Perhaps someone can point me in the right direction to find an answer. I am very curious what paperback book Lennon is reading in the film Help!, towards the beginning of the film where he is in his sunken-in-the-floor bed. He has multiple copies of the book with him there. Anybody know?
It were the second one "A Spaniard in the Works". He kisses it fondly in the movie, if memory serves. John
I think he had a whole shelf full of copies of both In His Own Write and A Spaniard In The Works in his "pit", but he actually pulled out the latter from the shelf.
John and Steve, you are both correct. And to be a complete anorak about it - the copies of 'A Spaniard In The Works' seen in Help! were all hardbacks. The paperbacks didn't come out until the late '60's and had different artwork.
The other part in the movie where he and Ringo are walking down a street he is reading the poem "I Sat Belonely" from "In His Own Write": "I sat belonely down a tree, humbled fat and small. A little lady sing to me I couldn't see at all" ..... The back cover of "In His Own Write" "ABOUT THE AWFUL I was bored on the 9th of Octover 1940 when, I believe, the Nasties were still booming us led by Madalf Heatlump (Who only had one). Anyway they didn't get me. I attended to varicous schools in Liddy Pool. And still didn't pass-much to my Aunties supplies. As a member of the most publified Beatles my and (P,G, and R's) records might seem funier to some of you than this book, but as far as I'm conceived this correction of short writty in the most wonderful larf I've ever ready. God help and breed you all."
Yes, rather a witty lad, wasn't ol' JL? Nice to hear "Happy Xmas" every year, though I heard the SHAVED FISH version over the speakers at Wally World yesterday and kinda cringed... single version's all over the place, guys... ED
There is a real wit in there: "As a member of the most publified Beatles". The "f" in "publified" comes from centuries earlier when "s" on a manuscript resembled an 'f". "I'm conceived this correction of short writty in the most wonderful larf I've ever ready." The final three words mean I've ever read but John also keeps the book "ever ready" as you see from the movie Help. "conceived" connects to being "bored" at the beginning. "short writty" is a play on witty and writ. I could go on with my high school poetry analysis but who's still awake? There is a thread in John's humour from the Goon Show of the fifties which connects to Monty Python in the late sixties. The man had a sharp yet unconventional flair for language.
The best of JL's 'poetry'--he kind of shrugged off that kind of lofty tag--proves "I Am The Walrus"(lyrics, anyway)didn't come out of nowhere, just an extension of a very literate, creative mind. Always miss him most this time of year; can't even begin to imagine some of the things that might have come out of that famous mouth...jolly good fellow ED
Reechie I'm assuming that you pulled that John Lennon still off of the DVD of "Help" - what software do you need to do that and how?
Actually, I pulled it off of the web, you'll have to ask the site owners how they did it: http://home.att.net/~liveletdie4/help.html
PowerDVD software will usually let you do screen capture. Many other DVD software players for the PC (including Sigma Designs' "Hollywood Plus") won't do it to DVD's with the copywright feature on (Most DVDs)
I like how he calls Nazi's the "Nasties". I wonder if the "who only had one" bit is a reference to the story that Hitler had only one testicle. Lance Hall
I guess it comes from the old song: Lyrics Kids were still singing it in the playground in England in the seventies - I was one of them! (for all I know they're still singing it!!) - did this tune make it's way across the pond?
Malc, I went to skool (English skoolboy speling "Whizz For Atoms") in England during the 70's too. We used to sing verses one and four - I never knew the other two verses. When I returned to Canada, only a few kids knew the song. It was the most significant song (whistle) in Bridge On The River Kwai. Lance, Apparently Herr Schickelgruber (sp?) was testicularly challenged - the song was based on fact, supposedly. This post is a spellcheck nightmare.
Hi Ross, Welcome to the forum. Did you mean to start a thread about Hitler's reproductive organs? If so you came to the right place. John