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Aka: Across The Universe
Across The Universe is a fictional love story set in the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock and roll. At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, the story moves from high schools and universities in Massachusetts, Princeton and Ohio to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots, Vietnam and the dockyards of Liverpool. A combination of live action and animation, the film is paired with many songs by The Beatles that defined the time.
Set against the anti-war protests, rock & roll revolution, and mind-expanding psychedelia of the 1960s, Julie Taymor's hallucinogenic musical follows the arduous journey of star-crossed lovers Jude (Jim Sturgess) and Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood) as they and a small group of musicians are swept up in the raging waters of the volatile counterculture movement. Guided through their journey by a pair known only as Dr. Robert (Bono) and Mr. Kite (Eddie Izzard), Jude and Lucy are eventually forced to find their way back to one another after being split apart by powerful forces beyond their control. The music in the film cons...
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ists exclusively of songs made popular by the Beatles during the time period depicted in the movie.
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Het liefdesverhaal over de Engelse jongen Jude die naar de Verenigde Staten komt en verliefd wordt op het Amerikaanse meisje Lucy gedurende de jaren '60. Dit alles tegen de achtergrond van de groeiende problemen tussen de V.S. en Vietnam.
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Evan Rachel Wood has mostly played troubled teenagers. So she's delighted to be a grownup at last in The Ides of March When George Clooney rings and asks you to be in his film, you don't say no, says Evan Rachel Wood . Which explains why the actors in The Ides of March fit so perfectly into each role, as if Clooney went about his casting in the way he might tackle a jigsaw. Wood says she wasn't sure where he spotted her, but she thinks it was in Across the Universe , Julie Taymor 's musical film based around Beatles songs. "He's kind of an Across the Universe geek," she says. She spends the next 10 minutes enthusing about her co-stars, mainly Clooney and Ryan Gosling , who plays an adviser to Clooney's Democrat governor with ambitions on the White House – "not only is he really cool, charming, good-looking; on top of that he's super talented.
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