Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
What is it? Experimental, self-indulgent, musical fantasia.Artists portraits and self-portraits do not necessarily always work. Picasso did it right in Le Mystere Picasso. Dali, not so well in his...
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Unlike 'The Yellow Submarine', getting high during the film changed nothing, the film stunk, and still does.
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When I finally saw it, I had largely the opposite reaction. Especially when it came to "I Am The Walrus" - it actually TOOK the movie's "music video" version to make me appreciate the song completely....
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"Self-indulgent" is the key phrase here. This ill-conceived, improvisational TV-film was doomed from the get-go. The idea was to fill a bus with a collection of odd characters and just drive around,...
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Great music: ham-fisted, meandering visuals....for completists only.
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I tried editing these in, but it only ruins my post. So here they are separately.Dali:
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I once read that they asked Richard Lester to direct, but he declined and said, "You should make your own film."
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At this point didn't the Beatles lack a manager? Brian Epstein use to handle there affairs but that was something they couldn't do without him. That may explain why it's such a mess.
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It looks like Dali had ideas but no craft. Picasso had Clouzot helping out on that movie. Yes, even artists need to tempered and countered.
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