The guy in the room is Pink, the guy in the war is Pink's father, the scene at the end is him getting killed and being the first brick in The Wall. It's confusing at first but the more you get through, the more it makes sense. You guys are doing great!
To be more on point, its not Pink as much as its the original singer of Pink Floyd, Sid Barret, who pretty much flipped out, which prompted Roger Waters to write the movie/album.
Gonna differ with ya. Roger did an Interview around 2015 where he laid out the album and movie were mostly based on Syd going nuts. Thats Waters saying that, not me. @@mr.beaverchair3622
I graduated high school in 1982 and my Sociology teacher had us watch this over the course of a couple of weeks and analyze the entire movie!! What a great teacher and what a great time for great music!!
@@MrDoctorMabuse well, let’s just say that the adults running the youth group had no idea what the Wall was about ….. and those of us teenagers that had seen it, weren’t going to say anything!
The main character sitting in the room is a rock star daydreaming about what his father must've went through during WWII. The gates being crashed open at the music drop were at a stadium where he was performing. Same character sitting in the chair as performing to the kids at his show...La nailed it scenes switching from past to current times.... you'll understand more as it progresses. As they say, " Enjoy the Show"
The Wall will forever be one of the greatest Double-Albums/CD's and Movies ever released in Human History! The amount of layers/thought and work put into it... that's what i call a masterpiece!
The movie shifts back and forth in time as does the album. From the 40s when Pink was born during WW2, to present day. You're seeing now where all of the combat sounds are coming from when you listened to the album. Pink the main character is the troubled rock star. The guy at war is/was his father. Yes that's Pink Floyd on the score of the film. With the exception of Bob Geldof who plays Pink who sings during that opening, and a little bit later on, all songs are performed by Roger Waters and David Gilmour.
RABBIT HOLE ❤ My favorite album of all time. Period. This is a must-see movie for me of course ❤ The Wall was conceived by Pink Floyd bass player, singer, and songwriter Roger Waters as an album, live show, and movie. A lot was based on him losing his father in WW2. The album came first. Pink Floyd (including Waters) performed the album, the subsequent live shows, and for the movie. Later, Waters performed it solo. It’s a masterpiece ❤ Fun fact: Another Brick Part 2 was Christmas #1 here in the UK in 1979
Nice Christmas present for us! This is a great film, with so much symbolism and layers. The album came first btw. From Wikipedia: rock star Pink, who, driven to insanity by the pressures of stardom and traumatic events in his life, constructs an emotional and mental wall to protect himself. However, this coping mechanism eventually backfires, and Pink demands to be set free.
I had to watch it several times before I totally understood it. I was a teenager the first time I saw it so I missed some things. Great piece of work from a band that is still ahead of their time.
Someone finally got to do this. Thank you.🤗 Back in 1979 when the album came out I would spend hours playing the record. Fun little tid-bit: When side one of the record starts a voice says "we came in". At the very end of side two the same voice says "This is where".
I saw it 1982 in the cinema and this movie still gives me goosebumps. Sometimes the pictures are like punches into your pit of the stomach. Director Alan Parker was a genius. RIP Mr. Parker!
The movie is based on the album or in conjunction with. The movie is basically a full featured music video/film of the full album. The Wall album is a whole concept story in itself, the movie just gives us the visuals of what happens in the album... This starts with Pink losing his father in war. Pink is the one in the room later in life visualizing what happened to his father and all in his life in between. The very last garden scene is his mother and himself in the baby bassinet during the time he lost his father in the war. This was essentially setting up the story for the movie.
I won a radio call in deal and went to a preview showing of The Wall. Like, a month or so before the theatrical release. I was blown away. Thanks, guys. Looking forward to this. I haven't seen it since that time.
Don't worry too much if you will often make great confusion (... without, first, some well-chosen reading* ...) because this was Steven Spielberg's reaction as the director of the film Alan Parker tells it ... who also gives a clear explanation: ------------------------------- The premiere at Cannes was amazing - the midnight screening. They took down two truckloads of audio equipment from the recording studios so it would sound better than normal. It was one of the last films to be shown in the old Palais which was pretty run down and the sound was so loud it peeled the paint off the walls. It was like snow - it all started to shower down and everyone had dandruff at the end. I remember seeing Terry Semel there, who at the time was head of Warner Bros., sitting next to Steven Spielberg. They were only five rows ahead of me and I'm sure I saw Steven Spielberg mouthing to him at the end when the lights came up, 'what the fuck was that?' And Semel turned to me and then bowed respectfully. 'What the fuck was that?,' indeed. *_It was like nothing anyone had ever seen before - a weird fusion of live-action, story-telling and of the surreal_* Alan Parker ------------------------------- * I recommend Wikipedia both for a review of the album and for the differences in the film: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall#Concept_and_storyline en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd_-_The_Wall
The Whole Album is the story of 'PINK' the rock star from when he was a child to when he has achieved ultimate success, or in Pinks case, ultimate judgment.
