200 Motels Page #2

Synopsis: "Touring makes you crazy," Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The story, interspersed with performances by the Mothers and the Royal Symphony Orchestra, is a tale of life on the road. The band members' main concerns are the search for groupies and the desire to get paid.
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Director(s): Tony Palmer, Frank Zappa
Production: MGM Home Entertainment
 
IMDB:
5.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
67%
R
Year:
1971
98 min
646 Views


the whole time I was learnin' it!

Yeah, we were all laughin', Frank!

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha YEAH, WELL FINE!

Yeah, it took a little while to get into it man, but once we got the drift, phew!

Yeah, there's lots of great parts you've got in

there for the chorus, you know when they go:

RAN-TAN-RAN-TOON-RAN-TAN-TAN . . .

And I steal the room and everything, you know. I don't even mind you rippin' it off from me, just as long as I get paid.

Oh, and I don't even mind the part where he says, "what can I say about this fabulous elixir," so long as me and

Howard and Jeff Simmons who left the group just before the movie started get credit for special material! Ha-ha-ha!

I'm deeply offended by your lack of artistic sense.

Look here, Muhammitz, or whatever the f*** they call ya, I don't even give a sh*t man, I got five f***in' kids at home

and . . . can you lend me a coupla bucks until the

end of the week? Who are you, anyway?

Oh, she writes for the Imaginary Rock and Roll

newspaper in San Francisco.

San Francisco?

Man!

Oh! Eh, he's making me leave here now.

I'll see you later when we play.

What?

I don't expect you to understand that, because uh,

we haven't formed the group yet.

Ah, Mark will play the bass . . .

Ba-doom-doom-doom-doom . . .

Howie will sing and play sax . . .

Dwee-dat-dwee-dat-dweet-dat-dwee-dat . . .

I'll play the guitar . . . woop-doo-doo-doo . . .

and the dwarf here will play drums!

Waittaminit, waittaminit, waittaminit, waittaminit, waittaminit! This guy isn't even a dwarf!

That's one of the reasons the group will be

so commercial!

Ah. What about the other guys?

Ah, they're already forming groups all over the place! Why wait till the end of the movie, we could have a hit single right now!

He's right, he's right! We don't need Aynsley . . .

No . . . We don't need Ian . . .

No . . . We don't need George!

No! We don't need anybody! Argh!

No!

He needs us, remember. We don't need him! All those other guys are too old for rock. They're out of it! We could

have a tight little heavy little band with this dwarf here. You know, that he, he used to play drums for Leon Russell . . .

Ohh . . .

Listen, you're right. Zappa's 30.

Yeah, man.

Ohh . . . whew . . .

Thirty years old . . .

Oh, he's out of it man! He's too old, he should retire.

Yeah, really. You can't trust old people. You know, we should take up a collection and buy him a watch.

I don't know too much about this stuff

I've been a little busy

This won't take long

Just a few questions

This won't take long

Just a few questions

This won't take long

Just a few questions

Just a few questions

This . . . won't . . . take . . . long . . .

This . . . won't . . . take . . . long . . .

This . . . won't . . . take . . . long . . .

This . . . won't . . . take . . . long . . .

I hear birds!

What's he saying?

You took the mystery burger! You are in full posession of

. . . the burger! Do you know who I am? Hm? Do you know

Who I really am?

Really man! WHO . . . DO YOU THINK . . . YOU ARE?

Yeah, do you want me to tell you WHO . . .

I really think you are?

Yeah, somebody tell me WHO is this guy?

Centerville

A real nice place to raise your kids up

Centerville

It's really neat!

Churches

Churches

And liquor stores

Oh, yeah! It's

Just like Glendale

Look!

Over there

It's a rancid boutique!

Janet, did you see those guys with the hair?

It's those guys from the fake stage

across the street from our house.

Eww, I get so excited when someone from a

group gets near me. I just . . . eww, I just . . .

Don't you have any taste? That one guy's

got gray hair, and the other one's too fat.

Oh, they look so lonely.

Lonely? Good evening honey, they look desperate. Desperate pop stars are so depressing when they've been

on the road for such a long time, and

they finally get some action.

They drool on you.

Really. All that stuff that comes out of their mouth

when they're on top of you. It's so moche. Ew.

Ew, on the pillows.

But I like the drummer with the rivets

on his clothes, he's not bad.

Yeah, I've seen him too. He just screams

"Englishness," with that little haircut and the rings . . .

And the binoculars.

Binoculars?

Didn't you notice his binoculars?

No, he's got binoculars?

He watches us through them, he's a pervert!

