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The Beatles: Get Back
2021 · TV series · documentary · 1 season
Created by Peter Jackson
The three-part documentary series, compiled from over 60 hours of unseen footage, captures the warmth, camaraderie, and creative genius that defined the legacy of music's most iconic foursome. The series also includes – for the first time in its entirety – The Beatles' final performance at London's Savile Row.
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The Beatles: Get Back Documentary
I agree with this.
AI interpolation for the two historical clips with extreme technical difficulties and film which would be nigh unwatchable is perfectly reasonable.
Applying AI to something like "Get Back" is not. The footage for "Get Back" is perfectly reasonable even if it was suboptimal. Even worse, at some point the original footage will get lost and the AI contaminated stuff will become the reference.
I usually subscribe and then immediately unsubscribe. You get the service for a month, no need to remember to cancel. It’s just like renting a movie, and (to me) definitely worth it for Get Back. I wasn’t expecting it to be as good as it was; I was engrossed and plowed through it, and thought about it a lot for a couple weeks afterward.
regarding Mr. Cave's critique:
From Alan Turing's paper, "COMPUTING MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE"[0]
"(1) The Theological Objection Thinking is a function of man's immortal soul. God has given an immortal soul to every man and woman, but not to any other animal or to machines. Hence no animal or machine can think."
regarding your comment:
If you haven't watched The Beatles: Get Back[1], I highly recommend it, if only to watch the Fab Four brainstorm lyrics.
[0]https://redirect.cs.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf [1]https://www.thebeatles.com/beatles-get-back-disney-original-documentary-series-directed-peter-jackson-debut-exclusively-disney
> Do something, so we can change it
This is what musicians do - put in nonsensical filler lyrics until they work out the rest of the song. Sometimes the throwaway lyrics are even kept. The Beatles did this to great effect in the Get Back documentary. It was so cool to see how the now legendary songs took shape. You got to start somewhere. Everything is iterative.
Most Ken Burns stuff... Especially the ww2 one. Also, released in the last year, the Beatles: get back documentary is fascinating to watch the creative process and dedication to the task, if you're so dedicated to sit for all 8 hours of it.
Not only all of the above, but for Paul in particular, a genius who was in the midst of one of the largest creative highs of his entire career. I mean, some of the snippets of ‘half-baked’ songs he plays are songs that will figure well into his solo/Wings career. I honestly don’t know how you can come out of watching Get Back with anything other than admiration for human creativity as personified by Paul McCartney during this amazing month that got captured on film.
There hasn't been a Beetles movie since when?
Peter Jackson documentary last year!
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles:_Get_Back
Yesterday movie 2 years ago
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday_(2019_film)
We can't get rid of them - they're so infused in the culture you haven't even noticed!
Peter Jackson just released a new Beatles documentary last year in Disney Plus. That's a major director covering a major band on a major streaming platform. It was big news.
https://www.indiewire.com/2021/11/the-beatles-get-back-review-peter-jackson-disney-plus-documentary-1234681499/
Nothing to do with the article, but I liked looking at the culture, at the time, in the film. Like the old man in the trench coat and pipe, that walks onto the roof across the way during the second take of "Get Back". You see him again during the song "Dig a Pony" - I guess he liked the Beatles, I wouldn't have guessed.
What I wouldn't give for an equivalent film about Led Zeppelin making one of their albums. Though I feel like they'd be the last band to ever agree to it.
I first thought watching Get Back might "spoil" the magic of how the Beatles made records. But somehow seeing all the quotidian banality and hard work made it all the more impressive.
One thing I noticed during the Get Back Beatles Documentary recently released, is that Apple Records was a subsidiary of Apple Corps. The Beatles' Apple had much bolder ambitions than I had realized. In the film, they discussed movies and performances under the Apple umbrella.
John Lennon himself described it as: "we've got this thing called 'Apple' which is going to be records, films, and electronics – which all tie up."
Watching this documentary made me wish that they did that with all their records. Since Get Back was a relatively stripped down record, it didnt really show a lot of the techniques they used on their more produced records. I am a bit of a gear head and it is pretty cool to see a brand new silver top Rhodes piano getting delivered and seeing it with all its Tolex looking brand new and not showing years of being beat to death like most Rhodes pianos look now. I do agree that it seems like the sessions look generally like they are having a good time, and the memory of the Get Back/Let it Be sessions are most likely conflated/clouded by the breakup around the time it was finally released.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211207081933/https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/12/06/beatles-get-back-documentary-songwriters/
> Peter Jackson pored over nearly 60 hours of footage for his documentary “Get Back.”
I thought that might be a mistake. But then it was said again in the article. It’s really not a lot - by our standards today. But then considered that, IDK, for 1969 this might be more then it seems.