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"Across the Universe"
Issue date: 3/5/08 Section: The Edge
A young man relaxing on the shore, staring off into the distance of the never-ending ocean, casually looks at the camera and begins to sing "Girl" by the Beatles.
Right from the opening scene, "Across the Universe," starring Jim Sturgess as Jude and Evan Rachel Wood as Lucy, manages to give its audience goose bumps with Sturgess' incomparable, soothing, enticing voice.
"Across the Universe," directed by Julie Taymor, brought out tears of grief and joy, as well as smiles from laughter and a heartfelt story.
The film takes place in the late 1960s and starts out by setting up the main characters: Jude and Lucy. Jude, a dockworker from Liverpool, decides to take a journey to America in search of a father he has yet to meet for the first time. Along with meeting his father, he also meets a young, rebellious college student named Max who introduces Jude to his beautiful, sheltered sister, Lucy, who he quickly falls head over heels for.
Soon after, Max ends up being drafted to serve in the Vietnam War. Because of this, Jude and Lucy start to develop into ongoing peace activists.
Throughout these scenes, the main characters perform songs by the Beatles that fit the storyline of the movie. All of the music is executed perfectly with mind-blowing voices and heartrending stories to be told behind them.
While the movie names characters after several Beatles songs, there are more hints a Beatles fan can run across and grasp throughout the movie that relate to the Beatles. An example is the "Blue Meanies," fictional characters who were featured in the Beatles' 1968 film, "Yellow Submarine."
Each song in the movie has its own type of music video to it to tell the story behind it. My personal favorite song of the movie is a toss-up between "Revolution" and "I Am the Walrus," which features U2's own lead singer and guitarist, Bono, as Dr. Robert.
While Jude is singing "Revolution" to Lucy in an office, you get an uncontrollable amount of integrity out of Jude. It made me realize another point of view of the song the Beatles may have intended, which is if you keep trying to start a revolution, you just cause more confusion and anger, but just know that it's going to be, of course, all right.
"I Am the Walrus," on the other hand, takes you on a virtual ride through the eyes of a young free spirit on LSD. It's definitely the most enchanting scene of the movie.
"Across the Universe" is the greatest movie I have ever seen and is incomparable to other musicals. It has something for everyone, whether you are a fan of Beatles music or not. It has an amazing story tied to it. Pick up "Across the Universe" on DVD today.
-Dani Minehart
edge staff
Right from the opening scene, "Across the Universe," starring Jim Sturgess as Jude and Evan Rachel Wood as Lucy, manages to give its audience goose bumps with Sturgess' incomparable, soothing, enticing voice.
"Across the Universe," directed by Julie Taymor, brought out tears of grief and joy, as well as smiles from laughter and a heartfelt story.
The film takes place in the late 1960s and starts out by setting up the main characters: Jude and Lucy. Jude, a dockworker from Liverpool, decides to take a journey to America in search of a father he has yet to meet for the first time. Along with meeting his father, he also meets a young, rebellious college student named Max who introduces Jude to his beautiful, sheltered sister, Lucy, who he quickly falls head over heels for.
Soon after, Max ends up being drafted to serve in the Vietnam War. Because of this, Jude and Lucy start to develop into ongoing peace activists.
Throughout these scenes, the main characters perform songs by the Beatles that fit the storyline of the movie. All of the music is executed perfectly with mind-blowing voices and heartrending stories to be told behind them.
While the movie names characters after several Beatles songs, there are more hints a Beatles fan can run across and grasp throughout the movie that relate to the Beatles. An example is the "Blue Meanies," fictional characters who were featured in the Beatles' 1968 film, "Yellow Submarine."
Each song in the movie has its own type of music video to it to tell the story behind it. My personal favorite song of the movie is a toss-up between "Revolution" and "I Am the Walrus," which features U2's own lead singer and guitarist, Bono, as Dr. Robert.
While Jude is singing "Revolution" to Lucy in an office, you get an uncontrollable amount of integrity out of Jude. It made me realize another point of view of the song the Beatles may have intended, which is if you keep trying to start a revolution, you just cause more confusion and anger, but just know that it's going to be, of course, all right.
"I Am the Walrus," on the other hand, takes you on a virtual ride through the eyes of a young free spirit on LSD. It's definitely the most enchanting scene of the movie.
"Across the Universe" is the greatest movie I have ever seen and is incomparable to other musicals. It has something for everyone, whether you are a fan of Beatles music or not. It has an amazing story tied to it. Pick up "Across the Universe" on DVD today.
-Dani Minehart
edge staff
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