I Met The Walrus

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In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon's every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit, and timeless message.

Channel: Film & Animation
Uploaded: June 17, 2008 at 12:19 am
Author: imetthewalrus

Length: 0:05:15
Rating: 4.85
Views: 970,359

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sistersuetube (Friday 21st of November 2008 09:03:52 AM)
Great illustrations and animation.
YouTubricant (Thursday 20th of November 2008 02:29:24 PM)
Cool. Very, very cool. George WAS a better lead guitarist than John, though. Oddly enough, Paul was better than both of them at lead guitar! His part of the "The End" solo and the "Taxman" solo are just phenomenal. However, I do give George props for the "Something" solo. It's just gorgeous.
la2htrea (Thursday 20th of November 2008 02:00:09 PM)
Johns said it: "We are all violent. We are all Hitler inside. We are all Christ inside." But that inherently means we have to make a conscious choice: whether to live our lives like Christ or like Hitler. We have to choose. We can choose love, light, life, peace rather than hate, dark, death and war. No greater love hath a man than to lay down his life for his friends. Thank you John Lennon, for the life you lived, and for your message.
maddog192 (Thursday 20th of November 2008 11:23:43 AM)
That is not only some great animation it is truly a good interview and done in a style I think would make the Beatle proud.
Caperton (Thursday 20th of November 2008 11:13:37 AM)
Can someone send this to Obama? I just hope he listens to stuff like this more than some of the Clintonites who are surrounding him now. Lennon was up there in Canada doing his bed-ins around this time, right? I remember seeing something where he met the Prime Minister (Trudeau?) and how he was young, and anti-war. Sounds like some parallels, right? (Feel free to correct me people. Got no time for Wiki right now.)
siinnderella (Thursday 20th of November 2008 11:05:30 AM)
Awesome!
98BlackTransAm (Thursday 20th of November 2008 09:58:55 AM)
Beautiful* ;)
bluesdance (Thursday 20th of November 2008 09:10:44 AM)
i liked "nothing" / "usa"
ystephanshrem (Wednesday 19th of November 2008 03:35:18 PM)
AMEN !You can say that again!
ystephanshrem (Wednesday 19th of November 2008 03:34:27 PM)
John Lennon gives good advice kids! Listen,Listen,Listen,Love ,LOve,Love, LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED ! Love is All You Need! Love is All You Need! Love Is All You Need!