High Fidelity: the book versus the movie versus LIFE

When "High Fidelity" came out in 2000, I thought it was going to be a comedy about collectors and record snobs and whatnot.  It had some of that, but it was mostly an adaption of Nick Hornby’s novel about lost love and the anguish and the sorrow and the nice and the good (as Jerry Lewis would say).  But not unlike “Anchorman,” I think there was a GREAT comedy (not just a cult-comedy) waiting to burst out.  To wit, this deleted scene:




And just for balance, here’s one of the record-snob scenes that did make it into the final cut


It’s not a bad movie; I just wish Director Stephen Frears had given it a different treatment.