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The Dirt

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The Dirt	comment	The Dirt: The Unbelievable Story of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band - Mötley Crüe, or simply The Dirt, is a 2019 biographical comedy-drama about glam rock and Hair Metal legends Mötley Crüe. Based on the 2001 autobiographical book of the same name, the film takes a look at the band's formation in the early 1980s, then moves on to their glory days in the mid-'80s, as well as the low points each of the band's members experienced along the way. It also covers the band's struggles to stay relevant in the Grunge and alternative-dominated 1990s music scene.The Dirt was released on Netflix on March 22, 2019, and was directed by Jeff Tremaine, who is best known for his work on the Jackass series. The film stars Daniel Webber as singer Vince Neil, Douglas Booth as bassist Nikki Sixx, Iwan Rheon as guitarist Mick Mars, Colson Baker as drummer Tommy Lee, David Costabile as manager Doc McGhee, and Pete Davidson as record executive Tom Zutaut. Also appearing in the film are Leven Rambin as Vince's wife Sharise, Kathryn Morris as Nikki's mother Deana, Tony Cavalero as a wasted, dress-wearing Ozzy Osbourne, and Max Milner as Hanoi Rocks drummer Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley.
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The Dirt / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
The Dirt / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: Zigzagged with Skylar, whom Sharise appears to be pregnant with in a scene from December 1984, shortly before the car crash that killed Razzle. A scene from 1986 shows Skylar being around 2-years-old at the time, while she appears to be a couple years older in 1987, when Vince learns of Nikki's "death" on television. Finally, she still looks no older than five during the scenes (circa 1993 or 1994) where she's in the hospital, dying of cancer. The real Skylar was born in March 1991 and died in August 1995.
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The Dirt / int_13a984c	type	Hopeless Auditionees
The Dirt / int_13a984c	comment	Hopeless Auditionees: Right before Mick joins the band, Nikki and Tommy are jamming with a rhythm guitarist whose chops leave a lot to be desired. Needless to say, he gets blown away the moment Mick plugs in, and gets asked to "pack up your toys and go home." It doesn't help that the failed auditionee disrespects Mick multiple times by calling him old.
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The Dirt / int_16e94b0a	type	Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll
The Dirt / int_16e94b0a	comment	Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: In abundance. It would be hard to find a scene in the movie which is not about this.
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The Dirt / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
The Dirt / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Mick. He definitely isn't old by most standards at the time he joins the band, but at 30-years-old in 1981, he's got over a decade on Vince and Tommy and is seven years older than Nikki.
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The Dirt / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
The Dirt / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: It's made clear several times that the women love Vince, who typically performs while shirtless or with a wide-open vest or jacket.
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The Dirt / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
The Dirt / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Nikki and Tommy refer to themselves as a married couple and are extremely close in both the memoir and the adaptation.
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The Dirt / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
The Dirt / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Frequently invoked in the film by several characters, including all four band members and Doc, who address the audience in certain scenes to provide more context.
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The Dirt / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Dirt / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: For all his unusual quirks and snarky comments, Mick is ironically the "sanest" member of the band, in the sense that he is never shown losing his temper and is generally unfazed by all the drug and alcohol-fueled fun, and later on, the drama going on around him. Hell, he even volunteers to replace the strung-out Nikki as Tommy's best man at his wedding.
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The Dirt / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
The Dirt / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: During the scene where Mick Mars auditions for the band (which is supposed to be in early 1981), Tommy is seen wearing a Hulkamania t-shirt. Technically, Hulkamania only started running wild in 1984, when Hulk Hogan returned to the then-WWF for the first time as a babyface and defeated The Iron Sheik to kick off a four-year run with the WWF Championship. Shortly after, the band attends a pool party to recruit Vince as their lead singer, and he's with his old band Rock Candy, singing a cover of Billy Squier's "My Kind Of Lover." That song was released in November 1981, several months after Vince was hired by the Crue in real life.
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The Dirt / int_27ba9b64	type	What Did I Do Last Night?
