Almost Famous

[European Son]

I'm convinced that you have to love Rock and Roll to also love this movie. There's a lot of little things in the film that you won't catch or appreciate unless you're a rock musicphile. Almost Famous is basically a celebration of Rock and Roll and summarizes everything I love about music. Some life Cameron Crowe has had; interviewing bands like Zeppelin in the 70s and now making movies.

[Sigur Rós]

makes you want to grow up in the seventies

Nah, after seeing Boogie Nights I really wanted to be 20 years older.

Nah, after seeing Boogie Nights I really wanted to expose myself!

[Find Your Magali]

A fun story that relates tangentially to "Almost Famous" and drops Crowe's name:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/21/magazine/magazinespecial/MFSTARST.html?ex=1064721600&en=0bbec606aa266143&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

[Pubrick]

seriously tho.

at least HALF of this movie was people just looking at each other and smiling. yeah i've seen it before, just felt sorry for old Cameron's forum, he is totally underrated. the staring in this film is something else.

does the 2hr 40min version explain..... what the fuck was with all the minute-long glances? i guess the whole point is "u had to be there", and u'd understand what they were communicating. it was just bizarre this last time i saw it.

[mister mister]

hey , p, you're from aus right? You caught Almost Famous on tv the other night too?

Well, I did, and seeing it for the second time really blew my mind. I understand what you're saying about the "people looking it each other" thing, but to me that just makes the movie all the more intimate.

I dunno, I loved it. It was so weird seeing it again a couple of years after I'd seen it in the cinemas - firstly, I've just done a year of journalism and everything in this movie suddenly makes sense.

"Be honest and brutal. And don't make friends with them".

I'd also like to point out how cool phillip seymour hoffman is playing lester bangs. I fucking cried in the scene towards the end when he's concluding that fugit's made friends with the band.

It wasn't sad - but it was like, I don't know - his whole mythology of him being one of the guys that aren't cool was just so honest and true, it really stuck with me. I'm going to have to look his dialogue up. Brilliant stuff.

And his deep, growling, grating voice, so scratched it almost hurts.

[mister mister]

sigh, yeah I just found the kick arse dialogue.


INT. LESTER BANGS' BEDROOM -- NIGHT

              Crazy jazz is playing.  Lester Bangs on the phone.

                                    LESTER BANGS
                        Aw, man.  You made friends with them!
                        See, friendship is the booze they feed
                        you.  They want you to get drunk on
                        feeling like you belong.

                                                                 INTERCUT:

              INT. ROLLING STONE -- NIGHT

              William in the empty Rolling Stone office.

                                    WILLIAM
                            (ruefully)
                        Well, it was fun.

                                    LESTER BANGS
                        They make you feel cool.  And hey.  I
                        met you.  You are not "cool."

                                    WILLIAM
                        I know.  Even when I though I was, I
                        knew I wasn't.

                                    LESTER BANGS
                        That's because we are uncool!  And
                        while women will always be a problem for
                        guys like us, most of the great   art in
                        the world is about that very problem.
                        Good-looking people have no spine!
                        Their art never lasts!  They  get the
                        girls, but we're smarter.

                                    WILLIAM
                        I can really see that now.

                                    LESTER BANGS
                        Yeah, great art is about conflict and
                        pain and guilt and longing and love
                        disguised as sex, and sex disguised as
                        love... and let's face it, you got a
                        big head start.

                                    WILLIAM
                        I'm glad you were home.

                                    LESTER BANGS
                        I'm always home!  I'm uncool!

                                    WILLIAM
                        Me too!

                                    LESTER BANGS
                            (leveling)
                        The only true currency in this bankrupt
                        world if what we share with someone
                        else when we're uncool.

                                    WILLIAM
                            (distraught)
                        I feel better

                                    LESTER
                        My advice to you.  I know you think
                        those guys are your friends.  You want
                        to be a true friend to them?

              William takes a deep breath.  Looks at the research cassettes  and notebooks.  The empty page.

                                    LESTER BANGS
                        Be honest and unmerciful.
                            (beat)
                        You're doing great.  Call me later is
                        you want.  I'm always up.


I identify with this so much.

[Pubrick]

yeah, it's good dialogue. and the sluts are top notch.

too much looking.

[Banky]

yeah thats one of the reasons why this is my favorite movie of all time

[Sleuth]

And his deep, growling, grating voice, so scratched it almost hurts.

He was sick during the filming of it

[Banky]

there needs to be more discussion in the Cameron Crowe thread because he is the shit.

You know brad pit tried out for the part of Russell Hamond and Natalie Portman was considered for Penny Lane


I think that Cameron made the right choices

[cron]

The Legendary Red-dog is THE reason to watch this movie.

screencap?

[Brazoliange]

just watched this again and it reminded me more than ever of Boogie Nights, in general emotional plot, in events... I'm remembering why this was on my top 10 list when  I saw it a year ago.