200 motels
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| German title | 200 motels |
| Original title | Twohundred motels |
| Country of production | England |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Tony Palmer (Visuals), Frank Zappa (Characterizations) |
| script | Frank Zappa, Tony Palmer, Mark Volman , Howard Kaylan , Jeff Simmons |
| production | Herb Cohen , Jerry D. God. Assistant Producer: Brian Harris, Raoul Pagel |
| music | Frank Zappa |
| camera | Barrie Dodd |
| cut | Rich Harrison |
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The film 200 Motels is a humorous musical film of Frank Zappa , in which Tony Palmer and Zappa Director led. It was filmed on video and then copied onto 35mm film in London in five eight-hour days on a relatively small budget of US $ 679,000. It premiered on October 29, 1971 in Beverly Hills . Theodore Bikel and Ringo Starr played the leading roles , as well as The Mothers of Invention and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra . The film describes the life of a rock band on tour and how a musician can drive touring crazy.
The actual script was put together at short notice by Tony Palmer based on individual texts by Zappa. According to Zappa, only about a third of the script could be realized during the shooting days. During the edit, which took eleven days to complete, Palmer and Zappa tried to create a continuous plot and maintain connections. Barry Miles notes that most viewers found the plot of the film incomprehensible.
An album with the film music was released in October 1971 by United Artists .
interpretation
The sociologist Ben Watson sees the setting of 200 motels as the limitation of art and free creativity in capitalism .
Reviews
Journalist Robert Hilburn rated the film as an "overwhelming achievement". You get a good impression of how “time, space and mind get mixed up in the course of a long rock tour”. He described 200 motels as "little classics". Vincent Canby of the New York Times described the film as "not necessarily bad," but a film in which so much happens at the same time quickly becomes exhausting and drowsy. It is a collection of tired jokes and spectacular audiovisual effects. Zappa compared his film to an elaborate inside joke that the film was designed for those audiences who already knew something about the history of the Mothers of Invention.
literature
- Peter Evans: Frank Zappa's 200 Motels and the Theater of the Absurd . In: Sapaan: Explorations in Music and Sound, 2, 2003
Web links
- 200 Motels in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 200 motels. MGM official website, with music samples, accessed January 15, 2010 .
- 200 motels. killuglyradio.com, accessed January 15, 2010 .
- 200 motels at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barry Miles: Zappa . Rogner & Bernhard bei Zweiausendeins, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8077-1010-8 , p. 242 ff .
- ↑ Barry Miles: Zappa . Rogner & Bernhard bei Zweiausendeins, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8077-1010-8 , p. 247 .
- ^ Ben Watson: The negative dialectics of poodle play , Quartet Books, London 1996, ISBN 0-7043-0242-X , p. 186
- ^ Robert Hilburn: 200 Motels: a Rock'n'Roll Tour on Film. Los Angeles Times , October 30, 1971, quoted from Neil Slaven: Electric Don Quixote , Bosworth, Berlin 2006, translated from English by Marie Mainzer, ISBN 3-86543-042-2 , p. 197
- ↑ Vincent Canby : Frank Zappa's Surrealist 200 Motels, New York Times , November 11, 1971 ( online text ), quoted from Neil Slaven: Electric Don Quixote , Bosworth, Berlin 2006, translated from English by Marie Mainzer, ISBN 3-86543 -042-2 , p. 197
- ^ Roy Carr: Frank Talking. Interview, New Musical Express , November 27, 1971, quoted from Neil Slaven: Electric Don Quixote , Bosworth, Berlin 2006, translated from the English by Marie Mainzer, ISBN 3-86543-042-2 , p. 197