#sam mendes

[penguininahottub]

This is, by no means, original thought. However, after the release of Beatles ‘64, I just want someone to make a Beatles film that is for us. Forget the mainstream and do what Cynthia said had never happened - people getting the emotion right instead of just the facts. The Beatles story isn’t a success story, it isn’t a rags to riches story, it isn’t an even a story about genius, it’s a story that has the power to change the world and one that will be told for ever. We are living in an era where we get to witness a myth being made and so in tribute to the oral tradition, we need to be the myth-makers. Someone needs to tell the story. I hope it will be Paul. I fear it won’t. Perhaps he can’t or shouldn’t, perhaps he won’t be believed. He definitely won’t be if everyone, including him, keeps recycling the same tropes. We know there’s no new stuff to be created, but there is a new light to be shed on what we know is there. This is beginning to sound a bit like the discovery of the Book of Mormon. No one needs another religion, but we do need is for someone to actually attempt to approach this seismic cultural event with an honest and open perspective.

Yoko allowed John to believe he was the genius. John’s canonisation (his manufactured image does him no favours) means that we can forget that Paul was the revered one in the 60s. He was the chosen one - in every way. John clocked it at their very first meeting.

“I half thought to myself, He’s as good as me, I’d been kingpin up to then. Now, I thought, if I take him on, what will happen?”- John

He took a risk, he made his choice and then never again believed in his own ultimate superiority. The story he’d told himself growing up, was that nobody was capable of spotting his genius because they were all below him. Surely a trauma response to being abandoned by his parents. Never could stand to be ignored, forever desperate to be seen and yet incapable of taking off the armour of cruelty. Look at me! Paul was the same, not armour but a wall of charm. Underneath John was soft and Paul is that almost impenetrable wall. They let each other in, and each betrayed the other. Those instincts of self-preservation that John spoke about.

Anyway, he took the chance on Paul, because he wanted to be somebody and Paul and him together made that a real possibility. Also, Paul was fucking hot and clever and talented. He was also a non-conforming weirdo who made everything look effortless and wouldn’t join John’s gang and wouldn’t let him lead. I wonder if this was Paul knowing, from the first moment of seeing John as was then confirmed by subsequent sightings and (I suspect) recces, strategically carried out to observe John (oh that bus worship carries some significance beyond an appreciation for public transport), that he knew how to handle John. Handle and manage John, in order to make him his very own.

(Is it him? Does it matter, because Paul has told us he “noticed” John many times, even before the chocolate bar.)

But, all the Paul adulation, especially John’s own uncontrollable, unconditional veneration, got to be too much. He couldn’t keep his jealousy in check. No quantity of material objects, women, money, food, fame soothed the ache for long enough. He thought Yoko, and because I am sure this is what Yoko promised him, was the only person who would always be in awe of him. She wasn’t, and the really tragic part is that Paul was from the jump, he still is and his faith never waivered.

If only they’d been able to maintain the connection and never lose the ability to read each other’s minds.

They burned too brightly. They loved too hard.

[franklyimissparis]

can george’s beatle biopic please be in the style of monty python pleaseeeeeeee

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[weedsmokingmacca]

desperately want to queen out with all the old man directors hyperfixating on the beatles. scorsese peter jackson sam mendes let’s use a ouija board to talk to john lennon together

[toovirgins]

sick of seeing reports about paul mescal playing paul mccartney in the upcoming biopic. they should’ve cast me (a beautiful woman)

[cinematicsource]

Revolutionary Road (2008) dir. Sam Mendes

[giogiorabbit]

I am OBSESSED with the parallels between All Quiet On The Western Front and 1917.

OBSESSED.

only to post a FEW.

[hellish-cruelty]

In flames

Movies- 1917 (2019), Manchester by the sea (2016), Skyfall (2012), Jarhead (2005), There will be blood (2007), Burning (2018), Dunkirk (2017), Macbeth (2015), The revenant (2015), Mirror (1975)

[buffyfan145]

Deadline's now confirmed that Joseph Quinn is in final talks to play George Harrison in the Beatles movies!!! 😀 They also confirmed Harris Dickinson is as well for John Lennon, while also saying the studio Sony was waiting till all the deals were finalized before announcing it but it got leaked out, so as of now it is Joseph, Harris, Paul, and Barry playing them.

[lascitasdelashoras]

Sam Mendes - Camino a la perdición, 2002

[aliesafenlock]

Looks like there are some Cabaret fans here, so I found my programme of Roundabout Theatre Company's production I saw many years ago.

This Broadway revival was was based on the 1993 London production, directed by Sam Mendes, and performed at Club 54!

The main cast were:

Alan Cumming as the Emcee

Natasha Richardson as Sally Bowles

John Benjamin Hickey as Cliff Bradshaw

Mary Louise Wilson as Fräulein Schneider

Ron Rifkin as Herr Schultz

[whatcannotbesaid-shallbewept]

In theory, this is the most exciting thing I've heard about the new Beatles biopics.

In practice, I simply do not believe the four writers will be equally talented.

So. Now we have an exciting prospect on our hands. Instead of all the movies being Bohemian Rhapsody redux - maybe only a couple will be bad. Lots to think about.

[tilbageidanmark]

American Beauty, 1999, dir. Sam Mendes

[texaschainsawmascara]

[exhausted-think-bucket]

I'm not adding the link cause you need to subscribe to read about what I truly hope is a rumor

[tercessketchfield]

Frightening, soulful, and incredibly moving // today is four years since I first watched 1917