No1ZeppelinFan Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 Ordered Blow Up the film with David Hemmings and the Yardbirds in. Seen loads of clips over the years but never watched the film. I do know it has some great shots of Pagey, Anyone seen it? Is the actual film any good? Doesn't matter if not really, Lets face it. Jimmy's in it ! Oh BTW, Only £5 Post free from Play.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninelives Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 Ordered Blow Up the film with David Hemmings and the Yardbirds in. Seen loads of clips over the years but never watched the film. I do know it has some great shots of Pagey, Anyone seen it? Is the actual film any good? Doesn't matter if not really, Lets face it. Jimmy's in it ! Oh BTW, Only £5 Post free from Play.com Yes! Beyond the fact Jimmy is in it, it's a really great film and the cinematography is pretty stellar. Seen it many times (well it helps I own it ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alwizard03 Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 Not bad I also own a copy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadScreamingGallery Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 I like the film very much and, beyond the appearance and performance of a young Jimmy Page and the Yardbirds, it was directed by one of my favorite directors: Michelangelo Antonioni. "Blow up" also presents a great view of "Swingin' Sixties" London for those who are interested in that time and place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy's A Legend Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 Yeah my dad bought me a copy... he fell asleep like 20 mins into it If i have to be honest there isn't really much of Jimmy in the film, like 5 mins of the yeardbirds and a few couple-of-seconds shots of Jimmmy. There is one where Jimmy gives one of his amazing smiles though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonmaid Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 "I am in Paris..." Great movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longdistancewinner Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 I saw this film a few years back one night (early morning, actually) on BBC. I'd just come home from America and I can never sleep normally for the first few nights, so I would watch crap on t.v, and by chance this little gem was on the night after I came home. I stayed away until past 3 just to watch those few minutes of Jimmy (and, of course, the rest of the film) and was glad I did. I really liked it. I taped it, so never thought of buying it, but I'd probably get it for a fiver. Edited to add: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docron Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 I've been meaning to see this for like 5 years... I'm broke as shit so I can't buy it or rent it... and its not on YouTube... ... whats a man to do? Anyone that owns this thing live in the metro-Detroit area? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquamarine Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 From a Jimmy point of view, longdistancewinner's sig now covers most of the good stuff--in other words, you don't see that much of him (and Beck smashing the cardboard guitar is probably just as entertaining ). I've got it on DVD, which is handy if you just want to watch the Yardbirds "chapter." But the movie itself is fabulous, and so influential. The ending (the tennis match) is a real classic. It's not for everybody, and it wasn't back then, either, because there's a lot you have to figure out or decide for yourself--but then, that's the whole point of the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cactus Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 It's a very influential 'post-modernist' film, inspired in many ways by contemporary scientific advances and studies in sub-atomic physics, which explores the notion that as you look closer and closer at an object, in this case a photograph, its original meaning decays and it becomes a new object in and of itself. Aside from that, its cool that Jimmy is there...the bit with Beck smashing the guitar is a little stilted, it's obvious he doesn't really want to be doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I have got a horsey Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Ordered Blow Up the film with David Hemmings and the Yardbirds in. Seen loads of clips over the years but never watched the film. I do know it has some great shots of Pagey, Anyone seen it? Is the actual film any good? Doesn't matter if not really, Lets face it. Jimmy's in it ! Oh BTW, Only £5 Post free from Play.com Yeah it's a very philosophical film about how people and groups create meaning. It's typical Antonioni. Not much dialogue and a lot of unanswered questions. When Jeff Beck throws his guitar neck into the crowd at the Ricky Tick club, there's a violent clash to grab it, which David Hemmings is successful, and he's chased out of the club by people who want it, but once he's outside the club, the guitar neck is worthless, and he throws it on the ground. The movie is full of comments and statements like that. It's a brilliant film, but probably not everybody's cup of tea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slave to zep Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 im not sure if ive seen this movie or not.....can someone tell me the main gist of it please? and who are the stars? i may have seen it years ago, and not even realized that it was jimmy on guitar! im just not sure. maybe its at blockbuster...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninelives Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 im not sure if ive seen this movie or not.....can someone tell me the main gist of it please? and who are the stars? i may have seen it years ago, and not even realized that it was jimmy on guitar! im just not sure. maybe its at blockbuster...... David Hemmings plays a professional photographer during London's swinging 60s era and happens upon a couple interacting in a nearby park. She sees he's taken photos and is desparate to get the negatives. He gets curious as to why, blows the photos up and discovers a murder has been committed. That's the surface plot - as others have said, there's a lot more to the film and much of it requires your own interpretation/imagination. I loved it - definitely one of my favorite films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeTheDuke Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 nice movie and nice shots first appearance of Jimmy as guitarist/bass player and whatever happened (lots of stories about that) seminal movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slave