The Dirt / int_27ba9b64	comment	What Did I Do Last Night?: Tommy goes into a day in the life of being on the Crue. Wake up in a hotel room handcuffed with no memory how he got there, go to the show, blast the drums, go out partying until he gets so bad Doc has to punch him out and handcuff him to the bed, and he does it all over again.
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The Dirt / int_311bcac6	type	Beard of Sorrow
The Dirt / int_311bcac6	comment	Beard of Sorrow: Vince grows one after the series of unfortunate events that befalls him in the early '90s — his divorce from Sharise, his departure from Motley Crue, and Skylar's ultimately fatal cancer battle.
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The Dirt / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Dirt / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Elektra dropped Motley Crue and gave them their publishing rights in 1998, as their six-album deal with the label expired on a down note — the poor-selling 1997 album Generation Swine. The movie suggests that the turnover took place a few years earlier after the similarly poor sales of their 1994 self-titled album. This does, however, fit in with the movie's earlier mention of a five-album contract with Elektra, further backing up some reviewers' observations that Generation Swine was Adapted Out in the film.
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The Dirt / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
The Dirt / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Nikki sounds very British when he says “here’s my theory” in the band naming scene and yells at Deana in the hotel scene.
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The Dirt / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
The Dirt / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: All the members of the Crue view themselves as this, but especially Nikki, looking back with embarrassment on all the friends, relatives, fans, and professionals whose love and support were repaid with their bad attitudes, atrocious behavior, addiction, and betrayal.
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The Dirt / int_47b21ca6	type	Stress Vomit
The Dirt / int_47b21ca6	comment	Stress Vomit: Tommy Lee has one out of stage fright before Crue's first show.
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The Dirt / int_48d94bb8	type	Creator Backlash
The Dirt / int_48d94bb8	comment	Creator Backlash: An in-universe example: Vince starts to develop a case of this while recording Theatre of Pain. When Doc assures him that "Home Sweet Home" and "Smokin' in the Boys Room" are likely to be hits, he cynically retorts that those are the only strong tracks on the album. Later, when the band begins work on what would eventually become their self-titled New Sound Album, he opposes the move toward a more grunge/alternative based sound, denouncing it as stupid.
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The Dirt / int_4a5fcde	type	Adaptational Alternate Ending
The Dirt / int_4a5fcde	comment	Adaptational Alternate Ending: The memoir was published in 2002 and ends on a Bittersweet Ending, where Tommy quits the band and ends his friendship with Nikki, but the other three members are together and more focused on the band's musical goals, and all of the boys are grown up and in stable, family-oriented relationships; and Tommy and Nikki, after a year of not speaking, happily bury the hatchet when they realize that their children will be attending the same school and are becoming friends. Tommy rejoined the band two years after publication, so the film streamlines and resolves their drama early, and ends on an unambiguously triumphant note with the band touring together again.
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The Dirt / int_4f40039e	type	All Drummers Are Animals
The Dirt / int_4f40039e	comment	All Drummers Are Animals: Tommy.
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The Dirt / int_50cc01e1	type	Do Not Call Me "Paul"
The Dirt / int_50cc01e1	comment	Do Not Call Me "Paul": You do not ever call Nikki Sixx by his birth name of Frank Ferrana. See Berserk Button.
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The Dirt / int_53e1ce4e	type	Please Wake Up
The Dirt / int_53e1ce4e	comment	Please Wake Up: Vince says this to Razzle after their car accident, thinking he fell asleep unaware he's very much dead.
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The Dirt / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
The Dirt / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: The real Tom Zutaut was a pudgy man of average height who speaks in a high-pitched voice. He's played by Pete Davidson, who stands 6-foot-2, has a slim build, and speaks in a baritone voice.
