Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lester Bangs in the film Almost Famous ( Untitled Cut). All scenes

One of his smaller roles but one of his best. At its heart, the film portrays, through a fictional band in 1973, the final steps in the slow creeping take over of Rock Roll by corporate interests. In the eyes of some, such as Bangs, this absorption was squeezing the life, originality innocence out of the music. The corporate homogenization of the music was inevitable once the right people realized how much money could be made.