He'd be fired for breaking script and would never work in the theater again yet he's happy and strutting in Times Square? And the director doesn't yell at him like he had done for every other crappy thing Manero did previously? This is the most ridiculous part of a ridiculous movie.
shareI can't argue with anything you said, but will comment that there are few movies that don't have some sort of ridiculous part in them somewhere.
shareI must counter by saying that there are very few movies that have anything THAT ridiculous in them.
shareFair enough, but realize that most of us aren't privy to the backstage goings on of a Broadway show and that wouldn't immediately stand out. Once it was pointed it out, it did indeed seem ridiculous.
I'm an engineer (retired), and the ridiculousness of the laws of physics being broken are, well, ridiculous.
He put a co-worker in physical jeopardy and is applauded. I think that would stand out to most as egregious - which is one reason the movie flopped.
shareI think the movie flopped because it basically sucked, not the change of script at that really, really crappy Broadway play (that would have flopped - probably closed that night). I watched the whole movie to the end, but had pretty much determined within the first 10 minutes that the Staying Alive sucked.
She also didn't seem in be in any jeopardy; she gracefully leapt/danced onto the platform.
Whether it appears to you that she was in jeopardy or not, partners in dance don't do that to each other. And the movie did suck. I'll leave it at that.
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