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The Dirt / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Dirt / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: Several examples. Nikki and Mick met by chance in the liquor store Nikki worked at, long before Mick was recruited for the band. Mick even assumed that Nikki recognized his ad, but it was actually Tommy, making their reunion even more kismet. Vince is shown in the movie doing the deed with Tom Zutaut's girlfriend backstage at the Forum in Los Angeles. While the book version of The Dirt suggests that they did have sex and that the woman was wearing a leopard-print bikini top, the actual incident happened at the Us Festival, not at the Forum. Similarly, the real Zutaut recalled that he wasn't too upset when he found out that Vince Neil screwed his girlfriend behind his back, as it wasn't a serious relationship. Pete Davidson, as Zutaut, says that it "hurt really bad" when he learned about it "many years later." Tommy Lee's marriage to Elaine Starchuk (aka "Honey" in the book) in 1984 and divorce a year later is treated as an engagement that falls apart when she repeatedly insults his mother. In the film, Starchuk is renamed Roxie, and Tommy's wedding with Heather Locklear is treated as his first. In real life, the Crue's upper management had to outright manipulate Vince's return to the band, concerned about the dismal sales prospects of John Corabi's tenure. All of the members pushed out of loyalty to Corabi or a lack of trust in Vince's presence. Vince himself was hardly enthused, and it took months before the band's relationship was repaired. The film instead portrays the Crue as unilaterally desiring Vince's return, working together to rescue him from a bar after sitting down with a heart-to-heart. Elektra dropped Motley Crue and gave them their publishing rights in 1998, as their six-album deal with the label expired on a down note — the poor-selling 1997 album Generation Swine. The movie suggests that the turnover took place a few years earlier after the similarly poor sales of their 1994 self-titled album. This does, however, fit in with the movie's earlier mention of a five-album contract with Elektra, further backing up some reviewers' observations that Generation Swine was Adapted Out in the film. In the movie, the scenes where Vince meets Sharise and eventually marries her appear to take place in 1984, and she's shown to be pregnant with Skylar in December of that year. In real life, Vince and Sharise married in 1987, and Skylar was born in 1991. Tommy is shown meeting Heather at the December 1984 party that ended with Vince drunkenly crashing his Ford Pantera and killing its passenger, Razzle. They actually met at an REO Speedwagon concert, though the film does get one detail right — Tommy did indeed mistake Heather Locklear for The Fall Guy actress Heather Thomas when they first met. In the film, Tommy and Heather's otherwise decent marriage ends because of his infidelity, and he refers to her as "the one that got away." In real life, he had been relieved when they finally divorced, as their marriage had been on the rocks for years due to Heather not wanting children, mutual narcissism and personality differences, and inability to prioritize each other over their careers. Allegedly, Nikki was partying with several mainstays of the Sunset Strip scene, including Slash and Steven Adler of Guns N' Roses and Robbin Crosby of Ratt when he had his near-fatal OD in late 1987. In the film, he's partying with a group of sleazy, yet nondescript junkies and dealers. In the film, Nikki fires Doc McGhee because he arranged a meeting between Nikki and his mother without asking his permission. In real life, Nikki still fired Doc, but it was because the manager wasn't being 100% honest to the Crue while at the same time, favoring his newer, much better-behaved clients Bon Jovi during the Moscow Music Peace Festival. While the final scene says that Motley Crue kept on playing together for the next two decades after their reunion, "together" happens to be the operative word as far as this trope goes. Tommy quit the Crue in 1999 and was replaced by Randy Castillo, who died in 2002. He then was replaced by Samantha Maloney, before Tommy rejoined in 2004.
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The Dirt / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
The Dirt / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Young Nikki trashes his room, takes a switchblade out and slices his arm to get his mother arrested.
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The Dirt / int_644d78f0	type	Dress Rehearsal Video
The Dirt / int_644d78f0	comment	Dress Rehearsal Video: One of the scenes in the credits shows the actors of the movie playing out of costume and then in costume.
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The Dirt / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Dirt / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Nikki Sixx (then Frank Ferrano, Jr.) delivers one to his mother after having her arrested:
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The Dirt / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
The Dirt / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: It's practically given for everyone in the Crue, but Nikki's mother is portrayed from the earliest parts of the film as someone who loves booze and partying more than she does caring for her troubled son.
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The Dirt / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Dirt / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Ozzy Osbourne. The band themselves onstage:
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The Dirt / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
The Dirt / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: After overdosing on heroin, Nikki's heart stops beating and he's close to being officially declared dead, but thanks to an insistent paramedic who won't let a big rock star die under his watch, Nikki bolts back to life and returns home, practically back to normal...and promptly shoots up once again. The near-death experience, however, ultimately convinces him to get clean and invite the rest of the band to join him in rehab.
