[Peace-discuss] I want you/She's so heavy.

[E. Wayne Johnson]

I was quite impressed with Taymor also.

Across the Universe is really an excellent treatment of the Beatles 
catalogue, and the musicians and singers are top notch.

The symbolism in the movie is wonderful.  Interesting how well it works 
without being corny.

On 8/25/2012 9:56 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:
> Lighter but heavy (..., man) as well. One of the few serious attempts 
> to make art of "the Sixties" - and say something about what's now 
> universally condemned within the limits of allowable debate. (See B. 
> Obama, "Mendacity of Hope.")
>
> Taymor is excellent. Her Shakespeare films - Titus (1999), with 
> Anthony Hopkins, and The Tempest (2010), with Helen Mirren - are 
> under-appreciated, and Across the Universe was made between them, with 
> Shakespeare's history plays in mind, it seems. It's a shame she ever 
> got involved with the Broadway Spiderman: she was I think trying to do 
> something of the mixing of pop culture and serious comment that's 
> involved here:
>
> "Across the Universe is a 2007 musical romantic drama film directed 
> by Julie Taymor, produced by Revolution Studios, and distributed 
> by Columbia Pictures. The film's plot is centered around songs by The 
> Beatles. The script is based on an original story credited to 
> Taymor, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. It incorporates 34 
> compositions originally written by members of The Beatles. The film 
> stars Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson and T. V. Carpio, 
> and introduces Dana Fuchs and Martin Luther McCoy as actors. Cameo 
> appearances are made by Bono, Eddie Izzard, Joe Cocker, Salma 
> Hayek amongst others."
>
> --CGE
>
> On Aug 25, 2012, at 6:28 AM, "E. Wayne Johnson" <ewj at pigsqq.org 
> <mailto:ewj at pigsqq.org>> wrote:
>
>> On the lighter side -
>>
>> This scene from Julie Taymor's 2007 film Across the Universe seems 
>> fairly clever to me.
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX6dHWyqwNo
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