1/25/2024 0 Comments Across the universe castOverall the movie suffers from two problems, it doesn't have much of a cohesive plot to begin with, and it has a bunch of plots that could have been more interesting go absolutely no where. They're kind of shitty people in the film and Jude isn't a very good artist and Lucy reminds me of annoying chicks I went to college with, but beyond that, the two give a halfway decent performance where I sort of believed they fell in love. It was 2007, it was probably some kind of anniversary, and Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood were a couple of hot stars at the time to create a movie musical, which were also having a little bit of a comeback.Īnd while I have been shitting on the poor story, I will say these two are not horrible actors. It grazes a lot of topics like the hippie movement, drugs and alcohol use, music, and VERY sparingly the blight of African Americans during the Civil Rights movement, but the movie mainly puts its focus on the Vietnam War and the effect it has on these characters. The movie is a jukebox musical that utilizes the song of the Beatles to tell a love story between Jude and Lucy with the backdrop of the 60's. Jim Sturgess plays a 20 something from Liverpool named Jude who comes to America to meet his father and sticks around honestly for the drugs and women, Evan Rachel Wood plays a high school student named Lucy, about to graduate who's serious boyfriend is about to be deployed to Vietnam, and Joe Anderson plays her brother Max, a Princeton drop out who himself gets deployed not long after Wood's boyfriend is killed in Vietnam. There are a couple of characters in Across the Universe the real focus is on the three in the picture to the right (I'll get into that huge issue with the film in a little bit).
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