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A skinny and wiry Roger Daltry is master of the vacant gaze; Oliver Reed excels in the drinking scenes and bellows out his songs (to be dubbed over later by an actual singer); Eric Clapton is woodenly robotic (or robotically wooden?); Elton John has no interest in the film, but agrees to do the part if he gets to keep the shoes; Robert Powell (who played Mahler in Ken Russell’s Mahler) plays the hapless father; Jack Nicholson camps it up as the Specialist...
...and Anne-Margret and Tina Turner just totally rule.
Wonderful wanton madness.
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Is this the first time you've seen this film?
If so, DOOM has been sadly negligent in your education.
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Oh come now. Lady Cranefly and I went to a special screening.
The movie doesn't even come out for another week.
Hope I didn't give away too many spoilers.
P.S. Now I'm trying to track down a copy of Lisztomania. That should bring me close to closure on Ken Russell's musical extravaganzas.
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Those two scenes stole the show. And what a show it was.
Why can't today's bands make rock operas like this anymore?
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