Saturday Night Fever

This is an example of a movie that has become so ingrained into our social fabric as far as references, parodies, and rip-offs are concerned, that a very large portion of people in our age group are familiar with it and have never actually watched it. Then when you sit down and watch it you find out that it's alot different than just that cultural perception has built in your mind. Part of the reason, I would suppose, would be that the afforementioned references and parodies have integrated their way into just about every genre and target audience. Part of the problem is the close mental associatoin to Footloose and Dirty Dancing. The resulting mental association is that these three movies are all in the same category. Footloose is rated PG and Dirty Dancing PG-13, creating a pretty big mental hole when it comes to the fact that SNF is R.

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