{"id":39350,"date":"2017-10-13T13:07:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T20:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=39350"},"modified":"2021-02-03T18:41:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T01:41:42","slug":"quadrophenia-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=39350","title":{"rendered":"Quadrophenia (1979)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be the same as everybody else! That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m a Mod, see?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Poster-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-39351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Poster-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Poster-84x128.jpg 84w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Poster.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA disaffected working-class Londoner (Phil Daniels) rides a scooter with his Mod buddies while pining after a beautiful girl (Leslie Ash) whose affection he finally wins (temporarily) during a bloody riot in Brighton against a rival gang of Rocker bikers.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coming-of-Age<\/li>\n<li>Counterculture<\/li>\n<li>Gangs<\/li>\n<li>Juvenile Delinquents<\/li>\n<li>Motorcycles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary\u2019s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary argues that &#8220;England&#8217;s first street film, about the turbulent Mods vs. Rockers music-motorcycles-fashion scene in 1964 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/story\/20140515-when-two-tribes-went-to-war\">the year of the Brighton riots<\/a>)&#8221; is &#8220;the most exciting, perceptive youth film since <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=5513\"><em>Rebel Without a Cause<\/em><\/a>.&#8221; He writes that &#8220;it wasn&#8217;t made with an international market in mind&#8221; &#8212; meaning &#8220;there&#8217;s no preface for the uninitiated that defines and contrasts the warring Mods and Rockers&#8221;, and &#8220;the working-class characters speak with thick cockney accents&#8221; &#8212; but he notes that he &#8220;can&#8217;t see why Americans can&#8217;t identify with it&#8221;, given that &#8220;young viewers can relate to the Mods, who define themselves by their musical taste, revolutionary fashions, anti-social posturing, and anarchical brand of violence&#8221;. He further notes that &#8220;one can become extremely sentimental because director Franc Roddam has done a remarkable job of re-creating the youth scene of 1964: dark, wet London streets, empty but for the herds of Mods on Italian scooters and Rockers on heavy cycles in search of a rumble; dingy, sweat-filled clubs; greasy diners, pinball joints, back alleys, dance halls, etc.&#8221; He concludes his review by asserting that &#8220;this is a superb, powerful film, ambitiously directed by Roddam with wit, style, and passion&#8221;, and that &#8220;you can&#8217;t help feeling that adrenaline rush so often experienced in the mix-sixties&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Given that most film fanatics these days weren&#8217;t alive in the 1960s, <em>Quadrophenia<\/em> may hold less personal appeal &#8212; though it remains a potent depiction of a &#8220;character we can all identify with&#8221;, someone who &#8220;represents all youths in the throes of growing pains, in desperate search for their identities&#8221;. As uncredited screenwriter Pete Townshend <a href=\"http:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/who-quadrophenia\/\">said in an interview<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I could still remember that feeling of struggling to fit in, something that happened to me when I was even younger, around 14, and everyone around me seemed to have got their lives on track. This is such a universal experience for young people that it has echoed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps most representative of adolescent angst is beautiful Steph (Ash), an embodiment of the toxic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Men_Going_Their_Own_Way\">MGTOW movement<\/a> in that she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/hypergamy\">&#8220;marries up&#8221;<\/a> as soon as a new bloke holds dominance or interest. Daniels&#8217; pain and bewilderment at Ash (and at life in general) are completely understandable, given he&#8217;s someone who &#8220;doesn&#8217;t fit in anywhere because he tries too hard to be different&#8221; and is &#8220;always more excited, angrier, or more frustrated than anyone else; to him every moment has great significance&#8221;. His final sequence with Ace Face (Sting) is an appropriately crushing denouement. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phil Daniels as Jimmy (nominated by Peary as one of the Best Actors of the Year in his <em>Alternate Oscars<\/em>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Daniels.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Daniels-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-39352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Daniels-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Daniels-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Daniels-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Daniels-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Daniels.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>A powerful portrait of disillusioned youth<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Disillusioned.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Disillusioned-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-39354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Disillusioned-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Disillusioned-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Disillusioned-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Disillusioned-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Disillusioned.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Scooters.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Scooters-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-39353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Scooters-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Scooters-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Scooters-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Scooters-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Scooters.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Nice use of authentic locales<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Locales5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Locales5-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-39359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Locales5-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Locales5-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Locales5-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Locales5-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Locales5.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Brian Tufano&#8217;s cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Cinematography.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Cinematography-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-39355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Cinematography-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Cinematography-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Cinematography-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Cinematography-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Cinematography.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Cinematography2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Cinematography2-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-39356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Cinematography2-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Cinematography2-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Cinematography2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Cinematography2-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Cinematography2.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Cinematography3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Cinematography3-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-39357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Cinematography3-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Cinematography3-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Cinematography3-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Cinematography3-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Quadrophenia-Cinematography3.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/who-quadrophenia\/\">A fine, subtly incorporated &#8220;concept soundtrack&#8221; by The Who<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, once, as a cult favorite. Described at length in Peary&#8217;s <em>Cult Movies 2<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cult Movie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0079766\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.combustiblecelluloid.com\/classic\/quadrophenia.shtml\">Combustible Celluloid Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qnetwork.com\/review\/2801\">Q Network Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/dvdsavant\/s3964quad.html\">DVD Savant Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=2673&#038;aff=13\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1979\/11\/02\/archives\/screen-rock-drama-from-a-who-albummods-and-rockers.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be the same as everybody else! That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m a Mod, see?&#8221; Synopsis: A disaffected working-class Londoner (Phil Daniels) rides a scooter with his Mod buddies while pining after a beautiful girl (Leslie Ash) whose affection he finally wins (temporarily) during a bloody riot in Brighton against a rival gang of Rocker bikers. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Coming-of-Age Counterculture Gangs Juvenile Delinquents Motorcycles Response to Peary\u2019s Review: Peary argues that &#8220;England&#8217;s first street film, about&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=39350\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39350"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68405,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39350\/revisions\/68405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}