{"id":815,"date":"2010-08-13T13:17:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T20:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=815"},"modified":"2010-08-13T13:17:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T20:17:08","slug":"rock-%e2%80%99n%e2%80%99-roll-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/rock-%e2%80%99n%e2%80%99-roll-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock \u2019n\u2019 Roll High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Rock-n-Roll-High-School-M3-Review-May2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-816\" title=\"Rock-n-Roll-High-School-M3-Review-May2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Rock-n-Roll-High-School-M3-Review-May2010.jpg\" alt=\"Rock \u2019n\u2019 Roll High School\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Rock-n-Roll-High-School-M3-Review-May2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Rock-n-Roll-High-School-M3-Review-May2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>DVD REVIEW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rock \u2019n\u2019 Roll High School<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Shout Factory]<\/p>\n<p>After making his name with low budget sci-fi fare such as <em>Little Shop of Horrors<\/em>, <em>Piranha<\/em> and <em>Humanoids From the Deep<\/em>, producer Roger Corman decided that he wanted to pull in a younger audience via a music-themed film. He came up with a concept he called <em>Disco High School <\/em>and enlisted director Allan Arkush to transform his vision into reality. Fortunately, Arkush convinced him to scrub the disco in favor of punk, recruited the Ramones to anchor the soundtrack and found the film\u2019s heart in anarchy and subversion. Released for the first time on DVD, 1979\u2019s <em>Rock \u2019n\u2019 Roll High School<br \/>\n<\/em>now features a sadly nostalgic tone considering the subsequent deaths of three-quarters of the featured Ramones lineup. The film\u2019s plot both mines and upends high-school movie clich\u00e9s. A tyrannical adult in the person of the new school principal seeks to repress her teenage charges, forcing the kids to fight back and ultimately convert the authorities to their cause while usurping those who resist. The formula has been repeated before and since, from <em>Animal House <\/em>to <em>Dirty Dancing<\/em>, but <em>Rock \u2019n\u2019 Roll High School<\/em> helped etch it in the history of rock. It\u2019s a triumph of nerds, nebbishes and rebellious spirits, and at least one scene\u2014a fantasy encounter between the film\u2019s Joan of Arc, Riff Randell (played by a giddy P.J. Soles), and a brutally seductive Joey Ramone\u2014offers hope that even if you\u2019re a loser, the wackiest dream can come true.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Lee Zimmerman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DVD REVIEW Rock \u2019n\u2019 Roll High School [Shout Factory] After making his name with low budget sci-fi fare such as Little Shop of Horrors, Piranha and Humanoids From the Deep, producer Roger Corman decided that he wanted to pull in a younger audience via a music-themed film. He came up with a concept he called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,218,70,444,443,296],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}