Pink Floyd – The Wall

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Pink Floyd The Wall
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Alan Parker
Screenplay by Roger Waters
Based on The Wall
by Pink Floyd
Produced by Alan Marshall
Starring Bob Geldof
Cinematography Peter Biziou
Edited by Gerry Hambling
Music by
Production
companies
Distributed by MGM/UA Entertainment Co. (United States)
United International Pictures [1] (International)
Release dates
  • 23 May 1982 (1982-05-23)(Cannes)
  • 14 July 1982 (1982-07-14)(United Kingdom)
Running time
95 minutes [1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$12 million [2]
Box office$22.2 million [3]

Pink Floyd The Wall is a 1982 British live action/adult animated surrealist musical drama film directed by Alan Parker, based on Pink Floyd's 1979 album The Wall. The screenplay was written by Pink Floyd vocalist and bassist Roger Waters. The Boomtown Rats vocalist Bob Geldof made his film debut as rock star Pink, who, driven to neurosis by the pressures of stardom and traumatic events in his life, constructs an emotional and mental wall to protect himself. However, this coping mechanism eventually backfires, and Pink demands to be set free.

Contents

Like its associated album, the film is highly metaphorical, and frequently uses both visual and auditory symbols throughout its runtime. It features little dialogue, instead being driven by the music from the album throughout. The songs used in the film have several differences from their album versions, and one of the songs included, "When the Tigers Broke Free", does not appear on the album. Despite its turbulent production, the film received generally positive reviews and has an established cult following amongst Pink Floyd fans.

Plot

In 1980, Pink is a depressed rock star who sits motionless in front of a Television set inside a hotel suite and expressionless while remembering his father. Flashing back to 1944, his father is killed defending the Anzio beachhead during World War II in Pink's infancy. Pink's paranoid mother raises him alone. A young Pink discovers relics from his father's military service and death. His military death certificate, his uniform, and a box of bullets, An animation depicts the war, showing that the death of the people was for nothing. Pink and some of his school friends went down to a train tunnel Pink places one of the bullets on the track rail of an oncoming train within the tunnel his friends were yelling at him to get off the tracks, and the train that passes has children peering out of the windows wearing face masks, when the train was completely passed he sees his irate school master shouting angrily at him.

At school, he is caught writing poems and humiliated by the teacher, who reads a poem from Pink's book before disciplining him. However, it is revealed that the poor treatment of the students is because of the unhappiness of the teacher's marriage. Pink recalls an oppressive school system, imagining children falling into a meat grinder. He fantasizes about the children rising in rebellion and burning down the school, throwing the teacher onto a bonfire.

As an adult, Pink remembers his overprotective mother and his strained marriage. During a phone call, Pink realises that his wife is cheating on him when a man answers the phone. His traumatic experiences are represented as a "brick" in the wall he constructs around himself that divides him from society.

Pink returns to the hotel room with a groupie, only for him to destroy the room in a fit of violence, scaring her away. Depressed, he thinks about his wife and feels trapped in his room. He then remembers every "brick" of his wall. His wall is shown to be complete, and the film returns to the first scene.

Now inside his wall, Pink does not leave his hotel room and begins to lose his mind to metaphorical "worms". He shaves all his body hair and watches television, particularly the 1955 film The Dam Busters . The young Pink searches through the trenches of the war, eventually finding himself as an adult. Young Pink runs away in terror and appears at a railway station, with the soldiers being reunited with their loved ones. After failing to find his father, the people demand that the soldiers return home. Returning to the present, Pink's manager finds him in his hotel room, drugged and unresponsive. A paramedic injects him to enable him to perform.

In this state, Pink hallucinates himself as a dictator, and his concert as a neo-nazi rally. His followers attack blacks, gays, and Jews. He then holds a rally in London. Marching hammers goose-step across ruins. Pink stops hallucinating and screams, "Stop", deciding he no longer wants to be in the wall. He cowers in a bathroom stall, quietly singing to himself as a security guard walks past him. As an animated rag doll, Pink is on trial for "showing feelings of an almost human nature". His teacher and wife both accuse and berate him for his actions, while his mother tries to take him home, because she doesn't want him to Get in any trouble.

