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Quadrophenia
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| Quadrophenia |
The Who’s classic rock opera Quadrophenia was the basis for this invigorating coming-of-age movie and depiction of the defiant, drug-fueled mod subculture of early 1960s London. Our antihero is Jimmy (Phil Daniels), a teenager dissatisfied with family, work, and love. He spends his time knocking around with his clothes-obsessed, pill-popping, scooter-driving fellow mods, a group whose antipathy for the motorcycle-riding rockers leads to a climactic riot in Brighton. Director Franc Roddam’s rough-edged film is a quintessential chronicle of youthful rebellion and turmoil, with Pete Townshend’s brilliant songs (including “I’ve Had Enough,” “5:15,” and “Love Reign O’er Me”) providing emotional support, and featuring Sting and Ray Winstone in early roles.
Roman Holiday
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| Roman Holiday |
Roman Holiday tells of a royal princess named Ann (Audrey Hepburn) who is traveling to several countries in Europe for royal affairs. When Ann was in Rome, Italy, she became very depressed and frustrated by her busy schedule. Seeing Ann's situation like this, a royal maid called a doctor for her and gave Ann a sedative to make herself calmer. When the doctor had left, he quietly came out and fled his residence. When Ann ran away from her residence, it was in this scene that Ann met a journalist who worked at an American News newspaper named Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck). Joe finds Ann sleeping in a chair on the roadside and offers him money to call a taxi, so he can go home, but Ann with the influence of his sedative refuses and finally Joe takes Ann to his apartment for Ann's safety. The next day when Joe is scheduled to attend the Press Conference of his missing Princess Ann, he doesn't realize that the one sleeping on his sofa is Princess Ann. After realizing this, Joe offered an exclusive interview with Princess Ann to her boss with a very high price. But it almost didn't happen because Princess Ann, who at that time also said goodbye to Joe Bradley and expressed her gratitude for being allowed to spend the night at Joe's apartment
Enrico Piaggio. Un sogno italiano
Pontedera, 1945. Enrico Piaggio's factory is in ruins and the twelve thousand workers who work there are condemned to unemployment and misery. A project is making its way into the mind of the entrepreneur: to develop and produce a small, robust, agile and economical means of transport that can revive his company and get the country moving again. That idea bears the name of Vespa.
Rome Adventure
Librarian Prudence Bell, reprimanded for allowing a student to read a classified book on love, quits her job to go to Italy in order to learn about love and romance herself. En route by ship, she meets Roberto Orlandi, a sophisticated Italian whose offers to teach her all she wants to know are rejected. Arriving in Rome, Prudence finds a job in a bookstore and moves into a boardinghouse where American architecture student Don Porter is also staying. Lyda, Don's wealthy and spoiled girl friend, returns to the States, and he consoles himself by dating Prudence. They spend the August holidays together on a tour of Italy, and Prudence falls in love with Don. When they return to Rome, however, the glamorous Lyda is waiting to reclaim her man. Heartsick because she is still too inexperienced to compete, Prudence puts on her most alluring dress and visits Roberto, who declines her advances and advises her not to imitate Lyda. Prudence decides to return to the United States, and when her ship docks in New York, Don is there waiting for her.