Synopsis
Your senses will never be the same.
A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.
1975 Directed by Ken Russell
A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.
Oliver Reed Ann-Margret Roger Daltrey Elton John Eric Clapton John Entwistle Keith Moon Paul Nicholas Jack Nicholson Robert Powell Pete Townshend Tina Turner Arthur Brown Victoria Russell Ben Aris Mary Holland Gary Rich Dick Allan Barry Winch Eddie Stacey Liza Strike Gillian McIntosh Simon Townshend Vicki Brown Mylon LeFevre Kit Trevor Billy Nicholls Helen Shappel Jeff Roden Show All…
トミー, Томми
the father: david byrne big suit
the son: kevin smith huge jorts
the holy spirit: elton john giant boots
my mom was watching this the other day and i kinda spaced out and thought she said it was tommy boy (1995) so i just stood there in confused silence for about six minutes wondering where the hell david spade was
AND TOMMY DOESN'T KNOW WHAT DAY IT IS
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HE DOESN'T KNOW WHO JESUS WAS, WHAT PRAYING IS
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i can't believe this movie about roger daltrey becoming a pinball master is the only thing that makes me feel slightly less suicidal
ken russell to my surprise takes the who's goofy idea about a “deaf, dumb and blind” pinball messiah kind of thematically seriously and stylizes it into one of the biggest, most bombastic, tonally insane glam rock surfaces you've ever seen as a means of genuinely exploring through opera how real experiences and suffering are exploited and commercialized by cults.
ann-margret: *rolls around in foam and baked beans and chocolate*
me: god, mood
After witnessing a traumatic incident as a child, Tommy (Roger Daltrey), becomes deaf, dumb and blind, later discovering an ability for pinball that makes him gather a large following, in Ken Russell’s rock opera adaptation of the Who’s concept album, with Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Keith Moon, Elton John, Tina Turner, Eric Clapton and Jack Nicholson in supporting roles.
The fusion of Russell’s visuals and the Who’s epic songs is electric, producing a powerful, beguiling and truly original work that I found really absorbing to watch. Russell gives the film a wonderfully surreal edge that matches the experimental sound of the music, with the mindbending and striking Acid Queen sequence a particular highlight, a truly imaginative translation of the song to…
If the words ‘10 Foot Pinball Wizard Elton John’ don’t immediately give you a cinematic boner, then I’m sorry but you’re almost certainly a lost cause. I don’t make the rules. Oliver Reeds face is a walking pinball machine, so in a roundabout way, it all makes perfect sense.
Coked out of its mind with no fucking chain.
A new all-time fav.