“All You Need Is Love” Across the Universe: Julie Taymor & The Beatles By Jen Johans |
| However, tension funnels into the love lives of the characters as first Sadie, who has been growing far more successful than her boyfriend Jo-Jo and the rest of the band, contemplates going solo and Lucy alienates her artist boyfriend Jude by her increasing activism in the anti-war movement. The following clips illustrate the disintegration of the relationship, namely first in the rock styled opera found in Sadie and Jo-Jo’s show-stopper “Oh! Darlin’” where the lyrics really come to life as a bitter lover’s quarrel in front of their audience. In addition, via the photographs which precede the clip, take a look at how closely the two resemble their counterparts of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix (below). Then, we cut back to the central plot surrounding our young lovers-- Jude and Lucy. Quickly, Jude reaches a Jackson Pollack inspired breaking point (see a real Pollack painting, "Blue Poles" below). As mentioned before, the dazzling “Strawberry Fields Forever,” was amazingly sung in duet linking his New York location with Max’s in Vietnam as Lucy watches the war footage on television. The idea of projecting an image onto a face is also echoed in the video The Beatles did for the song which can be seen here as well, following the photograph. |
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| Note: When originally posted in 2008, the embedded videos we found online were all in working order. However, due to Sony Pictures copyright violation, a majority of the clips have now been removed from YouTube. We've chosen to leave all of the original videos throughout the piece to give you a reference point of where to follow along when you watch the film on your own to best appreciate the essay. |
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