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Velvett Fogg
05-06-2007, 12:20 PM
Pink Floyd The Wall (1982)

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Director: Alan Parker
Writers: Roger Waters (album The Wall) (screenplay)

Plot Summary

The movie tells the story of rock singer "Pink" who is sitting in his hotel room in Los Angeles,
burnt out from the music business and only able to perform on stage with the help of drugs.
Based on the 1979 double album "The Wall" by Pink Floyd,
the film begins in Pink's youth where he is crushed by the love of his mother.
Several years later he is punished by the teachers in school because he is starting to write poems.
Slowly he begins to build a wall around himself to be protected from the world outside.
The film shows all this in massive and epic pictures
until the very end where he tears down the wall and breaks free.

Cast

Bob Geldof ... Pink
Christine Hargreaves ... Pink's Mother
James Laurenson ... J.A. Pinkerton (Pink's Father)
Eleanor David ... Pink's Wife
Kevin McKeon ... Young Pink
Bob Hoskins ... Rock and Roll Manager
David Bingham ... Little Pink
Jenny Wright ... American Groupie
Alex McAvoy ... Teacher
Ellis Dale ... English Doctor
James Hazeldine ... Lover
Ray Mort ... Playground Father
Margery Mason ... Teacher's Wife (as Marjorie Mason)
Robert Bridges ... American Doctor
Michael Ensign ... Hotel Manager

Stereo Junkie
05-07-2007, 12:12 AM
Brilliant choice Keith,

here are a couple of clips, the first one is the video of "Brick In The Wall" single, it used to scare me silly as a kid... glad I didn't watch the clip from the original movie (secnd clip)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Py5aPLG348

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_bvT-DGcWw

nicktoone
06-11-2007, 11:09 PM
For me it was Gerald Scarfes animations that made this movie. Wonderful, scary animation with slightly sinister nazi-esque overtones - lots of black/white/red for the 'authority' figures.

Stereo Junkie
06-13-2007, 01:22 PM
Yes that teacher... very eerie, I sometimes wonder what the kids are doing now that appeared in the film, wonder if they still dine out on the story?