History Film / TwentyFourHourPartyPeople

* OhCrap: Tony and the other Factory Records employees' reaction to hearing [[spoiler:''Yes Please!'' for the first time, and the realization that Happy Mondays were too drugged out to write lyrics meaning that Factory spent untold amounts of money on a record largely consisting of instrumentals.]]

* CreatorKiller: The record that all but kills Factory, [[spoiler:''[[Music/HappyMondays Yes, Please]]'']] is touched upon.

* OhCrap: Tony and the other Factory Records employees' reaction to hearing [[spoiler:''Yes, Please'' for the first time, and the realization that Happy Mondays were too drugged out to write lyrics, essentially spending untold amounts of money on a record largely consisting of instrumentals.]]

* CreatorKiller: The record that all but kills Factory, [[spoiler:''[[Music/HappyMondays Yes, Please]]'']] is touched upon

* OhCrap: Tony and the other Factory Records employees' reaction to hearing [[spoiler:''Yes, Please'' for the first time.]]

* RealPersonCameo: [[CreatorCameo Tony Wilson himself]], [[Music/TheFall Mark E. Smith]], [[Music/{{Buzzcocks}} Howard]] [[Music/{{Magazine}} Devoto]], Keith Allen, Vini Reilly, [[Music/HappyMondays Paul Ryder]]... and those are just the cameos that have to do with the Manchester music scene.

!! Tropes include
* ActorAllusion: Taken almost to RecursiveReality levels. Steve Coogan, who played Tony Wilson, based his comedy character [[Series/ImAlanPartridge Alan Partridge]] partly on Tony Wilson, and there are notable similarities between how the characters are presented.
* BioPic

The film follows Tony and Factory as money is lost, lead singer Ian Curtis commit suicide, RecordProducer Martin Hannett goes insane and tries to kill Tony, the birth of "Madchester" music and rave culture, Happy Mondays sell their equipment and studio for crack and then attempt to hold their new album for ransom... You wouldn't get this kinda stuff in a film about EMI.

The film follows Tony and Factory as money is lost, lead singers commit suicide, RecordProducer Martin Hannett goes insane and tries to kill Tony, the birth of "Madchester" music and rave culture, Happy Mondays sell their equipment and studio for crack and then attempt to hold their new album for ransom... You wouldn't get this kinda stuff in a film about EMI.

* RealPersonCameo: [[CreatorCameo Tony Wilson himself]], [[Music/TheFall Mark E. Smith]], [[Music/{{Buzzcocks}}Howard]] [[Music/{{Magazine}} Devoto]], Keith Allen, Vini Reilly, [[Music/HappyMondays Paul Ryder]]... and those are just the cameos that have to do with the Manchester music scene.

* RealPersonCameo: [[CreatorCameo Tony Wilson himself]], [[Music/TheFall Mark E. Smith]], Howard Devoto, Keith Allen, Vini Reilly, Paul Ryder... and those are just the cameos that have to do with the Manchester music scene.

* ActorAllusion: Taken almost to RecursiveReality levels. Steve Coogan, who played Tony Wilson, based his comedy character [[ImAlanPartridge Alan Partridge]] partly on Tony Wilson, and there are notable similarities between how the characters are presented.

The film follows Tony and Factory as money is lost, lead singers commit suicide, RecordProducer Martin Hannett goes insane and try to kill Tony, the birth of "Madchester" music and rave culture, Happy Mondays sell their equipment and studio for crack and then attempt to hold their new album for ransom... You wouldn't get this kinda stuff in a film about EMI.

* FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator: Tony, the narrator, points out in one of his discussions how details of his own life are being glossed over, and while taking time to explain this, he notes that the story isn't about him but the music and [[FootballPopMusicAndFlatCaps Manchester]].

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Yes, a lot of the events in the movie happened, but several are intentionally exaggerated to make the movie more entertaining. For instance, Martin Hannett never tried to shoot Tony[[hottip:*:Instead he shot a gun into a phone with Rob Gretton on the other line]]. In another scene, Tony's wife Lindsay has sex with Magazine singer Howard Devoto (after catching Tony cheating on her); the film Tony (and in the DVD commentary, the ''real'' Tony) states that the story never happened, and the real Howard Devoto makes a cameo in the scene as a janitor, only to break the fourth wall and tell the audience "I ''definitely'' don't remember this."

* FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator: Tony, the narrator, points out in one of his discussions how details of his own life are being glossed over, and while taking time to explain this, he notes that the story isn't about him but the music and Manchester.

The film focuses largely on two of Factory's most popular artists, Music/JoyDivision (and their later reformation as Music/NewOrder) and The Happy Mondays, although it also features A Certain Ratio and Durutti Column to a lesser extent.

->''You're going to see a lot more of that sort of thing in the picture. I don't want to say too much, don't want to spoil it. I'll just say one word: 'Icarus'. If you get it, great. If you don't, that's fine too. But you should probably read more.''

* NoFourthWall: Wilson is aware he's in a film of his life, and frequently comments on the events and puts them into context. It gets to the point where he stops the film to point out the various cameos in the movie, including the cameo from the real Tony Wilson

* RealPersonCameo: [[CreatorCameo Tony Wilson himself]], [[Music/TheFall Mark E. Smith]], Howard Devoto, Keith Allen, Vini Reilly, Paul Ryder...and those are just the cameos that have to do with the Manchester music scene.

''24 Hour Party People'' is a 2002 biographical British film telling the story of Tony Wilson, a local news reporter (played by Steve Coogan), who attends a pivotal gig by Music/{{the Sex Pistols}} in the 1970s and, believing he is living in "one of the most important fucking times in human history", decides to start a record company called Factory Records and a club, The Hacienda.

--> '''Tony Wilson:''' It says so in TheBible, though, doesn't it? 'God made man in His own image'.

* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: Tony Wilson goes out of his way in his narration to the audience to mention that no animals were harmed at the conclusion of a scene involving Shaun and Paul Ryder killing 3,000 pigeons with poisoned bread crumbs.
--> '''Tony Wilson:''' ...although there are those who say they're pests, rats with wings.

* TheIshmael: Tony points out in one of his discussions how details of his own life are being glossed over, and while taking time to explain this, he notes that the story isn't about him but the music and Manchester.
-->'''Tony Wilson:''' I'm a minor character in my own story.

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Yes, a lot of the events in the movie happened, but several are intentionally exaggerated to make the movie more entertaining. For instance, Martin Hannett never tried to shoot Tony[[hottip:*:Instead he shot a gun into a phone with Rob Gretton on the other line]] and after the scene where Tony's wife Lindsay has sex with Magazine singer Howard Devoto after catching Tony cheating on her, the film Tony (and in the DVD commentary, the ''real'' Tony) states that the story never happened, and even had Devoto make a cameo in the scene as a janitor to point out that "I ''definitely'' don't remember this.
--> "When you have to choose between the truth and the legend, print the legend"

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->''You're going to see a lot more of that sort of thing in the picture. I don't want to say too much, don't want to spoil it. I'll just say one word: 'Icarus'. If you get it, great. If you don't, that's fine too. But you should probably read more.''
-->-- '''Tony Wilson'''

''24 Hour Party People'' is a 2002 biographical British film telling the story of Tony Wilson, a local news reporter (played by Steve Coogan), who attends a pivotal gig by {{the Sex Pistols}} in the 70's and, believing he is living in "one of the most important fucking times in human history", decides to start a record company called Factory Records and a club, The Hacienda.

The film follows Tony and Factory as money is lost, lead singers commit suicide, producers go insane and try to kill Tony, the birth of "Madchester" music and rave culture, bands sell the studio for crack and then attempt to hold their new album for ransom... You wouldn't get this kinda stuff in a film about EMI.

The film focuses largely on two of Factory's most popular artists, JoyDivision and The Happy Mondays, although it also features NewOrder, A Certain Ratio and Durutti Column to a lesser extent.

