200 motels

Director: tony palmer,frank zappa

Actor: mark volman,howard kaylan,ian underwood,aynsley dunbar

Data Published: Sat Nov 20 1971

Genres: Comedy,Fantasy,Music

Key Words: shot on video,topless female nudity,f word,1970s,frank zappa

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066732/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/200_Motels

Description: 200 Motels is a movie starring Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, and Ian Underwood. "Touring makes you crazy", Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this movie came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The story,...

Plot: In 200 Motels, the film attempts to portray the craziness of life on the road as a rock musician, and as such consists of a series of unconnected nonsense vignettes interspersed with concert footage of the Mothers of Invention.[3] Ostensibly, while on tour The Mothers of Invention go crazy in the small fictional town of Centerville ("a real nice place to raise your kids up"), wander around, and get beaten up in "Redneck Eats", a cowboy bar. In a cartoon interlude passed off as a "dental hygiene movie," bassist "Jeff", tired of playing what he refers to as "Zappa's comedy music", is persuaded by his bad conscience to quit the group, as did his real-life counterpart Jeff Simmons, who was fired for insubordination before the film began shooting. Simmons was replaced by Martin Lickert (who was Ringo's chauffeur) for the film.[2] Almost every scene is drenched with video special effects (double and triple exposures, solarisation, false color, speed changes, etc.) which were innovative in 1971. The film has been dubbed a "surrealistic documentary".[4][5]