Spinal Tap Analysis
Spinal Tap
Spinal Tap is an satirical Rob Reiner film starring actors Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer.
On March 2, 1984, marks the release of one of history’s most acclaimed documentaries , “rockumentaries,” This Is Spinal Tap, which told the story of one of England’s most powerful, exuberant and punctual fake rock bands: Spinal Tap.
Spinal Tap is a improv comedy with a documentary style. The group unwittingly made an enormous contribution to the folklore of popular music.
Stereo Review’s Steve Simels spoke for many when he called This is Spinal Tap “possibly the funniest movie ever made about rock-and-roll.”
In 2002, Spinal Tap was selected for preservation by the National Film Registry because it is a film that is considered “culturally, …show more content…
The biggest laugh in the second half of the film is assembled lovingly, over time, out of many small elements. It involves an assignment to set designer Polly Deutsch (Anjelica Huston) to build a replica of one of the elements of Stonehenge, which will descend onto the stage during a big production number. Bad communication causes an error in scale.
Curse of the drumsticks
The drummer is the frequent object of sacrifice, whose death is represented in a cartoonishly painful manner.
The band's "success" came to a halt when John "Stumpy" Pepys died in a bizarre gardening accident in 1969.
Eric "Stumpy Joe" Childs in 1974 choked to death on an unknown offender's vomit that same year, and was replaced with Peter James Bond for the 1975 release The Sun Never Sweats.
After signing with Polymer, drummer Peter James Bond spontaneously combusted on-stage in 1976.
Bonds successor, Mick Shrimpton, also died the same way in 1983.
In 1983, Drummer Joe “Mamma” Bessemer avoids the curse of the drumsticks by going into hiding after many of the group’s props were reported stolen. To this day, he is nowhere to be found.
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Spinal Tap is an satirical Rob Reiner film starring actors Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer.
On March 2, 1984, marks the release of one of history’s most acclaimed documentaries , “rockumentaries,” This Is Spinal Tap, which told the story of one of England’s most powerful, exuberant and punctual fake rock bands: Spinal Tap.
Spinal Tap is a improv comedy with a documentary style. The group unwittingly made an enormous contribution to the folklore of popular music.
Stereo Review’s Steve Simels spoke for many when he called This is Spinal Tap “possibly the funniest movie ever made about rock-and-roll.”
In 2002, Spinal Tap was selected for preservation by the National Film Registry because it is a film that is considered “culturally, …show more content…
The biggest laugh in the second half of the film is assembled lovingly, over time, out of many small elements. It involves an assignment to set designer Polly Deutsch (Anjelica Huston) to build a replica of one of the elements of Stonehenge, which will descend onto the stage during a big production number. Bad communication causes an error in scale.
Curse of the drumsticks
The drummer is the frequent object of sacrifice, whose death is represented in a cartoonishly painful manner.
The band's "success" came to a halt when John "Stumpy" Pepys died in a bizarre gardening accident in 1969.
Eric "Stumpy Joe" Childs in 1974 choked to death on an unknown offender's vomit that same year, and was replaced with Peter James Bond for the 1975 release The Sun Never Sweats.
After signing with Polymer, drummer Peter James Bond spontaneously combusted on-stage in 1976.
Bonds successor, Mick Shrimpton, also died the same way in 1983.
In 1983, Drummer Joe “Mamma” Bessemer avoids the curse of the drumsticks by going into hiding after many of the group’s props were reported stolen. To this day, he is nowhere to be found.
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