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Almost Famous

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75 feature instances
50 referencing feature instances

Almost Famous	type	TVTItem
Almost Famous	label	Almost Famous
Almost Famous	page	AlmostFamous
Almost Famous	comment	Almost Famous is a 2000 coming-of-age film directed by Cameron Crowe, loosely based on Crowe's own teenage years as a music critic.Set in The '70s, the film follows the experiences of Author Avatar William Miller (Patrick Fugit), an aspiring teenage rock journalist who gets sucked headfirst into the world of rock when he goes on tour with a band named "Stillwater". In addition to the band itself, he becomes acquainted with its groupies and gets a good look at what happens underneath the glamorous exterior that most people are presented with.Kate Hudson and Billy Crudup star as, respectively, head groupie Penny Lane and her lover Russell, the lead guitarist for Stillwater. Jason Lee plays Jeff Bebe, Stillwater's lead singer. Anna Paquin plays Polexia, another groupie. Frances McDormand and Zooey Deschanel play William's mother and sister. Philip Seymour Hoffman has a small but meaty part as Real Life rock journalist Lester Bangs; Jimmy Fallon has another small but meaty part as the record company guy who tries to push Stillwater into the big time.
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Almost Famous	processingComment	Dropped link to CreedenceClearwaterRevival: Not a Feature - IGNORE
Almost Famous	processingComment	Dropped link to TheAllmanBrothersBand: Not a Feature - IGNORE
Almost Famous	processingComment	Dropped link to TheBeachBoys: Not a Feature - IGNORE
Almost Famous	processingComment	Dropped link to TheBeatles: Not a Feature - IGNORE
Almost Famous	processingComment	Dropped link to ToKillAMockingbird: Not a Feature - ITEM
Almost Famous	isPartOf	DBTropes
Almost Famous / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Almost Famous / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: That's Cameron Crowe's hand writing names on a notepad in the opening credits.
Almost Famous / int_127fc252	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_127fc252	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_127fc252
Almost Famous / int_12b6fe15	type	Walk and Talk
Almost Famous / int_12b6fe15	comment	Lester Bangs walks and talks with William for a while, then says goodbye, shrugs, and says "I can't just stand around talking to my many fans." Cut to Lester and William eating in a diner, having clearly talked for hours.
Almost Famous / int_12b6fe15	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_12b6fe15	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_12b6fe15
Almost Famous / int_1434e55c	type	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
Almost Famous / int_1434e55c	comment	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: While dropping William off at a concert, his mother loudly calls out "Don't take drugs!" to him, to the mockery of the other concertgoers. Somewhat subverted in that the concertgoers think she's calling out to all of them, so Elaine ends up embarrassing herself and sparing William.
Almost Famous / int_1434e55c	featureApplicability	-0.3
Almost Famous / int_1434e55c	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_1434e55c
Almost Famous / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Almost Famous / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: In the airplane scene, as soon as turbulence hits Russell does a deliberate case of this by singing Buddy Holly, who died in a plane crash.
Almost Famous / int_15b2cab3	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_15b2cab3	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_15b2cab3
Almost Famous / int_16e94b0a	type	Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll
Almost Famous / int_16e94b0a	comment	Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: Somewhat soft-pedaled as Stillwater doesn't get that drug-addled...but Russell does have rather unfortunate LSD experience and Penny OD's on tranquilizers near the end.
Almost Famous / int_16e94b0a	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_16e94b0a	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_16e94b0a
Almost Famous / int_1ab65185	type	That Reminds Me of a Song
Almost Famous / int_1ab65185	comment	That Reminds Me of a Song: When William tells Stillwater they're going to be on the cover of Rolling Stone, Jeff starts geeking out, and then leads the band and their friends into an impromptu version of "The Cover of the Rolling Stone".
