Pink Floyd: The Wall - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[addison]

Over the phone call, it asks permission to charge for a 'Mr. Floyd' (Pink) to call from outside the country. That makes Pink's name Pink Floyd.

[aaron]

One of the few films in movie history where none of the characters are given names. Only Pink has a name though its never said what his real first name is only that his last name might be Floyd.

[russell]

In his autobiography "Is That It?", Bob Geldof says that his agent first told him about the project while he was riding in a taxi, and that he said that he didn't want to do it because he didn't like the music of Pink Floyd. Roger Waters knows this story, not because he read it in Geldof's book, but because the taxi driver was actually Roger Waters' brother.

[miriam]

Despite the line "Soundtrack available on Columbia Records and Tapes" in the credits (on British prints of the movie and subsequent VHS editions this reads "Soundtrack available on Harvest Records and Tapes", Harvest Records being the band's long time British record label) no (official) soundtrack ever surfaced, because the soundtrack would have been very similar to the Wall album. In fact, the song "When the Tigers Broke Free" was unavailable on a (non-bootleg) Pink Floyd album until the "Echoes" compilation was issued in 2001. Instead, additional material which would have been included on the proposed soundtrack album was released in 1983 as a new album, "The Final Cut". In 2003, a special CD edition of this album was released which included "When the Tigers Broke Free". One rumored title for the album was "Spare Bricks".

[mathew]

The two colors of the Hammerskin logo, red and white, create the color pink when mixed together.

[alyssa]

Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason were the only members of Pink Floyd who attended the film's premiere, at the Empire Theatre in London's Leicester Square on July 14, 1982 - the fourth and final member Richard Wright had been fired from the band, though he returned for the The Wall tour in the following months. Mason did not attend the New York premiere a few days later. Gerald Scarfe was in town but was off playing pool, since he couldn't "bear to see the film again."

[kenneth]

During "In the Flesh?", while the police are searching and arresting the kids, an ad for 7-UP featuring Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt is prominently shown.

[tammy]

The animated sequences were first show on the original Wall concert tour in 1980. The original screen ratio for many of the sequences, most notably "The Trial", were much wider than the film's 2.35:1 screen ratio. Some portions that were stationary in the concerts, like Pink's mom cradling him during "The Trial", had to be panned and scanned.

[caroline]

Song changes from album: - When the Tigers Broke Free - added - In the Flesh? - extended/rerecorded with Bob Geldof's vocals - The Thin Ice - extended/remixed - Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1 - unchanged - The Happiest Days of Our Lives - remixed - Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 - remixed - Mother - rerecorded/lyrics changed - Goodbye Blue Sky - remixed - Empty Spaces - deleted, in favor of: - What Shall We Do Now? - added - Young Lust - unchanged screams were added - One of My Turns - musically unchanged, but Jenny Wright recites the groupie's dialogue - Don't Leave Me Now - remixed. The first verse is removed and the breathing is louder - Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3 - rerecorded with a faster tempo - Goodbye Cruel World - unchanged - Hey You - scene deleted - Is There Anybody Out There? - classical guitar rerecorded - Nobody Home- musically unchanged but TV shows are different -Vera - unchanged - Bring the Boys Back Home - extended with choir - Comfortably Numb - bass line different from album - The Show Must Go On - not included - In the Flesh - rerecorded completely with a brass band - Run Like Hell - remixed and shortened - Waiting for the Worms - shortened, but the chant is extended - Stop! - re-recorded completely with Geldof unaccompanied on lead vocals - The Trial - Re-mixed with longer instrumental intro, and audience cheering sounds added. - Outside the Wall - rerecorded.

[lena]

When the camera shows the crowd at the concert during In The Flesh, one of audience members is wearing a shirt bearing the words "Bob Geldof".

[javier]

A few animated shots were Gerald Scarfe's designs for earlier Pink Floyd concerts, including the dog biting meat off a fish hook from the "Animals" tour (this can be seen twice very briefly in the "Waiting for the Worms" sequence), and the "leaf-man" animation from "Wish You Were Here" (which is seen in "The Trial" sequence).

[nina]

The Wall tour (in support of the album) originally ran through 1980, in Los Angeles, New York and Earl's Court (London) (the nature of the material, and the scale of the stage production, prohibited a large-scale tour). When the movie was green-lighted, Pink Floyd performed five more shows at Earl's Court, which were filmed with the intention of being incorporated into the movie but the resulting footage was deemed unsuitable for use. Over the years, numerous suggestions have been made that this footage could be used to make a concert film, but Roger Waters, who owns all rights to the footage, has been working on remastering the concerts off and on in recent years.

[nora]

The album front on the props used in the film during "In the Flesh?" and "Young Lust" is actually a black and white photo of Gerald Scarfe. It is also featured as the design on the hooker/groupie's shirt in "Young Lust"

[jamie]

The scene with the rat is based on a episode from Roger Waters' childhood where he found a poisoned rat which he took home and attempted to nurture until it died.

[brent]

Bob Geldof is terrified of blood and found the razor blade scene extremely difficult to film. He was only supposed to shave his eyebrows. Feeling himself seized by the role, he improvised the scene and shaved his entire body. This scene was inspired by Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett (as was much of the album), who became mentally ill and left the band in the late 1960s. According to the band, Barrett once left a crowded dinner party, went home, shaved his head, and went back, behaving as though it was the most normal thing in the world. Some of the people who were close to Syd during his decline had to leave the theater during the scene, because they found it so disturbing.