Name that Sex Pistols Movie!!!

March 1, 2009 4:52 PM

Trying to remember a movie about the Sex Pistols. It has hilarity and tomfoolery in it.

So my brain remembers a movie about the Sex Pistols...maybe a documentary, maybe fictionalized. It is not 'The Filth and the Fury' 'cause that came out in 2000 and I remember this from the '80s (I believe).

The scene I remember specifically is some lawyer/banker-type on a train/airplane with The Sex Pistols and him saying something like "Oh a punk band, eh? I consider myself a songwriter and I wrote a song with sort of a 'punky' feel to it...it goes 'I gotta get a job, gotta get a job, gotta get a job. One that supports my artistic neeeeeeeds.'"then the boys in the band give him a right thrashing.

Another scene has a guy in an overcoat scaring some hoodlums away from some train tracks with his finger and thumb held out like a gun. At some point he pulls the 'trigger' on his handgun and it makes an audible BANG (very surprising when I was a youth).

Any idea? Or am I totally crazy? Links to clips get you extra interwebs Karma in my book.

posted by Overzealous to media & arts (10 comments total)

Sounds like The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle.
posted by craichead at 4:54 PM on March 1

What craichead said.
posted by box at 4:59 PM on March 1

There are bunch of clips of The Great Rock & Roll Swindle on YouTube and as I flipped through them I didn't see anything resembling the scenes I recall.
posted by Overzealous at 5:00 PM on March 1

Another scene has a guy in an overcoat scaring some hoodlums away from some train tracks with his finger and thumb held out like a gun. At some point he pulls the 'trigger' on his handgun and it makes an audible BANG (very surprising when I was a youth).

Sid and Nancy.
posted by Artw at 5:08 PM on March 1

Sid and Nancy has the scene with Malcolm McLaren as a guy in an overcoat.
posted by mattoxic at 5:10 PM on March 1

Now that I think about it, I vaguely remember the scene in the airplane from Sid and Nancy as well. I'm not sure, though. I haven't seen that movie since shortly after it came out.
posted by craichead at 5:14 PM on March 1

It's "I want a job, I want a job, I want a good job, I want a job, one that satisfies...my artistic needs."
That was the song some dude was singing to Sid in "Sid and Nancy".
posted by kuujjuarapik at 5:19 PM on March 1

Bang! Thank you great green! Here it is on the youtubes.
posted by Overzealous at 5:24 PM on March 1

Amazing movie -- in its way, as great a work of art as the Sex Pistols records themselves, though of an incomparably different kind.
posted by escabeche at 8:17 PM on March 1

Not strictly within the bounds of the question, but I'd recommend this as complimentary reading.
posted by Artw at 8:34 PM on March 1