Across the Universe

 DON'T READ. I'VE NEVER SEEN IT. This is going to be about the music. I am planning to see it very soon, though. This movie was actually the beginning of my obsession with The Beatles. The first version of the song 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' was by T.V. Carpio, who plays Prudence in the movie, which is from the song 'Dear Prudence'. When I heard that version I immediately went to listen to the original and fell in love. I listened to almost all of the albums non stop afterwards and was, what you could call, sick with insanity. For them, of course. My favorite at the moment is still Abbey Road, but I'm favoring the White album a little more now. Anyway, Across the Universe for me song wise, has to be just spectacular. I haven't even seen the whole movie and I already can plainly see that the characters are picked out so perfectly. Everyone's perfect for the character the play, and I just love the fact that they're all named after a Beatles' song! I just love that. The only songs I like in the movie that I like a tad bit for than the originals, are the mashup of Flying/Blue Jay Way/I am the Walrus. That song and the scene it has just epitomizes the LSD and mind altering drugs they experimented in that time. I love how they showed it; making everything all trippy. It's exactly how they saw it! The other is It Won't Be Long sung by Evan Rachel Wood who plays Lucy. I haven't heard the original of that one yet, because I'm honestly too lazy to look it up. The last one is Because. Now, I love them both equally, but both for different reasons. The ATU version is sung more sing-y, if you get me. It's just contains a little more vocalization throughout, which is just beautiful, along with their harmonies. The Beatles' harmony in the original version took me too, because it's just so great. Harmonies always get me.
So, I know people probably won't read this, but it was fun putting my new obsession for the songs in this movie into blog form :)