Alan Parker on Pink Floyd's The Wall

Alan Parker talks about his experience as Director of the film "The Wall" by Pink Floyd.

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• Wall
• Alan
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• Roger
• Waters
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[MattShine]

It's a shame that the man directly responsible for bringing 'The Wall' to life on the screen is the person who LEAST understands it.

Anybody who has felt completely isolated from the rest of the world knows exactly what Waters was singing about.

Perhaps Mr. Parker never felt that way; I envy him.

[DeadJerker]

This should go in the Smithsonian or something as one of the only moments in film history in which a director has admitted that one of his most famous films is pretentious. (I love _Pink Floyd The Wall_ anyway.)

[oilthatgate]

Alan Parker is a hack director, he was the wrong man for the job.

[fleadle34]

How can you not understand , " the wall " LOOK at it again Allan !

[Dadgrug]

@MattShine Have hope Matt -, Alan wasn't sure about it becuase Rodger wrote the screenplay and pretty much directed the effort assisted by Gilmour. Alan shot the scenes as Rodger instructed.

You know exactly what the film is about. It all fits together if you've been there.

[Dadgrug]

Listen closely - Alan doesn't call the FILM pretentious "I think it's an interesting film, but I think it's pretentious to actually kid you that actually that anybody intellectually knew shat we were doing" He was referring to his own comments.

A far as not really knowing what the film was about, it was because Rodger wrote the screenplay and pretty much directed the effort assisted by Gilmour. Alan shot the scenes as Rodger instructed. He got though It's about the walls we all build.

[Shpankerton]

dont call Roger Waters a lunatic you asshole

[MissyDaMinion]

"It's become a Classic of the Genre"......

Pretentious or not........

If Roger Waters 'indulged' in the creation of something that no-one (supposedly) understood, then I applaud him.

Without a dictum TELLING the 'audience' what The Wall was 'about' was possibly the greatest gift an artist could bestow upon their fans... perhaps that is why it became the "Classic of the Genre"?

Music is art therefore we interpret it as we wish to, yes?

[marmaduke90]

but then i am tight as a tornique,

and dry as a funeral drum.

[marmaduke90]

the wall has allways been acused of being pretentious , and i have never understood why.

It is definately ambitious, but also honest and true. I also read geldof's autobiography just to get his take on the film, only to have him also slag it of as pretentious crap.

prog rock did throw up a lot of twaddle, but this is one of the best albums ever written. If this opinion makes me pretentious, then so be it, but i really don't understand the charge.

[welshuser]

How old is this interview clip? It seems as though Parker's opinion on it, has gone up and down over the years. As for the film's narative, it seemed fairly straight forward to me.

MattShine, is on the money with his comment.