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Quadrophenia - spot the mistakes
I have it on DVD now but I must have seen it about 200 times in my life. I realise that seems excessive but that's the way I am about movies, if I like it, I'll watch it again. It's the same with books, I've read One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest at least 30 times in my life.
Many years ago Hughie Paton, Chris Carmeron, John McGowan & me used to play a game while we watched Quadrophenia - namely, 'Spot the mistakes'.
There are loads. Both continuity mistakes & historical mistakes.
My question to you all is - How many mistakes are you aware of?
I'll get the ball rolling. Remember the film is set in the year, 1964
There's a scene where Jimmy's mother comes into his bedroom to wake him up for work. (It's before Brighton). She bends over him & shakes him awake. Then she straightens up & open the bedroom curtains. As she bends over again to try again to wake Jimmy, if you look out the window, you see a 125 intercity express train go past.
The 125 train with the iconic 'pointy nose' was not introduced in Britain until about 1973!
I know of at least another dozen mistakes, but for now I'll leave it here in order to see what you remember.
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Permalink Reply by John McGowan (Johnny D, Gowny)) on -
As long as there is mods or scooterists there will always be the slaggin match about Vespa`s v Lambretta`s, personaly id have any Vespa or Lambretta but im not ever going to pay the prices they go for these days.
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Permalink Reply by ANDY WYLIE on -
when chalky crashes his scooter on the way to brighton its gp150 5 years to late ,i could pick holes in the film all day but its still a great film
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Permalink Reply by Patrick Wylie on -
I love this film and have been watching it since me and my mates were 10, I don't know enough about scooters yet to notice the mistakes on them, I did notice when the party's on at Kitchener Road, Jimmy bends down to take The Cascades of the deck and proceeds to put on My Generation, on the top of the Hi-Fi there's an album cover of The Who's "A Quick One" which of course was not released until 1966, not only that, the shot changes, the camera goes back to Jimmy and the album cover has been removed! somebody must of noticed! also I think when Jimmy and Steph are on the scooter on Goldhawk Road a modern looking Jaguar car passes, I think its an XJS model from the 70s/80s?
Also I wondered is it possible that Jimmy's Lambretta LI keys would fit Stings Vespa, unless he has a whole bunch of keys of course and decided to bring them to Brighton while off his head!
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Permalink Reply by Chris Cameron on -
Good one bringing this back up Patrick. Since July 2009 Alex has maybe been lost in the Black Forrest.
Are you any relation to Andy ?
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Permalink Reply by Patrick Wylie on
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Hi Chris, I'm just new on here and still getting to know may way around the forum, I seen Andy but he's no relation.
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Permalink Reply by Chris Cameron on
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welcome on board mate. Its a great wee site, full of fantastic but mad mod people.
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Permalink Reply by marty mcallister on -
What a great topic, i knew a few mistakes in the Movie, the GS / Rally one and a few other minor ones, didnt realise there was that many........great stuff.....
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Permalink Reply by Patrick Wylie on
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I just got the 2 disc Special Edition version, and it is pretty good apart from the fact that some subtle audio comments have been overdubbed with music which has annoyed me, in particular when Jimmy's out of his brain on the train he shouts "bag!" and throws it out the window, he then turns angrily and shouts "what you looking at!" to the two school girls as he walks off, why they dubbed those two small comments out with the music I don't know.
It's definitely more sharp and cleaner looking than the grainy first one and the colours are more vivid than the 1 disc DVD version though.
Anyway I noticed another little error in the scene when Spider's scooter breaks down on the way to the Goldhawk Club after they get chucked out of the coffee bar, if you watch Gary Holton's character "Wez" the rocker, he removes his large leather arm gloves right in front of the camera and throws them to the ground, after he gives Spider a hiding he jumps back on his motorbike without the gloves on, spiders scooter must of fell on them, maybe the director done that to protect the scooter panel when it gets knocked over though...!?
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Permalink Reply by Charlotte & Michael on -
The biggest mistake on Quadrophenia? One word... Sting!
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Permalink Reply by Ian Grinham on -
The BIGGEST mistake = STING = love it wish i thought of that comment
Never noticed the dissapearing album cover, how about the shadow of the Helicopter on the cliff top, plus all the tyre marks on the cliff where thay have been rehearsing the shoot, as we know he is suppose to be riding a long the cliff for the first time.
Plus I am not gonna name them all - take too long but loads of us must of noticed the ever changing length and style of Mr Daniels hair throught ou the film
One more for good luck - Trains to Brighton have never departed from Waterloo - its always been Victoria
The thing is with all film mistsakes, when they are editing the film, they end up watching the whole film about 80 times, so why dont they sort it out then, OK somethings that happen they might not be able too, but they are somethings that could be rectified. But then agin it is great fun spotting mistakes, or is that just me being a knob
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Permalink Reply by Paul D,Angelo on -
Yes, Sting is a boring knob, I saw him once on the Parkinson show or something similiar, and he had a Indian Chief with him from the Rainforests. He gave the usual speech about how their lifestyle was being eroded by progress, and this tribes ways had not changed for 1000 years, and he was doing concerts and things to try and help them.
Anyway, i forgot about this, but a few months later I saw an article on TV about this, and it showed you the Indian Chief, who took Stings money, and was driving around LA in a Cadillac with a few tarts in the back, and said f**k the rainforests, this is great!! What a bloke, hope he got a scooter as well
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Permalink Reply by Charlotte & Michael on
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I am sure in amongst the myriad of extras at Brighton, you can see geezers with shoulder length hair and flare activity. Not very 1964 to be sure....
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