ralph bakshi american pop pete

[MrPOJO99]

Remember watching this when I was in the 4th grade.

[bigm1key420]

Voice gotta go

[bigm1key420]

Fuckin great way to end the movie but I think that faggot ass voic

[Johnlindsey289]

Anyone finds the rotoscoping animation techniques similar to what Robert Zemeckis and James Cameron are doing on films like Beowulf, Avatar, Christmas Carol or Peter Jackson's TinTin?

[Karkenou]

D4V3 1S TH1S YOU

[GunsguruPlatinum]

@Karkenou ok i fucking lol'd

gg terezi

[Novelwit2000]

Pete's moves were right. But his voice was just WRONG!!!

[JoeYampolsky]

@solidnoata You are bloody right

[JoeYampolsky]

@solidnoata Because it will destroy the charm of the film. If they changed the family, it would be a different movie.

[JoeYampolsky]

@solidnoata Hm, it's interesting to ponder about it. Maybe grunge? It was quite revolutionary=) But it's unlikely.

It's impossible to make a continue, because, i suppose, the creator of this movie can't imagine (just like me) that it will tell us about Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber.

[frostedhead]

This is kinda like mash up before there was mash up...

[ajalovesjustinbieber]

@Raymiles2 ya some of the other covers are somebody to love and thats the only thing i dont get the DVD clearly says that it Jefferson Airplane not a cover.

[napoleonman100]

i watch this i think like 5 yrs ago it was a great movie

[theePROTEGE]

You got the coke man? What do I look like a soda machine?

[GrossMeisterFuchs]

2 voters don´t have a soul...

[DeathNeff]

what is that song in begining ??

[DarkwingDork]

@DeathNeff "Hell is For Children" by Pat Benatar

[HugoYoot]

name of song at 2:20??

[Raymiles2]

@HugoYoot Pretty Vacant by the Sex Pistols. The original version is better than this cover

[Wzp95]

@Raymiles2 Who did this cover ??

[Raymiles2]

@Wzp95 I assume it's session musicians for the movie. I just checked the DVD credits and they do not say who performed it. Most of the songs in the movie are performed by the original artists though some are covers, like Blue Suede Shoes at the end.

[onehundred10million]

Pete sings (Zalmie) plays (Benny) and writes (Tony) in so many ways, his success is the final reward for the Bellinsky line of musicians.

[millardforever]

I WILL KEEP. THE COKE. TOO.

[Avatarblackwolf]

Ralph Bakshi is a god! Thanks for your gift Mr Bakshi

[EricStJohn]

Saw this when I was in the service. God. To return to when rock WAS pop. So I go baybee, baybee, baybee, owwwwwwwwwww!

[dinarocks82]

luv this movie..and such a great ending.

[Webbula]

He looks like Sam Rockwell at times.

[toymasheenSH]

hmxplz

[ferhald]

Spazz attack!!!!!!

[motts2roc]

full piano version of night moves /watch?v=M-lzZlQBZHo

[Durreau]

esa película es lo máximo!!! lastima que esa versión de "Night Moves" nunca haya salido en disco... es la mejor canción de toda la película... y American Pop la mejor película de Ralf Bakshi

[nights1515]

should of kept the credits no better way to end then Freebird!!

[eubisual]

I was listening to Hell Is For Children [Explicit] by Pat Benatar on @Grooveshark and this is not it! does anyone knows who's the singer in the 'American Pop' version?

[Rainbow6Team]

Is that Albert Wesker?

He's got the music talent!

[nights1515]

@Rainbow6Team How do you think he funded umbrella?

[Johnlindsey289]

@Rainbow6Team

I thought of that for years when i bought this movie in 98 when i was 17 as i've been a RE fan since i got my PS1 at 15 and RE with it, Wesker was a musician before he became an agent.

[MrHorrorking13]

His great great grandfather wanted keep his faith

His great grandfather wanted to become a singer, only to lose it, along with all those he loved.

His grandfather wanted to be a star only to have his family weigh him down.

His father became a star with the words he put into song, unaware that he wanted to be loved.

Now Pete became a star having the heart, blood, and soul that his four fathers had to become a rock star. They should do a sequel to this movies with the childen of pete.

[JoeYampolsky]

@MrHorrorking13 "They should do a sequel to this movies with the childen of pete.". They can't. Unfortenatly, nothing important happened in the music industry since 80's=(

[ste3vi3won]

what i just saw, was pure awsomness!!

