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Excellent viewing, especially if you are Beatles fan, and can relate to the character in a sense being that of John Lennon going in search of his father. Also the getting involved with the music scene and the anti Vietnam war demonstrations. Graphics were well put together for the scenes where the secondry character was being inducted into the US Army and being trained prior to being sent to Vietnam.
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I'm a Beatles fan. I was nine years old when they hit Britain with their first Number One hits, and the Beatles became utterly intrinsic to my English child and teenage years. I am so-wrapped up the Beatles' world that in 2001, i wrote and performed a play, "I AM THE WALRUS", which was about the assassination of John Lennon. So, when I first learned of this movie "Across the Universe", a musical where not only were the Beatles songs NOT sung by the lovable "Mop Tops", but it was made by a YANK!!!! What a bloody cheek! I was so prejudiced, as I started watching the film, I was convinced I was going to hate it. BUT in the less than 10 minutes, I was sold. I loved it...and I thought, hey, why shouldn't an American make a movie about our boys, if the Beatles had changed, influenced and improved their lives. The Beatles transcend all borders. They belong across the universe. And Julie Taymor, the director, didn't disappoint me. I was already an admirer of her films "FRIDA" Frida [DVD], and "TITUS" Titus [DVD] [2000] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]. What I especially loved about ACROSS THE UNIVERSE was how Taymor made the film relevant to today, with it's anti-war message. It was easy to see the parallels between America's scandalous military involvement in Vietnam, and America's wars in the Middle East today. But Taymor's homage to the Beatles is not preachy...it is colourful, truly psychedelic, entertaining, surreal, inventive, imaginative, romantic. It is a great movie, and Julie Taymor, for sheer artistic imagination and visual innovation and ingenuous use ofmusic, is for me, America's answer to great British directors like Ken Russell, and Alan Parker. Dreams My Father Sold Me: Poems and Graphic Art of Nabil Shaban
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