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Post by stavros on Jun 18, 2010 17:57:05 GMT -5
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sv451For those outside of the UK. BBC 4 is a sort of arts,music and science channel. It appeals to a less populist audience. Former Doctor Who "Christopher Eccleston" will play Lennon. The write up is : Christopher Eccleston is John Lennon in a drama which charts his transition from Beatle John to enduring and enigmatic icon.
Writer Robert Jones articulates the burden of genius, as well as issues of fatherhood and fame, covering a period of wildly fluctuating fortunes for Lennon from 1967-71. When the Beatles' manager Brian Epstein died unexpectedly in 1967 it was a turning point in Lennon's life and the film focuses on the turbulent and intense period of change that followed, and how John was haunted by his troubled childhood.
It also reveals the impact of re-establishing contact with his long-lost father and the events that led Lennon to shed everything both personally and creatively, including calling time on the Beatles. Meeting Yoko Ono was the catalyst for this new era and the film explores the development of their extraordinary relationship, their growing disillusionment with Britain and what caused Lennon to abandon the UK to start a new life in America - a process which ultimately led Lennon to record arguably the most powerful solo work of his career.I hope all of you across the UK will take the chance to view it on whatever medium you see fit and report back. Those abroad well "....look out"
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Post by vectisfabber on Jun 18, 2010 18:56:04 GMT -5
There was a more detailed article in the paper today, which gave me pause. They deliberately haven't consulted anyone who knew Lennon because they didn't want to take any personal viewpoints on board - there's plenty of information out there in journalism for them to base the script on.
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Post by stavros on Jun 25, 2010 16:16:28 GMT -5
Right - The World Cup is taking up a lot of precious viewing minutes. But I finally got round to watching Lennon: Naked . It basically deals with the place John's head was at in the last years of the Beatles and the aftermath of the break up. The other Beatles are peripheral figures although the break up is clearly shown to be John's decision. It mainly deals with his relationship with his father and his feelings of abandonment. Eccleston does a decent job (he is trying to play a late 20s Lennon and must be in his 40s by now). If anything this portrayal destroys the Lennon image of a man in white forever singing Imagine for harmony and peace. It shows him to be an arrogant and sometimes nasty (no Rutle pun intended) man at war with himself and his closest friends on occasion. The irony is that he cannot see that his own abandonment as a child and bitterness to his father are exactly what he does to Julian his own son. There is a depressed overtone to the whole film. However it is enhanced by genuine Beatles/Lennon music. Which suggests that someone in the higher echelons of Apple allowed it. UK viewers it's here on BBC I-player to view online www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00sv451/Lennon_Naked/ Outside the UK you will need a decent proxy server to view it.
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