Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
There's an intercity train too.....
continuity was pretty poor...but the film was always more about attitude than accuracy.
Quadrophenia - the film
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There's an intercity train too.....
continuity was pretty poor...but the film was always more about attitude than accuracy.
toblerone3
Grrrrr
Doing the maths.
If Jimmy was 17 in 1964. He would be 63 now. Probably became a skinhead in the late 1960s. Was in the NF for a while in the late 1970s when he was about 30. Don't know what happened to him after that.
If Jimmy was 17 in 1964. He would be 63 now. Probably became a skinhead in the late 1960s. Was in the NF for a while in the late 1970s when he was about 30. Don't know what happened to him after that.
clicker
nanook rubs it....
Linda and the kids happened ok...can he have a happy bloody ending.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I worked in a fucking warehouse in bloody Neesden......probably packing peanuts of polo mints....
He did what he was told, got pissed up in the evenings, and got made redundent on his 59th Birthday, at which point he slashed his wrists infront of Linda at their eldest daughters wedding to some div called Giles who worked in a bank in Finchley.
He did what he was told, got pissed up in the evenings, and got made redundent on his 59th Birthday, at which point he slashed his wrists infront of Linda at their eldest daughters wedding to some div called Giles who worked in a bank in Finchley.
clicker
nanook rubs it....
At least you've got him marrying Linda...I call that progress...and more than one daughter....I will give you the warehouse and Giles....but not the mode of topping himself...if he was....and that's a long shot if....it'd be right over the edge of the cliff in a Ford Anglia.
Despite the odd errors it's still the benchmark yoof culture film for me and part of the reason every film about football violence will fail miserably.
I watched it non-stop when I was younger and my son is bang into it just now, watched my old vhs to death before getting the dvd for Xmas.
Really wish I had my old American Parka, bowling shoes and 3 button suit to give him. Me and my mate spent a fair few days in Scarborough having the piss taken out of us by what by then were scooterists, msut ask my Mum if she has any photos. Never had a scooter meself, my mate brought his brand new Vespa 50 round the day he got it. He let me have ago and I crashed it
I watched it non-stop when I was younger and my son is bang into it just now, watched my old vhs to death before getting the dvd for Xmas.
Really wish I had my old American Parka, bowling shoes and 3 button suit to give him. Me and my mate spent a fair few days in Scarborough having the piss taken out of us by what by then were scooterists, msut ask my Mum if she has any photos. Never had a scooter meself, my mate brought his brand new Vespa 50 round the day he got it. He let me have ago and I crashed it
editor
hiraethified
Interesting article on the making of the film. Thank fuck Johnny Rotten didn't end up in the lead role!
www.theguardian.com
How we made Quadrophenia, by Phil Daniels and Leslie Ash
‘Riding the scooter along the clifftop at Beachy Head, I got too close and fell off’
discokermit
Well-Known Member
reading through this thread it surprises me that people questioning how it ended didnt notice that the very first shot of the film is jimmy walking away from the cliff.
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
Have watched Quadrophenia a couple of times in the last few years (it's one of my all-time favourite films).Interesting article on the making of the film. Thank fuck Johnny Rotten didn't end up in the lead role!
How we made Quadrophenia, by Phil Daniels and Leslie Ash
‘Riding the scooter along the clifftop at Beachy Head, I got too close and fell off’
Saw it late at night with my brother-in-law, who is an old scooter-boy - he pointed out one of his mates who was an extra!
Saw it a while ago with my OH. We ended up wondering, if there was ever a remake (heaven forbid), who could play Jimmy. Probably have to be an unknown as there seem to be so few well-known working-class actors now, unlike in the 70s.
hash tag
Reaching out
When the scooter goes over the cliff you can see the shadow of a helicopter and a reflection of lighting and film crew on the scooter.
Once you have seen the continuity errors you can't under them.
There is also an intercity 125 seen from Jimmy's window in the first half of the film.
Still one of my fave films...
Definitely not a sequel but 'loosely related'...To Be Someone, is coming out this year with some of the original cast and characters. From what I've read of the book it's based on it follows Jimmy up to the 90s as he goes in and out of custody.
Directed by Ray Burdis who played stewpot in Grange hill.
I wouldn't expect much.
en.m.wikipedia.org
Directed by Ray Burdis who played stewpot in Grange hill.
I wouldn't expect much.
To Be Someone - Wikipedia
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Erm, that's his brother, not him.
pieandmashfirm
backwardly forward .I worked it out with a pencil
I was a extra in the night club scene where sting goes off the balcony .Filmed in the southgate royalty ........its my only claim to fame
BCBlues
Lend us a Twenner
Quadrophenia is brilliant. A lot of the comments from that article also mention Scum as the two films shared a few actors.
I saw both and enjoyed Quadrophenia for that glimpse into Mod Culture of the 60s. Scum was just brutal but still a great film.
A lot is mentioned also of the timeline errors like Saturday Night Fever showing up as the film on show at the Cinema and someone in a Motorhead t-shirt .It was very low budget so I reckon they weren't that fussed on accuracy.
The Mod Revival that came about that time was naff but I did buy The Pleasers version of The Kids Are Alright and i still say "watch the cloth moth"
I saw both and enjoyed Quadrophenia for that glimpse into Mod Culture of the 60s. Scum was just brutal but still a great film.
A lot is mentioned also of the timeline errors like Saturday Night Fever showing up as the film on show at the Cinema and someone in a Motorhead t-shirt .It was very low budget so I reckon they weren't that fussed on accuracy.
The Mod Revival that came about that time was naff but I did buy The Pleasers version of The Kids Are Alright and i still say "watch the cloth moth"
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
They were released around the same time. I saw them both first time on a double bill.
D'wards
IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
Facking rent a tenti still say "watch the cloth moth"
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
It was a £2million quid production, not low budget at all.
BCBlues
Lend us a Twenner
We went to see Ray Winston's follow up film, That Summer, which was a bit of a let down.
The soundtrack album is superb however if you liked early Stiff Records artists and New Wave.
D'wards
IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
Dear old Ray turns up in loads of old stuff. I'm watching the old Auf Weidersehn Pets and he turns up in that. Minder and The Sweeney.
In fact, and go with me on this, it could be argued he is on the Michael Elphick lineage.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
in shitloads of stuff but only ever remembered for two things?
BCBlues
Lend us a Twenner
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
That sounds pretty low budget even for 1979
Reno
The In Kraut
Quadrophenia is at the low end of an average budget for a mainstream British film of the late 70s, which (not counting more expensive US co-productions) would have been between 2 and 5 million. It being a period film shot on location, money would have been tight.
Due to its controversial subject matter Scum was a British independent film, financed by a production company behind z-grade exploitation and avant garde films. It's not representative of average budgets for British mainstream films at the time and was closer to "no-budget" than low budget.