Almost Famous / int_1ab65185	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_1ab65185	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_1ab65185
Almost Famous / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
Almost Famous / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: Stillwater's drummer. His only line happens to be utterly hilarious. In the director's cut, the band manager claims that Silent Ed is the favorite member of true Stillwater fans.
Almost Famous / int_1da5941e	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_1da5941e	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_1da5941e
Almost Famous / int_1ec7ea4a	type	Watch Out for That Tree!
Almost Famous / int_1ec7ea4a	comment	Watch Out for That Tree!: Sapphire, while running alongside Stillwater's tour bus to give William a message, runs straight into a wall. Thankfully averted near the end of the movie where William runs along with Penny's plane as it takes off.
Almost Famous / int_1ec7ea4a	featureApplicability	-1.0
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Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_1ec7ea4a
Almost Famous / int_20d6f4ea	type	Photo Montage
Almost Famous / int_20d6f4ea	comment	Photo Montage: Throughout the movie Penny Lane is seen snapping photos with a Polaroid. Penny's photos are all shown over the closing credits.
Almost Famous / int_20d6f4ea	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_20d6f4ea	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_20d6f4ea
Almost Famous / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Almost Famous / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The fact that Penny and William both live in San Diego. This means that when at the end of the movie, Russell comes to San Diego and calls Penny and asks to see her, she can instead direct him to William's house.
Almost Famous / int_22cf536c	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_22cf536c	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_22cf536c
Almost Famous / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Almost Famous / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: "Here I am, telling secrets to the one person I shouldn't be telling them."
Almost Famous / int_237404cc	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_237404cc	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_237404cc
Almost Famous / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Almost Famous / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshaded by Penny:
Almost Famous / int_2a090d00	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_2a090d00	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_2a090d00
Almost Famous / int_2ab79021	type	Emerging from the Shadows
Almost Famous / int_2ab79021	comment	Emerging from the Shadows: When Penny Lane says her first line ("Not a what?"), she emerges from a poorly-lit area to the bright light of a street light. This marks her out as a more important character than all the other Band-Aids standing at the top of the ramps.
Almost Famous / int_2ab79021	featureApplicability	1.0
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Almost Famous / int_2de02182	type	Visual Title Drop
Almost Famous / int_2de02182	comment	Visual Title Drop: Sign on the front of the Stillwater tour bus.
Almost Famous / int_2de02182	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_2de02182	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_2de02182
Almost Famous / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
Almost Famous / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: Stillwater's new manager does not appreciate how long '60s rock acts will hang around.
Almost Famous / int_3149c4b0	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_3149c4b0	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_3149c4b0
Almost Famous / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
Almost Famous / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: In-Universe, and literally. The delivery of Stillwater T-shirts, with a printing error in which only Russell is in focus, leads to an argument in which Jeff complains about falling invokedOut of Focus as Russell is becoming the face of the band.
Almost Famous / int_32da91b8	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_32da91b8	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_32da91b8
Almost Famous / int_35464cad	type	TheIshmael
Almost Famous / int_35464cad	comment	The Ishmael: The movie is told from the viewpoint of William, but the core of the story is the discoveries he has about the band and their Groupies Band Aids. The real character journeys are Russell and Penny as they deal with their place in the band and rising stardom.
Almost Famous / int_35464cad	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_35464cad	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_35464cad
Almost Famous / int_36ec2454	type	Rule of Pool
Almost Famous / int_36ec2454	comment	Rule of Pool: Russell Hammond takes a high dive and everyone else at the party joins in.
Almost Famous / int_36ec2454	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_36ec2454	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_36ec2454
Almost Famous / int_3e92ed3e	type	Groupie Brigade
Almost Famous / int_3e92ed3e	comment	Groupie Brigade: "IT'S BOWIE!" Cue horde of groupies chasing after Bowie.
