Pee Wee Herman
Feb 1st, 2004, 09:03 PM
My dad rented Yellow Submarine on VHS today. It's an animated movie starring the Beatles. It is so fucking weird that it makes Being John Malkovich look normal. I can't believe how bizzare this movie was. You'd have to see it to believe it to see how goddamn wierd it was. Even wierd would say this movie was wierd.
The animation resembles that of Monty Python. The animation is pretty amazing for a movie made in the late 60's. I think it was supposed to be like an acid trip or something. There's all kinds of wierd creatures and shit like a monster that sucks everything up, including itself.
I think the Blue Meanies are supposed to be the government or "The Man." When they attack Pepperland or whatever its called, it's a metaphor for the government's extreme dislike for the hippie movement and all the stuff they did to try to stop the hippies. I have absolutely no fucking idea what the stuff in between attack of Pepperland and when the beatles get to Pepperland means. When the beatles play music to unfreeze the people of Pepperland, it's a metaphor for something like "free your mind with music and/or drugs" or "the government can't take your music nd/or freedom away" or "you're free as long as you have your music and/or drugs."
Some the lines like "It must be very tiring being time because time works 24 hours a day" cracked me up. This movie just confused the shit out of me. I'm not a Beatles fan, and I loved this movie.
I've also never seen any other Beatles movies.
EDIT: oh, and that Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds song was about LSD.
The animation resembles that of Monty Python. The animation is pretty amazing for a movie made in the late 60's. I think it was supposed to be like an acid trip or something. There's all kinds of wierd creatures and shit like a monster that sucks everything up, including itself.
I think the Blue Meanies are supposed to be the government or "The Man." When they attack Pepperland or whatever its called, it's a metaphor for the government's extreme dislike for the hippie movement and all the stuff they did to try to stop the hippies. I have absolutely no fucking idea what the stuff in between attack of Pepperland and when the beatles get to Pepperland means. When the beatles play music to unfreeze the people of Pepperland, it's a metaphor for something like "free your mind with music and/or drugs" or "the government can't take your music nd/or freedom away" or "you're free as long as you have your music and/or drugs."
Some the lines like "It must be very tiring being time because time works 24 hours a day" cracked me up. This movie just confused the shit out of me. I'm not a Beatles fan, and I loved this movie.
I've also never seen any other Beatles movies.
EDIT: oh, and that Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds song was about LSD.