Staying Alive (1983)

Staying Alive: Directed by Sylvester Stallone. With John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes, Steve Inwood. Five years later, Tony Manero’s Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he’s strutting toward his biggest challenge yet: succeeding as a dancer on the Broadway stage.

“Seeing this film on TV again the other night made me wonder how amazing the human body is…. or more specifically John Travoltau0026#39;s body.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn Michael and Get Shorty he had a tremendous girth for the characteru0026#39;s roles yet the films before and after Phenomenon and Broken arrow show a different size. and then we have the extreme end of the scale in this film. Sly Stallone trained Travolta for 3 months to get him into the rippling muscled fat free condition he displays in this film.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt just goes to show you that your fat levels arenu0026#39;t really THAT predetermined by birth and genetics afterall. All you have to to is be committed to attaining a the shape you want to be. Travolta can be slim, medium or large build, muscled, fat or average depending on the film role his ability in this regard is second only to Robert deNiro of raging Bull and Cape fear physique abilities.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTravolta wil never be out of work while he is able to mold himself into his characters. The charcter of Tony would not have been believeable in this film in any shape other than the one depicted by John Travolta in this film. he got it spot on — in appearance, line delivery and overall feeling!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e7/10”