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* MeaningfulFuneral

[[quoteright:235: Lucy and Jude. The strawberry heart is his idea.]]

* DeadLittleBrother: [=JoJo=] is the brother of the little boy from "Let It Be" killed during the riot.

It stars Jim Sturgess as (Hey) Jude and EvanRachelWood as Lucy (In The Sky With Diamonds), whose romance is the central plot that unfolds over the backdrop of TheSixties.

* WelcomeToTheBigCity: "Come Together" for Jojo.

** Another great example is "I Want You" A song about lust and how sexy (heavy) the subject is. In the film the song is set to Uncle Sam's pointing finger on the Army recruiting poster, "I Want You!" during Max's draft board examination.

* [=~What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?~=]

It stars Jim Sturgess as (Hey) Jude and Evan Rachel Wood as Lucy (In The Sky With Diamonds), whose romance is the central plot that unfolds over the backdrop of TheSixties.

* TitleDrop: Done twice, once in the song the movie gets it's title from, and once by Mr. Kite

** Mr. Kite is accompanied by the [[YellowSubmarine "Blue People"]].

* RapeAsComedy: When the gang is trying to help Max find a way to get out of his conscription, Prudence suggests "Tell them you're a pedophile, and you can't wait to molest all the little girls who look like me!"

->''All you need is love, love''
->''Love is all you need''

** [[GreenDay The hand in the Strawberry Fields Forever sequence holding the strawberry grenade]]
** The tour bus, the one that looks kinda [[MagicalMysteryTour magical and mysterious]].

** Note: the DVD release contains deleted scenes. Studios do believe in film preservation these days.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Attempted, but failed. The studio decided the original cut of the film was "[[ViewersAreMorons too artsy]]," and re-edited it to better suit mass audiences. However, Julie Taymor had enough clout to make sure she had ProtectionFromEditors in her contract; she therefore told the studio to go fuck themselves, made them release her cut without any alterations, and even went so far as to get the studio to destroy all copies of their re-edited version.

** I'm not really sure if this was supposed to be a shout-out or not but Joe Anderson - the actor who plays Max - looks almost uncannily like Kurt Cobain. It's kind of scary.

** I'm not really sure if this was supposed to be a shout-out or not but Joe Anderson - the actor who plays Max - looks almost uncannily like [[Kurt Cobain]]. It's kind of scary.

** Another great example is "I Want You" A song about lust and how sexy (heavy) the subject is. In the film the song is set to Uncle Sam's pointing finger, "I Want You!" during Max's draft enlistment.

Jude Feeney is an [[{{Expy}} aimless young man from Liverpool]] who heads to America in hopes of finding his absent father, who knew his mother in WWII but had never been told that Jude was born. When the man proves to be something of a disappointment, he falls in with IvyLeague frat boy Max (...well's Silver Hammer, not sung in the film) Carrigan. (Max helped him find his dad; Jude helped Max escape campus authorities; it went on from there.) The two move to New York with Max's sister Lucy. Jude finds himself falling for Lucy, and everyone falls for the hippie scene present there. But the real world intrudes as the Vietnam War wages on, and the political involvement (willing and otherwise) of various members of Jude's TrueCompanions becomes more and more perilous. It threatens to pull Jude and Lucy apart -- she's involved, and he doesn't approve of that part of the movement she's in...

Jude Feeney is an [[{{Expy}} aimless young man from Liverpool]] who heads to America in hopes of finding his absent father, who knew his mother in WWII but had never been told that Jude was born. When the man proves to be something of a disappointment, he falls in with Ivy League frat boy Max (...well's Silver Hammer, not sung in the film) Carrigan. (Max helped him find his dad; Jude helped Max escape campus authorities; it went on from there.) The two move to New York with Max's sister Lucy. Jude finds himself falling for Lucy, and everyone falls for the hippie scene present there. But the real world intrudes as the Vietnam War wages on, and the political involvement (willing and otherwise) of various members of Jude's TrueCompanions becomes more and more perilous. It threatens to pull Jude and Lucy apart -- she's involved, and he doesn't approve of that part of the movement she's in...

2007 JukeboxMusical film featuring songs written by TheBeatles. It was directed by Julie Taymor.

* TheBeatles

* BetaCouple: Averted with Sadie and Jojo, who get together fairly easily, but run into relationship troubles later one.