Oh, I get so hot just thinking about perversions . . . Maybe when we go down to the fake nightclub tonight we can

meet him, and find out if he really is perverted.

Just take my word for it; he is perverted.

Mmm. And English, too.

They're all that way.

This town

This town

Is a Sealed

Tuna Sandwich

Sealed Tuna Sandwich

With the wrapper glued

(WITH THE WRAPPER GLUED!)

It's by baloney on the rack

Rant-tant-tant

Tant-tant-tant

Tant-tant-tant

It goes for 40 cents a whack

It's just a rancid little snack

In a plastic bag

From a matron in La Habra with

a blown-out crack

WHO DIES TO SUCK THE FRINGE OFF

OF JIMMY CARL BLACK!

My name is Burtram

I am a redneck

All my friends,

They call me 'Burt'

(Hi, Burt!)

All my family,

From down in Texas

Make their livin'

Diggin' dirt

Come out here to Californy,

Just to find me

Some pretty girls

Ones I seen

Gets me so horny;

Ruby lips,

'N teeth like pearls!

Wanna love 'em all!

Wanna love 'em dearly!

Wanna pretty girl--

I'll even pay!

I'll buy 'em furs!

I'll buy 'em jewelry!

I know they like me;

Here's what I say:

I'm lonesome Cowboy Burt!

(Speakin' atcha!)

Come smell my fringe-y shirt!

(Reekin' atcha!)

My cowboy pants,

My cowboy dance,

My bold advance,

On this here waitress . . .

Yodel-oh-oo-pee-hey

Yodel-oh-oo-pee!

(He's lonesome Cowboy Burt

Don'tcha get his feelings hurt)

Come on in this place,

'N I'll buy you a taste,

You can sit on my face--

Where's my waitress?

Burtram, Burtram redneck

Burtram, Burtram redneck

I'm an awful nice guy!

Sweat all day in the sun!

Roofer by trade,

Quite a bundle I've made,

I'm unionized roofin' old

Son-of-a-gun!

(He's a unionized roofin' old

Son-of-a-gun!)

When I get off, I get plastered

Drink till I fall onna floor,

Find me some Communist bastard,

'N stomp on his face till he don't

Move no more!

(He stomps on his face till he don't

Move no more!)

I fuss, an' I cuss an' I keep on drinkin',

Till my eyes puff up an' turn red!

I drool on m'shirt,

I see if he's hurt,

Kick him again in the head, yes!

Kick him again in the head, boys!

Kick him again in the head, now!

KICK HIM AGAIN IN THE HEAD!

Lonesome Cowboy Burt!

(Speakin' atcha!)

Come smell my fringe-y shirt!

(Reekin' atcha!)

My cowboy pants,

My cowboy dance,

My bold advance,

On this here waitress . . .

Yodel-oh-oo-pee-yeh

Yodel-oh-oo-pee!

(HE'S LONESOME COWBOY BURT,

A--don'tcha get his feelin's hurt)

Yeah . . . but come on in this place,

An' I'll buy you a taste,

'N you can sit on my face--

Where's my waitress?

OPAL, YOU HOT LITTLE B*TCH!

Yes, Jimmy Carl Black, Indian of the Group,

what can I do for you?

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker. His work is characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity, and satire of American culture. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works, and produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. Zappa also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. He is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse rock musicians of his era.As a self-taught composer and performer, Zappa's diverse musical influences led him to create music that was sometimes difficult to categorize. While in his teens, he acquired a taste for 20th-century classical composers such as Edgard Varèse, Igor Stravinsky, and Anton Webern, along with 1950s rhythm and blues and doo-wop music. He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands, later switching to electric guitar. His 1966 debut album with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, combined songs in conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio-generated sound collages. He continued this eclectic and experimental approach, irrespective of whether the fundamental format was rock, jazz or classical. Zappa's output is unified by a conceptual continuity he termed "Project/Object", with numerous musical phrases, ideas, and characters reappearing across his albums. His lyrics reflected his iconoclastic views of established social and political processes, structures and movements, often humorously so. He was a strident critic of mainstream education and organized religion, and a forthright and passionate advocate for freedom of speech, self-education, political participation and the abolition of censorship. Unlike many other rock musicians of his generation, he personally disapproved of drugs and seldom used them, but supported their decriminalization and regulation. During Zappa's lifetime, he was a highly productive and prolific artist, earning widespread acclaim from critics and fellow musicians. He had some commercial success, particularly in Europe, and worked as an independent artist for most of his career. He remains a major influence on musicians and composers. His honors include his 1995 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the 1997 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2000, he was ranked number 36 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at number 71 on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time", and in 2011 at number 22 on its list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". more…

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