{"id":3558,"date":"2015-12-12T05:18:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T05:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=3558"},"modified":"2015-12-12T05:18:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T05:18:55","slug":"across-the-universe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/12\/12\/across-the-universe-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Across the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonypictures.com\/movies\/acrosstheuniverse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Across the Universe<\/a> is probably my second favorite movie of all time, Allegro Non Troppo being my favorite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/13\/Dana_Fuchs_Notodden_blues_festival.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/13\/Dana_Fuchs_Notodden_blues_festival.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"3715\" height=\"2728\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonypictures.com\/movies\/acrosstheuniverse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Across the Universe<\/a> is a story set in the 60&#8217;s during the Viet Nam war centering around youth in America at the time.\u00a0 It&#8217;s choreographed to Beatles music which is performed so awesomely that often I find their performance preferable to the original.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3217\/2386649772_7721122030_o_d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3217\/2386649772_7721122030_o_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1324\" height=\"551\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The music is just absolutely awesome, the choreography is awesome, the storyline is good.\u00a0 You can&#8217;t watch this movie and not feel just about every human emotion there is in the extreme.\u00a0 This it shares with Allegro Non Troppo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I feel a bit emotionally overloaded at this point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I was first introduced to this film in a humanities class that I took as part of a multi-media course while I was in prison.\u00a0 This is the only class I didn&#8217;t get an &#8220;A&#8221; in as it was interrupted by a lengthy lock down after the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.king5.com\/story\/news\/2014\/07\/31\/12937418\/\" target=\"_blank\">murder of Jayme Biendl<\/a>.\u00a0 The linked news server says she was known as a tough officer.\u00a0 Actually she was popular among the prisoners. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This was a time of a lot of emotion for me and this movie brings me back to that time.\u00a0 I bought the DVD shortly after my release.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve probably watched this film a dozen times and still I never tire of it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Across the Universe is probably my second favorite movie of all time, Allegro Non Troppo being my favorite. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Across the Universe is a story set in the 60&#8217;s during the Viet Nam war centering around youth in America &hellip; 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