70s& 80s were full of love, great music, dance and fun.

@seanphillips9523

9 ай бұрын

And blow.

@articlay71

27 күн бұрын

I miss them what a great time!!💯

She's always going to be my first crush, and fantasy.. Such a beautiful woman in more ways than just outer beauty. RIP Olivia. We're going to miss you.

@M1tjakaramazov

4 ай бұрын

I was five years old when I saw it in the theatres. Made my mother take me to see it at least four times. I'm sure you know why...

I don't care how cheesey this was, I love this movie!

Great movie. RIP Olivia, and thanks for the memories,

"Wait a minute!" "Yes?" "I mean, I'd just like to talk to you."

This guy is SO different as SWAN in The Warriors!

@jamesbell1613

Жыл бұрын

Maybe, but both characters have a presence.

Best soundtrack of all time.

She met him first as his muse. She came back as human to be with Sonny. She's not "suspended" in time anymore so she doesn't have the memory of the muse; so they had to meet and fall in love all over again. This is of course, my interpretation.

@johnnyowens9372

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with that

@anthonyanzalone9742

2 жыл бұрын

That's Refreshing. : ) I'm A Hopeless Dreamer...What Can I Say. You Know. No One Ever Likes Anything I Say On youtube, but This Has The Most Likes...This Is Also Refreshing For I See There Are More...

@mitchellmelkin4078

2 жыл бұрын

Anthony Anzalone, I like it, save for the fact, that if her father allowed for this to happen, humankind would be deprived of Terpsichore's gifts going forward, which he seems unlikely to have countenanced since she (and her sisters) had been rendering that assistance for thousands of years, presumably. It could work, though, if after living as a human and experiencing love with Sonny, it would be contrived that she would be reincarnated as Terpsichore after dying, and return to doing her good works. Ah, I'm just riffing.

@anthonyanzalone9742

2 жыл бұрын

@@mitchellmelkin4078 I like that. This is one of my favorite movies and I enjoy that so many others are fans also. The ending was great. It can be whatever we want it to be. Some people don't understand that, but I value your take on it. They don't do this anymore in movies. It's a shame.

@kevinnelson66

2 жыл бұрын

@@anthonyanzalone9742Always wondered if any of the other muses returned to Earth later on. I had a few ideas kicking around in my head for Xanadu 2 involving one of Kiras sisters returning to Earth decades later.

The 70s were a magical time. RIP

He's come a long way since being a Warrior!

@peterh5165

Жыл бұрын

Same for Sandahl Bergman: she was Valeria in Conan the Barbarian (1982), and here she was muse #4 that came to life in the intro. She was the most energetic dancer of all the muses.

Love the beginning and the ending of Xanadu

@ZoolGatekeeper

4 жыл бұрын

Well, ELO saved the ending...

@rubyweymouth6843

3 жыл бұрын

The beginning to middle was best but the random songs near the end were not so good except for the song: Xanadu...what I don't like that there was 2 versions of Xanadu in this movie and the ending was confusing🤔

@ZoolGatekeeper

3 жыл бұрын

@@rubyweymouth6843 Well, there's a end short tune by ELO in the film, which really demonstrates the strenght of the band to make memorable music. Also, the Xanadu song was written by ELO. All except the ELo-written songs and admitted the Newton-John song 'Magic' are remembered from this movie.

@rubyweymouth6843

3 жыл бұрын

@@ZoolGatekeeper I only like the songs: Magic, I'm Alive, Suspended In Time, All Over The World and Xanadu from the movie 👍🎟🤗I did notice an instrumental tune at the end of Xanadu🎟

@DennisFTowle-gi3gf

3 жыл бұрын

I totally agree with you, Camille! The beginning and the ending, to me, we're absolutely magical and uplifting! 🌠💫✨✨✨💖 It stirs up my emotions, in a very good way! 🥰 I really do LOVE this movie: "XANADU"!!

I cried at the scene where she left and he was alone while others had their love ones dancing.

Michael Beck said that "the Warriors (1979) opened a lot of doors in film, for me, which Xanadu (1980) then closed."

