Ken Russell (Director/Guionista) - Tommy (1975)

[@briggscharleton6139]

I saw Tommy in 1975 when I was 10. It completely blew my mind. A total absorbing experience. Back then you saw a film once in the theater and then moved on. Tommy's images stuck with me for a long time. Like seeing The Wizard of Oz for the furst it had a profound impact on me. I had also seen Alice Cooper Welcome to my Nightmare live at about the same time and music became my sole passion.

[@jeffreywillstewart]

As was stated in Amadeus, true opera has no dancing, just drama, so in that sense itS True. Tommy was the first musical with no choreography.

[@tmamone83]

It took me a while to get into "Tommy." I wasn't at all familiar with Ken Russell's work at the time, so when I first saw it at age 14, my immediate reaction was, "What the hell was that?" So for the longest time I insisted that Russell bastardized Pete Townshend's vision and they should have gotten a better director. Now that I'm more familiar with Russell's work--and kinda like it actually--I've learned to love "Tommy." In fact, I think Russell made the right decision altering the inciting incident because by having the lover kill the father, it plays into a lot of children's fears of having a wicked stepparent come into their lives.