This scene talks about the hero of this film, he is sitting in a chair, and about his memories of his father, who died in the war. He was left to be raised with his mother during difficult times. His student life is also shown, with youth movements that violate the laws of the country and are punishable by law.
At the beginning of the movie they play the song 'When The Tigers Broke Free', that song was excluded from 'The Wall' album. "It was just before dawn, one miserable morning in black Forty-Four."...
Fantastic reaction! Looking forward to the rest! Some of the old music played was by British singer Vera Lynn who is referenced later in the album. As far as the story goes, they're dancing back and forth through time with flashbacks to his dad in the war, when Pink was a child, and the present. Roger was heavily involved in the production of the movie, David was considered musical director for the movie and the tour, and Pink Floyd re-recorded and remixed a lot of the music for the film.
I saw your reaction video on Pink Floyd's song "Waiting for the Worms". The Wall was set to be the soundtrack for this movie. It came out a year after the album because it had to be edited. The film has a couple additional songs that the soundtrack did not have. It is about a kid in post-war (WWII) England, and he lets fame get to his already fractured mind-set. For me, this introduced the horrors this disturbed protagonist must deal with along with his so-called "Fame" he had obtained. Too many demons in the closet to deal with fame. I had to ask my mom the meaning of those harsh words in that song. She explained that bigotry happens in all forms, and it is present all over this world. She taught me to never judge a person based on anything other than their character. I did not see this film until 1983, so I got the message when I was young. For me, it was very educational about the world around me.
I'm so glad to see you two checking out "The Wall" and thanks for sharing your experience with us. This should be an experience that you'll never forget. Pink Floyd created a masterpiece. RIP: Syd Barrett💔🔥🎸U R Missed
The vacuum cleaner was then currebt day (1981ish). Pink is locked in his hitel room before a concert having a mental breakdown. That was the hotel cleaning lady. The running scenes were, as you said WWII, but being compared to kids racing into a concert to fet the best spots. Some shows were general admittance with no chairs. This was largely outlawed after fans were killed at a Who show in 1979.
Thanks for this reaction! I love 40's big band swing music and heavy metal! I was 10 in 1980. As a teen in the 80's Pink Floyd was required for parking and smoking. Such good times!
Incredible concept album and movie as only Roger Water and Pink Floyd could conjure up. I look forward to the rest, enjoy Pink's tortured voyage! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
I couldn't believe it. In 1985 on the way back from Guantanamo Bay on the USS MT, Whitney LCC-20, this was shown on ships tv for all us sailors. Blew my mind.
I love this! I grew up as a huge Pink Floyd fan, through my father's record collection. I saw this film the first time at age 13 and knew it was something special, even though I didn't really get it. Later in life I've watched it many times, including under the influence of mind altering substances (mushrooms, a couple times in my college years). I still think it's a misunderstood, underrated, cult classic. It wasn't given the best of reviews when released, but it's an important piece in the history of the band.
Wow, never seen anyone react to this movie. I have seen this many, many times. This will surely blow both your minds. There is an altered soundtrack with additions, and changes.
Yes. The Movie IS the Album. Had you watched the movie before listening to the album (in order from 1st to last) the album would have made more sense. The movie was set in 'modern times, which in this case was 1982/3. The War is WWII where the lead dad died. Where his mother started to help him build the Wall, that is is currently living in, which is where the maid with the vacuum is at. the School scenes are his time in High School in the 50s and 60s, also filled with War for the UK.
And that was chapter one. The movie will make much more sense soon. This is the first Brick in the Wall, having his father killed without ever knowing him. Some really cool animated scenes are coming up. Like the copulating flowers. Lol 🤠🏞️🐂
Final Scenes in this clip, P8nks father killed by bomb dropped from plane, pinks mum in the garden, and pink in the stroller. Parts with maid vacuuming and hotel room present, the kids breaking down the gate were rushing the concert and police brought into control the mob and hes comparing that to his concept of WWII and his fathers experience. The concert uniform pink is wearing and the banner behind will come back in later and be important
You should be doing more time per view so you don't lose your flow of the story. One of the greatest stories ever told in musical form. By the most unique bands of all time.🎉🎉
The movie is 100% the story from the album, brought to film. It's Roger's story, based somewhat on his experiences (father died in WWII, the alienation he felt as a rockstar), and also based on Syd Barrett as well (the mental breakdown from drugs).
