Tommy (1975)
Date started: 5/2/2021
Date watched: November 2021
Directed by Ken Russell
Written by The Who, Ken Russell, Pete Townshend
They Shoot Pictures Don't They (TSPDT) Greatest Films rank #2427
Captain Walker and his bride Nora get married. Nora gets pregnant and the Captain goes off to war. The Captain goes missing and is presumed dead. Nora gives birth to a boy she names Tommy.
After the war, Nora takes Tommy to a summer camp. She falls in love with a man named Frank. As the consummate their love, the Captain, or his ghost, reappears and is killed by Frank. Tommy sees everything, but is told to forget the whole thing, so naturally he becomes blind, deaf, and mute.
Nora tries to cure Tommy with a religious ritual involving Marilyn Monroe. Frank takes him to a drug pushing prostitute (Tina Turner). Tommy is physically and sexually abused by various "uncles".
One day Tommy is wandering around a junkyard and discovers a pinball machine. He is still psychosomatically blind, deaf, and dumb, but he loves to play pinball.
Then there is a scene with Nora where quantities of soap suds, then beans, and then chocolate pudding spill out of a television set.
Oh did I mention this is a rock musical so everyone is singing (except Tommy) and everything is psychedelic and strange? And it all goes on just a little too long, because I am only halfway through the story, which is when Tommy (Roger Daltrey) regains his senses, and Act 2 brings all of the characters and elements back together again.
The whole project was overly bold, not surprising since it was written by literal rock stars, and not very much fun. But of course everyone saw it back in the day, or at least heard about it. Interestingly enough, it was never actually produced as a staged musical until the early 90's, and then there was a world premier tour and everyone saw it or at least heard about it, and then everyone forgot about it again.
It might be interesting to compare and contrast this with Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) which shares common themes of children with fathers killed by war, the social upheaval of the 1960's, and soul-crushing trauma.
Any Ken Russell fans out there?
Rating: 7 / 10
As you see, I have a lot of awesome pops for trade and sale!
I am mainly hoping to trade for some FunKon pops that I missed, as well as pops from my very vast wishlist that I will include at the bottom.
Shipping will be $6 anywhere in the continental United States.
For any Comic Con pops that I’m looking for, I’m interested in BOTH the convention exclusive as well as the shared exclusive.
POPS FOR SALE AND TRADE
Black Light Alice set $120
ECCC The Deep (shared) $40
Hot Topic Falcon $30
Funko Shop Iron Patriot $30
Vision 50s CHASE $50
Vision 70s $55
Funko Shop Darth Vader $25
Black Light Wolverine $35
Black Light Iron Man $25
Morgan Stark and Tony Stark $75
Black Light Hulk $100
ECCC Billy & Tommy (shared) $50
Eddie Guerrero $35
Amazon Kevin Smith $15
Iron Bob $15
Black Light Ghost Rider $150
DC Looney Tunes $105 shipped
Flocked Taz $20
🦄WISHLIST🦄
FunKon Galactus
Black Light Carnage
Black Light White Rabbit
Jack In The Box (2020 & 2021)
Asia Exclusive Thor
Die Cast Captain America
Black Light Spiderman
Black Light Eddie Brock
Funko Shop Diamond Selena
Funko Shop Loki
Funko Shop Pietro
SDCC Doctor Strange (with rune)
ECCC World War 2 Captain America
ECCC Yondu
Stonekeeper
Funko Shop Kurt Cobain
Funkoween Harvest Batman
ECCC Flocked Bigfoot
Funko Shop Bedtime Bear
MCC Loki
NYCC Venomized Magneto
Funko Shop Zombie Magneto
Venomized Loki
Funko Shop Roadrunner & Wile
Tony the Tiger with Sunglasses
Johnny Bravo
Dexter’s Lab
Wolfpac Sting
WWE 2k19 Ric Flair
Groot with Mixtape
Scott Pilgrim (Plumtree -Toys R Us)
Saul Goodman & Jimmy McGill
Funko Shop Fred Flintstone&Barney
Hardy Boyz 2 pack
Funko Shop Ralph Wiggum
R1: Melee fight
R2:Shootout Arthur has no deadeye
R3:Shootout Arthur has an unlimited amount of deadeye
R4: Who lasts longest in a shootout while wanted
Hi there,
I'm selling a few cassette tapes from a couple synthwave artists. I'm the original owner of all items and everything comes from a non-smoking no pet home. They're all unplayed as I don't have a tape player. Feel free to ask any questions. Thanks.
Shipping
USPS media mail $3 for 1 or 2 tapes,
$4 for all 3
Payment
Paypal G&S only
Tapes
Morgan Willis - Rage (NM, Purple, out of 20) - $30
Tommy 86 - Transhumanism (NM, Black & White) - $20
Tommy 86 - Transhumanism (NM, Silver Glitter) - $20
Piers Morgan is awful. His past is well documented and I think he should be living in shame somewhere quietly instead of on TV. He is also I think normally a shock doc where he just says a lot of stuff to get a reaction. But Tommy Robinson is an utter scum bag racist IMO and so I was routing for Piers.
and now I'm conflicted as to who I hate more.
