The Beatles: "Get Back." SNEAK PEEK from Peter Jackson

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  1. BDC

    BDC Forum Resident

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    Holy %#$@ this is gonna be one fantastic rewriting of history! The bootleg outtake footage I have much more supports the winter of discontent scenario. 56 hours..........there's no way they can make this movie long enough for me... Even if it's like the epic Lord of the rings movies all together, I'm gonna want more.
    The original gloomy movie is only an hour and a half, and that thing leaves me wanting more.

    That was more like watching their happy azzez in Help or Hard days night than Let it be.
    Sure hope there's a super duper deluxe edition I can buy.
     
  2. Roger Thornhill

    Roger Thornhill Senior Member

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    Just watching it now.

    56 hours previously unssen?

    Wow.

    How is that even possible?

    Not the biggest fan but this looks amazing.
     
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  3. Dr. Dog

    Dr. Dog You can talk to me...

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    It also makes you wonder why John and George had such a negative spin on it. Perhaps John's was because of the smack (and lack of song contributions) and the Twickenham Studio and its hours and George's because his songs were ignored and the Twickenham Studio and its hours.
     
  4. Mr-Beagle

    Mr-Beagle Ah, but the song carries on, so holy

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    Peter Jackson's next project...

     
  5. rlj1010

    rlj1010 Forum Resident

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    Amazing quality, but also digitally enhanced to the point where it’s almost “photorealistic animation”.

    It’s like Peter Jackson’s 2018 “They Shall Not Grow Old” where he took 100+ year old film footage of World War I, and manipulated it making it look like brand new. It’s an amazing technological achievement, but is it ethical?

     
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  6. Cristiano Cortellazzi

    Cristiano Cortellazzi Forum Resident

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    Who cares if it’s ethical or not.
    The results are all that really matters.
     
  7. rainingdogs

    rainingdogs Death Of A Clown

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    Honestly quite moving to see that. Cannot wait to watch the whole thing.
     
  8. DRM

    DRM Forum Resident

    Fab gear.
     
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  9. FredV

    FredV Senior Member

    Exactly. This movie was brilliant and amazing. Can’t wait to see the Beatles film!
     
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  10. bewareofchairs

    bewareofchairs Forum Resident

    Well, this is a few minutes of montage out of hours and hours of footage. Not quite the same as living it all moment-to-moment, cameras on and off in the cold of January. When Billy came in is when the mood improved, and this is largely from that period.
     
  11. rainingdogs

    rainingdogs Death Of A Clown

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    The revisionism will harm the Beatles, if they give it long enough. The currently established narrative makes complete sense - all the diss tracks from John and Paul etc, things said in interviews.

    I am assuming Apple are going to make it clear this is a cut of the movie that brings joy the Let It Be era. And hopefully we will get a release of Let It Be in HD - which is a canon Beatles film.
     
  12. murphmanz

    murphmanz Forum Resident

    Well that cheered me up (on a day when some cheer is needed) :)
     
  13. Derek Slazenger

    Derek Slazenger Specs, rugs & rock n roll

    Awwwwwwww. Boy, were they cool.

    I wonder why Peter Jackson has all those instruments lying around the editing suite?
     
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  14. Arnold Grove

    Arnold Grove Senior Member

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    That was a delightful 5 minutes.
     
  15. yasujiro

    yasujiro Senior Member

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    Is the main footage from the Twickenham rehearsal?
     
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  16. Rfreeman

    Rfreeman Senior Member

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    Love it
     
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  17. Cool hand luke

    Cool hand luke There you go man, keep as cool as you can

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    I was thinking exactly the same thing. I was very much reminded of that Elvis film while watching this. The vibrant colors, as well as the goofing around in rehearsals.
     
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  18. Arnold Grove

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    Out of the 56 hours, it certainly will be simple for Peter Jackson to feature 2 hours of happy, peppy, and musically adept footage of the band. There were enough wonderful moments throughout January 1969 to comprise Mr Jackson's film.

    But one thing that I did notice: The Apple Studio footage---which made up most of Peter's "Sneak Peek". The Beatles were A LOT happier once they reconvened at the Apple basement studio, especially compared to the cavernous, gloomy Twickenham studio. After George walked out and quit for a week and a half, they all decided to give their best efforts in resuming the project. It was only another 10 days or so of work, but they all worked better in that smaller, tighter studio.

    And John looks CLEANER in the Apple studio footage. He almost looks/acts hyper.
     
  19. konut

    konut Prodigious Member. Thank you.

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    While J and P were singing and smiling without moving their lips made me lol!
     
  20. beatlesaint

    beatlesaint Forum Resident

    This revisionism that people will undoubtedly moan about gets on my nerves. That looked fabulous to me and if they have put all happy, cheery clips into that then so what ? There's no CGI there, they really smiled, they really goofed about and at times they seemed to really have fun. All that stuff happened. Didnt Mark Lewisohn say he'd completely changed his opinion of those sessions after listening to all the material thats out there ?

    I just hope that level of cleaning up film has happened with the original cut of the Let It Be film when that comes out.
     
  21. Arnold Grove

    Arnold Grove Senior Member

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    In the "Sneak Peek", most of the footage is from the basement Apple Studio.

    The original LET IT BE film had much Twickenham footage.
     
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  22. mestreech

    mestreech Forum Resident

    Made my day, excellent.
     
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  23. Diego Esparcia

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    I really hope that, although the movie might last "only" 100-140 minutes, we eventually get a Bluray boxset FULL of extras. I mean really HOURS of bonus material jajaja
     
  24. postscripum

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    That's wonderful. It was quite a feat of Lindsay Hogg's to have left out all of that in favour of the dull and aimless visual dirge that he put out. There's more entertainment in those three or so minutes than in the whole of Let It Be.
     
  25. bewareofchairs

    bewareofchairs Forum Resident

    I'm really happy to see the footage of them goofing around, but I do think it's important for the film to have emotional depth, and you can acknowledge the happy moments without completely dismissing the tension (not saying the film will definitely do that, but I'm already seeing fans do it).
     
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