And the initial reveal of Pink, this happened when they were first touring in th US with Syd. Waters saw him in this zombie state, with this look in his eyes, like black holes in the sky, with the cigarette burnt.
As an older PF fan, we saw this movie, of course, when it first came out. Already had the album. We came out with our mouths wide open, scratching our heads, lol, because at that time, we had done a little something beforehand. Haven't seen it since but looking forward to watching again with you guys as I think you two have the best podcasts and appreciation for music of our times, 60s, 70s and some 80s, before music went to hell!
At my Catholic High School for my class Religion Through Popular Music our final exam was listen to The Wall and explain it in your own words. I got an A and this was before the movie came out
A flashback on his life up to that point begins, in which it is revealed that his father was killed during World War II, leaving Pink's mother to raise him alone ("The Thin Ice"). Beginning with the death of his father, Pink starts to build a metaphorical wall around himself ("Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1").
Pink is a rock star touring America he has dark fantasies witch get darker as the movie goes on use have seen the first one as the cleaner enters the room kicks one of a parody of his fans crashing a concert and his farthest final day in ww2 pink in the hotel room is the present all else happened before in his life the bricks in his wall of isolation when comfortably numb comes on it’s all the now and pinks in a bad way really enjoy your reactions boys keep up the good work 👍
I would love to see you 2 react to some of the older lo-fi 1930s, 40s music. No one else seems to do that. It's a goldmine of amazing music. Singers like Billie Holiday, Mildred Bailey, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Maxine Sullivan, Peggy Lee and Bing Crosby deserve some attention. The whole era seems to have been forgotten about since R&B and Rock took over.
Can't wait for them to see Goodbye Blue Sky, Empty Spaces, Waiting For The Worms (if you know, ,you know) but I do hope they react to the omitted scene from the Movie. It's a rough cut for the song "Hey You".
Ridiculous that they cut Hey You, one of the most important songs on the album. Couldn't Alan Parker have come up with some more original visuals for it? This whole movie should have been put in the hands of someone who was not affiliated with the main three artistes, and had an objective viewpoint. It could have been so much better. Same with Quadrophenia, a good film but not a great one, because they cut half the goddamned album out of it. I know they can't fit it all in, but for god's sake!
@thiscorrosion900 That's what i also meant. They should've kept the entire album for the film and only removed the instrumental tracks 'Quadrophenia' and 'The Rock'.
Waters's father, Lieutenant Eric Fletcher Waters - who died when his son was five months old - is central to Pink Floyd's The Wall, in which the disturbed protagonist, Pink, grows up longing for a father figure. "I was very angry," Waters has said about never knowing his father
The lead character " Pink" is played by Bob Geldof singer of " The Boomtown Rats" & humanitarian who spearhead the Live Aid Concert raising millions for starvation in Africa .
Im so glad u guys are reacting to this the album and the movie both need to be in more peoples lives yall need more of the earlier pink floyd albums to react too and also The Final Cut 1983 was the last one with waters and its a loose concept album it’s supposed to take place after “the Wall”
Yeah guys, listen to the soundtrack as well. Its got new songs ghat were not written or at least not added to the 1979 album. This came out in 1982 I believe. What shall we do now would be an amazing reaction video for you guys. You will hear it later on in the movie.
Keep in mind, you are entering the psychological part of Pink. How he is thinking, what is happening, what has happened, etc. You will have to sort it out. The album and tour came first.
I must have seen this movie 50 times at least, i had the dvd, i saw it for the first time in a quadraphonic theatre in Montreal when it came out. The WWII scene is about Pink's father dying.
I was brought up in a children's home in Liverpool, l loved this movie because at weekends my sister would watch it over and over, l remember taking the DVD back to the home so all the other kids could watch it. Needless to say after a bit it was turned off and l lost my home leave for a month. 😂😂😂❤
5:20 that burning cigarette as a result of a condition of stoicness is based on a real story about leaving Syd to go secretly record without him ‘oh we’re just goin out to the pub’ when they got back he had not moved an inch as evidenced by the long ash still in place
It is two generations: father (Anzio WW2 1944), and son (late 1950s), plus the generation that followed (late 1970s) showing how they run and have anger and exhilaration are combatted by police. they are all human but in different contexts.
The crowd rushing the door is a refetence to "festival Seating" whidh was the norm at 70s rock cpncerts. People would arrive hours early and when the doors opened they would rush forward to get a good spot in front of the stage-Just like an army advancing in war. The practiceof festival seating was greatly reduced after a number of fans were crushed and trampled to death at a cinncinati Who concert.
This is going to be a cool little series. I just realized this is a seperate channel, so I subscribed. The algorithm did its job at suggested it to me.