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The Dirt / int_8a55a1d4	type	In Love with Love
The Dirt / int_8a55a1d4	comment	In Love with Love: In line with the memoir, Tommy is obsessed with girls and finds a new soulmate around every corner, and he declares his intent to marry just about every woman he dates. Unfortunately, it's Played for Drama when his marriage implodes due to his constant straying and skirt-chasing.
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The Dirt / int_8ad43dc9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
The Dirt / int_8ad43dc9	comment	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The band name says it all, and Doc lampshades this as he talks about how hard it is to manage a bunch of "idiots" like the Crue. At the start of the movie, Nikki likewise refers to Motley Crue as being more of a "gang" than a band.
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The Dirt / int_9b60b728	type	Addled Addict
The Dirt / int_9b60b728	comment	Addled Addict: Nikki becomes so deeply addicted to heroin that he can't get through Tommy's wedding without being strung out, and he starts having to inject heroin into his penis because the rest of his veins are shot. Though the other members' addictions are omitted from the film, in real life, Mick became so addicted to alcohol that he became incredibly bloated and had to be propped up during photoshoots, Vince would show up late to performances in a bathrobe because of his own heroin addiction (and later toured with an addiction to sleeping pills), and Tommy had to hide his speedball addiction from Heather Locklear.
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The Dirt / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
The Dirt / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Tommy is shown killing cockroaches with an Aerosol Flamethrower.
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The Dirt / int_9e9203e1	type	Dramatically Missing the Point
The Dirt / int_9e9203e1	comment	Dramatically Missing the Point: When Tommy is introducing his parents to his fiancee and his bandmates, Doc asks Nikki if he'd like to invite his family to a show one day. Nikki replies with a bit of sarcasm that he thinks it would be a "great idea." This doesn't hit home until Doc surprises Nikki by inviting his mother, whom he is absolutely not ready to see after years of estrangement.
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The Dirt / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
The Dirt / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Tommy may be a typical rock star with an appetite for booze and drugs, but he won't stand for anyone, even his own fiancee at the time, insulting his mother.
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The Dirt / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Dirt / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Nikki being declared dead and being saved by an Epi shot to the heart is very tense. Nikki then delicately saying “ow” is hilarious.
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The Dirt / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
The Dirt / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: Mick has a debilitating form of arthritis that is calcifying his bones with each passing day, yet still manages a career of being a guitarist in one of the world's hottest bands.
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The Dirt / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
The Dirt / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Tommy tells Heather that he's in love with her within one minute of meeting her.
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The Dirt / int_acf8f71a	type	Dispense with the Pleasantries
The Dirt / int_acf8f71a	comment	Dispense with the Pleasantries: Mick is a man of few words and gets right to the point.
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The Dirt / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Dirt / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Nikki's heroin dealer has this reaction when the heroin he sells Nikki nearly kills him, telling everyone the party's over.
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The Dirt / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Dirt / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Mick. He speaks softly and carries a big snark.
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The Dirt / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Dirt / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Deana is a hard-drinking, neglectful mother to Nikki, while her boyfriends and husbands are typically abusive drunkards who vent out their anger at the boy then known as Frank Ferrana Jr. As for Frank Sr., who left the family when Nikki was two, he brusquely dismisses Nikki when he tries to get in touch with him, telling him to never call again.
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The Dirt / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Dirt / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Nikki loses it when Doc, without his permission, arranges for his estranged mother, Deana, to visit. Not aware of (or not willing to recognize) his legal name change, Deana repeatedly calls Nikki "Frankie," which causes him to smash the bottle of Jack Daniel's he was holding and scream "THAT'S NOT MY FUCKING NAME!" before angrily firing Doc and storming back to his hotel room. Tommy punches his then-fiancee Roxie after she stabs him in the back with a pen and repeatedly calls his mother a "cunt."
