The documentary “The Beatles: Get Back” produced and directed by Peter Jackson, is the new series-tribute to the most famous rock band of all time. Its title refers to one of their last albums “Get Back” which was released in 1969 shortly before the band finally disbanded.
In the 1960s a band with a name inspired by a Marlon Brando film made their appearance in Old Albion. With John Lennon and Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr as pioneers, the Beatles soon became one of the most famous bands in the country and then conquered the world. Founded in 1959 for beetles, no one expected that some commentators from Liverpool would be able to gain worldwide fame. And yet the first reactionary boys of the early ’60s managed to transform into the eternal gentlemen of rock, establishing their own special haircut and collarless jackets. The fury of their fans flooded Europe and traveled to the other side of the Atlantic.
Twelve thousand letters a day was the minimum sample of admiration they received. Moments of panic and hysteria prevailed when they arrived in New York in 1964, while at a concert in their hometown 60 people fainted waiting in line all night to get tickets for their concert.
The documentary
Using state-of-the-art digital recovery techniques, Jackson edited 60-hour footage shot for “Let it be” as well as 150 hours of audio to bring the Beatles back to life. Like those new kids who started their music careers then, they are back on the screen today with rich material that makes us feel like everything happened yesterday. Their whole history, their professional career and their daily life unfold before our eyes.
Their evolution was rapid and their tours were many. The fans were going crazy, but no one could see what was happening behind the scenes. Professional and personal life became one and many times confused in a tangle that ultimately turned out to be fatal for their future. After the death of their manager Brian Epstein, the hourglass began to count down. But we are still talking about children who were in their third decade of life, so young. When we consider their age we understand how big and elusive what they did looks like and how logical it is that they can not separate their private and professional lives. “Get Back” was a milestone as it marked the culmination of their careers. Having struggled themselves they tried to cope with incredible deadlines to complete the album. Gradually, this ambition will become the cause of their dissolution. Their wants varied and the opportunities presented to them wanted villages. And so it happened, first Ringo and then the others took separate paths. When John and Paul play the guitar with the rhythm at the beginning of “Don’t let me down” you can not resist. No one can believe how these four former friends did not manage to stay together. With such material and such a demanding theme, what was initially announced by its director as a theatrical film ended a series of documentaries with a new design and perspective. In three days and six hours, Jackson closed the entire history of the Beatles and reminded them why their work is still worth so much. When engineer Glyn Johns in the late ’50s suggested that the band’s original team record a song, it seemed such a crazy idea that they did not even respond. The documentary, however, proves its decisive influence on the creation of the Beatles. Other attempts to record their history on television were made, for example, the film “Let it be” by Michael Lindsay Hogg. However, the result shown does not clearly reflect the atmosphere of the band but focused on their dissolution, leaving the viewer with a sad aftertaste. Something that certainly does not meet the reputation of beetles.
Reviews and promotion
Jackson described the series as a “documentary for a documentary.” The last part covers the 21 days that the Beatles take to the studio rehearsing for their new album, a concert and a film project and concludes with their 42-minute concert on a rooftop. With the exception of individual shots for which there was no other alternative the material used in “Get Back” has not been shown in the movie “Let it be” mentioned above. The shots included were mostly taken from other recorded scenes from different angles. The New York Times in an article by Ben Sisario focuses on scenes with Paul McCartney inspiring the song “Get Back” in January 1969. The group then seems tied up and depicts their honest behavior and treatment of each other. , at the same time Harrison arranges a song by Bob Dylan with his guitar. The first screening of the documentary was announced for January 30, 2019, the day that would celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Beatles concert at Roof Top. Nevertheless, after the changes caused by the pandemic and the acquisition of the distribution rights of the documentary by Walt Disney Studios, the premiere was postponed for a year. The documentary was finally screened on November 16, 2021 in London with Paul McCartney there.
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