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How many films about the Beatles does the world need?
The band split 40 years ago and Lennon himself died 20 years back and yet, what with Paul McCartney's touring theme-park of concerts, the never ending repackaging of material (Let it Be Naked, Love, One ad infinitum) and the steady flow of dramas and documentaries, it's as if they never went
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The film sounds like it might be worth checking out, but I hope they don't keep going to the well over and over again any more than has already been done, as they have with the Sixties/Woodstock in a more general way in the US.
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Yep - myth building. Everybody does it.
And i think you might enjoy the film for the reasons you mention, it does present a Lennon that is interesting because of his background, (although a couple of vital things are missing) aand if he seems less 'BEATLE JOHN LENNON' and more, 'one f--ked up guy' it puts his life and music into context, and on a level with the rest of us ordinary people.
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Lennon pretty much kept me alive during my school days and his music and life still act as a touchstone for me... but not in the same way anymore, not with the same intensity.
i'm glad about that, not only does it mean i have my own life (ha ha!) it also means i see the reality and humanity of Lennon's life, warts and all.
And if some uniqueness and freshness are lost, i still appreciate the wonderful things generated by a bunch of boys from an average suburb in an average town in an average country at a profoundly average point in time - if anything they seem all the more extraordinary in that way.
Lennon in fiction? well there are Beatle fan-fics of every kind on the web though i've hardly read any, but there's an interesting couple of stories by Poppy Z. Brite that turn up in anthologies now and again. :)
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I feel silly saying I didn't know there was Beatles fanfic, but I know there is fanfic for *everything* lol.
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*gazes around warily*
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