I've seen this probably 100 times in a theater. I became unemployed and this was playing at the $1 cinema at the mall up the street so I was going 3-4 times a week. I got to know the crew and could swap a fatty for coke and a popcorn and life was pretty good.
This channel just popped up in my feed, after being a longtime follower of the Beats channel. Looks like an interesting augment to your other reactions. I like The Wall movie for what it is, and will finish watching it as you post, but for me the music is the strongest element, free from literal depiction. And I look forward to seeing what else you guys do with the channel.
Rogers Waters was a war child, I imagine that would have a baring on their life’s, They knew the way fascism worked its way into society, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Song, “Give My Compliments to the Chef”, echoes the same message as the Wall
The Album is the soundtrack to the movie. The movie is all the videos of the album (1979, still being before most songs had videos ---MTV still wasn't around)
The movie is full of Pink (Bob Geldoff) remembering his dad dying in the war, and the rigors of touring the world in the late 60s early 70s in a rock band. I think you have to stoned to follow the time line of the movie. There are lots of metaphors and analogies in the scenes acted out to the music.
OMG!!! I did not see that you were doing THIS!!! (until this moment heh) Holy WoW!!! Eeeeee SO freakin EXCITED my older sis took me to see this movie when i was 10 & i freakin LUVD IT!!! & course fell in Mad Love with The **Beautiful** **CutieBabe** with one of THE best "Thousand Mile Stares" Ever! **Mr Bob Geldof** ha just WoW **KickassMemories** & at the end my sis told me "Now ya gotta just pick ONE brick & ya gotta just keep staring at that ONE brick" k have not even watched the reaction yet was just so freakin YAY when i saw this...**ThankYOU** this will be the 1st time i have ever seen anyone react to it...ha k gonna go watch NOW!!! **PixieTwirlsWithDelight** WoW **YOU** have made my **New Year** **Spectacular** with THIS!!! YAY **PixieHugz&LuvzALL**
The film is non-linear, which is not the same as a story told with flashbacks, which is still a linear story because there is a current time that the recollection of flashbacks are coming from. In a non-linear story structure, the plot/ story arc follows the theme and not the action. It can be hard to grasp at first because it's such an unconventional way of telling a story, but it's very rewarding when done right like it is in this one.
The guy in the room is Pink, the guy in the war is Pink's father, the scene at the end is him getting killed and being the first brick in The Wall. It's confusing at first but the more you get through, the more it makes sense. You guys are doing great!
To be more on point, its not Pink as much as its the original singer of Pink Floyd, Sid Barret, who pretty much flipped out, which prompted Roger Waters to write the movie/album.
And in the final shot as the camera pulls back you see the baby carriage (pram) which presumably Pink is in and the lady on the chase lounge is Mother
@@HBFTimmahh It's a mix of both, but the character of Pink is based more on Roger than Syd.
Gonna differ with ya. Roger did an Interview around 2015 where he laid out the album and movie were mostly based on Syd going nuts. Thats Waters saying that, not me.
@@mr.beaverchair3622
great movie
I graduated high school in 1982 and my Sociology teacher had us watch this over the course of a couple of weeks and analyze the entire movie!! What a great teacher and what a great time for great music!!
We watched it one afternoon in a church youth group meeting ….. some parents weren’t pleased LOL
@@wdrauchWow, who in the hell (literally? Hehe) authorized that?
@@MrDoctorMabuse well, let’s just say that the adults running the youth group had no idea what the Wall was about ….. and those of us teenagers that had seen it, weren’t going to say anything!
@@wdrauch I'd like to imagine Roger Waters smiling his biggest smile ever (a scary image) if he could've seen that all go down.
We listened to the album in high school Music Theory class and watched the film in a University class.
The main character sitting in the room is a rock star daydreaming about what his father must've went through during WWII. The gates being crashed open at the music drop were at a stadium where he was performing. Same character sitting in the chair as performing to the kids at his show...La nailed it scenes switching from past to current times.... you'll understand more as it progresses.
As they say, " Enjoy the Show"
The Wall will forever be one of the greatest Double-Albums/CD's and Movies ever released in Human History! The amount of layers/thought and work put into it... that's what i call a masterpiece!
The main character is played by Bob Geldof from the Boomtown Rats. He was also well known for being a key organizer of Live Aid
Don’t forget, Geldof was also responsible for the 2005 Live 8 & getting Floyd reunited.
Fun fact: Geldof was NOT a fan of Pink Floyd and turned down the role many times before finally being talked-into doing it.
The movie shifts back and forth in time as does the album. From the 40s when Pink was born during WW2, to present day. You're seeing now where all of the combat sounds are coming from when you listened to the album. Pink the main character is the troubled rock star. The guy at war is/was his father.
