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LSD history vs. Across the Universe (2007 Movie) [Spoiler]
#14311926 - 04/18/11 01:08 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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If you haven't seen the movie: WATCH IT. Seriously. I know it's a musical, but take some chemical accompaniment and enjoy. I loved this movie and I abhor musicals. Exit this thread now, then come back.
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If you HAVE seen the movie: It's pretty obvious that Dr. Robert (Played by U2's Bono) brings a bunch of LSD from San Francisco (maybe from Owsley Stanley) to New York. He then takes the protagonists to see "Dr. Geary" (an obvious reference to Timothy Leary.) Dr. Geary won't see Dr. Robert, and so Robert and friends take off on their bus back to San Fran, leaving the group from NY hanging out near Geary's place.
After a hearing music and coming across a carnival that is strange and hilarious (thanks to Eddie Izzard,) they all go and lay in what appears to me to be a bunch of ryegrass - maybe this was intentional? Maybe that's a field where "Geary" and friends cultivate ergot?
Any theories for who Dr. Robert is supposed to really be? I'm probably way off, but my very uneducated guess would have been Alfred Matthew Hubbard - but I'm sure there's someone else I'm not thinking of.
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Re: LSD history vs. Across the Universe (2007 Movie) [Spoiler] [Re: Sillicybin]
#14312136 - 04/18/11 01:40 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Dr. Robert is a combination character. He represents primarily Ken Kesey(Who bought the bus for/with the Merry Pranksters to tour around and distribute LSD with), and Neal Cassady(who actually drove the bus).
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Re: LSD history vs. Across the Universe (2007 Movie) [Spoiler] [Re: Sunny]
#14312369 - 04/18/11 02:13 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Sunny said: Dr. Robert is a combination character. He represents primarily Ken Kesey(Who bought the bus for/with the Merry Pranksters to tour around and distribute LSD with), and Neal Cassady(who actually drove the bus).
Thanks for the input. Did you read this somewhere, or is this your take on it?
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Re: LSD history vs. Across the Universe (2007 Movie) [Spoiler] [Re: Sillicybin]
#14312910 - 04/18/11 03:32 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Well, it's not a take so much as a fairly apparent (IMO) observation, the film makes metaphors of the counter-culture movement via Beatles songs.
That particular scene in the film is a step-by-step reenactment of how Leary refused to meet with Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. On the basis that the Pranksters handed out LSD for kicks(which was partially false), instead of "spiritual enlightenment" like Leary had been teaching.
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Re: LSD history vs. Across the Universe (2007 Movie) [Spoiler] [Re: Sunny]
#14315796 - 04/19/11 06:18 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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You sound like you know what you're talking about!
Thanks again.
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Re: LSD history vs. Across the Universe (2007 Movie) [Spoiler] [Re: Sillicybin]
#14315864 - 04/19/11 07:03 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Okay I'll watch it again, saw it in the theaters on a date many years ago and totally missed all this...
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