# Saturday Night Fever essay- find the glaring error **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 10, 2016, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-fever-essay-find-the-glaring-error/765585 "2016-09-10T23:24:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-fever-essay-find-the-glaring-error/765585/1 "2016-09-10T23:24:54Z")
> **[David Heuser: Saturday Night Fever](https://www.davidheuser.com/SNF.html)** > > David Heuser, Composer No, not where he calls Tony by the wrong name (Danny). A worse one. ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-fever-essay-find-the-glaring-error/765585/2 "2016-09-10T23:50:20Z")
Verrazano Bridge goes to Staten Island not Manhattan ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-fever-essay-find-the-glaring-error/765585/3 "2016-09-10T23:57:23Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-fever-essay-find-the-glaring-error/765585/4 "2016-09-11T00:10:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-fever-essay-find-the-glaring-error/765585/5 "2016-09-12T17:43:49Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-fever-essay-find-the-glaring-error/765585/6 "2016-09-13T13:38:13Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > 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. > **[Saturday Night Fever: The (Fake) Magazine Story That Started it All](https://www.openculture.com/2011/06/saturday_night_fever_the_fake_magazine_story_that_started_it_all.html)** > > Thirty-five years ago today, New York magazine published 'Tribal Rights of Saturday Night,' a beautifully-written paean to the dancing teens of the city's boroughs. And the story focused on a working-class disco dancer named Vincent: > Vincent was the... ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-fever-essay-find-the-glaring-error/765585/7 "2016-09-15T12:53:28Z")
> [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](#): > > 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. 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! ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-fever-essay-find-the-glaring-error/765585/8 "2016-09-15T15:15:31Z")
^ 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. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-fever-essay-find-the-glaring-error/765585/9 "2016-09-15T17:47:09Z")
Since my entire experience of NYC was an hour spent on Governor’s Island, I’d never have known that. Ignorance fought once again. 😃