Rex says that the new film Across the Universe“strangely fetishizes the Beatles while still looking not quite horrible.”
I dunno. i’d say ‘almost’ not quite horrible. I guess it’s novel that someone has the balls to score their “life-love-and-strife-in-the-60′s” movie in chronologically against the Beatles catalog – with second rate performances by musicians other than said Mop-Tops, no less.
I’ll admit it. When it comes to the Beatles, I am a purist. (Siderant: Even Nick Cave can’t get a Beatles cover right. His versions of Let It Be and Here Comes the Sun in theory should be amazing. Sadly, thats not the case. Fiona Apple’s version of ‘Across the Universe”, does get my thumbs up however.)
Ahem.. where was I? Right.
I guess this resonates for me because I’ve been buying my daughter a Beatles CD for each birthday. I’m not sure if she will ever care about the Beatles as much as I did (and, as you probably guessed by now, I was obessed), but I’ve always wanted to turn her on to the originals, so that she can judge for herself.
Frightening to thing that she might say, ten yeard from now “Wasn’t this song in that lame movie about the 60′s?”. I can only imagine the history lesson for her which would follow.
Anyway. I need to go get a copy of Help for next week.
