Absolute Beginners

1986
PG-13
1h 48min

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David Bowie, Patsy Kensit, John Aron, Eddie O'Connell, and Sade in Absolute Beginners (1986)

In London in 1958, a young photographer seeks media stardom to keep the love of a beautiful, aspiring fashion designer.

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Classic Musical Teen Romance Drama Musical Romance

En Londres, en 1958, un joven fotógrafo busca triunfar en los medios de comunicación para conseguir el amor de una bella y aspirante a diseñadora de moda.En Londres, en 1958, un joven fotógrafo busca triunfar en los medios de comunicación para conseguir el amor de una bella y aspirante a diseñadora de moda.En Londres, en 1958, un joven fotógrafo busca triunfar en los medios de comunicación para conseguir el amor de una bella y aspirante a diseñadora de moda.

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Trivia
The character of "Harry Charms" was based on a real-life British manager and impresario of the period, Larry Parnes, who was famous for hiring unknown singers and giving them extravagant stage names (his most famous client was Billy Fury). In 1960 he hired an unknown Liverpool band called The Beatles to accompany one of his lesser stars, Johnny Gentle, on a tour of Scotland, but he decided not to take the Beatles on as clients because he was only interested in handling solo singers, not groups.

Errores
During the riot scenes, in one shot a double decker bus is on fire. In the next shot, it isn't burning. In the next shot, it is. (During the T.V. announcers speak to the viewing public about the 'race riots').

Citas
Colin: What, selling things to people who don't want them?
Vendice: Never things, Colin. We don't sell things. We sell dreams.

Conexiones
Edited into Ray Davies: Quiet Life (1986)

Bandas sonoras
Santa Lucia
Performed and composed by Ekow Abban

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Too soon, too much, too costly

A great idea and a huge Brit budget, ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS is so ambitious and so technically well and packed with great 80s Soho jazz musical numbers that it forgets to include the hooks for an audience. It is actually for people in theater and film who love musicals and the techniques. It isn't for the general ticket buying public who expect a conventional story with a structure. The lead actor Eddie OConnell is a bit Ken doll or even Cliff Richard...maybe that is the point but he is lacking in charisma. Visually it is a feast and musically it is very engaging, but like the Minnelli musicals YOLANDA AND THE THIEF or THE PIRATE and the Brit satire Ken Russell musical THE BOYFRIEND or John Waters 1988 film of HAIRSPRAY there has to be a strong core to break though to mainstream cinema goers; otherwise, like those films, it is relegated to cult interest and the 'noble failure' bin. In time it will be a quintessential 80s style musical and we are not far enough away from then yet. It also cost a massive amount and lost it all, killing off the studio that financed the $15m.... ugh. If made today, it would be financed by Absolute Vodka and marketed with panache, finding a huge multiplex audience and making zillions of dollars for all concerned...thus being hailed as a success and a masterpiece.