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Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Thorsten Schütte’s film is a sharply edited and energetic celebration of Zappa through his public persona, allowing us to witness his shifting relationship with audiences. Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into the musician’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in the joy of performing and, in the next moment, a fiercely intelligent and brutally honest interviewee whose convictions only got stronger as his career ascended.

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Thorsten Schütte

Year

Genre

Documentary, Biography, Music

Box Office

$355,074

Production

N/A

Awards

3 wins & 4 nominations total

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How does this camera look? - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

How does this camera look?

How about saying, "Hi, this is Frank Zappa. - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

How about saying, "Hi, this is Frank Zappa.

"I guess... I... I guess you
don't have anything better - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

"I guess... I... I guess you don't have anything b...

"Well, you might as well sit back
and watch Take Off, then." - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

"Well, you might as well sit back and watch Take Off, t...

"I guess you don't have
anything better to do tonight, huh?" - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

"I guess you don't have anything better to do toni...

I guess you don't have anything
better to do tonight, huh? - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

I guess you don't have anything better to do tonight, h...

That's why you're watching Take Off. - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

That's why you're watching Take Off.

Hello, we're talking with Frank Zappa, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Hello, we're talking with Frank Zappa,

Well, I'm about to get sick - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Well, I'm about to get sick

Is anybody's guess... - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Is anybody's guess...

{\an8}That trouble coming every day - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

{\an8}That trouble coming every day

{\an8}Frank Zappa is one of the most controversial
modern composers and musicians. - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

{\an8}Frank Zappa is one of the most controversial modern co...

{\an8}Every time I hear 'em
Sayin' that there's no way to delay - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

{\an8}Every time I hear 'em Sayin' that there'...

But I guarantee you this,
he absolutely will not bore you - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

But I guarantee you this, he absolutely will not bore you

Well hello - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

What is Frank Zappa about? - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

What is Frank Zappa about?

All right. Are you rolling? - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

All right. Are you rolling?

It seems that the business thing - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

It seems that the business thing

Well, it is just a matter...
It's a matter of survival - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Well, it is just a matter... It's a matter of survival

I have survived for 17 years. - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

I have survived for 17 years.

If you had to define your job,
how would you define it? - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

If you had to define your job, how would you define it?

Do you think the kind of entertainment
that people are craving now is much different - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Do you think the kind of entertainment that people are cravi...

I mean, there are some people that
only like the earliest albums, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

I mean, there are some people that only like the earliest al...

They're just these snotty little people
who don't really understand what's going on. - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

They're just these snotty little people who don't ...

These are the people
who know everything they know - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

These are the people who know everything they know

People just crave those early albums - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

People just crave those early albums

Well, I hate to see anybody
with a closed mind on any topic. - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Well, I hate to see anybody with a closed mind on any topic.

So, I just feel sorry
that they're missing out on a lot of good stuff - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

So, I just feel sorry that they're missing out on a lot...

Your mothers and fathers
are all drinking beer... - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Your mothers and fathers are all drinking beer...

An exploiter of a... Of a... Of a revolution... - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

An exploiter of a... Of a... Of a revolution...

Someone hoping to sell tickets to a concert
on the basis of a social revolution. - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Someone hoping to sell tickets to a concert on the basis of ...

Did we ever advertise
that we were going to promote a revolution, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Did we ever advertise that we were going to promote a revolu...

Well, that has nothing to do with the means
by which we advertise a concert. - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Well, that has nothing to do with the means by which we adve...

You gotta go - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Frank, a few questions
that we'd like to ask you this evening - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Frank, a few questions that we'd like to ask you this e...

And the first question
that we'd like to ask you is, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

And the first question that we'd like to ask you is,

Well, the first time I ever
got paid for playing music - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Well, the first time I ever got paid for playing music

And I started off as a drummer, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

And I started off as a drummer,

We used to rehearse over
at this preacher's house, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

We used to rehearse over at this preacher's house,

I was reading about the first time
you ever composed a piece of music. - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

I was reading about the first time you ever composed a piece...

And I don't know if it was
really a piece of music, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

And I don't know if it was really a piece of music,

I always thought music looked nice on paper, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

I always thought music looked nice on paper,

They were the wrong color,
so I couldn't pass 'em, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

They were the wrong color, so I couldn't pass 'em,

I figured, well, if I could
just draw those things on the paper, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

I figured, well, if I could just draw those things on the pa...

Yeah. I didn't write a rock-and-roll song
until I was about 21 or 22 years old. - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Yeah. I didn't write a rock-and-roll song until I was a...

And prior to that time,
the only thing that I was writing - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

And prior to that time, the only thing that I was writing

You play a bicycle? - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

You play a bicycle?