Almost Famous / int_3e92ed3e	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_3e92ed3e	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_3e92ed3e
Almost Famous / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Almost Famous / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: More on the sweet side. Russell makes things right with William and Rolling Stone, finally grants William an interview, and the two part on good terms. William's Stillwater article is published, raising the band's profile, and officially establishing William as a rock journalist. William's mother and sister have reconciled. Penny embarks on her year in Morocco, signaling that she's ready to move on. On the bitter side, Russell's relationship with Leslie is over, and its presumed that he's lost any chance of a relationship with Penny. It's also assumed the band may not last much longer due to the tensions between Russell and Jeff. In the director's cut, Jeff and Russell have a heart-to-heart at the end of the tour that is civil, but still lined with uncertainty.
Almost Famous / int_40cc0c7e	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_40cc0c7e	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_40cc0c7e
Almost Famous / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Almost Famous / int_43b785f9	comment	Nothing but Hits: Anita leaves William her record collection, which apparently consists entirely of well-known, critically-acclaimed rock albums that have stood the test of time and remain instantly recognizable to contemporary audiences. Semi-averted with the actual soundtrack to the movie, with throws in such lesser-known gems as Cat Stevens' "The Wind" and The Beach Boys' "Feel Flows" alongside the expected classics.
Almost Famous / int_43b785f9	featureApplicability	-1.0
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Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_43b785f9
Almost Famous / int_46290b93	type	Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Almost Famous / int_46290b93	comment	Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Penny Lane is a deconstruction of this — she uses her quirky, upbeat attitude to hide her inner loneliness and hurt, something that becomes painfully apparent at the end of the movie. Unsurprisingly, it was a later Cameron Crowe film that inspired the Trope Namer. Crowe is awfully fond of this trope.
Almost Famous / int_46290b93	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_46290b93	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_46290b93
Almost Famous / int_4ba29ebb	type	Lost Him in a Card Game
Almost Famous / int_4ba29ebb	comment	Lost Him in a Card Game: One of the band members bets their groupies. sigh* It's Band-aid!*
Almost Famous / int_4ba29ebb	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_4ba29ebb	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_4ba29ebb
Almost Famous / int_52e52099	type	Deathbed Confession
Almost Famous / int_52e52099	comment	Deathbed Confession: Once the airplane hits turbulence, everyone starts confessing secrets. Though it's just a close call - and once things go back to normal, there's an uncomfortable silence, not helped by the last thing said.
Almost Famous / int_52e52099	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_52e52099	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_52e52099
Almost Famous / int_54cbd0cb	type	This Is Unforgivable!
Almost Famous / int_54cbd0cb	comment	This Is Unforgivable!: When Russel tanks William's credibility for saying his article was fake, Penny took it as the final nail and moves on from him. Her last message to him was an address to William's home, signifying that she's done with him, but William deserves an apology.
Almost Famous / int_54cbd0cb	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_54cbd0cb	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_54cbd0cb
Almost Famous / int_58510e2b	type	Sexy Packaging
Almost Famous / int_58510e2b	comment	Sexy Packaging: You see it on◊ video◊ first◊? Three guesses why you rented that film...
Almost Famous / int_58510e2b	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_58510e2b	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_58510e2b
Almost Famous / int_5b9b4a19	type	Almighty Mom
Almost Famous / int_5b9b4a19	comment	Almighty Mom: William's mom takes no shit from anybody.
Almost Famous / int_5b9b4a19	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_5b9b4a19	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_5b9b4a19
Almost Famous / int_62e59256	type	Groupie
Almost Famous / int_62e59256	comment	Groupie: The film revolves much around the 1970s groupie scene.
Almost Famous / int_62e59256	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_62e59256	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_62e59256
Almost Famous / int_6531fa39	type	Professional Voice Dissonance
Almost Famous / int_6531fa39	comment	Professional Voice Dissonance: William tries to use a deeper voice while on the phone with the editor at Rolling Stone in order to hide the fact that he's only 16. This backfires eventually, as the editor starts to think that his unnaturally deep voice is from pot use and tells him to clean up his act, as they don't need another Hunter S. Thompson.
