I recently watched the film La Bamba about Ritchie Valens. It was released in 1987 and stars Lou Dimond Phillips as Ritchie Valens. The film does a good job of showing the effect Ritchie's career in the music business has on his family and his girlfriend Donna Ludwig played by Danielle von Zerneck. It shows the struggles he must face during his path to becoming a musician. Everyone knows how the movie ends with a plane crash killing three, Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens the youngest of the three victims at the age of seventeen. The film ends with Ritchie's family and friends hearing the news on the radio and his brother running to a bridge and yelling RITCHIEEEEE!!!!!!!!!. The part when Bob yells is the most powerful part of the movie. The Buddy Holly Story does not go into the effects the crash has on the other characters in the movie. The film stayed mostly true to the life of Valens in part because his mother who died later that year was on set along with Bob Morales to make sure that their characters were portrayed accurately. The part that they did not get right was the coin toss between Valens and Buddy Holly guitarist Tommy Allsup. According to Allsup the coin toss did not take place at the airport but at the Surf where the coin was flipped by radio DJ Bob Hale not Buddy Holly. The music for the film was preformed by Los Lobos who I know little about, they also make a cameo in the film as does Brian Brian Setzer who portrays Eddie Cochran. Who knows what he would have done if he'd lived longer.
I recently watched the film La Bamba about Ritchie Valens. It was released in 1987 and stars Lou Dimond Phillips as Ritchie Valens. The film does a good job of showing the effect Ritchie's career in the music business has on his family and his girlfriend Donna Ludwig played by Danielle von Zerneck. It shows the struggles he must face during his path to becoming a musician. Everyone knows how the movie ends with a plane crash killing three, Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens the youngest of the three victims at the age of seventeen. The film ends with Ritchie's family and friends hearing the news on the radio and his brother running to a bridge and yelling RITCHIEEEEE!!!!!!!!!. The part when Bob yells is the most powerful part of the movie. The Buddy Holly Story does not go into the effects the crash has on the other characters in the movie. The film stayed mostly true to the life of Valens in part because his mother who died later that year was on set along with Bob Morales to make sure that their characters were portrayed accurately. The part that they did not get right was the coin toss between Valens and Buddy Holly guitarist Tommy Allsup. According to Allsup the coin toss did not take place at the airport but at the Surf where the coin was flipped by radio DJ Bob Hale not Buddy Holly. The music for the film was preformed by Los Lobos who I know little about, they also make a cameo in the film as does Brian Brian Setzer who portrays Eddie Cochran. Who knows what he would have done if he'd lived longer.
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