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The Dirt / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Tommy's penchant for fooling around on the road is well-documented, and Nikki does hook up with Tommy's then-fiancee Roxie right before he's due to introduce her to his parents (in real life, she hooked up with Vince multiple times as well), but Vince takes this trope up to eleven, losing count of how many women he's had sex with on tour. In the film, he's seen having sex with a random partygoer's girlfriend, one of the band's early groupies (before he gets busted by his then-girlfriend), and Tom Zutaut's girlfriend. In his Breaking the Fourth Wall moment, Zutaut says that you should never leave your girlfriend alone with Motley Crue, but as the film suggests, it's more like "don't ever leave your girlfriend alone with Vince Neil," to be more specific. Nikki Sixx's mother Deanna has had numerous boyfriends and husbands, all of whom were abusive towards Nikki/Frank.
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The Dirt / int_c10da874	comment	The '80s: This is the biopic of one of the decade's biggest bands, and it's played straight with all the big hair, debauchery, and, in one scene, moral panic that defined the decade.
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The Dirt / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: After their car accident, Razzle says that was a close one and laughs. This moment turns out to be just Vince Neil hallucinating from the impact; Razzle was killed instantly.
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The Dirt / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: A stoned, whacked-out Ozzy Osbourne in a dress with nothing underneath, mooning an elderly couple as he prepares to disgust everyone at the pool with his antics. Lots of beautiful strippers showing their goods throughout the movie? Thanks! Seeing Tommy Lee puke on one? No thanks!!!
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The Dirt / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Nikki being saved from the dead with an Epi shot to the heart is almost identical to the iconic scene from Pulp Fiction.
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The Dirt / int_ca4e037	comment	Dude Looks Like a Lady: Vince, when his girlfriend drives him to his first audition.
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The Dirt / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Mick Mars. Downplayed compared to his real-life equivalent, but very effectively Lampshaded by Nikki in the introductory narration when he calls Mick an "alien."
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The Dirt / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: As controversial as the film's material is, it cuts out a lot of graphic and debauched content from the memoir; for example, the famous "day in the life" sequence would only be accurate if every other minute saw Tommy doing hard drugs. Furthermore, all of the members of the band had addiction issues, though only Nikki's are given focus in the film, and removes much of the bitchy, cutthroat band dynamic that the members said was crucial to their success and longevity. Though the film still retains the book's intent as an irreverent and subversive play on the typical band biography, it does streamline the events into more of a straightforward found family narrative.
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The Dirt / int_d08a19c4	comment	Immodest Orgasm: The prologue of the movie shows Tommy giving oral sex to a groupie, making her have a squirting orgasm.
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The Dirt / int_d332bf54	comment	Lampshaded in one of the Breaking the Fourth Wall scenes, as Mick explains that Doug Thaler, who co-managed Motley Crue in real life, is not included in the film, and that Doc McGhee will essentially be a composite of his real-life equivalent and Thaler.
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The Dirt / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Ozzy's advice to the Crue as a veteran rock star who's been around and back with Black Sabbath and as a solo act — "have fun, but know when to say when." When nobody has any coke for him to snort after giving this brief nugget of wisdom, he proceeds to snort a line of ants, pee on the poolside, and lick his own piss (and that of Nikki's), completely disgusting everyone around him.
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The Dirt / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: How Vince's temporary departure/dismissal is depicted.
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The Dirt / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Nikki Sixx's mother Deanna has had numerous boyfriends and husbands, all of whom were abusive towards Nikki/Frank.
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The Dirt / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted by Tommy Lee and Tom Zutaut. Subverted by Nikki Sixx, whose birth name is Frank, and Hanoi Rocks' Nicholas Dingley, who goes by the name Razzle.
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The Dirt / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Angered by her nonstop insults against his mother, Tommy punches his then-fiancee as the rest of the band looks on in shock. note In real life, nobody was shocked but Tommy, who had never put hands on a woman before, while Vince himself had been arrested for hitting a woman. Tom Zutaut even told him that any of them would have been driven to the act, though he had enough sympathy for the fiancee to stop the car and help her.
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The Dirt / int_f6c3d469	comment	Fanservice Extra: There are a lot of naked women causally in the background and wandering around the film.
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The Dirt / int_fb9e0265	comment	Team Dad: Mick Mars. He’s notably older than the other three, is not a man of many words, but knows exactly what to say at the right moment.
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