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[[File:almost_famous.jpg|frame| Stillwater and <s>friends</s> followers.]]
'''''Almost Famous''''' is a [[Coming of Age Story|coming-of-age]] film directed by Cameron Crowe released in the year 2000, [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story|loosely based on]] Crowe's own teenage years as a music critic.▼
▲''Almost Famous'' is a [[Coming of Age Story|coming-of-age]] film directed by Cameron Crowe released in the year 2000, [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story|loosely based on]] Crowe's own teenage years as a music critic.
The plot follows the experiences of [[Author Avatar]] William Miller, an [[Naive Newcomer|aspiring teenage rock journalist]] who gets sucked headfirst into the world of rock when he goes on tour with a band named "Stillwater". In addition to the band itself, he becomes acquainted with its groupies and gets a good look at what happens underneath the glamorous exterior that most people are presented with.
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* [[Adorkable]]: William.
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* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Lester Bangs teaches William how to use this tactic to sucker editors.
* [[Seventies Hair]]: Almost everyone.
* [[Sex as Rite-
* [[Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll]]
* [[Sexy Packaging]]: You see it [http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M02ASF9KL._SL500_AA300_.jpg on] [http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qD0ltCr%2BL.jpg video] [http://img.blockbusteronline.com.br/produtos/item/3291/8/3291851gg.jpg first]{{Dead link}}? Three guesses [[She's Got Legs|why]] you rented ''that'' film...
* [[Shout-Out]]: Numerous throughout the movie.
** Many real rock-and-roll personalities are actual characters in the movie, or implied to be just off-screen. Lester Bangs drops these left and right. Penny Lane is a nod [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]] and is also is loosely based on a real person. At one point William is trying to interview [[Black Sabbath]]. On a couple of different occasions, he encounters groupies chasing after [[David Bowie]], [[Led Zeppelin|Robert Plant, or Jimmy Page]].
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** "Stillwater" is possibly a play on [[Creedence Clearwater Revival]], and maybe Crosby Stills & Nash.
** Not to mention Will very briefly catching sight of [[John Lennon|a man]] [[Yoko Ono|and a woman]], singing and playing the guitar together in a hotel room.
*** [[Word of God]] on the DVD commentary identifies those two as Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris.
** Penny Lane is based on a real person -- Cameron Crowe's real-life friend, Pennie Trumble, who goes by the name "Pennie Lane" -- who reportedly approved wholeheartedly of her fictional counterpart.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: [[Stevie Wonder]]'s dreamily romantic "My Cherie Amour" plays as William watches Penny get her stomach pumped following her overdose on pills.
* [[Title Drop]]: Sign on the front of the Stillwater tour bus.
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{{Golden Globe Award Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy}}
[[Category:The Seventies]]
[[Category:Music Stories]]
[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]
▲[[Category:Almost Famous]]
[[Category:Films With Recuts]]
[[Category:Biopic]]
[[Category:Film]]
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