I saw the Cirque de Soleil Beatles thingy entitiled "LOVE." Thousands of props and costumes, tons of visual graphics shown on huge screens, hundreds of gymnastic stunts, dozens upon dozens of artifacts of Brit-culture, song after song re-mastered.
It all felt wrong. They just didn't give me "my Beatles." Very very disappointed -- especially since I ponied up $300 for two tickets. Once in Italy, I heard an Italian military band give a group of tourists a public-square performance of The Star Spangled Banner, and they messed it up so badly it was almost unrecognizable. "You hadda be there" is the problem. Whoever wrote this "Across the Universe" thingy probably had the same challenge -- very hard to get there from anywhere else -- only the Beatles could pull off being Jack Kennedy....something like that. Edg --- In [email protected], "mainstream20016" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Saw the movie, 'Across the Universe' last night. Loved the first half, but the second half was > flat and I came away thinking that perhaps the movie was filmed sequentially, from first > scene to finale; and that perhaps funding dried up mid-way through production, which > depleted the ability of the producer and director to continue the first half of the movie's > high-level choreography and cohesive theme progressions. > Of course, I was curious as to how the title song would be presented. I was very > disappointed. Hint: The song 'Across the Universe' becomes progressively overdubbed by the > song 'Helter Skelter' during visuals of Vietnam and anti-war protestors' confrontation with > police. > Dialogue was minimal during the first half of the movie. In the second, it seemed to > predominate. The conclusion reminds one more of a traditional romantic movie, rather than > a review of the cultural and historical significance of the era. > -Mainstream >