The judge sentences Pink "to be exposed before his peers", and gives the order to "tear down the wall!". Following a prolonged silence, the wall is smashed, and Pink screams in terror. His ultimate fate is left unknown. Children clean up a pile of debris, and one of them empties a Molotov cocktail.

Cast

Production

Concept

In the mid-1970s, as Pink Floyd gained mainstream fame, songwriter Roger Waters began feeling increasingly alienated from his audiences:

Audiences at those vast concerts are there for an excitement which, I think, has to do with the love of success. When a band or a person becomes an idol, it can have to do with the success that that person manifests, not the quality of work he produces. You don't become a fanatic because somebody's work is good, you become a fanatic to be touched vicariously by their glamour and fame. Stars—film stars, rock 'n' roll stars—represent, in myth anyway, the life as we'd all like to live it. They seem at the very centre of life. And that's why audiences still spend large sums of money at concerts where they are a long, long way from the stage, where they are often very uncomfortable, and where the sound is often very bad. [4]

Waters was also dismayed by the "executive approach", which was only about success, not even attempting to get acquainted with the actual persons of whom the band was composed (addressed in an earlier song from Wish You Were Here , "Have a Cigar"). The concept of the wall, along with the decision to name the lead character "Pink", partly grew out of that approach, combined with the issue of the growing alienation between the band and their fans. [5] This symbolised a new era for rock bands, as Pink Floyd explored “the hard realities of 'being where we are'", echoing ideas of alienation described by existentialists such as Jean-Paul Sartre. [6]

Development

The animation segments, including the "marching hammers", were directed by Gerald Scarfe Pinkfloydhammers.jpg
The animation segments, including the "marching hammers", were directed by Gerald Scarfe

Even before the original Pink Floyd album was recorded, the intention was to make a film from it. [7] The original plan was for the film to be live footage from the album's tour, together with animations directed by Gerald Scarfe and extra scenes, [8] and for Waters himself to star. [8] EMI did not intend to make the film, as they did not understand the concept. [9]

Director Alan Parker, a Pink Floyd fan, asked EMI whether The Wall could be adapted to film. EMI suggested that Parker talk to Waters, who had asked Parker to direct the film. Parker instead suggested that he produce it and give the directing task to Gerald Scarfe and Michael Seresin, a cinematographer. [10] Waters began work on the film's screenplay after studying scriptwriting books. He and Scarfe produced a special-edition book containing the screenplay and art to pitch the project to investors. While the book depicted Waters in the role of Pink, after screen tests, he was removed from the starring role [11] and replaced with new wave musician and frontman of the Boomtown Rats, Bob Geldof. [8] In Behind the Wall , both Waters and Geldof later admitted to a story during casting where Geldof and his manager took a taxi to an airport, and Geldof's manager pitched the role to the singer, who continued to reject the offer and express his contempt for the project throughout the fare, unaware that the taxi driver was Waters' brother, who told Waters about Geldof's opinion.

Since Waters was no longer in the starring role, it no longer made sense for the feature to include Pink Floyd footage, so the live film aspect was dropped. [12] The footage culled from the five Wall concerts at Earl's Court from 13–17 June 1981 that were held specifically for filming was deemed unusable also for technical reasons as the fast lenses needed for the low light levels turned out to have insufficient resolution for the movie screen. Complex parts such as "Hey You" still had not been properly shot by the end of the live shows. [13] Parker convinced Waters and Scarfe that the concert footage was too theatrical and that it would jar with the animation and stage live action. After the concert footage was dropped, Seresin left the project and Parker became sole director. [14]

Filming

Blank of a mask worn by children in the classroom scenes; displayed at the Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains exhibition. Pink Floyd Their Mortal Remains - 2017-10-13 - Andy Mabbett - 57 (cropped).jpg
Blank of a mask worn by children in the classroom scenes; displayed at the Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains exhibition.

