Nothing like Sat. Night Fever.

I agree. Staying Alive is nothing like Saturday Night Fever and overall a pretty weak movie. However I do like watching it from time to time in a guilty pleasure sort of way. It's worth seeing at least once just for the bizarre Satan's Alley musical at the end. Stallone turned Travolta into a dancing Rambo. It is amazing at the shape Travolta got himself into for this film though. He's all muscle.


Apparently the original script for Staying Alive was written by Norman Wexler and still had Tony struggling to make it as a dancer in Manhattan. But the difference was that it supposedly picked up where Saturday Night Fever left off and had Stephanie as Tony's manager. Staying Alive could've made for a pretty strong drama if it showed how Tony's personal life had changed since the events of Saturday Night Fever and had the dancing play a secondary role in the film. Norman Wexler was still given co-credit on the screenplay but Stallone did a complete rewrite once he was hired as the director.

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