"The Beatles: Get Buck" is a wonderful series about something even bigger than the band
Peter Jackson's series chooses to present the Beatles in a very specific, even manipulative way, and one can also understand those who lament smeared moments and repetitive songs.
Still, it's hard to resist "The Beatles: Get Buck", a work on a piece and a band that had a spell in it
Ido Yeshayahu
07/12/2021
Tuesday, 07 December 2021, 07:00 Updated: 07:03
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Trailer for The Beatles: Get Back Mini-Series (Disney Plus)
In one of the most astonishing moments in the first episode of "The Beatles: Get Back", Michael Lindsay-Hogg's cameras focus on Paul McCartney as he plays the guitar in an attempt to create a new song from the random sounds. Like a three-dimensional sculpture of the material and creating from it something new, gradually grows from this trial and error something that will very quickly become iconic, the song that gave the mini-series its name.
This is an amazing scene that actually reflects the whole series, as well as its creative process.
The original raw material was filmed and recorded in January 1969 by director Michael Lindsay-Hogg, in favor of a TV show that would document the Beatles for two weeks (which became three) while creating a new album from scratch, and finally also appearing with all his songs in some live performance.
The TV show became a movie, the show was finally on the roof of their record company building, and in retrospect turned out to be their last ever.
The album they recorded at the time, "Let It Be", was released only a year or so later, a month after the band disbanded.
In the Beatles' annals, Lindsay-Hogg's film, named after the album and released next to it, was set as an inscription on the wall.
The crucial evidence that the band's end is around the corner, as it did.
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John and Paul, "The Beatles: Get Back" (Photo: Disney Plus)
Nearly 50 years later, director of the long-running trilogy Peter Jackson ("Lord of the Rings," "The Hobbit") was given access to all 57 original filming hours and 150 hours of audio recorded at the time, and for nearly four years edited them to three Episodes that together number almost eight hours. Jackson and his team retrieved, refurbished and thoroughly cleaned the raw materials. The sound now makes it possible to finally understand what the friends are saying when they step on each other's words, and the footage looks like it was done yesterday.
Even before the series hit Disney Plus (which, according to reports, is expected to arrive in Israel in the next six months) on November 25, Jackson stated that the raw materials all pointed to a different narrative than we previously knew about this period in the band's life. We all thought it was a chronicle of disintegration, but in fact - beyond the dramatic moments like George Harrison's resignation - John, Paul, George and Ringo were happy most of the time and showed lots of love,And that's what the series reflects.
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In all its charm and humor.
John Lennon, "The Beatles: Get Back" (Photo: Disney Plus)
This is a very specific, and even manipulative, cinematic choice.
It does contradict what was deduced by others besides Jackson, who also listened to all the original recordings or were even there.
It is not for nothing that they disbanded a year later.
The series omits quite a few details that undermine this thesis, most notably Lennon's severe heroin addiction at the time.
There were days when Lennon was completely apathetic and left Yoko Ono, who always sat next to him on recordings, to speak in his place.
John was also an active partner in fueling the bitterness in George before he got up and left, but in the series we see John in all his charm and humor, and George's departure seems almost out of nowhere ("I'm leaving the band now" ).
There are lots of ways in which this series could have been created.
The Beatles' ardent fans will no doubt be happy to get the dozens of hours in full.
Others may settle for a movie, or at least a series that is half as long as it is now.
You can understand them - Jackson lingers on details and conversations, another take and another take on those few songs while working on them.
And it's not that these songs will make one of the Beatles' big albums, quite the contrary.
So the series discusses us listening over and over again to those less successful songs.
And yet, not only is it hard not to melt into the Beatles: Get Buck, but despite the smeared moments and musical repetitiveness, it is fascinating to watch.
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The most detailed, comprehensive and pulsating.
The rooftop show, "The Beatles: Get Back" (Photo: Disney Plus)
Yes, it was a crappy time with murky emotions, but fifty years and a bit later, we see the Beatles as we've never seen them before, in every aspect, and it's exciting and mesmerizing. Moments like the one mentioned at the beginning, or when Paul teaches friends "Let It Be", or when John tells Paul they're like lovers, or when Heather, Linda's toddler daughter, hangs out in the studio with John and Ringo and plays with Paul's hair While consulting with others on "The Long and Winding Road". And of course, the rooftop performance, which was the Beatles' last ever, and is presented here in the most detailed, comprehensive and pulsating way imaginable.
Beyond that, like the same material in the creator's possession, "The Beatles: Get Buck" presents us with something that is bigger than the band as well, because the band itself was bigger than itself.
In essence, this is a series about creativity and co-creation, and Jackson's choice to focus on love and talent sharpens the joy involved, even when things are gnawing and collapsing inside and out.
As Jackson wanted, the series does indeed overwhelm the connection and special friendships that existed between them, the tremendous talent and mutual fertilization that will never be restored in solo careers.
Alchemy, magic, sorcery.
Like the album itself, which was not a masterpiece but produced masterpieces, so too "The Beatles: Get Buck" is a cultural event that will be enshrined in the annals of the Beatles, and therefore also of pop culture.
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