'living In The Material World' More Than Just A Pop Biopic |
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| By Mike Fell |
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After absorbing them and thoroughly enjoying each one, none has made such a lasting impression than Martin Scorsese´s biopic of George Harrison´s life ´Living in the Material World.' Produced by Olivia Harrison, George´s wife, this film shows the remarkable journey of a man, who as his wife explains in the documentary managed to live five lifetimes in one. It is the human side of George, which shines through in this documentary. Not just in comparison to the other Beatles but in comparison to everyone. A genuinely ´nice´ person you are immediately touched and drawn into his persona by his thoughtfulness and actions. Whether it is the letters sent home to his parents, re-assuring them of his welfare at the height of Beatle mania, or the dignity and humour he displayed in his death. Jackie Stewart the racing driver describes this human quality of George as an aura. An ability, as he puts it, to lift people´s spirits, not so much as a learned skill but an inbuilt instinctive ability. And in tandem with his great personality, his achievements are equally mesmerizing. Of course, he achieved so much with his music, not only with the Beatles, but with his first solo album ´All things must pass´, which was the first triple album by a solo performer and was produced by Phil Spector. An innovator, he organized the first music benefit gig of its kind, the concert for Bangladesh with Ravi Shankar. ´Handeld´ Films´, which he began after re-mortgaging his house to finance Monty Python´s 'Life of Brian', was another huge success. He went on to produce some of the great classics of independent British cinema, like ´Withnail and I´ and ´Mona Lisa' Surviving a horrific assault in his own home by a psychotic man who tried to stab him to death, George´s son Dhani believed this affected him greatly and he finally succumbed to throat and lung cancer in 2001. Prior to his death, he and his wife spent one last summer holiday in Fiji preparing for the end of his life. He said in the movie that he had been preparing to leave his body all his life, and Olivia recalls that at his death, with his passing, he lit up the room. What you come away with is the sense of a man who battled to live his life in a humble way, his way, the best way he could, despite the ego-driven world in which he found himself. |
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