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Profound whatever: I Met The Walrus

by jay · 2008 07 07 14 42 ·

Really great: I Met the Walrus, an animated short based on a 1969 interview with John Lennon.

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon's every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit, and timeless message.

One of my favorite parts of the interview is when Lennon talks about the meaning that people find in music, how it's "all in there - either trivia, or profound whatever," and how he discovers this in retrospect in his own music.

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by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) · 2008 07 12 19 41

Great film, I was shocked at the quality of the animation. Here’s another new Lennon video, a previously unreleased peace seminar from 1969.

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