There are underwater sequences which approach ballet, a stage performance that turns into musical warfare, strawberries that bleed, rooftop concerts and a montage combining crashing waves with the Detroit riots.īut all I'm doing here is list-making. Joe a sequence where inductees in Jockey shorts carry the Statue of Liberty through a Vietnam field, and cross-cutting between dancing to Beatles clone bands at an American high school prom and in a Liverpool dive bar. Julie Taymor, famous as the director of " The Lion King" on Broadway, is a generously inventive choreographer, such as in a basic-training scene where all the drill sergeants look like G.I. The love that dare not express its name turns in sadness to song. It's not happy if it's a hand you are never, never, never going to hold. When Prudence sings "I Want to Hold Your Hand," for example, I realized how wrong I was to ever think that was a happy song. The arrangements are sometimes familiar, sometimes radically altered, and the voices are all new the actors either sing or sync, and often they find a mood in a song that we never knew was there before. Almost everything happens as an illustration to a Beatles song. Yet when I say "story," don't start thinking about a lot of dialogue and plotting. But then things turn serious as Max goes off to Vietnam and the story gets swept up in the anti-war movement. Kite ( Eddie Izzard), having been some days in preparation. Robert's Magic Bus, where the doctor (Bono) and his bus bear a striking resemblance to Ken Kesey's magical mystery tour. Jude and Lucy fall in love, and they all go through a hippie period on Dr. Carpio), who loves women but doesn’t feel free to express her true feelings. They now all share a pad in Greenwich Village with their musician friends, the Hendrixian Jo-Jo ( Martin Luther McCoy), the Joplinesque Sadie ( Dana Fuchs) and the lovelorn Prudence (T.V. The characters, mostly named after Beatles songs, include Lucy (the angelic Evan Rachel Wood), who moves from middle America to New York Jude ( Jim Sturgess), a Liverpool ship welder who works his way to New York on a ship, and Lucy's brother, Max ( Joe Anderson), a college student who has dropped out (I guess). For a film that is almost wall to wall with music, it has a full-bodied plot.
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