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White City



Suddenly WHITE CITY is my favorite Pete solo album.  I always liked it, but 
now all of the sudden it's taken on whole new dimensions.  I thought it was 
about Pete, but instead it's about losing Keith Moon and The Who.

This should have showed in the movie.  It's the really touching part--not 
all the symbolism about the gender gap and what caused Moon's problems.  Jim 
should recognizably BE Moon, and like the movie Roger is planning, this 
should become a character study that reveals what makes these people 
love/hate one another.  If Pete's point is that you can't go back home again 
(back to the teen years when times were hopeful and idealistic) then some 
one of the characters should attempt to do that and finally say it when it 
doesn't work.  That should be the storyline here--a guy who's trying to 
escape from tragedy by dumping everything he's worked for in the last 20 
years and  make a new life and how he's still haunted by the past.

I've heard some of Pete's literary fans say he's too heavy-handed in his 
writing, and  the symbolism does seem belabored here.  It works in a 
stadium, but for a film it needs to be secondary to the characters and how 
they interact.


keets



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