Yes that's Pink Floyd on the score of the film. With the exception of Bob Geldof who plays Pink who sings during that opening, and a little bit later on, all songs are performed by Roger Waters and David Gilmour.
All songs by Roger Waters excepto confortably numb and Run like hell. All lyrics by Roger Waters
@@PedroCoutinho-yf8poRoger, is that you?
RABBIT HOLE ❤
My favorite album of all time. Period.
This is a must-see movie for me of course ❤
The Wall was conceived by Pink Floyd bass player, singer, and songwriter Roger Waters as an album, live show, and movie. A lot was based on him losing his father in WW2.
The album came first. Pink Floyd (including Waters) performed the album, the subsequent live shows, and for the movie. Later, Waters performed it solo.
It’s a masterpiece ❤
Fun fact: Another Brick Part 2 was Christmas #1 here in the UK in 1979
Nice Christmas present for us! This is a great film, with so much symbolism and layers. The album came first btw.
From Wikipedia:
rock star Pink, who, driven to insanity by the pressures of stardom and traumatic events in his life, constructs an emotional and mental wall to protect himself. However, this coping mechanism eventually backfires, and Pink demands to be set free.
I had to watch it several times before I totally understood it. I was a teenager the first time I saw it so I missed some things. Great piece of work from a band that is still ahead of their time.
Someone finally got to do this. Thank you.🤗
Back in 1979 when the album came out I would spend hours playing the record.
Fun little tid-bit: When side one of the record starts a voice says "we came in".
At the very end of side two the same voice says "This is where".
I saw it 1982 in the cinema and this movie still gives me goosebumps.
Sometimes the pictures are like punches into your pit of the stomach.
Director Alan Parker was a genius. RIP Mr. Parker!
When it shows Bob Geldoff as pink it is current time.
Everything in Pinks life added bricks to his "wall" .
A mental wall he built in his mind.
The movie is based on the album or in conjunction with. The movie is basically a full featured music video/film of the full album. The Wall album is a whole concept story in itself, the movie just gives us the visuals of what happens in the album... This starts with Pink losing his father in war. Pink is the one in the room later in life visualizing what happened to his father and all in his life in between. The very last garden scene is his mother and himself in the baby bassinet during the time he lost his father in the war. This was essentially setting up the story for the movie.
I won a radio call in deal and went to a preview showing of The Wall. Like, a month or so before the theatrical release. I was blown away. Thanks, guys. Looking forward to this. I haven't seen it since that time.
Don't worry too much if you will often make great confusion (... without, first, some well-chosen reading* ...) because this was Steven Spielberg's reaction as the director of the film Alan Parker tells it ... who also gives a clear explanation:
-------------------------------
The premiere at Cannes was amazing - the midnight screening. They took down two truckloads of audio equipment from the recording studios so it would sound better than normal. It was one of the last films to be shown in the old Palais which was pretty run down and the sound was so loud it peeled the paint off the walls. It was like snow - it all started to shower down and everyone had dandruff at the end. I remember seeing Terry Semel there, who at the time was head of Warner Bros., sitting next to Steven Spielberg. They were only five rows ahead of me and I'm sure I saw Steven Spielberg mouthing to him at the end when the lights came up, 'what the fuck was that?' And Semel turned to me and then bowed respectfully.
'What the fuck was that?,' indeed. *_It was like nothing anyone had ever seen before - a weird fusion of live-action, story-telling and of the surreal_*
Alan Parker
-------------------------------
* I recommend Wikipedia both for a review of the album and for the differences in the film:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall#Concept_and_storyline
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd_-_The_Wall
The Whole Album is the story of 'PINK' the rock star from when he was a child to when he has achieved ultimate success, or in Pinks case, ultimate judgment.
This scene talks about the hero of this film, he is sitting in a chair, and about his memories of his father, who died in the war.
He was left to be raised with his mother during difficult times. His student life is also shown, with youth movements that violate the laws of the country and are punishable by law.
At the beginning of the movie they play the song 'When The Tigers Broke Free', that song was excluded from 'The Wall' album.
"It was just before dawn,
one miserable morning in black Forty-Four."...
Fantastic reaction! Looking forward to the rest! Some of the old music played was by British singer Vera Lynn who is referenced later in the album. As far as the story goes, they're dancing back and forth through time with flashbacks to his dad in the war, when Pink was a child, and the present. Roger was heavily involved in the production of the movie, David was considered musical director for the movie and the tour, and Pink Floyd re-recorded and remixed a lot of the music for the film.
I'm here for this. This is the greatest rock film of all time. It's a journey.
