Quadrophenia courtroom scene 

Damn lol

Imagine if wages were still high enough for a bell boy to afford being able yo bitter casually write a check for that

you could buy a 3 bedroom house in the 60s for 3000 as apposed today 350000

I think the point is it’s all bravado. He doesn’t have money

No Ace was a mod if you've seen the film, one whose flash reputation reached his peers before they knew who he was

What the papers neglected to mention was that the guy later admitted he didn't even have a bank account let alone the cash to pay the fine with...

@@99Boiko The real incident that the scene in the movie is based on involved a 17-year old rocker, who, as Aromus Baspet notes below, didn't even have a bank account

@@geecars6263 Oh struth! Sorry I catch this three years too late. I get your point now. What an embarrassing comment I made three years ago! LOL

Hardly ''no reason''. Jimmy saw his hero... the man who epitomised everything that stood for 'Mod'... in the cold, hard light of an ordinary day, and what he saw was beyond disappointment. Ace was all show; just another working man; and only a bell-boy at that! It broke Jimmy's last veil of illusions, and forced him to confront reality.

I got the impression he always was a bell boy and that the outing to Brighton was an escape from the hum-drum of real life for Ace as much as it was for Jimmy.

Nothing in the film suggests he BECAME a bell boy but was one in the first place. There's a moral there for the viewer. A job is a job, and provided you apply yourself as the Ace did but Jimmy didn't, there is nothing to stop you being sensible, saving cash, and becoming flash with great gear and equipment.

Until some loser who can't accept that the party's over steals your great gear and sends it hurtling over the edge of a cliff.

Ohh that is sad

@@99Boikohink that’s the wrong moral of the story. The Sting character was a faker/fantasist. Pretending to be wealthy and successful, when he was as poor as Jimmy, and probably still living with his parents. Sting convinced Jimmy that being a mod could take you places in life. When in fact, the only place it could take you was a dead end job. That’s why Jimmy is so angry. He had been fooled. And he destroyed Sting’s bike as a symbol that he was finished with the lifestyle

My uncle Jimmy was my dad

The main character of the movie Quadrophenia is called Jimmy

Yes, before he became Stung.

@@il9237 HAHAHHA