Nowhere Boy
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Nancy R:
jl4761:
beatlesfanrandy:
jl4761:
I knew that John was starting to get close to his mother but they weren't really as close as the movie portrays them were they?
By all accounts, yes. When he got close to her again when he was a teenager, she encouraged his music, taught him the banjo, set him on the road to who he became. I think the movie even understated how much she meant to him. When she was killed, it absolutely devastated him for the rest of his life.
Hi beatlesfanrandy! How are you? Thank you for your answer. I realize the bond and closeness that John and his mother had as you stressed in your answer, I was mainly referring to when John and His mother were lying next to each other on the couch with John putting his arm around her. In the movie, in my opinion, it seems that John and his mother were doing things together that a boyfriend and girlfriend does rather than a mother and son. Did you get that feeling while watching the movie beatlesfanrandy?
They were very close (too close some would say) There is even more that I won't go into here, that John told in an interview. I think Mark Lewisohn talks about it in Tune In. Let's put it this way, John had an Oedipus complex, but never acted on it.
Thank you for clearing that up for me Nancy.
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moptops:
JoeySmith:
I think Paul commented that there were many scenes in the movie that never really happened. Like John socking Paul in the mouth at Julia's wake.
Who cares. Seeing John smack "Paul" in the gob was bloody marvellous.
It figures you'd get a kick out of that Robert!
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Nancy R:
moptops:
JoeySmith:
I think Paul commented that there were many scenes in the movie that never really happened. Like John socking Paul in the mouth at Julia's wake.
Who cares. Seeing John smack "Paul" in the gob was bloody marvellous.
It figures you'd get a kick out of that Robert!
Actually a bit of kicking wouldn't have gone astray either if they'd added it. Poetic license and all...
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Not sure where this post should go, but it concerns the actor who starred as John in Nowhere Boy. You have to click forward to the #9 couple, Aaron and Sam Taylor-Johnson.
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John Lennon Biopic ‘Nowhere Boy’ Acquired For Musical Stage Development