Pink Floyd – The Wall


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"I wanna go home, take off this uniform, and leave the show. I'm waiting in this cell because I have to know... have I been guilty all this time?"

- Pink (Stop)

Pink Floyd – The Wall (or Pink Floyd's The Wall) is a 1982 live-action/animated musical drama film directed by Alan Parker and Gerald Scarfe for animation segments, starring Bob Geldof as Pink Floyd. The film was based on the 1979 album of the same name by Pink Floyd.

Plot
A confined but troubled rock star known as Pink Floyd descends into madness amid his physical and social isolation from everyone where he was completely surrounded in The Wall.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Amazing music scores by English rock band Pink Floyd and even Roger Waters to make it very faithful based on the album (Waters has been credited for writing) and even giving new songs like When The Tigers Broke Free or upgraded or extended lyrics from What Shall We Do Now? and Bring the Boys Back Home.
 * 2) Glorious and very creative animation that ranges from sequences such as a large threatening mechanical eagle destroying Britain (known as Reichsadler) and masked creatures in Goodbye Blue Sky, two flowers dated together and screaming face from one wall brick in What Shall We Do Now?, the various creatures from prosecutor to Pink's memories like headteacher, ex-girlfriend, mother, and the Judge in The Trial, and the most popular goose step of entire hammers in Waiting For The Worms. The entire animation was created by Gerald Scarfe, which he has simply upgraded the entire animation from The Wall Tour in 1980 and he also did the entire character designs from Disney's Hercules.
 * 3) Bob Geldof did well for portraying Pink Floyd and even singing from In the Flesh part 1 and 2, What Shall We Do Now? and Stop.
 * 4) Decent yet well-executed story where the main character Pink was based on Roger Waters history from deceased father in Battle of Anzio during World War II or Syd Barrett (co-founder of Pink Floyd) where he shaved all his body hair after having a mental breakdown and giving many characters very little dialogue in the entire film.
 * 5) The movie has made great imagery and symbolism from mental isolation, war, fascism, surreal or disturbing animated sequences, and violence.
 * 6) Most of the songs used in the film are very well done, memorable, and tell the story well, such as the famous Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2 song and songs such as One of My Turns, Comfortably Numb, and The Trial.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The movie can be repetitive at times, with some scenes being reused. For example, some of the opening scene is reused in Goodbye Cruel World.
 * 2) Some songs, or parts of the live shows are cut down. For example, Run Like Hell and Waiting For The Worms are cut down to just two minutes and a character is cut entirely from The Trial.
 * 3) As with the album, there are a few duds in the soundtrack, such as the quite painful Don't Leave Me Now and the somewhat pointless Bring the Boys Back Home.

Box office
Pink Floyd – The Wall opened with limited release on 6th August 1982, it was ranked No. 28 on the US box office charts despite only playing in one theatre on its first weekend, grossing over $68,000.

The film then spent just over a month below the top 20 while still in the top 30. The film later expanded to over 600 theatres on 10th September, achieving No. 3 at the box office charts, below E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and An Officer and a Gentleman. The film eventually earned $22 million before closing in early 1983.

Critical response
The film received positive reviews from critics and audiences alike, holding a 68% on Tomatometer and 89% on audience score from Rotten Tomatoes while Metacritic scores a film a 47/100 "mixed or average reviews" while an 8.1/10 score from IMDb.

Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel gave Pink Floyd – The Wall two thumbs up (or four stars on Ebert's website ), Ebert described this film as "one of the most horrifying musicals of all time... but the movie is effective." (full dialoge below) and he later listed Pink Floyd – The Wall on the Great Movies.

"The music is strong and true, the ages are like sledge hammers, and for once, the rock and roll hero isn't just a spoiled narcissist, but a real, suffering image of all the despair of this nuclear age. This is a real good movie."

- Roger Ebert

Pink Floyd – The Wall has won two awards from British Academy Film Awards for Best Original Song (Another Brick in the Wall) and Best Sound (James Guthrie, Eddy Joseph, Clive Winter, Graham V. Hartstone, and Nicolas Le Messurier) in 1982.

Since the film release, it was received mixed-to-average by many critics and the film is fell into obscurity. Many years later, the film has returned to earned a cult-following by Pink Floyd and music fans as they praising for been very faithful to the album, symbolism and surrealist theming.

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Trivia

 * While filming the One of My Turns, Bob Geldof accidentally cuts his hand when grabbing the broken windows after he throws away the TV. The wound can be seen in the film. Also, the scream after he throws the TV, is actually genuine.
 * The only songs that wasn't in the movie was Hey You and The Show Must Go On, however Hey You has been filmed but it was deleted by Roger Waters and it somehow survived in both the final cut where all the clips are been split during in Another Brick In The Wall Part 3 and the full version is now available on the special edition DVD as workprint.
 * Roger Waters has made an uncredited cameo appearance as Pink Floyd's best men in Mother.
 * In The Happiest Days of Our Lives, the headteacher reading Pink's poem which it was the lyrics Money from other popular Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon.
 * Two other songs is made an short lyrics of Your Possible Pasts (which it was going to be in the original album, but it was cut due to runtime and it was managed to survived in The Final Cut) and The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking where Pink Floyd is making the song in the washroom after Waiting for the Worms and before Stop''.
 * Gerald Scarfe has returned the animation segments for The Wall Live like Waiting for the Worms and The Trial to upgraded visuals.
 * The film was originally going to have a soundtrack, as a companion album to The Wall, but following the wake of the Falklands War, the album was scrapped, which led to The Final Cut.