Quadrophenia Ending

[medicine man]

Go on, how does that work?

I think he means it's a film about youth identity and rebellion and inner struggles of trying to be one of the gang- in this case the gang being Mods.
Although by this stage- parkas, scooters etc.- had become a bit of a uniform, and the true modernists had moved on.

Quadrophenia isn't a modernist film, A Bout De Souffle is...

was...

tizwaz!

 

[The Large One]

I think he means it's a film about youth identity and rebellion and inner struggles of trying to be one of the gang- in this case the gang being Mods.
Although by this stage- parkas, scooters etc.- had become a bit of a uniform, and the true modernists had moved on.

Quadrophenia isn't a modernist film, A Bout De Souffle is...

was...

tizwaz!

I watched that the other day.

Looked classy, beautifully shot and everything but f*** was it tediously hard work...

 

[Dandyman]

I take your point about Quadrophenia - it’s about mods, rather than being a mod film.

My question was mainly aimed at how you say Get Carter is a mod film. The characters are grimy, middle-aged traditionalist business men, and it’s a straightforward gangster thriller. There’s not any real sense of strutting, posing, or no real narcissism,

It has become iconic in retrospect (thereby refuting the term ‘modernist’), and even then only on the back of a slightly jazzy theme tune.

If anything, I’d argue The Italian Job was more of a mod film, with dandies and posers strutting their way through a crime caper with some funky music over the top.

Stuff like La Dolce Vita was more ‘mod’.

Media Essay Example - Get Carter

This is quite good - the point I was making is that Get Carter is Mod in a world gone rotten - Caine is not quite "clean living under difficult circumstances" but his dress, swagger and poise are all mod in a corrupt and dirty world.

 

[Dandyman]

I think he means it's a film about youth identity and rebellion and inner struggles of trying to be one of the gang- in this case the gang being Mods.
Although by this stage- parkas, scooters etc.- had become a bit of a uniform, and the true modernists had moved on.

Quadrophenia isn't a modernist film, A Bout De Souffle is...

was...

tizwaz!

Spot on. Jimmy is a ticket not a face.

 

[medicine man]

I watched that the other day.

Looked classy, beautifully shot and everything but f*** was it tediously hard work...

There you go, modernism isn't about obvious or easy.

Which is why true modernists have an effortless cool air, otherwise it all seems too contrived.

 

[The Large One]

There you go, modernism isn't about obvious or easy.

Which is why true modernists have an effortless cool air, otherwise it all seems too contrived.

That's my point - it was contrived. The main character wasn't remotely realistic - narcissistic, yes; a fop, yes - but he was all surface; a shallow caricature purely being puppeted at the mercy of the writer.

Where was the depth? The cool? The effortlessness?

 

[The Cardinal]

That's my point - it was contrived. The main character wasn't remotely realistic - narcissistic, yes; a fop, yes - but he was all surface; a shallow caricature purely being puppeted at the mercy of the writer.

Where was the depth? The cool? The effortlessness?

Tush, Alan.

The shotgun scene ? The telephone call to Britt ? His suits ? A pint in a thin glass ?

 

[The Large One]

Tush, Alan.

The shotgun scene ? The telephone call to Britt ? His suits ? A pint in a thin glass ?

I'm talking about A Bout de Souffle here, not Get Carter.

 

[Dandyman]

I'm talking about A Bout de Souffle here, not Get Carter.

Think of her haircut, her Herald Trib t-shirt, his cool and place in the context of the time.

 

[The Large One]

Think of her haircut, her Herald Trib t-shirt, his cool and place in the context of the time.

Cool though he might have looked, I thought the bloke needed a little slap, frankly.

He wasn't cool, he was a prat, and the girl should have told him to f*** off long before.

 

[Garage_Doors]

I watched that the other day.

Looked classy, beautifully shot and everything but f*** was it tediously hard work...

Watching a film is "tediously hard work"

You want to try living in China and working 16 hours for a bowl of rice.

 

[The Large One]

Oh for crying out loud.

I meant in the context of... Forget it.

 

[blue and white army]

Watching a film is "tediously hard work"

You want to try living in China and working 16 hours for a bowl of rice.

Puts things into perspective

 

[Garage_Doors]

Oh for crying out loud.

I meant in the context of... Forget it.

It was supposed to be funny...............

 

[The Large One]

It was supposed to be funny...............

Oh...

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Watching a film is "tediously hard work"

You want to try living in China and working 16 hours for a bowl of rice.

What, Jimmy did fall off the cliff ay the end, only to be washed up in China, and now works in some sweat shop making expensive retro MOD suits for Jump the Gun, well I never...

No wonder the Who never made a sequal.

 

[papajaff]

Next time you watch the ending, keep your eye on the fly screen on the GS. First it's there, then it's not.
Ruined the whole film for me.............

 

[russian205]

Inside outside, leave me alone
Inside outside, nowhere is home
Inside outside, where have I been
Out of my brain on the five fifteen
Out of my brain on a train


Sadly he is probably commuting to panto.

I missed the wet Rochdale Friday night game (not like me) to see Phil do a great cameo with Blur at the Brighton Centre, he was greeted by a chorus of Bellboy, bellboy, bellboy.

he lets his bike go over the edge because he realises the fallacy behind even the greatest mod who is sting (because sting moonlights when not modding it as a bell boy) so by riding his motocycle of the cliff he is dismissing his mod ways.

 

[russian205]

Favorite who songs? mines love reign o'er me

 

[Hiney]

Favorite who songs? mines love reign o'er me

IMPOSSIBLE to single out just ONE song. Top 5 for me, in no particular order:

Zoot Suit
I Can't Explain
Behind Blue Eyes
Won't Get Fooled Again
5:15

I thank you