Luke Skywanker
https://images.plurk.com/3GK8EHdpyBCKjEFj30QJkn.jpg Okay. I'm going in.
PlurkDevi
Thoughts and prayers
Luke Skywanker
Paul McCartney is a fucking case study in humanity I love him so much
Mυrder Mυғғιɴ
He’s a whole ass complex mess and i love him too
Luke Skywanker
I can't think of anyone who looks so open and uncomplicated but is in reality unknowable and insane
Mυrder Mυғғιɴ
Yes
Mυrder Mυғғιɴ
Idk if you’ve heard any of his classical music yet
Mυrder Mυғғιɴ
But he really needs to do All The Things
Luke Skywanker
no I'm watching a children's cartoon now that he wrote
Mυrder Mυғғιɴ
All. The. Things.
Luke Skywanker
because you can't, you won't, and you don't stop
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OBSERVATIONS:
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this sure is a movie!
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It's both absurdly self-indulgent and like, lacking in ego? I'm confused.
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Like he's playing Paul McCartney, someone even calls him "Macca," but he's not really that interesting or dynamic and doesn't really do anything in the film, we're just supposed to find his "day in the life" super fascinating?
Luke Skywanker
Even if (spoiler) it's all a dream? What a weird fuckin dream, pal. As Jennifer pointed out, he stood up for this ex-con and then had a two hour fantasy sequence about how the guy might have fucked him over except no, it was just everyone assuming he'd fucked you over, but it's actually..
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...your OWN SUBCONSCIOUS?
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I guarantee Paul did not think about it in those terms but here we are.
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--He could have chosen literally ANY shirt to wear for the whole movie and he chose that one
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--He wrote the world's dumbest, schmaltziest song about writing love songs and chose to stage it as if it were the opposite which is actually the exact wrong move
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--They used "Band on the Run" but only nondiegetically and this is a HUGE missed opportunity given the movie was about him being in a band wtf
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--Speaking of reusing old hits, this is the worst version of "The Long And Winding Road" I have ever heard and he no longer gets to complain about Phil Spector ruining his song because this is so much worse I cannot even believe his gall
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Like I am actually shocked and I already know he has no self-awareness
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--He wrote a movie and invited all his friends and they're all playing themselves but not a one gets an actual name in the movie
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Linda says like one line
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I will say Ringo trying to find the right brushes is pretty quality humor in classic Ringo style
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--Paul thinks his pretend real fantasy life is so exciting we will sit through a rehearsal of three songs I've never heard in a row. With nothing else going on except they're in a garage or whatever playing songs. This is not how musicals work.
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--IT WAS ALL A DREAM I'm coming back to this because SERIOUSLY
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--Paul being a terrible actor is so wild, like he's such a great performer and gives great interview and he's consistently cute as a button but you ask him to deliver lines and he gets replaced with a cardboard cutout
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--No but seriously why is this movie so boring?
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--Would this movie have been made if John was still alive? I ask because if he was alive he might have seen it and Paul might have realized that. I have questions.
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--I think he thought he was making A Hard Days Night but he has literally none of the factors in play that make that movie great. Except his eyebrows those are still intact and I'm a huge fan but ... no
PlurkDevi
So better or worse than Magical Mystery Tour?
Luke Skywanker
I mean in terms of like, it was a movie that felt like a movie and was a movie? better
Luke Skywanker
I hesitate to call MMT a movie but I could see someone preferring it because at least it is not even trying to be coherant and therefore succeeds at that goal
PlurkDevi
I remember reading about someone telling Paul that the Band on the Run album cover was kinda lame and Paul asked why he wasn't told this when they were working on it. Paul was apparently stunned to learn that he wasn't the easiest person to say no to.
PlurkDevi
Maybe that was the problem here.
Luke Skywanker
Oh 100%
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I'm not sure he realizes he's controlling? I don't think he thinks he wants control, that's pretty clear in Get Back
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(I'm not sure he actually wants to be in charge either? But he's got the ideas, and he wants things a certain way, and there are only so many ways to get there)
Luke Skywanker
He seems to want to always be right and to have his ideas realized but he doesn't want to be the one bossing people around because he likes being liked. But he still gets pegged as bossy because, well. He ends up doing it anyway.
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That's my take anyway
Luke Skywanker
(He liked when Brian was around to be the bad guy for all of them, then he didn't have to be the one anyone else was mad at)
PlurkDevi
I think that was a problem with Wings, too. It's clear that he wanted another bona fide band, with give and take, which, of course, it never was.
Luke Skywanker
Yup. Because you're in a band with Paul Fucking McCartney.
Luke Skywanker
Jen and I have decided he's in a bubble. He doesn't... I don't know if he's capable of realizing how much.
PlurkDevi
I'm not sure you can reach that level and not be in a bubble.
Luke Skywanker
He wants to be likable and genuine without 1) offering too much of himself and 2) compromising on his vision. And you can't really do that.
PlurkDevi
But as bubble dwellers go, he's a good one.
Luke Skywanker
I mean and it's not just his level, I think the charm/prettiness probably plays into that, too. And the talent.
Luke Skywanker
No I think he means what he does.
Luke Skywanker
God I was reading today about him writing to the Dalai Lama about why he still eats meat and the DL wrote back and was like "my doctors say I have to for my health" and Paul was still like "I dunno sounds fake."

And you're like... bro it's the Dalai Lama calm down
Luke Skywanker
Not sure how that fits in I was just thinking about it.
Luke Skywanker
But yeah he made a couple pretty bad movies here. And he's so adorably unwilling to dwell on anything he's just sort of like "oh they weren't that bad!" and moves on.
Luke Skywanker
BUt yes I wish someone had been able to tell him when to dial it back or whatever. Which John Lennon could. He heartbreakingly talks about having a John in his head when he's writing songs but I do not think head!John is as harsh as he needs to be lol.
PlurkDevi
lol
PlurkDevi
The Dalai Lama bit reminds me of someone asking me if Mother Teresa was saved. I was, like, she's Mother Teresa.
PlurkDevi
"Yes, but was she saved?"
Luke Skywanker
uh
Luke Skywanker
that is pretty much how that works yes
PlurkDevi
Yeah, I just backed away slowly.
Luke Skywanker
I just love Paul McCartney publicly knowing better about Buddhism than the Dalai Lama
PlurkDevi
The Dalai Lama probably felt that Paul wasn't the easiest person to say no to.
Luke Skywanker
hahaha
Luke Skywanker
I mean I wouldn't
Mυrder Mυғғιɴ
John in his head is definitely not as harsh as John in his life was.
Mυrder Mυғғιɴ
John Lennon just said shit; he was far less concerned about being liked and I’m not sure Paul’s brain can play that character because I don’t think he knows what that’s like.
Luke Skywanker
That's a really good point.
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