Parker, Waters and Scarfe frequently clashed during production, and Parker described the filming as "one of the most miserable experiences of my creative life." [15] Scarfe declared that he would drive to Pinewood Studios carrying a bottle of Jack Daniel's, because "I had to have a slug before I went in the morning, because I knew what was coming up, and I knew I had to fortify myself in some way." [16] Waters said that filming was "a very unnerving and unpleasant experience". [17]

During production, while filming the destruction of a hotel room, Geldof suffered a cut to his hand as he pulled away the Venetian blinds. The footage remains in the film. It was discovered while filming the pool scenes that Geldof did not know how to swim. Interiors were shot at Pinewood Studios, and it was suggested that they suspend Geldof in Christopher Reeve's clear cast used for the Superman flying sequences, but his frame was too small by comparison; it was then decided to make a smaller rig that was a more acceptable fit, and he lay on his back. [18] In Nicholas Schaffner's book Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey (1991) it is claimed that the body cast from the film Supergirl (1984) was actually used instead. [19]

The war scenes were shot on Saunton Sands in North Devon, which was also featured on the cover of Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason six years later. [20]

Release

The film was shown out of competition during the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. [21]

The premiere at Cannes was amazing – the midnight screening. They took down two truckloads of audio equipment from the recording studios so it would sound better than normal. It was one of the last films to be shown in the old Palais which was pretty run down and the sound was so loud it peeled the paint off the walls. It was like snow – it all started to shower down and everyone had dandruff at the end. I remember seeing Terry Semel there, who at the time was head of Warner Bros., sitting next to Steven Spielberg. They were only five rows ahead of me and I'm sure I saw Steven Spielberg mouthing to him at the end when the lights came up, 'what the fuck was that?' And Semel turned to me and then bowed respectfully.

'What the fuck was that?,' indeed. It was like nothing anyone had ever seen before – a weird fusion of live-action, story-telling and of the surreal.

Alan Parker [22]

The film's official premiere was at the Empire, Leicester Square [23] in London, on 14 July 1982. It was attended by Waters and fellow Pink Floyd members David Gilmour and Nick Mason, but not Richard Wright, [23] who was no longer a member of the band. It was also attended by various celebrities including Geldof, Scarfe, Paula Yates, Pete Townshend, Sting, Roger Taylor, James Hunt, Lulu, and Andy Summers. [24]

Box office and critical reception

So it's difficult, painful and despairing, and its three most important artists came away from it with bad feelings. Why would anybody want to see it? Perhaps because filming this material could not possibly have been a happy experience for anyone—not if it's taken seriously.

Roger Ebert [25]

The Wall opened with a limited release on 6 August 1982 and entered at No. 28 of the US box office charts despite only playing in one theatre on its first weekend, grossing over $68,000, a rare feat even by today's standards. 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 10 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. [3]

The film received generally positive reviews. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film the approval rating of 72% based on 29 critic reviews, with the average score of 7.30/10. The critical consensus reads "Pink Floyd's expression of generational angst is given striking visual form The Wall, although this ambitious feature's narrative struggles to marry its provocative images and psychedelic soundtrack into a compelling whole." [26] On Metacritic, the film holds the weighted average score of 47 out of 100 based on 13 critic reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". [27]

Reviewing The Wall on their television programme At the Movies in 1982, film critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel gave the film "two thumbs up". Ebert described The Wall as "a stunning vision of self-destruction" and "one of the most horrifying musicals of all time ... but the movie is effective. The music is strong and true, the images 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." Siskel was more reserved in his judgement, stating that he felt that the film's imagery was too repetitive. However, he admitted that the "central image" of the fascist rally sequence "will stay with me for an awful long time." In February 2010, Ebert added The Wall to his Great Movies list, describing the film as "without question the best of all serious fiction films devoted to rock. Seeing it now in more timid times, it looks more daring than it did in 1982, when I saw it at Cannes ... It's disquieting and depressing and very good." [25] It was chosen for the opening night of Ebertfest 2010.

Danny Peary wrote that the "picture is unrelentingly downbeat and at times repulsive ... but I don't find it unwatchable – which is more than I could say if Ken Russell had directed this. The cinematography by Peter Biziou is extremely impressive and a few of the individual scenes have undeniable power." [28] It earned two British Academy Awards: Best Sound for James Guthrie, Eddy Joseph, Clive Winter, Graham Hartstone and Nicholas Le Messurier, [29] and Best Original Song for Waters. [29]

Waters said of the film: "I found it was so unremitting in its onslaught upon the senses, that it didn't give me, anyway, as an audience, a chance to get involved with it," although he had nothing but praise for Geldof's performance. [17]

Gilmour stated (on the "In the Studio with Redbeard" episodes of The Wall, A Momentary Lapse of Reason and On an Island ) that the conflict between him and Waters started with the making of the film. Gilmour also stated on the documentary Behind The Wall (which was aired on the BBC in the UK and VH1 in the US) that "the movie was the less successful telling of The Wall story as opposed to the album and concert versions."