I saw your reaction video on Pink Floyd's song "Waiting for the Worms". The Wall was set to be the soundtrack for this movie. It came out a year after the album because it had to be edited. The film has a couple additional songs that the soundtrack did not have. It is about a kid in post-war (WWII) England, and he lets fame get to his already fractured mind-set. For me, this introduced the horrors this disturbed protagonist must deal with along with his so-called "Fame" he had obtained. Too many demons in the closet to deal with fame.
I had to ask my mom the meaning of those harsh words in that song. She explained that bigotry happens in all forms, and it is present all over this world. She taught me to never judge a person based on anything other than their character. I did not see this film until 1983, so I got the message when I was young. For me, it was very educational about the world around me.
YES!!!!! Last time I watched I was younger than 20 yrs old..so its been over 30 yrs
I'm here for all of this!!!
Watched it tripping on many different substances many different times. 😂😂😂
I'm so glad to see you two checking out "The Wall" and thanks for sharing your experience with us. This should be an experience that you'll never forget. Pink Floyd created a masterpiece. RIP: Syd Barrett💔🔥🎸U R Missed
The vacuum cleaner was then currebt day (1981ish). Pink is locked in his hitel room before a concert having a mental breakdown. That was the hotel cleaning lady.
The running scenes were, as you said WWII, but being compared to kids racing into a concert to fet the best spots. Some shows were general admittance with no chairs. This was largely outlawed after fans were killed at a Who show in 1979.
Thanks for this reaction! I love 40's big band swing music and heavy metal!
I was 10 in 1980. As a teen in the 80's Pink Floyd was required for parking and smoking. Such good times!
Incredible concept album and movie as only Roger Water and Pink Floyd could conjure up. I look forward to the rest, enjoy Pink's tortured voyage! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
Gentleman….Again, thank you so much for bringing me back.
🤗 Been ages since I've seen The Wall. This will be fun to watch again with y'all! 🥰🐰
I couldn't believe it. In 1985 on the way back from Guantanamo Bay on the USS MT, Whitney LCC-20, this was shown on ships tv for all us sailors. Blew my mind.
I love this! I grew up as a huge Pink Floyd fan, through my father's record collection. I saw this film the first time at age 13 and knew it was something special, even though I didn't really get it. Later in life I've watched it many times, including under the influence of mind altering substances (mushrooms, a couple times in my college years). I still think it's a misunderstood, underrated, cult classic. It wasn't given the best of reviews when released, but it's an important piece in the history of the band.
Great journey through one person's psychology.👍
Wow, never seen anyone react to this movie. I have seen this many, many times. This will surely blow both your minds. There is an altered soundtrack with additions, and changes.
Thank you for doing this. I’ve been trying to get somebody to do this. This is my favorite movie of all time.
Yes. The Movie IS the Album. Had you watched the movie before listening to the album (in order from 1st to last) the album would have made more sense. The movie was set in 'modern times, which in this case was 1982/3. The War is WWII where the lead dad died. Where his mother started to help him build the Wall, that is is currently living in, which is where the maid with the vacuum is at. the School scenes are his time in High School in the 50s and 60s, also filled with War for the UK.
And that was chapter one. The movie will make much more sense soon.
This is the first Brick in the Wall, having his father killed without ever knowing him.
Some really cool animated scenes are coming up.
Like the copulating flowers. Lol
🤠🏞️🐂
Thank you so much for doing this!!!!!! B❤❤Love
Final Scenes in this clip, P8nks father killed by bomb dropped from plane, pinks mum in the garden, and pink in the stroller. Parts with maid vacuuming and hotel room present, the kids breaking down the gate were rushing the concert and police brought into control the mob and hes comparing that to his concept of WWII and his fathers experience. The concert uniform pink is wearing and the banner behind will come back in later and be important
You should be doing more time per view so you don't lose your flow of the story. One of the greatest stories ever told in musical form. By the most unique bands of all time.🎉🎉
Love this thanks guys.❤️✌️🌼
The movie is 100% the story from the album, brought to film. It's Roger's story, based somewhat on his experiences (father died in WWII, the alienation he felt as a rockstar), and also based on Syd Barrett as well (the mental breakdown from drugs).
And the initial reveal of Pink, this happened when they were first touring in th US with Syd. Waters saw him in this zombie state, with this look in his eyes, like black holes in the sky, with the cigarette burnt.
Saw this on PBS when I was a teen. It’s my all time favorite album.
As an older PF fan, we saw this movie, of course, when it first came out. Already had the album. We came out with our mouths wide open, scratching our heads, lol, because at that time, we had done a little something beforehand. Haven't seen it since but looking forward to watching again with you guys as I think you two have the best podcasts and appreciation for music of our times, 60s, 70s and some 80s, before music went to hell!