[SpaceCowboyMcCoy]

One of those guys sounds like Bill Murray

[ofunky]

For sure this is a great music movie that deals with the realities of the music buiz. and the people that make it up!

[Johnlindsey289]

He looks like Wesker from the Resident Evil games.

[Johnlindsey289]

Awesome movie, i saw it back in 93 when i was 12 years old thanks to my city's local TV guide on what is coming on TBS i check out this, Heavy Metal, Vampire Hunter D, Robot Carnival, Hey Good Looking and Rock and Rule as i loved them for those were badass animated movies that i still adore at 29. I bought this when it finally came to video at 16 and it is such a moving, sad and unique underrated animated drama that is up there with Grave of the Fireflies

[Naduwa]

AMAZING movie(that is NOT a cartoon ...this is a MOVIE!) just AMAZING!!!!!!And the music here is FANTASTIC!

[Johnlindsey289]

@Naduwa

I grew up with this movie since 93 and 97 when i was 12 and 16, it's one of my favorite animated movies. If you like this one, try Grave of the Fireflies (Very sad animated drama), Tokyo Godfathers, Heavy Metal, Yellow Submarine, Pink Floyd The Wall, The Doors, and Heavy Traffic.

[Naduwa]

@Johnlindsey289 Oh thanks a lot!!!!=)

[Borin81]

huh? did they free this video now? it was down cuz of copyright issues earlier.

[ConcreteSurfer420]

The best version of night moves! I LOVE THE PIANO INTRO!!

[MrBrianlowdown]

ok to all you lame pozers i was 9,10 when i saw this .....sex pistols album i bought in 79 ..back when drive inns were still around ..i saw this in idaho after my biker dad moved me there ...mom was murder,d do you see what the diference is between me and you already you were not there and you didnt grow up like this in the day sop fuk the song you want to see cocaine and murder check out ..winterland murders

[Markula4O4O]

@MrBrianlowdown I SEEN SOME THINGS MAN... AND SOME STUFF........I WOULDN'T RECOMMEND IT!

[chochaetr]

I love movies like this and Heavy Metal. Are there anymore like these?

[CharlesFungiMuffin]

@chochaetr Wizards, and Fire and Ice, although they are not Bakshi. amazing films as well

[desotowrong]

@CharlesFungiMuffin Actually they are Bakshi films, the only fantasy films he did besides The Lord of the Rings.

[CharlesFungiMuffin]

@desotowrong oops. got those mixed up with Heavy Metal :)

[88beauzeau88]

@CharlesFungiMuffin I think Bakshi did help with the animation in those though. They were Frazzetta right?

[Johnlindsey289]

@CharlesFungiMuffin

They are Bakshi movies but fantasy movies even though LOTR and Cool World were his worse, Peter Jackson's LOTR destroys his animated LOTR anytime.

[Johnlindsey289]

@chochaetr

AP and HM are awesome, there are more adult animation. There's Wizards, Akira, Ghost in The Shell, Princess Mononoke, Ninja Scroll, Fire and Ice, South Park The Movie, Beavis and Butt-Head the movie, Fist of the North Star, Wicked City, Vampire Hunter D 1 & 2, Golgo 13 The Professional, Once Upon a Girl, Fritz The Cat, Heavy Traffic, Metropolis (2001 animated remake), Urotsukidoji, Waltz with Bashir and more.

[MrDeath545]

what song is that he plays at 6:10

[ryageo]

@MrDeath545 it's called Night Moves by Bob Seger...

[Gridseeker]

Pete is such a bad-ass!

[gherrio1]

this is a classic.....

[MrHorrorking13]

Other than anime and adult cartoons, i love ralph bakshi's films. American Pop, Wizards, Cool World, and his other work.

[msnewbooty79]

i think the world trade center is at 1:46 not 1:44.none the less creepy.

[CitySkin09]

"I have been RUNNIN' and FETCHIN' for you buncha punks for three years now and I don't wanna be no candy man no mo'!!"

"You want more money?"

"It's not the money mee-annn!"

[onebluenine]

Cool animation but that music... oh my. I stuck around long enough to hear the Pistols... but the animation yoked to it looked like the typical new waver's fantasy about punk rock. As those same new wavers would probably have said at the time: totally bogus, dude.

[Markula4O4O]

@onebluenine Okay you SLC Punk we get it, Looks like this movie isn't for you so yeah... Get Lost Chief.

[Johnlindsey289]

They need to make more adult cartoons like this with Bakshi's other stuff and The Japanese are good at that as well.

