I Am The Walrus


I hear people say its the best part of the movie. What happens?

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The Beatles perform the song, with a random amalgalm of images throughout, and then, in the costumes from the cover, they (and others) do a dance/walk kind of thing behind the bus through a field.

'Let's see what those f-ckers do with this one."-John Lennon commenting on "I Am The Walrus"

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Love John doing that silly face while dancing to the rythme of the song!

Btw, love your signature! ahah


| ''But where's the ambiguity?... It's over there, in a box!'' |

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I hear this rumor that Paul was killed and that they had someone with lastic sugery replace him and dress as a walrus which is rumored to be a sign of death...but its just a rumor

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Nothing particularly special. It's my favorite part because it's the only footage of them ever playing "I Am The Walrus". I personally love live performances of songs, and yes, I realize this isn't true a performance of the song (no way, a piano, a electric guitar, bass, and drums) can play the version of I Am the Walrus we know and love, but I think it's very cool to see them with the instruments in hand. And remember, after 1966, there isn't too much footage of the 4 Beatles playing instruments at the same time.

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Even BETTER... watch Eric Idle's "The Rutles" where they make fun of this movie with a song titled, "Piggy in the Middle." Better yet - get the soundtrack!
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I was afraid everyone would jump down my throat. I did watch it on google video. It was pretty weird, to say the least.

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Yes "The Rutles" is just mad, funny and surreal and quite authentic in many ways too!

"Your Only Supposed To Blow The Bloody Doors Off!"

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Or, for an "interesting" interpretation, try Jim Carrey's version found on George Martin's "In My Life" album.

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Oh and "I Am The Walrus" even got a mention in Doctor Who too!

Well back in late 1972 in the famous 10th anniversary story called "The Three Doctors", the then current Doctor (the late great Jon Pertwee also of Worzel Gummidge fame) gets to meet his previous incarnations (even though the first Doctor was too ill to actually take part and instead appears on the Tardis TV Scanner).

Anyway soon after the second Doctor (the equally late and great Patrick Troughton) appears, the current one tries to explain to his cute/sexy Mini Skirt/Kinky Boot clad companion Jo Grant all about regeneration and goes on to say:-

"Jo it's all very simple, I AM HE AND HE IS ME". To Which Jo replies "AND WE'RE ALTOGETHER GOO GOO GA JOOB!"

Then the second Doctor asks "What?" and Jo replies "Oh it's a song by The Beatles".

Great stuff, great show and a great song too! In fact Jo Grant actress Katy Manning is appearing in a Doctor Who convention in Swansea this month, i'd love to go and ask her if she knows all the words!

"You're Only Supposed To Blow The Bloody Doors Off!"

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A British TV show, "The Prisoner" with Patrick McGoohan, used the song "All You Need is Love" played in a juke box for their final episode.

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love doctor who and have met katy

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Best film ever.

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the song glass onion (the white album) makes a refrence to this song/video.

"i have another clue for you all... the walrus was paul."

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the walrus was LENNON! and Lennon is God!

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And logically, the walrus is God!

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Glass Onion was an attack at everybody who tried to place any kind of meaning on the lyrics of Beatles songs.
It referenced I Am The Walrus, but also Lady Madonna, Fixing A Hole, Strawberry Fields and Fool on the Hill... Brilliant songs, all of em :)

Shocked. And Stunned.

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What is the choir singing at the end?

(I heard it sounds like smoke pot, smoke pot, everybody smoke pot etc.)

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So many thought it was "everybody smoke pot"
but it is, for a fact: "everybodys got one"

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"I was the Walrus but now I'm John" - GOD

"The Dream is Over"

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The National Lampoon did a terrifically nasty Plastic Ono Band parody on an LP around 1972 with Lennon breaking out of his angry rant into an even angrier rant, hollering "*I* was the walrus! Paul wasn't the walrus!! I was just saying that to be nice but I WAS ACTUALLY THE WALRUS!!!"

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"Everybody's got one"?

You mean a walrus?

I don't have a walrus!

Mine musta got lost in the mail.
LOL!

-Amanda

"She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in storybooks written by rabbits"

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They sing: "Everybody's got one, Stick it up your jumper!".

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Love that scene, I Am The Walrus and The Wizards are my favorite parts of the movie.

"Everybody seems to think I'm lazy, I don't mind, I think they're crazy" -John Lennon

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It's a great shame really that they didn't think through the idea for the film more fully. I Am The Walrus is a great little music video for a really way out song. They could have strung a series together of clips for most of their recent work and made a really interesting 'video album' project, i.e. add in Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields, All You Need Is Love etc and even some of the Sgt Pepper songs...

This would have stood the test of time better and been better accepted at that time too.

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I agree. It would have been a much better result.

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The UK mono EP'goes for a pretty penny.

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But they were hemorrhaging money, so this was done on the "cheap". Only a wealthy backer or major studio could have funded a "proper" film for them.

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