Spinal Tap shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert dates. This movie satirizes the wild personal behavior and musical pretensions of hard rock and heavy metal stars, while also over playing the awful and extremely cheesy tendencies of all rock documentaries of the time.
Although this entire movie is golden, one of the greatest parts in my opinion, is when the lead guitarist, Nigel Tufnel (played by the brilliant comedian Christopher Guest), is given a plate of bread and cold cuts backstage before a show. This piece is absolutely ridiculous and outrageous, which is what makes it so incredibly funny. “He can’t fathom who in the world he would be able to eat this food provided”. “The bread is not even big enough for the meat. “He would have to fold the bread and it would be a crime to do that!”
This movie takes the little things that to the everyday person would not even be an issue, and honestly to most rock stars wouldn’t be a problem either, and they stretch it to the extreme which makes us roll our eyes at rock stars, and feel just a little bit more normal inside.
This movie is literally(appropriate usage) 100% satire throughout the whole thing and its is brilliantly executed. This classic is definitely a must see!
Here is some footage below of the most famous scenes throughout the movie.
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