Director Julie Taymor (who previously directed Frida and, one of my personal favorite films, Titus) took a lot of flamboyant and colorful liberties with the film's cinematography but one thing is certain: It's an awesome arrest of the senses. |
The version you saw has little to do with Taymor, since the studio seized the picture from her and completely re-edited it. There was a fairly big huff in Hollywood over it (since Taymor is a well-respected theater director - though notorious for being hard to work with at times).
After director Julie Taymor's cut of Across the Universe, featuring music of the Beatles, was greeted with derision by preview audiences, it was recut by Revolution Studios chief Joe Roth and shown last week to a receptive audience in Phoenix, AZ that gave it a score of 86 percent, L.A. Weekly columnist Nikki Finke reported Tuesday, citing unnamed sources. But when Taymor learned of the screening, insiders told Finke, she had an angry "meltdown." One studio insider told Finke: "We were dealing with a woman who has absolutely no sense of commercial potential. At one point, [Sony Pictures Co-chairman] Amy Pascal took her to dinner and diplomatically told her 'how good it could be' if only she'd cut the movie. But Julie still refused. Indeed, that's the refrain of everyone: there's a great movie in there, somewhere. But, as [Taymor's cut] stands now, it's so complicated it's just a bad movie."
Movie & TV News @ IMDb.com - Studio Briefing - 21 March 2007
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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