@user-lt5be9jl4q

10 ай бұрын

He enjoyed working with Olivia he recently talked about her after her death I liked this much better than Grease

In Czech dubbing version they added something like : "I think I've seen you somewhere. " And she smiles then 😍

@tblightningbolt8902

3 жыл бұрын

I prefer the Czech version

The brief instrumental outro that ELO wrote to this is superb... the drums and the strings.... gives me goosebumps... Jeff should add to it and use it as a final outro at ELO's up and coming "Over and out" tour.... that would be pretty poignant... standing in the rain for the intro.... and this for the outro.... what an ending to one hell of an amazing band.

When you consider that prior to going to the XANADU opening night that Sonny had overcome odds of infinity to one against him just to talk directly to Zeus, ...

2:01 The End A Universal Picture Made in Hollywood, U.S.A.

@maskutchitamagotchiworld1911

3 жыл бұрын

I can't believe Olivia Newton-John is approaching 73. All these years later she is still powerful and sexy. Happy 41st anniversary to Xanadu. Many thanks to Jeff Lynne, Richard Tandy and the gang from the Electric Light Orchestra. Being a fan of the Electric Light Orchestra means the whole damn world to me. The grand finale of Mr Blue Sky is just the greatest piece of all time. I am proud to be a fan of a wonderful british orchestral band of all time. Jeff Lynne and Richard Tandy are my heroes. I must admit Dame Olivia Newton-John is such a darling and she has the voice of an angel.

I love this elo outro. Wish it was a full song.

I read somewhere that as per the script Sonny says "Welcome to my dream."

@HughesovskiJ

7 жыл бұрын

ah thanks for that. It looks like he also says "im not going anywhere am I"

@carlossosa2215

6 жыл бұрын

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@carlossosa2215

6 жыл бұрын

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@rubyweymouth6843

3 жыл бұрын

How did you get ur hands on a Xanadu script or did you read it online?

@rubyweymouth6843

3 жыл бұрын

@@carlossosa2215 What is all this that you're saying repeatedly?

I’d do anything for his Xanadu jacket

i love this movie and the ending i have it on VHS. i saw it for the first time on Encore back in 1998 i was still 10 at the time. it had good special effects and a good animation sequence and im glad Sonny and Kira lived happily ever after at the end. this is an all time 80s cult classic.

@wolfshanze5980

Жыл бұрын

There's an awful lot you can say about this movie... but "good special effects" isn't one of them... Xanadu was released in 1980... when another movie, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back came out. The special effects found in Xanadu are very much in-line with most movies and effects used in the early 1970s, nearly a decade earlier... the effects used in Xanadu were cheap and out-of-date by 1980 standards.

@MyJustin316

Жыл бұрын

@@wolfshanze5980 yeah i know Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back won an oscar for special effects in 1981

I think this part and Sonny's quest for Kira are more stepped in greek myth symbolism. Its implied that Sonny actually created the mural of the muses hence he knew where to find it. He's pygmalion. In the myths, he was a sculptor that created and ultimately fell in love with his own creation. The problem is like the statue Galatea, Kira is not a person. She even says so "Im not as I appear to you" She cant love Sonny back because as a reflection of his own needs and desires to be great...she's empty. She can inspire in him love but Sonny is Narcissus...doomed because he loves his own reflection. But... Kira has become self aware and wants to be trully alive. "Just a minute...isnt anybody interested in my feelings?" Like Orpheus in the underworld, she sings and charms the gods to allow her to escape with her love to be trully alive. I think in the end, she was incarnated in to the waitress...independent, beholden to only herself to feel and live as she requested. For Sonny's part, he has to now actually let go of his vanity and need to be Great and just live with real love. "His" muse is gone but there's this human girl that reminds him that love like a dream never dies. He lets go of "perfect image" and unlike Danny that learned this the hard way...walks away open to regular "human" love. As for the muse...it was a moment everybody...forever to humans but a moment to the ethereal realm of inspiration. She will always be back if you look for her. ;)

@shawnkarabinos6263

Жыл бұрын

This was inspired writing. Beautiful interpretation and such thought!!...wish there was more to read. Thank you!

