I will always brand Citizen Kane as quite possibly the most subversive film ever made, but I did quite enjoy Head. I'm not certain the Monkees had much of a clue as to what kind of effect their film would have on their career or to their teenaged fans, so I'm not clear how this film was subversive. The cult popularity this film has graduated to did not occur until almost two decades after its release. The original fans of the Monkees and most of its "Young Generation" never saw the film.
I totally agree that The Monkees hadn't a clue what was going on while they were making that film. As i said it was Nicholson and Rafelson who got wildly stoned one weekend and wrote this glorious act of career destruction. none of it made any money for the studio or appealed to the audience who may actually have appreciated it and I suspect this was a giant art school prank at not just the Music and Movie business's expense but also the Monkee's themselves. LOL
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lol name indeed :D I thought of post-punk.