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PINK FLOYD THE WALL Screens August 7th at Schlafly Bottleworks
“If ya don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pudding! How can ya have any pudding if ya don’t eat ya meat?”
Head down to Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood Thursday August 7th where PINK FLOYD THE WALL screens at at 7pm.
PINK FLOYD THE WALL is a feature length music video filmed in an era when those were something a bit more interesting than the video wallpaper we see today. It tells the story of Pink, a rock star who is really an amalgam of Pink Floyd’s founding members Syd Barrett and Roger Waters, as well as some other rock stars Waters had met or heard about.
The movie is about his decension into madness. He is unable to cope with his father’s death in WWII, his mother who paid little or no attention to him, his “conveyor belt” schooling of facelessness, all the women in his life leeching off him, and it’s all topped with a massive intake of drugs. It’s enough to drive anyone mad. These themes are all from things in the lives of the members of Pink Floyd. Syd Barret and Roger Waters fathers died in world war two. Roger Waters composed, and sang the whole album with full intention of eventually turning it in to the biggest stage show ever and then a movie. The stage show was reportedly amazing but it was only preformed something like 4 times and included a 500 ft. inflatable women and a wall made of 2000 cardboard boxes .The last show was in Berlin at the site of the Berlin wall. For the movie Roger Waters was to play Pink but, he was too close to the material. Bob Geldof was chosen. He would later go on to organize the Live Aid concert in 86′. The Wall is not the only Pink Floyd album about madness however. The Darkside of The Moon also touches on the subject, and did all of its 200 weeks on the charts, and still does. In The Wall, Pink’s teacher snatches a poem away from him and reads it. The poem is an excerpt of the song Money, from the group’s legendary album Dark Side of the Moon. Don’t miss Bob Hoskins as Pinks manager, in the scene where Pink is shook awake and dragged away. Director Alan Parker approaches this material in a highly stylized manner, mingling animation and dream-like sequences to suggest Pink’s perception of the world. These techniques complement the almost constant music, which the film often uses in place of dialogue. Songs include “Another Brick in the Wall” and “Comfortably Numb”
PINK FLOYD THE WALL is best viewed in a theater and you’ll have the opportunity to see it on the big screen when it plays this Thursday, August 7th on Schlafly Bottlework’s big screen.
A Film Series is presenting the Rockumentary film series – PINK FLOYD THE WALL will be part of it next August 7th at Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood (). The movie begins at 7pm.
Doors open at 6:30. Come on in for dinner and a movie.
Six bucks suggested for screening.
Food and drink available for purchase from Schlafly.
A Film Series provides a crowd funded source of support for our pet projects Helping Kids Together and A Universal Design Project. HKT is the cornerstone project of our social enterprise and focused on promoting cultural diversity and social awareness. Funds left over after screening costs from A Film Series contribute to keeping both HKT and AUDP moving forward with producing universally designed events, programs and other business related activity that relates to improving the world at large.
A Facebook invite for the event can be found HERE
https://www.facebook.com/events/606641136121451
Schlafly Bottleworks site can be found HERE
The A Film Series can be found HERE
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