@czito

Жыл бұрын

That was great.

I thought I remembered Sandahl Bergman being in this. She was Muse #1.

@rubyweymouth6843

3 жыл бұрын

All the muses were beautiful in the movie🤗🎟🤗

RIP Ms Newton John but at least you and Mr Beck lived happliy ever after in this scene. this is a happy ending 😭😭😭

Fabulous!!

Hermosa película 📽 una de mis favoritas

Just like in Those magnifcient men in their flying mashines where its like 6 characters played by one actress (Irina Demick) and pilot Pierre asks: But we have met already somewhere, right?! and she says Oh it is possible! this kinda thing... ;)🛩🌠🌌♥

My theory is that even though she couldn't be with him anymore,she made sure that a part of her would always be there on earth with him (hence the doppelganger waitress)

I *bought the vinyl album! Hoping that the particular track of music at **01:27** would be on the album. While I like, (love) every track of the album. I really wanted this particular piece of music! I guess it's the *fighter pilot, NEVER-GONNA-BE, in me that *imagines* me, at the "hot stick", of a bat-out-of-hell, fighter.

@djmarpen4801

5 жыл бұрын

Es fantastica!

@Tiredoldchannel

4 жыл бұрын

Xanadu Overture by ELO

@rubyweymouth6843

3 жыл бұрын

It sucks that the random songs close to the end weren't on the actual album...I have the soundtrack on CD👍

@rubyweymouth6843

3 жыл бұрын

The ending sucks💥

@BlankFormatted

3 жыл бұрын

So similar to the "Mr. Blue Sky" ending

Too bad there wasn't a sequel to Xanadu because at the end of the movie we - as the fans did not know what was going to happen between Kira and Sonny...plus the ending happened quickly of when they got re-aquainted...I guess it was supposed to be a mystery🤔

@DiverBand

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. My feeling is that Kira gave up her immortality to be with Sonny. Thoughts?

@rubyweymouth6843

3 жыл бұрын

@@DiverBand We will never know because there is no part 2😟I believe at the end they could have talked longer without the end music and credits came on...we couldn't hear what they were saying...plus the ending happened so soon💥I was a bit confused at the moment when Kira was singing random songs which had nothing to do with Xanadu Club and the roller skating premiere and she was singing to Sonny...then she's stranger at the end when she goes to take Sonny's drink order🤔

@DiverBand

3 жыл бұрын

@@rubyweymouth6843 my gut feeling tells me that she gave up her immortality to be with him because they were truly in love. Hey, I’m a hopeless romantic what can I tell you? It would be really interesting to ask either Michael Beck, Olivia, or the director or screenwriter what specifically happens at the end of the movie.

@DiverBand

3 жыл бұрын

@@rubyweymouth6843 some interesting things here..... www.starburstmagazine.com/features/michael-beck-the-warriors

@b1chvj39

3 жыл бұрын

As a good Analyst, the story was about a Greek Muse who came to earth to inspire a struggling artist to open a club. He teams up with a former musician to help make that happen. The reason why the musician gave up his career was a woman on the album who is similar to the muse who is inspiring the artist. The thing is that, he never went after her. Meanwhile, the Goddess falls for the Mortal and the Mortal falls for the Goddess. The dream was almost threatened when the Goddess broke the rules and had to leave earth to face the consequences. Muses come down to earth to inspire, not fall in love. But in this story, the musician who had the same muse as the artist encouraged him not to make the same mistake he made and find a way to go after her. He then skated through the mural into the realm of the Goddess. He pleads with Zeus to let her go so they can be together. But Zeus, remaining strict as usual won't have it and banished the artist back to earth! She then sings about her love for the artist. Her Mother, who believes that some rules were made to be broken. The Goddess encouraged her parents to go back to earth for one more night with the artist. Zeus finally agrees and says maybe for a moment or forever. As soon as she left earth for good, the artist realizes that Zeus had his way. The musician tries to comfort him with a drink. As soon as he took it, he looked up and saw the Goddess. Zeus finally let her go! She gave up her immortality to be with the artist forever. It was fate that brought them together not only to inspire but to love! Love always wins! At least they had a happy ending.

