in front of a camera during acting class. But when you have the total package in your repertoire in addition to doing the work. Movie Star! This scene beautifully describes Tony's character, mindset, bravado & masked insecurities using less than 15 words.
The song is great. The editing and choreography too I suppose.
The best part? The girl in the peach dress. Absolutely gorgeous.