[handymandan100]

coke has killed every scene yet... heroin, too

[HenryChinaski405]

This is such an awesome movie. I remember seeing it as a kid. This was one of the first real things that gave me the meaning...the vibe...made me understand the "thing" that was ROCK AND ROLL.

[JanineLaNee411]

cool ass walk lol

[kamu0404]

But nothing will beat the original Heavy Metal.

[MAY1EXPRES]

Love his button lipped "okay". Pass em out turkey.

[ThreeCatsScratching]

This film was so under-rated when it was released in 1981.

[twistingthenightaway]

i finally got to watch this the other day and i thoroughly enjoyed it

[robburnsred]

he is blood related, when Tony slept with the blonde chick before leaveing. Thats Tony's son

[littlewitchboy]

HEY... anyone out there know if this movies version of "Night Movies" is out there somewhere? i really dig the piano in this version... not sure if its even available but it never hurts to ask. Bakshi rocks a mean and heavy mutha fucking toon like no mutha fucking other

[DrHeathenScum]

Bastard Pete

[brianlowdown]

the lowdowns san fran love ralph b

[BTBHSOHBOY]

Awesome Movie!!!!!!!!!!!

[kamu0404]

@BTBHSOHBOY

You know it. I was watching it in a theater back in the day it was first released when ceiling panels from a water-soaked storm starting falling on the viewers. Memorable.

[Merethereg]

You watched it too.

[rick4777]

interesting that Pete, the one who succeeds in life,at the end is not blood related to his predecessors, I agree this is the best part of the movie.

[Drax715]

yeah except for the fact that it was heavily suggested that he was blood related

[aldobarbagiovanni]

@rick4777 yeah dude it was supposed to be his son, he recognized his face in the woman from kansas... when he was in kansas.

[rick4777]

really? i missed out on that, it has been a long time since i have seen the film

[AlamusPrime]

But he is related to them. he was the last son born to the line.

[Fenderkicksass]

haha yeah...notice the blond haired blue eyed. Difference from his great grandfather.

[Markula4O4O]

@rick4777 No way man! Pete is the last Son, his Songwriting-Prodigy-Drug-Peddl­ing-Junkie Father was Tony,and Toni's Piano-Playing-Slain-In-Nazi-Ge­rmany Father was Benny Belinski, And Benny's Bootlegger-Mafia-Affiliated-Ra­spy-Voiced Father was Zalmie Belinski. Oh, and Zalmie's Father was Jaccov, a Jewish Rabbi that was killed by a Russian Czar's Sword and went "Oy..." and fell down, dead. And Pete... Well...HE'S WAS THE MAN!....

[LeLimeLine]

This is fucking awesome.

[urbanminer3]

When I first found this movie< I spent a whole summer watching it.. This was always my favorite 10 min of the whole movie.. What a joy to just come across it here, and in particular, my favorite segment!

[tinister]

I think Bakshi did a really clever thing by using well known songs rather than original songs for the movie. Not only does the use of recognized songs track the course of music through the storyline - but they also help the viewer to better connect with the world Bakshi is presenting. Using original compositions - would distance the audience from the material, characters, etc. Genius.

[Iwuznothere]

I fucking love the energy in this part of the movie. The song's arn't his but they're used well enough for it not to matter too much.

[tinister]

Isn't it amazing how this animated character has more life than any live action character in any recent movie?

[sosy1325]

The part where Pete kicks the chair over, snaps his fingers over his head, and starts playing that piano like he was born to do nothing else in the world is, to me, one of the purest moments in the history of animated film.

[tinister]

Agreed. I like that part also. I also like how the instrument panel behind the big wigs in the control room lights up after they hear him perform.

[deckard97]

@sosy1325 its a beautiful scene-and that song(Night Moves) was perfect

[4LeggedTumor]

That piano is backwards! He moves his right hand down the right, and the pitch goes lower.

[tinister]

I noticed that too. They probably flipped the film during editing. It happens all the time.

[UJUSTG0T0WNED]

Bakshi's very best film in my opinion.This is one of the most brilliant animated films ever and most people still don't even know about it.There isn't anything to compare Bakshi's work to, he was so brilliant and ahead of his time.Why can't somebody pick up where Bakshi left off?

[Johnlindsey289]

Now this is an underrated and sad animated movie! i love how dramatic this one is, perhaps Bakshi's best movie.

For anyone who liked this, i recommend Pink Floyd The Wall and Grave of the Fireflies.

