Factual error: In the Brighton street scenes the parading air cadets are wearing service issue pullovers. These were not introduced as part of the uniform until the mid seventies. During the sixties air cadets would have been wearing battledress tunics.
Quadrophenia (1979)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Franc Roddam
Starring: Ray Winstone, Phil Davis, Mark Wingett, Leslie Ash, Phil Daniels, Sting, Garry Cooper, Kate Williams, Michael Elphick, Toyah Willcox
Jimmy doesn't end up with Steph because she's now dating his friend. When they're fighting about their relationship, Jimmy gets mad and rides his scooter, which ends up being torn apart. He falls off and gets run over by a truck. Disappointed, he goes to Brighton and sees Ace working as a bell boy. Jimmy takes his Vespa scooter and drives it off a cliff. It does not show whether he dies or not because when the scooter is going down, he's not there.
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Kev: I don't give a monkey's arsehole about Mods and Rockers. Underneath, we're all the same, 'n't we?
Jimmy: No, Kev, that's it. Look, I don't wanna be the same as everybody else. That's why I'm a Mod, see? I mean, you gotta be somebody, ain't ya, or you might as well jump in the sea and drown.
Trivia: A lot of the cast of Quadrophenia also appeared in the film Scum which was made the same year.
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Answer: Yes, you're right! The last scene shows a scooter with no windscreen.