Almost Famous / int_6531fa39	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_6531fa39	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_6531fa39
Almost Famous / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Almost Famous / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Crowe has long believed in The Power of Rock, and that's summed up near the end, when Sapphire is slamming the other groupies (as opposed to other Band-Aids like her):
Almost Famous / int_6627695f	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_6627695f	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_6627695f
Almost Famous / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Almost Famous / int_680f950	comment	And a Gilligan Cut. "How do you know when the acid has kicked in?"
Almost Famous / int_680f950	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_680f950	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_680f950
Almost Famous / int_6f19054d	type	Coming-Out Story
Almost Famous / int_6f19054d	comment	Stillwater's drummer. His only line happens to be utterly hilarious.
Almost Famous / int_6f19054d	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_6f19054d	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_6f19054d
Almost Famous / int_79275aa2	type	Not on the List
Almost Famous / int_79275aa2	comment	Not on the List: William can't get backstage at a show until Stillwater gets him in.
Almost Famous / int_79275aa2	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_79275aa2	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_79275aa2
Almost Famous / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Almost Famous / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: William gives an epic one to the band for their treatment of Penny. All while the plane they were on was hitting turbulence. And just before that, Jeff gives one to Russell. Sapphire gives one to Russell both for his rejection of Penny and his destruction of William's career by lying about him making his story up.
Almost Famous / int_7d89315b	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_7d89315b	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_7d89315b
Almost Famous / int_7f080f98	type	Vague Age
Almost Famous / int_7f080f98	comment	Vague Age: It's never stated just how old Penny is supposed to be. She claims to be as young as William in one scene, though it's Played for Laughs. (Kate Hudson was 20 during production.)
Almost Famous / int_7f080f98	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_7f080f98	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_7f080f98
Almost Famous / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
Almost Famous / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: The drummer's one line, said as he thinks they're all going to die, is to scream that he's gay. No one would be able to tell otherwise.
Almost Famous / int_83b44e80	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_83b44e80	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_83b44e80
Almost Famous / int_85cc4dbc	type	Sex as Rite-of-Passage
Almost Famous / int_85cc4dbc	comment	Sex as Rite-of-Passage: Not that William actively attempts to lose his virginity — that's taken care of for him.
Almost Famous / int_85cc4dbc	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_85cc4dbc	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_85cc4dbc
Almost Famous / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Almost Famous / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: This entire film is a deconstruction on the illusion of rock-star life. It seems glamorous at first, but then the fame starts getting to your head and you start doing stupid things that you would never do in the right mind. Fame leads to an illusion of invulnerability and often creates tension between band members (often brought on by record execs to force them to create a big radio hit against the will of the band member's better judgement or creative being all for the sake of profit). It just goes to show that the rock-star life is nothing more than a gilded cage.
Almost Famous / int_8ae880f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_8ae880f7	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_8ae880f7
Almost Famous / int_8cb259f4	type	Overshadowed by Awesome
Almost Famous / int_8cb259f4	comment	Overshadowed by Awesome: Jeff, the lead singer, is this with respect to Russell, and he's not happy about it. At all.
Almost Famous / int_8cb259f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_8cb259f4	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_8cb259f4
Almost Famous / int_953a8ee8	type	Age Cut
Almost Famous / int_953a8ee8	comment	Age Cut: From William as an 11-year-old to William as a 15-year-old post-pubescent aspiring rock journalist.
Almost Famous / int_953a8ee8	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_953a8ee8	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_953a8ee8
Almost Famous / int_9d72c7fe	type	Fan Boy
Almost Famous / int_9d72c7fe	comment	Fanboy/Fangirl: Numerous, numerous in-movie examples. Lampshaded by Penny:
Almost Famous / int_9d72c7fe	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_9d72c7fe	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_9d72c7fe
Almost Famous / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Almost Famous / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: In addition to many events taken directly from real life (e.g. the scene where the band's plane almost crashes happened while director Crowe was touring with The Who), the movies is full of homages to rock bands and albums. The scene where one of the Stillwater members is shocked by his microphone is a possible shout out to Keith Relf of the Yardbirds, who died after being electrocuted by improperly grounded music equipment. Some scenes are also framed to look like or include references to album covers, such as a shot of the crowd at the first Stillwater concert that's made to look like the cover to Neil Young's "Time Fades Away."
