#skipping through the ep to get screenshots for a crack post

[allcheers-allfears]

annie!lisa getting shot in the gut immediately after saying "We can be upgraded together." is exactly how I felt after hearing her say that

[genderlessginger]

Get Back, McLennon: Day 1

Check out the other Get Back posts here.

Read this first:

I'm going through the whole Get Back documentary (so if you’ve watched a bunch of Get Back, this could get really repetitive for you) day-by-day, telling what’s happening and scouring it for anything that is McLennon. 

Take everything with a grain of salt. This is all speculation. But, hate to break it to ya... McLennon is real. 

I'm going bizarro. Let's get started.

[Ep. 1, 1:51]

Get Back Refresher (skip if you want)

Get Back has been edited from more than 60 hours of video and 150 hours of audio. Some of the bits have been edited, showing video that isn't part of the audio. We're gonna kinda roll with that, because there's nothing I can do about it. They said they did their best to have an accurate portrayal so I'm forced to trust it here.

Before the documentary really gets started, there is a 12-minute refresher of the Beatles' history from the Fete to the Hey Jude live performance in September 1968. It had been two years since their last live performance.

The Beatles enjoyed doing a live performance so much they decided to record their next album in front of a live audience. The recording would be a live TV broadcast. The album would be played all in one take, with no overdubs or edits.

Important Note:

It is my belief that John and Paul (actually, all of the Beatles, but especially JP) communicate, forgive and heal through music. They weren't playing together a lot, a lot (not like before) during The White Album and things were just messy.

When John and Paul play, they usually look at each other. They look at each other for minutes straight, with breaks to look at their instruments, distractions, etc. They always do if they’re in each other's line of sight. Eye contact and how all of the Beatles look and act while playing together will be a major part of these posts. 

I will also be scrutinizing how John and Paul look at George and Ringo, Yoko and Linda.

Day 1 (2 January 1968)

Dress rehearsal is planned for 18 January, live shows are planned for 19 and 20. The bugs will have to come up with 12-14 songs for an album in 16 days. Paul is the last to turn up. This is the first look we see between them.

Here are some angles of how they look at each other, including George looking at Paul and John looking at George.

And putting this here. What a fucking legend.

Paul "teaching"

When Paul is teaching a song, he goes into this teacher mode, similar to a boss babe mentality, but music-ier. Anyway, Paul goes into this teaching place, which is hard to get screenshots to properly demonstrate it. There's a lot of head nodding as if to say, "There you go! You're getting it!" A lot of enthusiasm, a little overbearing. But there's nothing distracting him.

And John looks at Paul;

And when John went to pull Paul out of it, Paul cracked pretty quickly.

These are two separate instances:

And then a little later (I really like this sequence):

This is how everyone is sitting. George is sitting on a cushion in front of Ringo's kit. It doesn't seem like Yoko is disrupting much, as Paul and John are sitting, idk, two feet apart?

I'm not sure if they choose just the footage of these two looking at each other, but it's everywhere.

The dry bun thing:

It's one of the times in their lives where they are not getting along. And they're still so clearly in love.

.....And that's everything for Day One! Day Two coming soon!