[tinister]

That's the genius of Bakshi. If you look at the way this sequence is composed; it works really well as a stylized animation. And I would bet that the same sequence in live action would just plain suck. Bakshi is brilliant.

[popova]

@tinister

I saw this movie when I was young, Just netflixed it recently and I completely agree...

This movie is years ahead of its time...

[tinister]

I ordered the DVD from Amazon. I have it on vhs somewhere. Wish they would put out a Bakshi Blu-ray box set.

[Hethrin]

For some reason...I love Pete's semi 80's lingo XD...

[tinister]

Critics panned this movie when it came out. To me - it is way ahead of its time. A gem.

[akumanoken]

Critics panning Ralph Bakshi's work is nothing new. I don't understand it, but they jsut don't like it. I love his stuff.

[Malcham7]

so this is where Kanye West got his inspiration for his "Heartless" Music Video

[velmasnaps]

Truly one of the best films ever made. you'll never find anything like this again.  Bakshi is brilliant this and heavy traffic are true classics

[Johnlindsey289]

@velmasnaps

I agree, it's a great movie of characterization, a few tears and makes you feel good inside.

[EthanWolfCat]

What is the title of the song right after Pat Banatar - Hell is for children?

[thoostorm3]

night moves with a piano intro is kool

[ALLSATIN247]

I didnt realize that you can see the WTC in the background at 1:44........creeeeepy Ive seen this vid a million times and I just noticed that today!!! CREEEEEEPY!!!!!!

[MontyPython134]

This was before Albert Wesker became evil.

[Johnlindsey289]

I ALWAYS thought the same thought too, he does resemble Albert Wesker from the Resident Evil games.

[DooderMcAltair]

The character Pete precedes Albert Wesker so the correct thing to say is that Wesker resembles Pete.

[Johnlindsey289]

@MontyPython134

LOL! i had the Resident Evil game fifteen years ago when i got my PS1 for Christmas when i was 15 and when i bought American Pop at 17 after rewatching it since i was 12 back in 93 on TBS, i thought this guy looks like Wesker.

[LifeDreamer]

hay i really like the first song can you tell me the name and from who it is? i really really like it

[daytripperarrabal]

Hell is for children - Pat Benatar

[gobears1987]

It does look that way, but in the DVD commentary they said that Seger recorded it for them.

[scallywag86]

best movie ever. Nothing else needs to be said.

It wins

[brooklyn0914]

heavy metal this is not... it's ok, but its all rotoscoped. doesn't have the same vibe either.

[Johnlindsey289]

@brooklyn0914

I know but still it's an awesome movie.

[gobears1987]

I wish Seger would've released the version of Night Moves he recorded for this movie. This is the only version with a piano intro.

[morongobob]

pass em out turkey

[ffejgib]

1:56

reminds me of what i did at a green day concert the other night at MSG!

[Blickdavis]

Thanks for posting this.

[metalraider187]

too bad they dont make movies like this anymore

[matayus1024]

long life for rock

[eurastus]

In the movie, there is a sequence where young Tony (Pete's father) were in a Jazz Bar listen a music with a friend before the poets speach. Someone can tell me the name of that music?

[eurastus]

In the original feature this sequence presents the music "Sultan of Swing" by Dire Straits. It was so much better than this. I don't know why it changed. I Suppose DS asked for.

[Jogonpants]

This character always reminded me of Royston Langdon, Lead singer of Spacehog, he looks EXACTLY like pete, its crazy.

[xHenri]

Kanye West made a tribute to this movie in his music video for Heartless

[necrothunder]

tremendo drug dealer el pequeño Pete loco XD!!

[ramblinhaze]

My Dad always used to watch this movie when I was a kid..and I always wanted to watch it with him and he would always tell me:

"Son, it's not that kind of cartoon."

Not until years later and I saw it myself did I understand.

[Johnlindsey289]

@ramblinhaze

Well it's called an animated movie for mature audiences.

[Wrackewn]

the guy dancing on the razor was spaz attack, I reconise that dancing anywhere. Didnt know he was in this movie, he was in devo and toni basil videos.

[alkatrezs]

What the hell is in that bag?

[nsone]

doh

[alkatrezs]

doH? drugs or money?

[HUNspike]

It's coke.

[nicart004]

I remember the first time I saw this movie it knocked my socks out.

I wonder if there's a good animation software that can do this sort of thing, if anyone knows as such, drop me a line.

[tropcis]

puqueño pete es la host1a night m0ves¡¡

[Borin81]

ah, the punk era, my brother was part of it.

iw as a kid of the 80's so Hell is for Children is more my type of music.

but what song is played when he goes around dealing coke? i forgot its name but i remember it.

