![]() With Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine and Let It Be, they turned. The Beatles’ image of themselves as magicians is not conceited, because it is we who want them to be magicians. After the success of their first two movies, The Beatles decided to take control of their own film careers. Maybe they will be entirely trapped: maybe like Chaplin they never will quite struggle in the way they would like into the world of “real art.” But the struggle itself is indicative and the film whatever its faults is a comment and a documentation. This is a valid modern theme and the Beatles seem most qualified to comment upon it. But it's remembered not for the expectati. They are trapped inside an image and a wealth machine which simply cannot express what they really feel. It was the latest movie offering from the Fab Four, then at the height of their influence after the Summer Of Love. Years after a nervous breakdown Karl goes on tour with old friends and upcoming electronic music DJs. With Charly Hbner, Annika Meier, Detlev Buck, Marc Hosemann. ![]() The film is about the predicament of people who have become such idols. Magical Mystery or: The Return of Karl Schmidt: Directed by Arne Feldhusen. They don’t want to have to face the fact that their idols and their modern mythology is a lot of mass-produced hooey and that most of us are fobbed off most of the time with utter banal rubbish. Why therefore do people automatically deny that the content exists? Answer: because they don’t want to know what it has to say. The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour movie 1967 Official Trailer. They are known, and that being so people should be able to accept them and advance through them to the images and the content of the film. Most of its technical tricks are used now even in commercial films, and in shows like Top of the Pops every week. ![]() The film is a deliberate parody of mass communication so it parodies the techniques.
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