to zep Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 David Hemmings plays a professional photographer during London's swinging 60s era and happens upon a couple interacting in a nearby park. She sees he's taken photos and is desparate to get the negatives. He gets curious as to why, blows the photos up and discovers a murder has been committed. That's the surface plot - as others have said, there's a lot more to the film and much of it requires your own interpretation/imagination. I loved it - definitely one of my favorite films. ah yes, now i remember it, thanks. i did see it way back in the 70s....i didnt even realize jimmy was in it.....damn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Masson Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 It's fun to watch, and a pretty decent movie (if perhaps not one of Antonioni's best). Jeff Beck hates it, and still thinks the director was pretentious and boring. Antonioni asked them to copy The Who's antics on stage, which is why the movie has Jeff smashing that cheap ass guitar in it. The Yardies normally never did that, and Jeff probably would rather smash guitars in a rage - just in front of his band mates..... because that's exactly what he did a few weeks later, on tour in the U.S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickenpieces Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Heres all of Stroll On (Train kept a rolling) and some interesting tidbits. About the Who, Herbie Hancocks soundtrack etc...Does anyone know the legal reasons for them changing the title of Train to Stroll On for this movie? Royalties or other problems? http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2007/07/27...om-blow-up-1966 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I have got a horsey Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 It's fun to watch, and a pretty decent movie (if perhaps not one of Antonioni's best). Jeff Beck hates it, and still thinks the director was pretentious and boring. Antonioni asked them to copy The Who's antics on stage, which is why the movie has Jeff smashing that cheap ass guitar in it. The Yardies normally never did that, and Jeff probably would rather smash guitars in a rage - just in front of his band mates..... because that's exactly what he did a few weeks later, on tour in the U.S. Funny that, because find Jeff Beck boring and pretentious, but I love Antonioni... I think Blow-Up is widely regarded as Antonioni's masterpiece, Ingmar Bergman certainly felt that way. For my own personal taste I think "The Passenger" is his masterpiece, with Jack Nicolson and Maria Schneider, but Blow-Up would come a very close 2nd. Although some people think L'Avventura is the masterpiece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninelives Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 ah yes, now i remember it, thanks. i did see it way back in the 70s....i didnt even realize jimmy was in it.....damn! The first time I saw this was in a Film Study class in school and I didn't know Jimmy was in it prior to that scene and I nearly screamed out "holy sh*t it's Page" But I didn't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aen27 Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 I like the film very much and, beyond the appearance and performance of a young Jimmy Page and the Yardbirds, it was directed by one of my favorite directors: Michelangelo Antonioni. "Blow up" also presents a great view of "Swingin' Sixties" London for those who are interested in that time and place. I love it too. Jimmy isn't in enough, but "Stroll On" is my favorite scene, before I really knew anything that it was "Train Kept A'Rollin' with the words changed. I own the score on CD. I've read that people from the sixties think Performance is closer to "Swinging London." Blow Up to British people is an Italian's version of it. I thought that was interesting. I wish there was more extras on the DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadScreamingGallery Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 I love it too. Jimmy isn't in enough, but "Stroll On" is my favorite scene, before I really knew anything that it was "Train Kept A'Rollin' with the words changed. I own the score on CD. I've read that people from the sixties think Performance is closer to "Swinging London." Blow Up to British people is an Italian's version of it. I thought that was interesting. I wish there was more extras on the DVD. That is an interesting perspective. My friends and I saw the film after our Zep years - primarily because we wanted to see Jimmy during his Yardies days and to see what we thought would be 60's "Swinging London" - not an Italian director's image of it. It was several years after seeing "Blow Up" that I discovered Antonioni's other films. I personally do not consider "Blow Up" his masterpiece - I rank "The Passenger" and “L’Avventura” much higher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquamarine Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 I don't really think Performance was any closer--plus, I think people NOW look back on them as period pieces, but at the time they were just contemporary movies, not specifically attempts to depict "swinging London" or whatever. It's almost inevitable that neither film was really a depiction of what most ordinary people's real lives were like then--more a stylized version of the sort of lives we read about in the media. So in that sense, Blow Up is probably more accurate, since that kind of meaning-creation is excatly what it's about. Sidenote: The story was based on a short story by Julio Cortazar, and it's really interesting to see how the film changed it--startng with the fact that the original story is about a sound, not a visual image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickenpieces Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 I guess no one thats read my post knows the reasons for the name change of Train kept a rollin to Stroll On. Maybe SteveAJones will be able to answer it, if he sees the inquisition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aen27 Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 I guess no one thats read my post knows the reasons for the name change of Train kept a rollin to Stroll On. Maybe SteveAJones will be able to answer it, if he sees the inquisition. Antoninoni wanted them to change the words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickenpieces Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Antoninoni wanted them to change the words. As simple as that? OK. I thought maybe it was another led wallet issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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