Scooter movies revisited

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Ant-Man wrote:All these scooter movies and no one has mentioned Quadrophenia? Lot's of mention of Mods vs Rockers and The Who. Yet no Quadrophenia?!
That's why this thread is "revisited." I think Quadrophenia and Roman Holiday are the big ones!
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Add Big Hero 6 to the list of movies with a scooter scene, albeit animated. The scooter scene is pretty well done. The rest of the movie is amazing, not to be missed.
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jrsjr wrote:Add Big Hero 6 to the list of movies with a scooter scene, albeit animated. The scooter scene is pretty well done. The rest of the movie is Amazing, not to be missed.
Last year's "Spring Breakers" had a scene with the 4 (or was it 5?) outlaw college young ladies, who were the principal characters, blasting down the streets on Buddy scooters. I suspect they were Buddy 50s.

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I like the music in this one....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E63mhDC73fg


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Repo Man - Ska band The Untouchables horse around on Vespas before kicking Otto's ass.

The Legend of Billie Jean - the whole plot stems from a bunch of bullies destroying Christian Slater's Honda Elite.

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How about Mr. Peabody & Sherman? There's a very familiar looking sidehack that gets a decent bit of screen time. Legshield looks like it was a partial cutdown, but the rest is distinctive:

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^ Sidecars: pet carriers for scooterists without proper pet carriers. :)
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Off the top of my head.
Cheeky British comedy Heartlands takes place all on a Honda Cub with some scooter vs motorcycle humor.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295303/

and Odd Thomas, The main characters ride a vespa in quite a few scenes.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1767354/?re ... lmg_act_20

Both are on netflix
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Just re-watched Roman Holiday with Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn. It was filmed entirely in Rome, Italy, which is really cool, esp. in 1953. Lots of Vespas. Audrey rides one and gets out of control, causing damage, and they are taken to the polica station. I guess Vespa means "wasp" in Italian.
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Dunno if this counts as it's not a movie but in the series, "Dead Like Me", the main character's dad rides a Vespa.
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Pauly Shore in the aforementioned "Encino Man".
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wheelbender6 wrote:Pauly Shore in the aforementioned "Encino Man".
I think I'd be more entertained spending 90 minutes staring at my scooter instead.
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I was watching "White Christmas" starring Bing Crosby and there was a cool scooter in it. The scooter looked similar to the one in the pic below, but it had an an aircraft style fairing on the front wheel, rather than a fender.
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wheelbender6 wrote:I was watching "White Christmas" starring Bing Crosby and there was a cool scooter in it. The scooter looked similar to the one in the pic below, but it had an an aircraft style fairing on the front wheel, rather than a fender.
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Thinking maybe of a Maico Mobile?

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Salisbury?
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Neurotic-Hapi-Snak wrote:Salisbury?
Probably a better guess. Something more like this, perhaps?

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I do believe the red Salsbury looks like the on in White Christmas. A telegram delivery man rode the scooter.
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A good old Vespa movie is "Jessica" with Angie Dickinson and Maurice Chevalier.
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TVB wrote:
wheelbender6 wrote:Pauly Shore in the aforementioned "Encino Man".
I think I'd be more entertained spending 90 minutes staring at my scooter instead.
Ha! I liked Encino Man when it came out, but I'd probably agree with you if I saw it now.
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TVB wrote:
That Scooter Guy wrote:How can this thread have this many posts without a mention of the 1953 classic, Roman Holiday?
I remember them! I miss the 1980s....
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Just WOW. I miss the 80's too! Love the guy in the middle on all fours with the "come hither" look. Had to give this one a bump.
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"Heartlands" Enjoy the free preview on youtube.com

Edit-BeefSupreme beat me to it, but I'll leave my post. Good movie.

http://youtu.be/89hga8N3Yno
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KrispyKreme wrote:"Heartlands" Enjoy the free preview on youtube.com

Edit-BeefSupreme beat me to it, but I'll leave my post. Good movie.

http://youtu.be/89hga8N3Yno

Just glad i'm not the only person who's seen that movie. It is a fun watch.
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