WATCH THE BEATLES' YELLOW SUBMARINE RIGHT NOW

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Released at the height of the psychedelic pop culture period of the 1960s, the movie Yellow Submarine was a box-office hit, drawing in crowds both for its lush, wildly creative images, and its soundtrack of Beatles songs. The original story was written by Lee Minoff, based on the song by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and the screenplay penned by four collaborators including Erich Segal.

As with most motion picture musicals, the music takes precedence over the actual plot, and most of the story is a series of set-pieces designed to present Beatles music set to various images, in a form reminiscent of Walt Disney's Fantasia (and foreshadowing the rise of music videos and MTV fifteen years later). Nonetheless, the movie still presents an entertaining modern-day fairy tale that caters to the ideals of the "love generation".

The dialogue is littered with puns, double entendres, and Beatles in-jokes, many scripted by Roger McGough. "Blue Meanies" is sometimes used as a slang term for the police, although many viewers will have missed this (see List of slang terms for police officers). The term "Blue Meanies" is actually a metaphor for bad people in government and corporate, who force their wills on good people (Pepperlanders), and carelessly deplete and ruin the natural environment, resources, colour and landscape. They are carefree about their destruction ways and will do whatever necessary to crush those (The Beatles) who oppose them.

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Without a doubt this film continues to be the weirdest and most psychedelic cinematic experience I've ever encountered. And, man, what kind of staying power it has: I've loved this movie at virtually every stage of my life, as a young child, as an older child, teenager, twentysomething, and now in my late thirties, which is appropriate, I suppose, because it was released the year I was born, 1968. It really is a great deal of fun. How could it not be with all those cool Beatle songs, weird sound effects, and George Martin incidental music? Not to mention the fact that it's got some pretty good politics driving the plotline. Anyway, the John Lennon post yesterday wasn't enough, I feel, to adequately memorialize his death twenty six years ago, so why don't you go feast on the recently pirated and uploaded full length Yellow Submarine, courtesy of Throw away your TV.

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