[MegatronSpock]

The name of the song you referring to is Pretty Vacant. From Sex Pistols.

[Johnlindsey289]

@Borin81

Born 1981 too and i'm an 80's kid too. Did you grew up with this movie as well?

[nothingstopskings]

I have always had a thing for this movie.

[pinworms70]

Remember seeing this movie many years ago...Funny how Apple Ipod stole this rotoscope type animation for their commericals...Fuck Apple.

[Skyntalor]

wow. albert wesker can really rock out.

[metalraider187]

roflol

[Johnlindsey289]

@Skyntalor

LOL! i always thought of that when i bought this movie on VHS back in 98 when i was 17 cause i've been a RE fan since i was 15 when i got a PS1 for christmas with Resident Evil.

[Biorythym]

and of course the clip ends just as freebird is about to start

[SmellyBrown]

whats the song played by pete with the piano?

[RedgameZZ]

it was Night Moves by Bob Seger

[enzytebob]

Kinda looks like Nicholas Cage @ 1:50

[Lefty001]

and the moral of the story is...dealing smack can get you stuff.

[plokijuhujiko]

Why didn't they do just a bit of research into the original american punk scene? they use a sex pistols song for a movie called AMERICAN pop..as though iggy pop, lou reed, new york dolls, patti smith, ramones, talking heads, and blondie didn't PRECEDE them. then they play a bob seger song, followed by a weird song medley.Man they blew the final act of this film. all they had to do was a little research, but they didn't care. This film could've been a classic if the writers had given a shit.

[stacks7600]

they left out a lot of the scenes. quit being bitter about the lack of posters hanging in your room, plok, and dig the movei for what its worth; you aweful jackass.

[mthai66]

Research? Punk Rock?! Sad, sad, sorry little kid. You don't research Punk Rock. You either lived it back then, or you didn't. No amount of Wikipedia will make any of you pampered infants a punk rocker.

Bakshi used the song, because it was POPULAR AT THE TIME. How did he know? Same way I know: we were alive in 1981.

[RCMproductions]

To mthai: FUCK. YES.

[RunawayTrane]

love the part where they start recording

[thadus232]

Both of pete's ancestors, got fame on their own accord.

I love this movie as well as Ralph Bakshi

[Gargess]

I believe that Pete is supposed to be the culmination of musical fame that his Great-Grandfather always wanted to achieve. He inherited the singing abilities from his Great Grandparents, the virtuosity of his grandfather and the writing talents of his father. It was supposed to be lines of good musical breeding making him a star ultimately. But I digress, I thought the musical selection at the end was plain weird.

[Fenderkicksass]

I think its suppose to represent the Pop star thing that happened right at that time with Michael Jackson ect

[nothingstopskings]

I think you are right.

[Biorythym]

aa fantastic movie, which to me in it's own way was superior to "Heavy Metal"...though fo course not knowing what rotoscoping was I never understood why other naimiation never looked as good

[Johnlindsey289]

@Biorythym

I do believe it's better than Heavy Metal which came out the same year, well it's called Rotoscoping and today's CGI with humans blended in from WETA used this technology wisely in Beowulf, Monster House, Lord of the Rings Trilogy and Avatar.

[tabbygail7]

The animation technic is "Rotoscoping", where they film live actors then animate over the image. This has become one of my favorite films. The scenes between Little Pete and Tony are sad yet touching, and are the best parts of the movie.

[sinshenlong]

the animation is amazing :|

why isnt this guy mainstream!!!!?

[Naduwa]

Oh I love it! Where I can found song 6:10?

Plese help me)))

[ootslaton]

Night Moves

[dmcsweetpea]

The song is "Night Moves"

by Bob Seger

[xxxbobafett666xx]

love this movie i have the poster one of the best poster i have ever seen ....A+ film

[kal3idosc0pe]

I love how badass Pete is!

It's not the money man.

And it's funny, I realized that my uncle kinda talks like that from time to time. I wonder if he's ever seen this movie.

[Blakefe]

pete looks like berry manilow

[theENGLISHconection]

Blooth (secret of nim) and Bakshi film yea kick ass

[theENGLISHconection]

I don't wanna be your candy man no more, TURKEY'S

[OneCopperKid]

He may come from hard knocks, but i would give, to have that swagger, Dig.

[locksmithite]

depressing to see the twin towers in the background.

[slharris1984]

Why does he sound like old Michael Jackson?