At my Catholic High School for my class Religion Through Popular Music our final exam was listen to The Wall and explain it in your own words. I got an A and this was before the movie came out
Estan viendo una pelicula que marco mi infancia y adolescencia, gracias 😢 saludos desde Chile
A flashback on his life up to that point begins, in which it is revealed that his father was killed during World War II, leaving Pink's mother to raise him alone ("The Thin Ice"). Beginning with the death of his father, Pink starts to build a metaphorical wall around himself ("Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1").
This is a Concept Album/Movie and a first in Animated Music. This was a groundbreaking form of media at the time.
Go guys! This is a crazy rabbit hole! It explains the context though.
Pink is a rock star touring America he has dark fantasies witch get darker as the movie goes on use have seen the first one as the cleaner enters the room kicks one of a parody of his fans crashing a concert and his farthest final day in ww2 pink in the hotel room is the present all else happened before in his life the bricks in his wall of isolation when comfortably numb comes on it’s all the now and pinks in a bad way really enjoy your reactions boys keep up the good work 👍
10:40 when they have the missile sfx while the dis are running down the halls is so epic to me
Concerts used to have stadium seating they would open doors and everyone would run to get best spot.
Oh yes 🙏
Gentlemen ENJOY THE RIDE Love the Room & Video's Keep on Keepin' On
SO F*CKING GOOD. LOVE "THE WALL!!! Thanks soooo much. Enjoy, all.
I would love to see you 2 react to some of the older lo-fi 1930s, 40s music. No one else seems to do that. It's a goldmine of amazing music. Singers like Billie Holiday, Mildred Bailey, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Maxine Sullivan, Peggy Lee and Bing Crosby deserve some attention. The whole era seems to have been forgotten about since R&B and Rock took over.
Fun fact the guy playing Pink is Sir Bob Geldof (who organized and basically was responsible for original LIVE AID in 1985
Awesome. The first film reaction known on UA-cam. Great jobs to be the first to finally react to the movie
Can't wait for them to see Goodbye Blue Sky, Empty Spaces, Waiting For The Worms (if you know, ,you know) but I do hope they react to the omitted scene from the Movie. It's a rough cut for the song "Hey You".
Ridiculous that they cut Hey You, one of the most important songs on the album. Couldn't Alan Parker have come up with some more original visuals for it? This whole
movie should have been put in the hands of someone who was not affiliated with the main three artistes, and had an objective viewpoint. It could have been so much
better. Same with Quadrophenia, a good film but not a great one, because they cut half the goddamned album out of it. I know they can't fit it all in, but for god's sake!
@thiscorrosion900 On Quadrophenia, they could've just cut the instrumental title track and 'The Rock' and kept the rest of the album intact.
@@testicuslargus6477 I meant the movie cut a lot of those tracks from the album, and others, as well. They're not in the film.
@thiscorrosion900 That's what i also meant. They should've kept the entire album for the film and only removed the instrumental tracks 'Quadrophenia' and 'The Rock'.
@@testicuslargus6477 Right, I agree!
Waters's father, Lieutenant Eric Fletcher Waters - who died when his son was five months old - is central to Pink Floyd's The Wall, in which the disturbed protagonist, Pink, grows up longing for a father figure. "I was very angry," Waters has said about never knowing his father
The lead character " Pink" is played by Bob Geldof singer of " The Boomtown Rats" & humanitarian who spearhead the Live Aid Concert raising millions for starvation in Africa .
You Cats is groovy!!! Peace from Canada. Hahaha welcome to the machine!!!
Merry Christmas you fine young Gentlemen. Hope you and your family are having a wonderful holiday.
When I her the music at he beginning it reminds me of the shining
Definitely see the whole film. Everything make sense at the end.
I do believe you're the first reactors to do the movie. About time too!
Im so glad u guys are reacting to this the album and the movie both need to be in more peoples lives yall need more of the earlier pink floyd albums to react too and also The Final Cut 1983 was the last one with waters and its a loose concept album it’s supposed to take place after “the Wall”
All through high-school in theb80s, this was watched on new years eve, or on in the background at least
Yeah guys, listen to the soundtrack as well. Its got new songs ghat were not written or at least not added to the 1979 album. This came out in 1982 I believe. What shall we do now would be an amazing reaction video for you guys. You will hear it later on in the movie.
I can’t wait until you keep going! 😊
Keep in mind, you are entering the psychological part of Pink. How he is thinking, what is happening, what has happened, etc. You will have to sort it out. The album and tour came first.
songs from the wall were used along with songs from the final cut album
I believe you should watch straight through. He is imagining what his father went through.
Midnight movie classic.
I must have seen this movie 50 times at least, i had the dvd, i saw it for the first time in a quadraphonic theatre in Montreal when it came out.
