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re: Has any movie star ever had the run of John Travolta from 1977-1980?
Posted on 2/4/24 at 9:32 pm to KwoodTiger
Posted on 2/4/24 at 9:32 pm to KwoodTiger
Charlie Chaplin
The Kid (1921)
A Woman of Paris (1923)
The Gold Rush (1925)
The Circus (1928)
City Lights (1931)
Modern Times (1936)
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Kid (1921)
A Woman of Paris (1923)
The Gold Rush (1925)
The Circus (1928)
City Lights (1931)
Modern Times (1936)
The Great Dictator (1940)
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Posted on 2/4/24 at 10:06 pm to TideWarrior
quote:He clarified in a subsequent post.
The OP did not state or ask that.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 12:02 am to TigrrrDad
quote:Offhand, I can only think of a few others...
A movie becoming a revered classic and a movie having cultural influence are 2 different discussions. Indiana Jones is my all time favorite movie character, but people across the nation weren’t walking around with a bullwhip on their hip searching for treasures afterwards.
It’s not generational bias, it’s generational knowledge- if you weren’t from that generation you didn’t witness what occurred.
Selleck from Magnum, Johnson from Miami Vice both had lots of people dressing like them.
Biggest might be Tom Cruise in the 80's. Every guy wanted to be him, and every gal wanted him. Risky Business did wonders for the Wayfarer sales, I'm sure. Everyone bought a bomber jacket after Top Gun.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 4:53 am to AUFANATL
If you are going to include will smith, you have to include Bruce Willis and Michael j fox. However, Travolta was before them all. He was definitely a co-lead with ONJ though . She was the bigger star at the time and they advertised it that way. The story slightly follows Sandy more than Danny. I remember seeing it at the drive in.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 6:21 am to KwoodTiger
Burt Reynolds at about that same time.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 8:13 am to KwoodTiger
quote:
Saturday Night Fever - 1977
Grease - 1978
Urban Cowboy - 1980
What are three movies I have never seen?
Posted on 2/5/24 at 8:21 am to coolpapaboze
quote:
The OP did not state or ask that.
He clarified in a subsequent post.
So he moved the goalposts? So what. Travolta dropped a turd called Moment by Moment in '78 between Grease and Urban Cowboy. Kind of takes the luster out of his "run." Deniro wins for having back to back to back Mean Strees, Godfather II, and Taxi Driver.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 9:35 am to rebelrouser
quote:What the frick are you talking about? He clarified what he meant by a 'run' and he wasn't talking about box office results or critical reviews.
So he moved the goalposts?
quote:
Keep them coming because I still have not seen/heard someone leading 3 cultural phenomenons in 4 years.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 9:45 am to coolpapaboze
quote:well yeah because you’ve never been a kid since so you don’t really know what the cultural context no act of certain movies have been since then. And how could you really.
I was a kid when those movies came out and I saw how people's behaviors changed, I'd never seen anything like it and haven't since.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 9:47 am to TigrrrDad
quote:I'm from that generation. Saturday Night Fever and Urban Cowboy moved culture (UC more on a regional basis) but Grease didn't turn bars and night clubs into 50's Sock Hops. Soundtracks topping the charts does not equal cultural change.
It’s not generational bias, it’s generational knowledge- if you weren’t from that generation you didn’t witness what occurred.
(And high schools began having 50's dances after American Graffiti and Happy Days made the scene. They were nothing new in '78.)
Travolta did have a short, intense run.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 9:47 am to TigrrrDad
quote:so how do you know that there’s not been any movies that influenced young adult culture the same way those movies did since you aren’t from those later generations?
It’s not generational bias, it’s generational knowledge- if you weren’t from that generation you didn’t witness what occurred.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 9:56 am to KwoodTiger
quote:
Has any movie star ever had the run of John Travolta from 1977-1980?
Is this a joke? Many have had way better runs
Posted on 2/5/24 at 12:48 pm to FightinTigersDammit
harrison ford and tom hanks have both had amazing careers from both huge hits and longevity.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 1:11 pm to Locoguan0
quote:
Russel Crowe
1995 The Quick and the Dead
1997 LA Confidential
1999 Mystery, Alaska
2000 Gladiator
2001 A Beautiful Mind
2003 Master and Commander
2005 Cinderella Man
2007 3:10 to Yuma, American Gangster
That is a run.
and Proof of Life in 2000, underrated movie imo
A Good Year in 2006 also underrated
Posted on 2/5/24 at 3:07 pm to KwoodTiger
quote:
Saturday Night Fever - 1977
Grease - 1978
Urban Cowboy - 1980
While it didn't have the cultural impact that these did, 1981's Blow Out is high quality.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 5:49 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
quote:
so how do you know that there’s not been any movies that influenced young adult culture the same way those movies did since you aren’t from those later generations?
There may be…but no one here had named them and backed it up in this discussion. Closest was probably the Tom Cruise example as far as doing it more than once in a short period of time.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 9:11 pm to TigrrrDad
quote:03-08 will Ferrell basically made the dude bro culture. Anchorman, old school, talledega nights, step brothers and influenced all the other bro comedy’s that rules the early 2000s. Every frat house in America wanted to emulate frank the tank.
There may be…but no one here had named them and backed it up in this discussion.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 9:17 pm to LSU alum wannabe
Which would play a lot more significance since we everyone started using CB radios after that.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 9:41 pm to LSU alum wannabe
quote:
Burt Reynolds at about that same time.
quote:
Which would play a lot more significance since we everyone started using CB radios after that.
Yeah, I thought about that. Smokey and the Bandit, and then Hooper, and I think there was maybe one more where he had that same persona-
and suddenly everyone's going to Western Auto or Radio Shack (maybe?) and getting a CB.
I don't know that you call it "a run", as it wasn't ginormous box office takes. It's more that you had social emulation on a widespread level, which was rare prior to today's social media stuff.
Travolta with SNF and Urban Cowboy. Cruise with Risky Business, then a number of other films leading to Top Gun and Days of Thunder (the end of his peak influence).
Don Johnson with Miami Vice- I know Panama Jack probably owes him a ton. A sleeveless shirt (it's SALMON, not PINK
), going sockless in slacks etc. Harrison Ford was mentioned, but while he had a huge box office, nobody really started wearing fedoras again (Indy), or vests (Han Solo).
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