The opening line on page 1 of "the script" read: "If you were forced by a crazy person to insert a mysterious imported lamp into the reproductive orifice of a lady harpist, would you do it?" Ah.All the music in the picture was recorded live, as shot. Martin Lickert, Ringo's chauffeur, is rehearsing his scene. There is a sliding door and we can go in and out of the camp at will because we can buy-off the guards. To a background of "Penis Dimensions," just about the entire cast walk down the street carrying lighted torches. He was a beautiful human being.
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The last thing that was written was the finale, and the thing that was written right before that is that scene for the animation.The problem in the past has always been in the transferring process, the transferring of images from tape to film. Well, that's one of the reasons. 35mm film was out, economically, and there simply wouldn't be time. .#7. I've seen 200 Motels in theaters many times. Ringo Starr, in Zappa disquise and carrying an oil lamp, narrates. I had this music, I wanted to hear it, so I concocted a theatrical structure for it which could utilize it and react to it both visually and dramatically. He wants to do it. Directed by Frank Zappa and Tony Palmer. I didn't have a big sense of humor. . |A story about life on the road, the movie features former Beatle Ringo Starr and the late Who drummer Keith Moon, who playsa nun. Film technicians are strict union men and everything shuts down with remarkable speed. . Girls taking the parts of groupies are in abundance.
He wants to use some interesting new materials; some new harmonies, some new forms. I had to rearrange some of the dialogue in the film to the point where I found out he wasn't going to do it.Next, it was clear that many of the scenes could not be shot the way Frank envisaged them on conventional celluloid, or rather they could be shot, but would take an age and a lot of money (neither of which we had) because of the special effects involved. Where the mouth doesn't move exactly right, or where somebody's supposed to be playing an instrument and their fingers aren't doing what they're supposed to do. I considered Wilfred Bramble because I thought if you were going to replace Jeff Simmons with a long haired guy where are you going to get a guy who's as funny as him or so unique? I remember thinking, 'Hello, me flies undone! Theodore Bikel is government agent Rance Muhammitz.I watched 200 Motels shortly after release and, if memory serves, it was 4:3. And then after it was the complete video tape, one real video tape was done, they transferred that to 35mm, and we got a black-and-wite work print, and then cut the work print down, and later put the sound effects against the work print.On February 1st, [...] shooting begins at Pinewood Studios for the film '200 Motels'. Sounds like it may have been kicking around the studio so he wrote it into the script.
She doesn't wanna be in this part of the movie, she whines, because she don't have nuthin' to say, and anyway, nobody can goddamn see her because the boutique front is in the way.