Although the symbol of the crossed hammers used in the film was not related to any real group, it was adopted by white supremacist group the Hammerskins in the late 1980s. [30]

Themes and analysis

It has been suggested[ by whom? ] that the protagonist stands for Waters. Beyond the obvious parallel of them both being rock stars, Waters lost his father while he was an infant and had marital problems, divorcing several times. [31] It has also been suggested that Pink represents former lead singer, writer and founding member Syd Barrett, both in his appearance, although Geldolf also bears a resemblance to Waters, as well as in several incidents and anecdotes related to Barrett's descent from pop stardom due to his struggles with mental illness and self-medicating with drugs.

One seemingly blatant reference is Pink's detachment from the world as he locks himself away in his room before a show, and shaves himself down while suffering a mental break. During a mental breakdown, Barrett shaved his head and face before showing up to a band rehearsal, after already having been removed from the band. Barrett also had shaved eyebrows when he visited the band during the Wish You Were Here recording. However, Bob Geldof, who plays Pink in the film, refused to shave his head for this part of the performance.

Another influence was the declining state of pianist Richard Wright, who was allegedly struggling with cocaine addiction at the time. This is referenced in the song Nobody Home: Got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains. [32]

Romero and Cabo place the Nazism and imperialism related symbols in the context of Margaret Thatcher's government and British foreign policy especially concerning the Falklands issue. [33] The Thatcher involvement in the Falkland Islands would become the primary concept for their next album, The Final Cut.

"There's a scene in the movie of The Wall where the guy smashes up a hotel room and tries to put it together," remarked Trent Reznor, explaining the theme of Nine Inch Nails' The Fragile . "As he tries, it's obviously not right, but he's trying to make semblance [sic] of things. That's a visual that I've used in my head. It's helped me." [34]

Awards

The Wall was nominated for and won two BAFTA Awards: Best Original Song (Roger Waters, for the song "Another Brick in the Wall") and Best Sound (James Guthrie, Eddy Joseph, Clive Winter, Graham V. Hartstone, Nicolas Le Messurier). [29]

Documentary

A documentary was produced about the making of Pink Floyd – The Wall entitled The Other Side of the Wall that includes interviews with Parker, Scarfe, and clips of Waters; it originally aired on MTV in 1982. A second documentary about the film was produced in 1999 entitled Retrospective: Looking Back at The Wall that includes interviews with Waters, Parker, Scarfe, and other members of the film's production team. Both are featured on The Wall DVD as extras.

Soundtrack

Pink Floyd – The Wall
Soundtrack album by
Pink Floyd
ReleasedUnreleased
Recorded1981–1982
Genre Progressive rock
Pink Floyd soundtracks chronology
Obscured by Clouds
(1972)		Pink Floyd – The Wall
(Unreleased)		 La Carrera Panamericana
(1992)
Singles from Pink Floyd – The Wall
  1. "When the Tigers Broke Free"
    Released: 26 July 1982

The film soundtrack contains most songs from the album, albeit with several changes, as well as additional material (see table below).

The only songs from the album not used in the film are "Hey You" and "The Show Must Go On". "Hey You" was deleted as Waters and Parker felt the footage was too repetitive (eighty percent of the footage appears in montage sequences elsewhere) [15] but a workprint version of the scene is included as a bonus feature on the DVD release. [35]

A soundtrack album from Columbia Records was listed in the film's end credits, but only a single containing "When the Tigers Broke Free" and the rerecorded "Bring the Boys Back Home" were released. "When the Tigers Broke Free" later became a bonus track on the 1983 album The Final Cut. Guitarist David Gilmour dismissed the album as a collection of songs that had been rejected for The Wall project, but were being recycled. The song, in the edit used for the single, also appears on the 2001 compilation album Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd .

