24 Hour Party People: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''You're going to see a lot more of that sort of thing in the picture. I don't want to say too much, don't want to spoil it. I'll just say one word: 'Icarus'. If you get it, great. If you don't, that's fine too. But you should probably read more.''|'''Tony Wilson'''}}

 

 

The film follows Tony and Factory as money is lost, lead singers commit suicide, [[Record Producer]] Martin Hannett goes insane and try to kill Tony, the birth of "Madchester" music and rave culture, Happy Mondays sell their equipment and studio for crack and then attempt to hold their new album for ransom... You wouldn't get this kinda stuff in a film about EMI.

 

 

Not to be confused with the trope [[Twenty-Four-Hour Party People]] (which is named after the Happy Mondays song [[Name's the Same|that also gives this movie its name]]) about background extras who show up at parties for or thrown by a work's main characters.

* [[Actor Allusion]]: Taken almost to [[Recursive Reality]] levels. Steve Coogan, who played Tony Wilson, based his comedy character [[I'm Alan Partridge|Alan Partridge]] partly on Tony Wilson, and there are notable similarities between how the characters are presented.

* [[Biopic]]

* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: Tony Wilson is dissatisfied with his career in TV journalism because he keeps getting assigned silly lifestyle pieces.

* [[A God Am I]]: Of a sort; while smoking a joint after the last gig at the Hacienda, Tony sees a vision of God... who just happens to look exactly like Tony Wilson. When Tony rejoins his mates and tells them this, they are less than impressed.

'''Rob Gretton:''' Yeah, but not a ''specific'' man. }}

* [[The Ishmael]]: Tony points out in one of his discussions how details of his own life are being glossed over, and while taking time to explain this, he notes that the story isn't about him but the music and Manchester.

* [[No Animals Were Harmed]]: Tony Wilson goes out of his way in his narration to the audience to mention that no animals were harmed at the conclusion of a scene involving Shaun and Paul Ryder killing 3,000 pigeons with poisoned bread crumbs.

'''Tony Wilson:''' Well, that is a point of view. }}

** In [[Real Life]], Tony had declared that one of Factory Records' fundamental policies was that "All our bands are free to fuck off whenever they please."

* [[No Fourth Wall]]: Wilson is aware he's in a film of his life, and frequently comments on the events and puts them into context. It gets to the point where he stops the film to point out the various cameos in the movie, including the cameo from the real Tony Wilson

* [[Post Modernism]]: Most of the movie. Tony Wilson describes himself as "being postmodern before it's fashionable."

* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: Lampooned in-universe. Despite describing himself as "a minor character in my own life story", Tony Wilson's opinion of himself is portrayed as being ''very''... healthy, and he is routinely mocked by the other characters for this.

* [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]: Yes, a lot of the events in the movie happened, but several are intentionally exaggerated to make the movie more entertaining. For instance, Martin Hannett never tried to shoot Tony<ref>Instead he shot a gun into a phone with Rob Gretton on the other line</ref>. In another scene, Tony's wife Lindsay has sex with Magazine singer Howard Devoto (after catching Tony cheating on her); the film Tony (and in the DVD commentary, the ''real'' Tony) states that the story never happened, and the real Howard Devoto makes a cameo in the scene as a janitor, only to break the fourth wall and tell the audience "I ''definitely'' don't remember this."

 

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