Almost Famous / int_a1a1491e	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_a1a1491e	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_a1a1491e
Almost Famous / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Almost Famous / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Russel had it on his face when he learned it was William who saved Penny from her overdose, and he learned this after he royally nuked his journalist career. He does make it right in the end though.
Almost Famous / int_a1b141f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_a1b141f4	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_a1b141f4
Almost Famous / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Almost Famous / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Penny Lane keeps her real name a secret, because it's an Embarrassing First Name: "Lady Goodman?!?!?"
Almost Famous / int_a7850fbf	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_a7850fbf	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_a7850fbf
Almost Famous / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Almost Famous / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: Stevie Wonder's dreamily romantic "My Cherie Amour" plays as William watches Penny get her stomach pumped following her overdose on pills.
Almost Famous / int_abad35b4	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_abad35b4	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_abad35b4
Almost Famous / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Almost Famous / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: One of the Stillwater band members mentions to William how they had a fun tour. "Hey, we did everything but get you laid." Notices the smile on William's face and has this look as he realizes one of the, ahem, "band aids" did that already. In the director's cut, this is William's reaction to realizing just how many of the Band-Aids made use of him. Sapphire gets this when she asks the woman on the phone if she's "Elaine with the pot" but it's actually William's mom.
Almost Famous / int_ad1db87c	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_ad1db87c	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_ad1db87c
Almost Famous / int_ad362cc1	type	Dead Air
Almost Famous / int_ad362cc1	comment	Dead Air: During a radio interview scene where the overnight DJ, higher than a very high thing, falls asleep and the band being interviewed realizes the air is dead. Not for long, though.
Almost Famous / int_ad362cc1	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_ad362cc1	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_ad362cc1
Almost Famous / int_aef5c283	type	Off-into-the-Distance Ending
Almost Famous / int_aef5c283	comment	Off-into-the-Distance Ending: The last shot is Doris the bus, carrying Stillwater down the road on the 1974 tour.
Almost Famous / int_aef5c283	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_aef5c283	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_aef5c283
Almost Famous / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
Almost Famous / int_af696bef	comment	Fish out of Water: At first, William, off on adventure with Stillwater. Not so much later; he has truly acclimated by the time he says "I have to go home" and Penny tells him "You are home."
Almost Famous / int_af696bef	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_af696bef	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_af696bef
Almost Famous / int_b3d5d61	type	Real-Person Cameo
Almost Famous / int_b3d5d61	comment	Real Person Cameo: Cameron Crowe's mother is handing out diplomas at the graduation ceremony that William Miller misses. William sees Jann Wenner in the back seat of a cab while he's chasing after Penny. According to Cameron Crowe in the director's commentary, his older sister and her family are the people in the elevator with David Bowie in the Cleveland hotel.
Almost Famous / int_b3d5d61	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Famous / int_b3d5d61	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_b3d5d61
Almost Famous / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
Almost Famous / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: Elaine, William's mother, though subverted to some degree: She's portrayed sympathetically. Cameron Crowe's mother was on the set for most of the scenes "she" was in, and participated in the DVD Commentary.
Almost Famous / int_b58c51d8	featureApplicability	-0.3
Almost Famous / int_b58c51d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Famous	hasFeature	Almost Famous / int_b58c51d8
Almost Famous / int_b5c56995	type	Corrupt the Cutie
Almost Famous / int_b5c56995	comment	Corrupt the Cutie: In the director's cut, there is an early scene of Polexia circling William at a party like a shark as she talks about the mechanics of seduction. She ends up taking William's virginity later on.