The WWII scene is about Pink's father dying.
Montreal ? So this is ALL because of you ?
I was brought up in a children's home in Liverpool, l loved this movie because at weekends my sister would watch it over and over, l remember taking the DVD back to the home so all the other kids could watch it. Needless to say after a bit it was turned off and l lost my home leave for a month. 😂😂😂❤
Also the lead actor is Bob Geldof from Boom town rats. Beautiful. Xxx
Alan Parker is a genius director.
Coming out swinging, great choice. There's only a couple more songs left to hear before the movie Heavy Metal isn't a spoiler for you.
I always thought that was Pink having flashbacks about when his father was killed in WWII
I believe you’re right from reading the other comments.
Bob Geldolf was fucking born to play the role of Pink in this film You will not be the same by the end!!
5:20 that burning cigarette as a result of a condition of stoicness is based on a real story about leaving Syd to go secretly record without him ‘oh we’re just goin out to the pub’ when they got back he had not moved an inch as evidenced by the long ash still in place
It is two generations: father (Anzio WW2 1944), and son (late 1950s), plus the generation that followed (late 1970s) showing how they run and have anger and exhilaration are combatted by police. they are all human but in different contexts.
The crowd rushing the door is a refetence to "festival Seating" whidh was the norm at 70s rock cpncerts. People would arrive hours early and when the doors opened they would rush forward to get a good spot in front of the stage-Just like an army advancing in war. The practiceof festival seating was greatly reduced after a number of fans were crushed and trampled to death at a cinncinati Who concert.
History repeats and repeats again and again when people refuse to see it.
Finally someone is doing it
This is going to be a cool little series. I just realized this is a seperate channel, so I subscribed. The algorithm did its job at suggested it to me.
I've seen this probably 100 times in a theater. I became unemployed and this was playing at the $1 cinema at the mall up the street so I was going 3-4 times a week. I got to know the crew and could swap a fatty for coke and a popcorn and life was pretty good.
This channel just popped up in my feed, after being a longtime follower of the Beats channel. Looks like an interesting augment to your other reactions. I like The Wall movie for what it is, and will finish watching it as you post, but for me the music is the strongest element, free from literal depiction. And I look forward to seeing what else you guys do with the channel.
Hope you and yours have a very beautiful and blessed Christmas gentlemen!
You can basically consider this movie as the music video for the album of the same title.
Glad you are doing this one! I'll have to go back for your take on Tommy also.
Rogers Waters was a war child, I imagine that would have a baring on their life’s, They knew the way fascism worked its way into society,
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Song, “Give My Compliments to the Chef”, echoes the same message as the Wall
The Album is the soundtrack to the movie. The movie is all the videos of the album (1979, still being before most songs had videos ---MTV still wasn't around)
The movie is full of Pink (Bob Geldoff) remembering his dad dying in the war, and the rigors of touring the world in the late 60s early 70s in a rock band. I think you have to stoned to follow the time line of the movie. There are lots of metaphors and analogies in the scenes acted out to the music.
That vacuum cleaner scene is from the 70s in the hall when Pink is remembering his dad dying in the 40s.
Oh man.....enjoy the ride. 😎❤
OMG!!! I did not see that you were doing THIS!!! (until this moment heh) Holy WoW!!! Eeeeee SO freakin EXCITED my older sis took me to see this movie when i was 10 & i freakin LUVD IT!!! & course fell in Mad Love with The **Beautiful** **CutieBabe** with one of THE best "Thousand Mile Stares" Ever! **Mr Bob Geldof** ha just WoW **KickassMemories** & at the end my sis told me "Now ya gotta just pick ONE brick & ya gotta just keep staring at that ONE brick" k have not even watched the reaction yet was just so freakin YAY when i saw this...**ThankYOU** this will be the 1st time i have ever seen anyone react to it...ha k gonna go watch NOW!!! **PixieTwirlsWithDelight** WoW **YOU** have made my **New Year** **Spectacular** with THIS!!! YAY **PixieHugz&LuvzALL**
Great movie! I saw it at the cinema when it came out. The back three rows was the smoking section. lol
It is hard to get the 1st time That's why I bought the movie and watched it about 50 times so far since 1,980s It's great every time
The film is non-linear, which is not the same as a story told with flashbacks, which is still a linear story because there is a current time that the recollection of flashbacks are coming from. In a non-linear story structure, the plot/ story arc follows the theme and not the action. It can be hard to grasp at first because it's such an unconventional way of telling a story, but it's very rewarding when done right like it is in this one.
Some of the songs are on a Pink Floyd album "Final Cut".
All your questions will be answered at the end of the movie 😊