hown a new world through his sister’s music. He then finds an interest in Rock & Roll and a love for journalism. The majority of the movie takes place right in the action of the band "Stillwater" and their lifestyle on tour. The boy is given the opportunity to write for Rolling Stones about this up-coming band, where he is thrown into a world filled with sex, drugs, alcohol, and music. While sitting there watching the movie I found myself mesmerized be how William, this 15 year old boy, was able to somehow fit into this lifestyle that is so much different than his raising.At first I didn’t appreciate any purpose to the story until later, when I realized that a person shouldn’t be so involved with themselves because in the end those closest to you get hurt the most. This idea plays out more toward the end of the movie when “Penny” is tossed aside by the band to cover up girlfriends, when she was the band’s biggest fan and not a groupie. Another point is when Russell Hammond, the lead guitarist of “Stillwater” and a friend of William, lies about the story that William had wrote to be false when everything was true. This turns out to ruin everything the William had been working for this entire time for Rolling Stone. They believe Russell, and the story becomes trashed as well as William’s reputation at Rolling Stone. In the end Russell sees everything that he has done so wrong to those closest to him and he decides to fix these “fack ups”.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Sex, Drugs, and Alcohol. . . .Its the 70's
While watching the movie "Almost Famous" I realized that everything that I had imagined the 70's were about...ended up being exactly how the movie portrayed this period in time to be. The movie is about William Miller who, growing up, had a hard time relating to others because of his mother's strict values and opinions on life. William is a prodigy child that is way ahead of others of his age, but when his sister decides to depart from his mother's ways he is s
hown a new world through his sister’s music. He then finds an interest in Rock & Roll and a love for journalism. The majority of the movie takes place right in the action of the band "Stillwater" and their lifestyle on tour. The boy is given the opportunity to write for Rolling Stones about this up-coming band, where he is thrown into a world filled with sex, drugs, alcohol, and music. While sitting there watching the movie I found myself mesmerized be how William, this 15 year old boy, was able to somehow fit into this lifestyle that is so much different than his raising.At first I didn’t appreciate any purpose to the story until later, when I realized that a person shouldn’t be so involved with themselves because in the end those closest to you get hurt the most. This idea plays out more toward the end of the movie when “Penny” is tossed aside by the band to cover up girlfriends, when she was the band’s biggest fan and not a groupie. Another point is when Russell Hammond, the lead guitarist of “Stillwater” and a friend of William, lies about the story that William had wrote to be false when everything was true. This turns out to ruin everything the William had been working for this entire time for Rolling Stone. They believe Russell, and the story becomes trashed as well as William’s reputation at Rolling Stone. In the end Russell sees everything that he has done so wrong to those closest to him and he decides to fix these “fack ups”.
hown a new world through his sister’s music. He then finds an interest in Rock & Roll and a love for journalism. The majority of the movie takes place right in the action of the band "Stillwater" and their lifestyle on tour. The boy is given the opportunity to write for Rolling Stones about this up-coming band, where he is thrown into a world filled with sex, drugs, alcohol, and music. While sitting there watching the movie I found myself mesmerized be how William, this 15 year old boy, was able to somehow fit into this lifestyle that is so much different than his raising.At first I didn’t appreciate any purpose to the story until later, when I realized that a person shouldn’t be so involved with themselves because in the end those closest to you get hurt the most. This idea plays out more toward the end of the movie when “Penny” is tossed aside by the band to cover up girlfriends, when she was the band’s biggest fan and not a groupie. Another point is when Russell Hammond, the lead guitarist of “Stillwater” and a friend of William, lies about the story that William had wrote to be false when everything was true. This turns out to ruin everything the William had been working for this entire time for Rolling Stone. They believe Russell, and the story becomes trashed as well as William’s reputation at Rolling Stone. In the end Russell sees everything that he has done so wrong to those closest to him and he decides to fix these “fack ups”.
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