I want a Xanadu jacket like the one Sonny is wearing

❤

Two questions - what is the figure seen next to Sonny after Keira gets beamed up? And also does anyone know the ELO orchestral overture used on the closing credits?

@paulshepherd1348

5 жыл бұрын

Schemvie Schmeves I'd like to know that too....its superb!

@lordmajestic7311

5 жыл бұрын

The figure is one of three statues placed around the main stage. Each seems to depict a young woman (possibly Kira) in a seated position with a lyre on her knee.

@WalterDWormack214

5 жыл бұрын

You've *been trying to find that out, TOO?*

@ChrisNeufeldMusic

4 жыл бұрын

All I know about the piece by ELO playing during the “cast credits” is that it’s only heard in the movie and not on the soundtrack.

@rubyweymouth6843

3 жыл бұрын

No...not me and I have followed their music for years😑

Wow! Channel 11 in Australia!

question is ... if they did change the ending... where is the footage? Why couldn't we have gotten that and the making of in the dvd special release?

@HughesovskiJ

6 жыл бұрын

Did they change the ending? Ive never heard that before.

@gogojust

6 жыл бұрын

There’s a slight variation to the last scene on the web. Search for “Making of Xanadu” on KZread and skip to 16:10... It’s very short but you see where they were trying to go.

@chrismulwee4911

6 жыл бұрын

You know there are more end credits after this. After "THE END" Made In Hollywood U.S.A. the rest of the credits roll against a black backgrounds as the SINGLE version of "Xanadu" plays

@tsntana

6 жыл бұрын

That was not the single version of Xanadu. That version was only used in the movie.

@chrismulwee4911

6 жыл бұрын

You're right. The version used for the rest of the end credits is even shorter than the single version, however it sounds to me like an edit of the single version and not an entirely different recording

She was and still is one of the most beautiful women in the world!!!

@harleyhartley3168

Жыл бұрын

:(

I remember when they played this movie on 10 peach, back when it was channel 11 (also this looks like it was recorded when it was played on 11, bc the logo on the right hand side)

"I mean, I'd just like to talk to you."

@ZoolGatekeeper

4 жыл бұрын

And the ELO gets the final word..

Cheddar

Why is this yet another YuoTube movie/clip that is sped up a half step or so? For those of us who have seen Xanadu as much as I have, it is VERY distracting!

This is too fast.

@Y0Y0Evan

6 жыл бұрын

That's because this is (probably) from an Austrailian network, and Australia is PAL.

Gene Kelly got second billing. I have to question why such a talented man did what looks like a really bad movie. In fact it was so bad it was the inspiration for the Razzie Awards. Although the album from the move was a great success.

@katysteele6069

Жыл бұрын

Gene Kelly was actually really angry with the finale for the movie. He was always very insistent that the camera filmed his entire body to show his dancing, as he was ballet trained. He had no idea that in the start of the finale, his body would in effect be cut in half , and his roller skating wouldn't be shown. He was furious

Xanadu.

Not sure if it was dream but the club left behind looked really dull

Olivia Newton John została pokazana jako jedna muz Kira ,a obsada aktorska filmu to same największe gwiazdy kina Hollywood .

Agent: OK, this place Xanadu contains wild electric energy, people floating up in air, roller staking, Olivia Newton John... Me: Olivia Newton John? Agent: Well I haven't finished... Me: Perfect! When do we depart for Xanadu?

Matt forever

"I mean i'd just like to talk to you"..........."you realise our movie careers are finished don't you" "Yes, but just keep talking while the lights dim". Only having a bit of fun....love this film.

@mikejorsch304

3 жыл бұрын

Well ONJ did do Two of a Kind with John Travolta

@mitchellmelkin4078

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikejorsch304, Moving on.

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Michael Beck was totally wrong in this role.The guy was born to play roles like the one he did in the warriors but in a musical??? FORGET IT!!! ZERO CHEMISTRY WITH OLIVIA!!!!!!

@user-lt5be9jl4q

10 ай бұрын

I liked him he liked working with Olivia too