{"id":8131,"date":"2012-09-05T12:32:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T11:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/?p=8131"},"modified":"2012-09-05T12:32:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T11:32:06","slug":"the-criterion-collection-10-things-i-learned-quadrophenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-criterion-collection-10-things-i-learned-quadrophenia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Criterion Collection: 10 Things I Learned: Quadrophenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criterion.com\/current\/posts\/2449-10-things-i-learned-quadrophenia\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.criterion.com\/current\/posts\/2449-10-things-i-learned-quadrophenia\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8132\" title=\"quad12g\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/quad12g.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><strong>10 Things I Learned: Quadrophenia, By Susan Arosteguy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. <em>Quadrophenia<\/em> was made in 1979, at the height of the British punk movement, and the filmmakers contemplated casting a punk musician as the lead, to lend Jimmy an authentic air of rebellion. They considered Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols for the role, but the film\u2019s insurance company refused to allow him to be cast. Rotten apparently would have turned down the role anyway, saying he didn\u2019t want to \u201clive out any of Pete Townshend\u2019s fantasies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>4. Wingett and Phil Daniels, who ultimately played Jimmy, were reunited a year after Quadrophenia came out, in Brian Gibson\u2019s 1980 cult film Breaking Glass, starring Hazel O\u2019Connor as a singer in a new wave band struggling to get to the top. The film was coproduced by the future boyfriend of Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criterion.com\/current\/posts\/2449-10-things-i-learned-quadrophenia\" target=\"_blank\">The Criterion Collection<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 Things I Learned: Quadrophenia, By Susan Arosteguy 2. Quadrophenia was made in 1979, at the height of the British punk movement, and the filmmakers contemplated casting a punk musician as the lead, to lend Jimmy an authentic air of rebellion. They considered Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols for the role, but the film\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[170,306],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8131"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8154,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131\/revisions\/8154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}