From the images shot in 1969 by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Peter Jackson tries, at length, to give a less mortuary in the narrative of the end of the mythical group.
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At the beginning of the second part of Get Back, the camera stops for a moment on the sidewalk in front of the 3 Savile Row (London) to frame two young women. They are among the “Apple Scruffs” (literally “Apple Clochards”, a nickname that says a lot about believes that the rock men wore their fans). When they are asked what they do here, before the headquarters of Apple, which at that time – January 1969 – could not be anything but the company founded by the Beatles, they answer: “Well, it’s To see them. “John, Paul, George or Ringo. Finally … especially Paul.
At the end of 468 minutes of viewing, there is no other justification that “see the Beatles” at the existence of Get Back, the excessive object shaped by Peter Jackson, director New Zealand, from the Tens of hours of accumulated views more than half a century ago by another filmmaker, Michael Lindsay-Hogg. Hours, we will have seen the Beatles, who are barely more than 100 years old at the time and who still seem to have their lives behind them, bickering, bored, to make the donkeys, to separate, Meeting and producing what was to be their ultimate album, let it be.
By launching this company on behalf of Disney House, Peter Jackson had clearly displayed his revisionist ambitions. Footage shot for four weeks between a huge cinema studio in Twickenham and the Apple building in the center of London, Michael Lindsay-Hogg had shot it, the film, released in 1970, withdrawn from the traffic by the survivors. The early 1980s, after the death of John Lennon. Of a very old projection, we remained only the memory of a winter death, boys transis on the large plateau of Twickenham or on the roof of Savile Row, decided to make an ultimate effort before the inevitable: group separation.
The director of the trilogy The Lord of the Rings promised to highlight the share of happiness which, according to him, dismounted the mortuary that surrounds Let IT be. To affirm this provision, he returned to the project his optimistic title: Get Back (“come back”). The Beatles had hoped to make these recording sessions under the stage conditions (instead of the endless studio sessions that had given birth to their previous albums) a return to the spontaneous roots of rock. The company had to conclude with a concert in public – the first since 1966. Considered at first in the grandiose frame of the Roman amphitheater of Sabratha, in Libya, the concert will eventually be summarized with a handful of titles played on the Roof of the Apple building.
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