He probably was selling
insurance or something, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

He probably was selling insurance or something,

Now, the tape is pre-recorded electric noises
that I stuck together. - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Now, the tape is pre-recorded electric noises that I stuck t...

But now the... The way we work this is, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

But now the... The way we work this is,

I must say that I am always
in favor of enlarging the horizons, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

I must say that I am always in favor of enlarging the horizo...

They're interested
in working with their hands, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

They're interested in working with their hands,

Now, when you want to play music - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Now, when you want to play music

They don't make it easy
for you to be a musician. - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

They don't make it easy for you to be a musician.

In the United States especially, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

In the United States especially,

But musicians usually are regarded
as sort of the scum of the earth, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

But musicians usually are regarded as sort of the scum of th...

This particular project
has been very expensive. - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

This particular project has been very expensive.

We are the other people
We are the other people - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

We are the other people We are the other people

Do you think that I creep in the night - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Do you think that I creep in the night

Let me take a minute to tell you my plan - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Let me take a minute to tell you my plan

Record companies have
a peculiar way of making sure - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Record companies have a peculiar way of making sure

And don't you get a feeling that now,
with your records moving up in the charts, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

And don't you get a feeling that now, with your records...

- I've been hearing that.
- Do I look like - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

- I've been hearing that. - Do I look like

Before that, you never got your music
heard by anybody, isn't that correct? - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Before that, you never got your music heard by anybody, isn&...

- And now...
- And they still don't care, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

- And now... - And they still don't care,

But then, isn't it...
The minute you look at you, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

But then, isn't it... The minute you look at you,

That you look, when somebody
sees you for the first time, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

That you look, when somebody sees you for the first time,

And where are you going from here, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

And where are you going from here,

I mean, where are you going to go from here, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

I mean, where are you going to go from here,

Well, I think one thing
that I'd like to do is to not work. - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Well, I think one thing that I'd like to do is to not w...

Well, isn't that what you're going to do
for a livelihood, eventually? - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Well, isn't that what you're going to do for a liv...

People don't compose for a livelihood,
especially in the United States. - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

People don't compose for a livelihood, especially in th...

The composition end of
my musical experience - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

The composition end of my musical experience

I also got ahold of an album
called The Rite of Spring. - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

I also got ahold of an album called The Rite of Spring.

I thought, "Boy, if anybody
could make a missing link - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

I thought, "Boy, if anybody could make a missing link

"If anybody could get a missing link
between Igor Stravinsky, Anton Webern, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

"If anybody could get a missing link between Igor Strav...

And then people started telling me
that my melodies were ugly, so... - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

And then people started telling me that my melodies were ugl...

And bang, here we are
with the Mothers of Invention, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

And bang, here we are with the Mothers of Invention,

It's an American pop music band which is
connected with pop in a certain way, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

It's an American pop music band which is connected with...

But their leader Frank Zappa
that you'll see later on and who is noticeable, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

But their leader Frank Zappa that you'll see later on a...

You cannot define his music.
What he does is anti-music. - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

You cannot define his music. What he does is anti-music.

How to define his music? - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

How to define his music?

When you founded your
record producing company, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

When you founded your record producing company,

Because they had been
actually tampering with my... - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Because they had been actually tampering with my...

I would finish an album
and give them the tapes, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

I would finish an album and give them the tapes,

You know. That's what happened to the
We're Only in It for the Money album. - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

You know. That's what happened to the We're Only i...

To give you an example
of what censorship was like at this company, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

To give you an example of what censorship was like at this c...

But in the song
Let's Make the Water Turn Black, - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

But in the song Let's Make the Water Turn Black,

Two years later, in hushed whispers,
an executive from the company told me - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Two years later, in hushed whispers, an executive from the c...

And they were upset - Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

And they were upset

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words poster

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Thorsten Schütte’s film is a sharply edited and energetic celebration of Zappa through his public persona, allowing us to witness his shifting relationship with audiences. Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into the musician’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in the joy of performing and, in the next moment, a fiercely intelligent and brutally honest interviewee whose convictions only got stronger as his career ascended.

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Director: Thorsten Schütte

Writer: N/A

Production: N/A

Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music

Year: 2016

MetaScore: 74/100

ImdbRating: 7.5

BoxOffice: $355,074

Released: 08 Dec 2016

Awards: 3 wins & 4 nominations total

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Also watch: Iceman, Days of Heaven, Manchester by the Sea, Hugo, Joker, Interstellar, Snowpiercer, Tenet, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, Get Out, Forrest Gump, Me Before You, The Revenant, Avengers: Endgame, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Maze Runner, 500 Days of Summer