On finding the non-Beatles sound. I think [Elliot] really got to the heart of what the song meant for this movie. He uses the instruments so appropriately for the mood and the storytelling. That makes it an integrated musical.
On the blend of cinematic styles. Taymor visualizes her film in three different sections: innocence, reality, reconciliation. She grounds the early part of the film in naturalism, shots of high school dances and college campuses.
These boys that have been stripped of their own individuality and become pieces of meat to fight in a war machine. They represent the anonymity of it all. If you look at the great movie musicals of the past, they all go surreal. American in Paris , say. The colors that we put into the bus, and the feeling of flying and floating, that is an emotional resonance.
All of the uses of animation and colorplay, in the theatre you would probably do it with pure choreography and lighting. I wanted to do what I thought cinema does best. Music videos are boring to me because they just keep repeating the same thing over and over.
But if we could do it in a storytelling way… The lyrics and music forward the concepts that were put into the script. We made these songs literal. On bringing Across the Universe to the stage. He meets Max Joe Anderson who loves to live free and have fun with his friends. They are hippies who work as a musician and perform as a band in restaurants every night. Featured Image: google. She walks away from her home and she feels lonely.
The film also has a touch of Vietnam War which happened in s. Julie, you fought the studio to get final cut on this film, when Sony wanted to shorten it. I was reading some of the press from that time, and I was noticing how gendered the language is when they write about you and this movie.
Being a successful director on Broadway brings out all kinds of knives and hatred. But the misogyny business is true. And I put blinders on and just tried to do the work. I think every director, male and female, has babies, you know what I mean? It is sexist dialogue. We loved our movie. It was working. They just smelled the money and thought if we dumb it down, literally, and get rid of the politics — I saw a cut where they got rid of the Detroit riot.
There was no black child who was killed. Evan had a line — this was one of the first signs of the kind of difficult road that would come. Having children is narcissistic, like putting out carbon copies of yourself. I mean, that line came from experience. The other thing is the poster. The one that they put out, the strawberry , everybody who made this film hates.
I mean, the Beatles appeal to all ages. If you watched the karaoke James Corden video with Paul McCartney in Liverpool, all these people in the bars were from 16 years old up to ERW: Oh my goodness, the responses are just breathtaking. It was just to expose what these rooms are like that you walk into over and over and over again. And nada. Julie, do you have any advice for Evan in this situation? And we will be making it this fall. And it probably has a lot to do with the ballistic-baby concept.
Even if people realize that the press has misogynistic writing or fear of a powerful woman, unless they meet you personally — and then I often get people being so surprised!
Quite honestly, ten years ago, when women were in big positions, they were not supporting other women. It was fear. JT: The studio is all new people now, and they love it. The success of La La Land — well, that had two very big stars in it, but it really comes on the heels of what Across the Universe did ten years ago. ERW: I want to add about Julie, that she has such a strong vision and she holds true to her conviction.
You gotta be kidding, of course I am! ERW: Exactly.
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