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Aug 29, 2020 · Much of the High Fidelity plot revolves around Vince and Justin, a pair of shoplifters who steal music from Championship Vinyl to make their own original recordings. Once Rob hears their demo, he forgives their thievery and agrees to produce their debut record.
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- JOHN CUSACK DIDN’T WANT TO BREAK THE FOURTH WALL. In order to capture the contemplative persona of the novel’s main character, the film’s writing team suggested modeling its narration after the Michael Caine film Alfie, in which Caine regularly addresses the audience straight on.
- AND JACK BLACK DIDN’T WANT TO BE IN THE FILM AT ALL. Black nails his role as hyperactive and pathologically insensitive record store employee Barry—which, in fact, Cusack and company wrote with him in mind—but the actor initially had no interest in playing the part.
- BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN WAS NOT FIRST CHOICE TO STAR IN ROB’S FANTASY SEQUENCE. Bob Dylan was actually Cusack’s personal first choice to play Rob’s “imaginary friend” in the fantasy sequence that preempts his decision to contact all his old girlfriends.
- BUT GETTING THE BOSS WAS EASIER THAN EXPECTED. Dylan was unavailable to play the part, so Cusack made a last-ditch effort to contact Bruce Springsteen.
Apr 1, 2020 · The definitive oral history of High Fidelity featuring interviews with John Cusack, Jack Black, Stephen Frears, Nick Hornby, and more.
High Fidelity is a musical with music by Tom Kitt, lyrics by Amanda Green, and a book by David Lindsay-Abaire. Based primarily on the 1995 Nick Hornby novel of the same name, the plot focuses on Rob Gordon, a Brooklyn record shop owner in his thirties obsessed with making top five lists for everything, always observing rather than participating ...
It may have been only a modest box office hit, but High Fidelity, with its wry humor and endless top 5 lists, keenly captured the zeitgeist of an era — turning Nick Hornby's 1995 novel about...
Jul 20, 2022 · When I bought my first box set of the collected works of The Beatles, I got it in stereo, because why wouldn't I? At 14, all I knew was that stereo had 'two channels' of audio – and two was better than one, right?
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Feb 28, 2024 · Ranking the best of the best songs from a film with one of the best soundtracks of all time: High Fidelity.