Quadrophenia

1979
R
2h

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7.2/10

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Jimmy Cooper loathes his dead-end job and his working-class parents. He seeks solace with his mod clique, scooter riding, and drugs, only to be disappointed.Jimmy Cooper loathes his dead-end job and his working-class parents. He seeks solace with his mod clique, scooter riding, and drugs, only to be disappointed.Jimmy Cooper loathes his dead-end job and his working-class parents. He seeks solace with his mod clique, scooter riding, and drugs, only to be disappointed.

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7.2/10

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Trivia
Sting and his band The Police were little known when the film was shot, but had broken out by the time it was released.

Goofs
The shadow of the helicopter that filmed the final scenes on the white cliffs at Beachy Head is visible. Most people call these the white cliffs of Dover, but they aren't. The cliffs at Beachy Head are higher than the white cliffs of Dover.

Quotes
Kev: I don't give a monkey's arsehole about Mods and Rockers. Underneath, we're all the same, 'n't we?
Jimmy: No, Kev, that's it. Look, I don't wanna be the same as everybody else. That's why I'm a Mod, see? I mean, you gotta be somebody, ain't ya, or you might as well jump in the sea and drown.
Kev: That's why I joined the army. To be different. To get away from all this. Don't matter where you go, there's always some cunt with stars and stripes who wants to push you about.

Crazy credits
Jeans By Levis

Alternate versions
There are at least 4 scenes that have been deleted from the final film. These scenes have never been released anywhere in full, apart from on a short documentary that came with the 1997 UK video, but even then they are shown as photographs and not the actual full scenes. Most notable was the entire deletion of almost all of the dialogue from Ace Face (played by Sting), including 2 extended scenes from the police van and one of all the mods meeting up on their scooters before going to Brighton. Supposedly, the reason that all of Ace Face's dialogue was deleted was that Sting and the producers both agreed that this ruined his 'mysterious' character that he was playing and also may have taken the focus of the protagonist of the story, Jimmy.

Connections
Featured in Talking Pictures: Episode #1.1 (1979)

Soundtracks
Hi-Heel Sneakers
Written by Tommy Tucker (aka Robert Higginbotham)
Performed by Cross Section
Published by The Who Group Limited

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Featured review

7/10

Catcher in the Rye but with the 60s Mod Scene

Excellent as a period piece, which is, I think, its primary goal. The main character, a young man in the mod scene, feels a lot like Catcher in the Rye's Holden: Most of his problems are of his own making, he's unlikable, he doesn't feel like he fits in, everyone else is a faker. This hampers the film from encompassing the actual scene, somewhat; tribalism does function as depicted, it also doesn't mean every sub culture is the same, either.

The soundtrack is fantastic and the acting passable. Most things in production are just fine, actually, feeling outside of the purview of the film. I can see why Criterion selected it, but don't expect too much from it, like a plot or a likeable character or a leap forward in the craft of film making, imo.