No, not where he calls Tony by the wrong name (Danny). A worse one.
Verrazano Bridge goes to Staten Island not Manhattan
Yup, I caught that. He’s using the bridge as a metaphor for Tony’s path to maturity, represented by his desire to leave Brooklyn for Manhattan, but the Verrazano doesn’t take you there.
It would be a very interesting essay if he tried to explain the symbolic importance of Staten Island in the film. I don’t think there really is one - that bridge just happens to be the nearest bridge to Tony, since he lives in Bay Ridge.
The article the film was based on was really about 1960s British mod culture but was passed off by the author as having been about the early New York City disco scene?
Close, but what prompted that question? That’s not in the link I posted.
That BTW is untrue to RL. Tony is Italian. Italians lived in Bensonhurst. Irish and Scandinavians lived in Bay Ridge. And yes, in 1976 those divisions DID matter!
^ Don, what does that have to do with what Ellis said about Staten Island?
Also, there were a lot of Italians living in Bay Ridge in the 70s and there is still a fair number of them there.
Since my entire experience of NYC was an hour spent on Governor’s Island, I’d never have known that. Ignorance fought once again. 