Not to be confused with the trope TwentyFourHourPartyPeople (which is named after the Happy Mondays song [[NamesTheSame that also gives this movie its name]]) about background extras that show up at parties for or thrown by a works main characters.
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!! Tropes include
* AGodAmI: Of a sort; while smoking a joint following the last gig at the Hacienda, Tony sees a vision of God... who just happens to look exactly like Tony Wilson. When he rejoins his mates and tells them this, they are less than impressed.
--> '''Tony Wilson''': It's says so in the Bible, though, doesn't it? 'God made man in His own image'.
--> '''Rob Gretton''': Yeah, but not a ''specific'' man.
* ActorAllusion: Taken almost to RecursiveReality levels; Steve Coogan, who played Tony Wilson, based his comedy character [[ImAlanPartridge Alan Partridge]] partly on Tony Wilson, and there are notable similarities between how the characters are presented.
* CountryMatters - Ian Curtis' first line in the movie is "Wilson, you fucking cunt!" Later, Rob Gretton also calls him the C-word.
* DeadArtistsAreBetter: Of a sort; the movie focuses heavily on JoyDivision for the first half, but following Ian Curtis' suicide (and the subsequent reforming of the band into NewOrder), it goes on to show New Order's subsequent massive success with "Blue Monday", the best selling 12" single of all time. The focus then shifts from New Order to the Happy Mondays, although this largely was because the Happy Mondays had the more entertaining meltdown.
* DemotedToExtra: The other members of Joy Division that became NewOrder. New Order guitarist/keyboardist Gillian Gilbert gets it worse and only appears twice, briefly and in non speaking parts.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Tony Wilson is dissatisfied with his career in TV journalism because he keeps getting assigned silly lifestyle pieces.
* TheIshmael: Tony points out in one of his discussions how details of his own life are being glossed over, and while taking time to explain this, he notes that the story isn't about him but the music and Manchester.
-->'''Tony Wilson:''' I'm a minor character in my own story.
* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: Tony Wilson goes out of his way in his narration to the audience to mention that no animals were harmed at the conclusion of a scene involving Shaun and Paul Ryder killing 3,000 pigeons with poisoned breadcrumbs.
--> '''Tony Wilson:''' ...although there are those who say they're pests, rats with wings.
* TheLastDJ: Tony Wilson, for all his ego and faults, is portrayed as something like this; he refuses to sell out his beliefs and the other characters, so while they routinely mock him for other things, they nevertheless respect him because of this. It builds to a climax where, facing financial ruin, Factory Records is forced to sell their assets to the London-based [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin London Records]], only for it to be discovered that there isn't actually for them to sell:
-->'''Tony Wilson:''' Factory Records are not actually a company. We are an experiment in human nature. You're labouring under the misapprehension that we actually have a deal with, er, with our, our bands. That we have any kind of a contract, er, at all, and I'm afraid we, er, we don't because that's, er, that's the sum total of the paperwork to do with Factory Records, deal with, er, their various bands... I have protected myself from ever having to sell out by having nothing to sell out.\\
'''Roger Ames:''' Tony... you're fucking mad.\\
'''Tony Wilson:''' Well, that is a point of view.
* NoFourthWall: Wilson is aware he's in a film of his life, and frequently comments on the events and puts them into context. It gets to the point where he stops the film to point out the various cameos in the movie, including the cameo from the real Tony Wilson
* PostModernism: Most of the movie. Tony Wilson describes himself as "being postmodern before it's fashionable."
* RealPersonCameo: [[CreatorCameo Tony Wilson himself]], [[Music/TheFall Mark E. Smith]], Howard Devoto, Keith Allen, Vini Reilly, Paul Ryder...and those are just the cameos that have to do with the Manchester music scene.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Lampooned in-universe. Despite describing himself as "a minor character in my own life story", Tony Wilson's opinion of himself is portrayed as being ''very''... healthy, and he is routinely mocked by the other characters for this.
* UnfortunateImplications: In-universe -- the band "Joy Division" is named after the euphemistic term for the prostitution and sexual slavery groups of Jewish women were forced to perform in Nazi concentration camps. This leads to accusations of fascism and white supremacist skinheads invading their gigs, which leads to the band spitting on them, which leads to further chaos. Later, after Ian Curtis' death, the band reveal to Tony Wilson that they've decided to change their name to "New Order" -- which, as Wilson points out, is possibly even ''more'' fascistic.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Yes, alot of the events in the movie happened, but several are intentionally exaggerated to make the movie more entertaining. For instance, Martin Hannett never tried to shoot Tony[[hottip:*:Instead he shot a gun into a phone with Rob Gretton on the other line]] and after the scene where Tony's wife Lindsay has sex with Magazine singer Howard Devoto after catching Tony cheating on her, the film Tony (and in the DVD commentary, the ''real'' Tony) states that the story never happened, and even had Devoto make a cameo in the scene as a janitor to point out that "I ''definitely'' don't remember this.
---> "When you have to choose between the truth and the legend, print the legend"
* BioPic
* WisdomFromTheGutter: Tony Wilson gets a pep-talk from a bum on the street who claims to be the philosopher Boethius.
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