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[[File:velvetgoldmine.jpg|frame|Slade and Wild in two of their ''tamer'' costume choices.]]
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It also notably features expies of Iggy Pop and Brian Eno, plus numerous references to Oscar Wilde.
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: The only time anyone's parents get any lines in the movie, it's
▲* [[Abusive Parents]]: The only time anyone's parents get any lines in the movie, it's {{spoiler|Arthur's father yelling at him (for being gay)}}.
* [[Acquired Situational Narcissism]]: Happens to Slade once he makes it big. And he can't let fame go even after his fans have turned on him, leading to some of the worst of his troubles.
* [[Agent Peacock]]: Brian Slade.
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|All Guys Want Bad Boys]]: Slade's attraction to Wild.
* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]]: Oscar Wilde was an orphan from the stars... right.
* [[Bishonen]]: Brian Slade, who manages to be more delicately pretty that ''his own wife'' (who is not bad-looking or particularly butch
** Not to mention [[Placebo|Brian Molko]] who is prettier than ''most women''.
* [[Cast Full of Gay]]: Or Bi, really.
* [[Caught
* [[Closet Key]]: Slade's is Wild; Arthur's is Slade.
* [[Costume Porn]]
* [[Cure Your Gays]]: Poor <s>[[Lou Reed]] </s>Curt Wild.
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* [[Dystopia]]: You can read the current time, from where the frame story takes place, as a super conservative dystopia front-headed by the mysterious President Reynolds. Certainly a great deal of the stranger scenes make sense with the dystopian backdrop.
** The present day ''does'' take place in 1984.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Just look at the stars... ▼
* [[Everybody Smokes]]
* [[Everyone Is Bi]]: Or possibly gay. The movie's a little fuzzy on that point.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Expy]]: Slade is Bowie, Curt Wild is Iggy Pop (with a dash of [[Velvet Underground|Lou Reed]]), Jack Fairy is Brian Eno, and The Venus in Furs are The Spiders From Mars.
** I always saw Jack Fairy as more of a Marc Bolan.
* [[Fake-Out Opening]]: A UFO? In a movie about glam rockers? Really
* [[Framing Device]]: Slade's life story is told though Arthur's interviews, in a manner reminiscent of ''[[
▲* [[Fake-Out Opening]]: A UFO? In a movie about glam rockers? Really? (Though considering the motif of aliens in ''actual'' glam rock, it's really not that surprising.)
▲* [[Framing Device]]: Slade's life story is told though Arthur's interviews, in a manner reminiscent of ''[[Citizen Kane (Film)|Citizen Kane]]''.
* [[Gayngst]]: Arthur had some as a kid before coming out.
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* [[Hookers and Blow]]: When Slade's career is on the skids, he falls into total depravity, and we see him sprawled half-naked in bed with a ''mountain'' of cocaine beside him. Later,
* [[I Just Want to Be Special]]: Slade before he gets famous. When he sees Wild drop
▲* [[Hookers and Blow]]: When Slade's career is on the skids, he falls into total depravity, and we see him sprawled half-naked in bed with a ''mountain'' of cocaine beside him. Later, {{spoiler|when Mandy is trying to get him to sign their divorce papers,}} we see Brian snorting a line of coke from the bare buttocks of a large, semi-conscious black man in a big white wig.
▲* [[I Just Want to Be Special]]: Slade before he gets famous. When he sees Wild drop trou at a show and moon the crowd, he laments how he wished he'd thought of it first.
* [[Impractically Fancy Outfit]]: All of Slade's costumes, especially his Maxwell Demon ones. Come on, 4" platform boots plus huge wings and you want this guy to sing and dance on stage?!? Really?
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: See below: Slade's immediate infatuation with Wild is accompanied with glowing hearts, but more to the point, his manager's acceptance of this unsigned ex-junkie is accompanied with glowing money signs. Oh, we get it! He can sell them in a two-pack! Moving on...
* [[Love At First Sight]]: Both of Slade's serious relationships start this way.
* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: Brian Slade is sort-of in love with Curt Wild, but married to Mandy. Wild definitely loves Slade, but feels jilted by him, so hooks up with other guys including fan Arthur Stuart. Stuart is/was a total fanboy for Slade. And that's just scratching the surface.
* [[Male Frontal Nudity]]: Thank you, Mr Wild (but not Mr Wilde).
▲* [[Make Up or Break Up]]: {{spoiler|Wild/Slade, Slade/Mandy -- They break up.}}
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Curt ''Wild''. And the ''Rats''. And it's Jack ''Fairy'' who begins the bisexual glam rock movement. And how the Maxwell ''Demon'' tour is Slade's demise. I mean, really, guys? ''Really''?
** And how everyone has a popstar name but Arthur and Mandy, essentially marking them out as Normal McNormalsons.
▲* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Just look at the stars...
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Though David Bowie disagrees.
* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Notably, it's the guys wearing the furs most of the time.
* [[
* [[Pride Before a Fall]]: Happens to Slade, who thinks himself infallible.
* [[Roman à Clef]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: So. Many. Shout
** The Venus in Furs, while sounding a lot like Bowie's band from his Ziggy days, is actually based on a song by [[Velvet Underground]] (which is in turn based on a novel of the same name).
** ''Velvet Goldmine'' was a Bowie song.
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** The Rats, Wild's band, is a reference to Pop's The Stooges.
** The way Mandy finds Slade and Wild in bed together is supposed to be a reference to Angela Bowie finding her husband and Mick Jagger together.
** Half the quotes in the movie are directly from said people,
** The structure of the story, as well as some direct shots, are straight from ''[[
* [[Sidelong Glance Biopic]]: Depending on how fictionalized you consider it to be.
* [[Titled After the Song]]: A Bowie song, of course. They would have used the song, too, if Bowie had given permission.
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: The numerous Wilde quotes and dialogue.
** Also notable: the fact that the "present day" is a dingy, 1984, and the numerous cinematographic
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[[Category:Films of the 1990s]]
[[Category:Velvet Goldmine]]
[[Category:Queer Media]]
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[[Category:Cult Classic]]
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