Almost Famous
By:
Helvécio Parente
English version: Maila-Kaarina
The other day I talked about the film “
Rock Star“, that shows the backstage story of a rock band from the 80´s through a young character, in that case, the singer of a cover band. “Almost Famous” is similar: we get to now the backstage story of a rock band too, but this time from the 70´s and it´s through a different character, even younger, a teenager that pretends to be a reporter working for the Rolling Stone Magazine.
But this film is not a copy! No way! And actually I dare to say it´s even better than “Rock Star”!
It was based on the experience of the director himself, Cameron Crowe, who wrote for the same Rolling Stone when he was younger – I believe not so young as William Miller, the boy who skip classes to travel with Stillwater, a band in ascension which will soon be in a Rolling Stone cover.
And the young William Miller and his saga have given us one of the best movies in the history of rock!