Almost Famous / int_b5c56995	featureApplicability	1.0
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Almost Famous / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Almost Famous / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Numerous throughout the movie. Many real rock-and-roll personalities are actual characters in the movie, or implied to be just off-screen. Lester Bangs drops these left and right. Penny Lane is a nod to The Beatles and is also is loosely based on a real person. At one point William is trying to interview Black Sabbath. On a couple of different occasions, he encounters groupies chasing after David Bowie, Robert Plant, or Jimmy Page. And Penny is sold to Humble Pie. "Stillwater" is possibly a play on Creedence Clearwater Revival, and maybe Crosby, Stills & Nash.note The name was actually taken from a Southern Rock group that was signed to Capricorn Records in the late 70s and had a #46 single in 1977 with "Mind Bender". On the DVD commentary, Crowe says the brief shot of a man and a woman playing guitar and singing in a hotel room are Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris. And in the same hotel, he is told to "Blow me!" by comedian Leonard Barr (the real Leonard Barr played Shady Tree in Diamonds are Forever.) Jason Lee looks like a doppelganger of Free-era Paul Rodgers. Stillwater's album covers are based on those of The Allman Brothers Band, with Billy Crudup looking like a doppelganger of Dickey Betts. When Russell, stoned out of his mind, shouts "I'm a golden god!", it's a reference to a classic photograph of Robert Plant on the balcony of the then-Continental Hyatt House; Plant had just shouted the same phrase, and in the photo he does indeed look like one.note The difference was that Plant wasn't actually stoned at the time, just stoked by a massive Physical Graffiti billboard ad he'd seen on Sunset Boulevard that can be seen in other photos taken at the time. Two-for-one in the scene where young William and his mom are discussing To Kill a Mockingbird while a theater marquee behind them is advertising François Truffaut's Stolen Kisses.
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Almost Famous / int_d6707631	type	Waxing Lyrical
Almost Famous / int_d6707631	comment	Waxing Lyrical: Vic, a hardcore Led Zeppelin fan, wears a T-shirt with "Have you seen the bridge?" written on it. When Sapphire first appears, she yells out, "Does anybody remember laughter?", which was a lyric Robert Plant used to include in live performances of "Stairway to Heaven".
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Almost Famous / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Almost Famous / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Russell and Jeff. They're clearly the creative nucleus of the band, but between Jeff's insecurities and Russell's narcissism, there's a great deal of tension and resentment between the two. It really comes to a head when Jeff admits to sleeping with Russell's wife and claims he never "loved" Russell.
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Almost Famous / int_d8c10bd9	type	Ensemble Dark Horse
Almost Famous / int_d8c10bd9	comment	Ensemble Dark Horse: The in-universe example of Russell Hammond, who upstages the band leader without even trying. One of the incidents exposing the underlying tension within the band is when their first T-shirts prominently feature him instead of the lead singer.
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Almost Famous / int_d9b43373	type	Not-So-Final Confession
Almost Famous / int_d9b43373	comment	Not-So-Final Confession: The scene where a plane apparently is about to crash during a thunderstorm, and passengers thinking they'll die start this.
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Almost Famous / int_d9ef7393	type	Nobody Loves the Bassist
Almost Famous / int_d9ef7393	comment	Nobody Loves the Bassist: The bassist has about three lines of dialogue and just stands there. A deleted scene even shows how William struggles to get something out of him...
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Almost Famous / int_e1c796e9	type	Diegetic Switch
Almost Famous / int_e1c796e9	comment	Diegetic Switch: The famous "Tiny Dancer" sing-along is a reversed example of this. When the song starts it's clearly soundtrack music: the opening bars start before Russell gets on the bus and continue as the bus leaves Topeka and reaches Kansas farmland. Then, when the drummer starts beating time with the song, it becomes clear that the song is playing on the bus as diegetic music. Simon and Garfunkel's "America" starts out playing in-universe as Anita puts the record on the turntable, then becomes background music in the next scene as Anita leaves the house.
