now that I'm listening to the complete audio of the Get Back sessions, I'm actually quite pissed off at the Get Back documentary. I get that Peter Jackson had to cut down a lot of footage and give it a narrative, and he did the best he could, but I didn't realise how much the audio had actually been cut up until now. he basically cuts up a scene and mooshes it around so they're saying things out of order
y'know that bit in Get Back on the 14th Jan when George has left the band and they're all sitting around and John's talking nonsense and Peter Sellers even comes in for a bit? well one of the first audio bits I went looking for was that because it's one of my fav bits, and... Peter Jackson literally cut up two different sentences John said and turned it into one sentence. you can't just change someone's sentence to the point it's literally a different sentence, even if the sentence is just mostly nonsense. not to mention! in Get Back, John just looks like he's rambling nonsense and the others are just laughing along, but when you get the complete audio, you hear yeah John is rambling nonsense, but at least the others are actually participating some more, it's not just John who's off his rocker, man
the sentence in question is this... in Get Back, John says "now we were going to discuss this afternoon what religion meant to a popstar, and the popstar we've chosen is Tumble Starker, who's sitting here" (makes him look like he's referring to himself)
in the complete audio, however, John says "now we were going to discuss this afternoon what religion meant to a popstar, and the popstar we've chosen is Ringo McCartney" and then he goes onto banter with Paul, and later he brings up Tumble Starker as if that's Ringo and banters with him
I can kinda understand that for cutting things back tho, but I also found a worse crime. y'know that bit where John goes "I was sort of stoned and high and watching films" and Paul apparently replies "is there any need to do this in public, Mr Lennon?" well Paul does not fucking say that there! Paul is not telling John not to talk about drugs while the cameras are there, he does not give a shit that John says that. instead, the real context is Paul is pretending to be an interviewer talking about Two Virgins which uhhh is obviously a completely different context!
look, I know it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things, certainly wouldn't matter to the average Beatles fan, but it changes my entire read of the scene, y'know? how many of our analyses are wrong because of the editing in Get Back? the original Let It Be film made it look like they just hated each other and it was the end of everything, Get Back at least shows them actually having fun and getting along, but the complete audio shows it even more... why take out the banter and make John look even more like some rambling guy the others are just putting up with...?
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