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re: Has any movie star ever had the run of John Travolta from 1977-1980?
Posted on 2/3/24 at 7:17 pm to RonLaFlamme
Posted on 2/3/24 at 7:17 pm to RonLaFlamme
quote:I think that's a fair point. But Ford was a member of an ensemble cast in Star Wars. Travolta was the lead in all three of his. I'd also say that Raiders of the Lost Ark, while a great movie, wasn't a cultural phenomenon like Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever, Urban Cowboy, and to a lesser extent Grease were.
You don’t think Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark were cultural phenomenons?
ETA: unless you were alive at the time, it's hard to understand the disco craze and the country music craze that followed SNF and UC respectively. Both of those movies impacted the way people dressed, the music they listened to, the cars (trucks) they drove etc. It was fricking insane.
This post was edited on 2/3/24 at 7:23 pm
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Posted on 2/3/24 at 8:01 pm to coolpapaboze
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Travolta was the lead in all three of his
I’d say Grease is the definition of an ensemble cast and Travolta was co-billed as lead with Olivia Newton-John.
Star Wars was the #1 grossing film of the 70s and unquestionably a cultural phenomenon. Harrison Ford emerged as the charismatic leading man of the 80s from that ensemble cast.
And Tom Cruise from. Risky Business, Top Gun, Cocktail, RainMan, Born on the 4th of July, Days of Thunder, A Few Good Men, The Firm, Mission Impossible, and Jerry Maguire is a hell of a 12 year run.
This post was edited on 2/3/24 at 8:15 pm
Posted on 2/3/24 at 8:38 pm to coolpapaboze
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it's hard to understand the disco craze and the country music craze that followed SNF and UC respectively.
Were they leading the trend or following it though? Seems like the movies SNF and UC were popularizing existing trends and pushing them more into the “mainstream”. Anyway oddly specific category you created there
Also interesting how Travoltas career fell off a cliff after UC and he was reduced to being the foil in talking baby movies before Quinten Tarantino cast him in Pulp Fiction
This post was edited on 2/4/24 at 8:32 am
Posted on 2/4/24 at 5:30 am to coolpapaboze
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ETA: unless you were alive at the time, it's hard to understand the disco craze and the country music craze that followed SNF and UC respectively. Both of those movies impacted the way people dressed, the music they listened to, the cars (trucks) they drove etc. It was fricking insane.
This guy gets it.
If you were in your teens or 20s during that time, you understand. It didn’t just showcase or infiltrate culture - it shaped it.
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