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Almost Famous / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Almost Famous / int_e563bf09	comment	sigh It's Band-aid!
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Almost Famous / int_e6d0ea39	type	Nature Abhors a Virgin
Almost Famous / int_e6d0ea39	comment	Nature Abhors a Virgin/Three-Way Sex: "Let's deflower the kid." Multiple Band-Aids then group together to deflower William in a scene that ends with a Sexy Discretion Shot.
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Almost Famous / int_ec40626	type	Love Martyr
Almost Famous / int_ec40626	comment	Love Martyr: Penny is prepared to devote her life to Russell, even though he's married; he uses her as a stake in a card game, and doesn't shed a single tear for her when he loses the game and has to give her up. As she is overdosing on quaaludes after Russell rejects her, she asks William "Why doesn't he love me?"
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Almost Famous / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
Almost Famous / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: The film ends with a match cut from Russell's cab driving away from William's house, to Stillwater's bus driving away on some random two-lane country road.
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Almost Famous / int_ef6a6f4c	type	Round Hippie Shades
Almost Famous / int_ef6a6f4c	comment	Round Hippie Shades: Penny Lane wears these (and one of the advertising posters was a closeup of Kate Hudson wearing them.)
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Almost Famous / int_f16f631d	type	Crowd Song
Almost Famous / int_f16f631d	comment	Crowd Song: A very famous example as the whole crowd on the bus sings "Tiny Dancer".
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Almost Famous / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
Almost Famous / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Lester Bangs teaches William how to use this tactic to sucker editors.
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Almost Famous / int_f247d841	type	Intoxication Ensues
Almost Famous / int_f247d841	comment	Intoxication Ensues: "I AM A GOLDEN GOD!" That scene is also a shout-out to the original Golden God. And a Gilligan Cut. "How do you know when the acid has kicked in?"
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Almost Famous / int_f2877d9e	type	IncrediblyLamePun
Almost Famous / int_f2877d9e	comment	Incredibly Lame Pun: The band's name is Stillwater. The Rolling Stone article? "Stillwater Runs Deep".
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Almost Famous / int_f6e35fd7	type	Acting Your Intellectual Age
Almost Famous / int_f6e35fd7	comment	Acting Your Intellectual Age: William is a 15-year-old who's touring with a rock band.
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Almost Famous / int_f93c1fc1	type	Edgy Backwards Chair-Sitting
Almost Famous / int_f93c1fc1	comment	Edgy Backwards Chair-Sitting: Russell Hammond does this when he finally sits down to give William an interview. Note how he's initially sitting normally, only to flip the chair around when William busts out the tape recorder and starts interviewing him about music.
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Almost Famous / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Almost Famous / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Multiple people tell William that "I talked to your Mom, she freaked me out." "DON'T TAKE DRUGS!" A regular warning from William's mom.
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Almost Famous / int_fcd9b657	type	Gallows Humor
Almost Famous / int_fcd9b657	comment	Gallows Humor: At the first sign of turbulence on their plane, Russell Hammond starts singing the song "Peggy Sue" by famous rock-star-who-died-in-a-plane-crash Buddy Holly.
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Almost Famous / int_fd16495f	type	Answer Cut
Almost Famous / int_fd16495f	comment	Answer Cut: In Topeka, when Russell has gone to the party with "real Topeka people" and taken acid, William calls Dick to let him know what's going on with Russell, and asks, "How do I know when the acid kicks in?" Cut to Russell standing on the roof of the house, yelling out, "I AM A GOLDEN GOD!"
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Almost Famous / int_ff9e9596	type	DVD Commentary
Almost Famous / int_ff9e9596	comment	Cameron Crowe's mother was on the set for most of the scenes "she" was in, and participated in the DVD Commentary.
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