During “Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)”, children are employed to dance on stage, and through edits, its shown that not only are the children different from stop to stop, but their skin tones and dance styles shift to adequately reflect the culture that Waters is currently performing in. Maybe the best trick the film has up its sleeve is in making the footage feel like both a singular show while still representing the touring nature of the event. Though the idea of a concert film is nothing new, this version of The Wall finds all aspects covered, whether it’s viewing the creation and demolition of the show’s literal wall from the audience’s perspective, going behind the scenes on the production from the view of the band and crew members, or showing the reactions of crowds singing along and overwhelmed with emotion during the set’s most resonant moments, like “Hey You” and “Comfortably Numb”. The stadium spectacle that Waters toured is given the cinematic treatment it deserves, with a big digital screen and theater speakers necessary for the scale of the production to achieve its overwhelming intent. Thus the new film, Roger Waters The Wall, written and directed by both Waters and Sean Evans, functions partly as a commemoration of this tour, aware that the original film has already fictionalized the content, and instead focuses on the towering live presentation of Waters’ performance.Īnd towering isn’t even an exaggeration. While Pink Floyd did tour the album on its release, it wasn’t until long after the band had disintegrated that Roger Waters trucked the record around the globe, with 2010-2013 seeing The Wall become the most viewed concert tour by a solo artist ever, reaching more than four million fans worldwide. Singer and lyricist Roger Waters wrote the screenplay for it, in which the protagonist, literally named Floyd “Pink” Pinkerton, loses his mind for a variety of reasons (he’s a rock star, his father died when he was young, his mother was overbearing, kids were cruel to him at school, his wife cheats on him) resulting in the construction of a literal and metaphorical wall that shuts him away from the outside world, until eventually realizing the wall must come down. In terms of film adaptations of the 1979 Pink Floyd album The Wall, the 1982 Alan Parker-directed psychedelic classic already has things on lockdown for fans of the band.
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