With the exception of "When the Tigers Broke Free," none of the reworked Wall songs heard in the film have been officially released.

Changes on the soundtrack album
SongChanges
"When the Tigers Broke Free, Part 1"New song, edited into two sections strictly for the film, but later released as one continuous song. [36] The song was released as a single in 1982 and was later included on the 2001 compilation Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd and on the 2004 re-release of The Final Cut .
"In the Flesh?"Extended/re-mixed/lead vocal re-recorded by Geldof. [36]
"The Thin Ice"Extended/re-mixed [36] with additional piano overdub in second verse, baby sounds removed.
"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1"Extra bass parts, which were muted on the album mix, can be heard.
"When the Tigers Broke Free, Part 2"New song. [36]
"Goodbye Blue Sky"Re-mixed. [36]
"The Happiest Days of Our Lives"Re-mixed. Helicopter sounds dropped, teacher's lines re-recorded by Alex McAvoy. [36]
"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2"Re-mixed [36] with extra lead guitar, children's chorus edited and shortened, teacher's lines re-recorded by McAvoy and interspersed within lines of children's chorus.
"Mother"Re-recorded completely with exception of guitar solo and its backing track. The lyric "Is it just a waste of time?" is replaced with "Mother, am I dying?", which is what appeared on the original LP lyric sheet. [36]
"What Shall We Do Now?"A full-length song that begins with the music of, and a similar lyric to, "Empty Spaces". This was intended to be on the original album and appears on the original LP lyric sheet. At the last minute, it was dropped in favor of the shorter "Empty Spaces" (which was originally intended as a reprise of "What Shall We Do Now?"). A live version is on the album Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980–81 . [36]
"Young Lust"Screams added and phone call removed. The phone call was moved to the beginning of "What Shall We Do Now?".
"One of My Turns"Re-mixed. Groupie's lines were re-recorded by Jenny Wright.
"Don't Leave Me Now"Shortened and remixed.
"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3"Re-recorded completely [36] with a slightly faster tempo.
"Goodbye Cruel World"Unchanged.
"Is There Anybody Out There?"Classical guitar re-recorded, this time played with a leather pick by guitarist Tim Renwick, [37] as opposed to the album version, which was played finger-style by Joe DiBlasi.
"Nobody Home"Musically unchanged, but with different clips from the TV set.
"Vera"Unchanged.
"Bring the Boys Back Home"Re-recorded completely with brass band and Welsh male vocal choir extended and without Waters' lead vocals. [23]
"Comfortably Numb"Re-mixed with Geldof's screams added. Bass line partially different from album.
"In the Flesh"Re-recorded completely with brass band and Geldof on lead vocals. [36]
"Run Like Hell"Re-mixed and shortened.
"Waiting for the Worms"Shortened but with extended coda.
"5:11 AM (The Moment of Clarity)"/"Your Possible Pasts"/"Stop""Stop" re-recorded completely [36] with Geldof unaccompanied on vocals. The first two songs are taken from The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking , a concept album Waters wrote simultaneously with The Wall, and later recorded solo; and The Final Cut , a 1983 Pink Floyd album. "Your Possible Pasts" was a song originally intended for The Wall that later appeared on The Final Cut.
"The Trial"Re-mixed with longer instrumental intro, and audience cheering sounds added.
"Outside the Wall"Re-recorded completely [36] with brass band and Welsh male voice choir. Extended with a musical passage similar to "Southampton Dock" from The Final Cut. [38] [39]

In addition to the above, Vera Lynn's rendition of "The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot" was used as background music during the opening scenes. [40] [41]

Chart positions
YearChartPosition
2002Netherlands Dutchcharts.nl DVD Chart#2
2002Switzerland Hitparade.ch DVD Chart#2
2005Australian ARIA DVD Chart#10

Certifications

Certifications for Pink Floyd – The Wall
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [42] 11× Platinum165,000^
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil) [43] Platinum50,000*
France (SNEP) [44] 2× Platinum40,000*
Germany (BVMI) [45] 2× Platinum100,000^
Italy—13,000 [46]
Poland (ZPAV) [47] Platinum10,000*
Sweden (GLF) [48] Gold10,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [49] 5× Platinum250,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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