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Monday, December 31, 2007
Chapter 27 movie trailer and YouTube user comments
Chapter 27 movie trailer Making Johns killer a sympathetic character
As we enter 2008, we near the release of Chapter 27. A film that does not focus on John Lennon's life, but rather the events in a killers life leading up to his assassination. Keep in mind, following the murderers arrest, when asked why he killed The Beatles great, he replied "Now I'll Live Forever, I have stolen John Lennons fame". It is this very statement that makes Chapter 27, Peace Arch Entertainments film so very,very wrong. Hiring Lindsay Lohan and Jared Leto to profit from Johns death and in the process giving a killer the very gift of fame that he desired when he killed John. Murder for Fame is a problem that will continue for as long as publishers of Movies, Books, and Magazines continue to offer the very Fame that killers of this type desire. Please Join us in Boycotting All those involved in Chapter 27. Including Peace Arch Entertainment, Lindsay Lohan, and Jared Leto!!
You Tube user comments ------------------------------ This sick bastard started mentally collapsing from the day her was born. This guy was born crazy and his mom, who was just as crazy, mentally abused him for years. The movie looks interesting (I might go see it despite not being a big Lindsay Lohan fan) but I hope it doesn't glorify or excuse Chapman for the senseless act he committed.
I can't beleive they would freakin make a movie about MDC....I hate that bastard and I'll never forgive him....
uhh *clears throat* anyway, I want to see this but I don't think I'll be able to handle it, I'll be shouting and crying the whole time.
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Japanese website for Chapter 27. Initial release bombs.
Should we have sympathy for this monster (Thanks Jared Leto - Jerk-off!!)
Chapter 27 (Jared Leto and Lindsay Lohan) was released in Japan on the day of John Lennons murder (while Yoko Ono was dedicating a memorial to her late husband). 27 years to the day that a peaceful man and musical genius was taken from us. We are excited to say that the movie is already disappearing from Japanese theaters, Chapter 27 may not make it through a single weekend. Peace Arch Entertainment has terribly misjudged the people of Japan. A population of huge Beatles fans has fought back, by avoiding Chapter 27. Here is the link to the promotional website developed to push this horrible film on the people of Japan. It includes a long version of the movie trailer. The rest of the site is of course, in Japanese. CHAPTER 27 - Japanese website Chapter 27 movie trailer
BY RONDA CORNELIUS, STAFF WRITER
THE U.S. VS. JOHN LENNON ・99 minutes ・Toho Cinemas Roppoingi Hills in Tokyo and eleswhere
CHAPTER 27 ・85 minutes ・Cine Quinto in Tokyo and elsewhere
Last Saturday, it was 27 years since ex-Beatle John Lennon was shot and killed by a deranged scumbag.
Two movies about the life and death of this peace-loving pop icon/music genius will soon be out here. So, which sounds more appealing: the upbeat, informative, rah-rah one? Or the dreary, uninformative, I'd-chew-my-leg-off-to-get-out-of-here one? I guess it depends on your mood.
・"The U.S. vs. John Lennon" (called "Peace Bed--America vs. John Lennon" in Japan) has a litigious title and made its cable debut on music channel VH1. But fear not: This is not some ludicrous hybrid of Court TV hype and "Behind the Music" melodrama. It is instead good, old-school storytelling: a 99-minute film rich in material that tells a relevant yarn about interesting people, including colorful former newsmakers who are as outspoken as ever. (Wow. Talk about aging boomers! Except Angela Davis, the communist organizer/ex-FBI-list fugitive acquitted in a sensationalist murder trial in the early 1970s--she still looks hip.) The film does well to venture beyond the courtroom; it gathers up the threads of the lawsuit story throughout Lennon's life and then weaves them together into a big zeitgeist tapestry.
The background in a nutshell: By the late 1960s, Lennon was lending his star power to support antiwar, anti-establishment groups. U.S. President Richard Nixon was up for re-election in 1972, and the voting age had just dropped to 18. The administration was paranoid that Lennon's activism would spur young people to vote Nixon out. U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond proposed nullifying Lennon's influence by revoking his visa and kicking him out of the country. The FBI, functioning as political police, gathered intelligence on Lennon for the case. He refused to go quietly.
The story is told by those involved, many of them famous/notorious: former FBI agents including convicted Watergate co-conspirator G. Gordon Liddy (repeating his crack about using a hippie's candle to light his cigar); Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panthers; even poet-activist John Sinclair, who got up to 10 years for giving two joints to an undercover cop. (Sinclair has funny things to say about the cross purposes of smoking marijuana while trying to get it legalized.)
Besides interviews, the story is also told in archive footage of Lennon and others doing talk shows, concerts, protests and so on.
Much of this was before my time, so I can't speak for how rare the footage is, but I will say that hindsight makes for some smug watching. Besides the in-bed protests (with Tommy Smothers!), other choice snippets include a snooty editor from The New York Times telling Lennon he was "ridiculous" and that his song "All You Need Is Love" was a joke.
The footage of Lennon and Yoko Ono is surprising, too. Ono, long blamed and reviled by many for the breakup of the Beatles, has often been painted with a witchy brush in documentaries about the Fab Four. But here, there's no pretense that she's evil. The portrait is kind, if jumbled: Lennon and Ono come across variously as astute rebels, wacky artists, naive activists, scared foreigners. The constant is that Lennon seems truly in love with Ono, even geekily so.
Obviously, in contrasting the vehement antiwar protest movement of the Vietnam era ("Power to the people!") with today's lackluster campaigns, the film has an agenda--that people today should be doing more than blogging to protest the war in Iraq. But you can also watch this film in a specific historic sense to see this legal episode in Lennon's life unfold. Overall, this is an engrossing film, one I wouldn't mind rewatching.
・So, why did MDC shoot Lennon? Because MDC was nuts. OK, yes, but what exactly was it that made him want to kill the ex-Beatle with the cool granny glasses?
"Chapter 27" apparently doesn't know, or isn't telling. Despite our cinematically spending a meandering three days (Dec. 6-8, 1980) with MDC until the murder in New York, all we get out of the encounter is a big moue of distaste at the whole proceedings. MDC (Jared Leto) does a lot of mumbling about phonies and how much he thinks he's like Holden Caulfield of J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye." When he's not repeating to himself that he needs to kill Lennon, he's spewing his anti-homosexual diatribes and other garbage.
Even troubled starlet Lindsay Lohan, who makes brief, unremarkable appearances as another fan, doesn't buoy things along. (A bit of trivia: Lennon is played by Mark Lindsay Chapman (ridiculous stunt hiring him to play Lennon) --apparently not a close relation. Also, the title refers to a continuation of "A Catcher in the Rye.")
To be sure, this is an atmospheric bit of independent filmmaking by first-time director-writer J.P. Schaefer. Visually, it seems to be fairly in tune with ugly 1980s fashion in New York, with its embrace of unflattering tinted glasses and patterned sweaters. Besides, you can almost feel the bitter winter wind whipping through Central Park to the Dakota building, where Lennon and Ono lived.
And surely the physical repulsiveness of the MDC specimen comes through, though this seems to be a bit of grandstanding by the actor, who porked up for the role. More often than is necessary, Leto/MDC's sloppy naked paunch appears in profile, drooping over his tightie whities.
MDC is an unpleasant companion for 85 minutes, more so since we learn little in that time. Dispiriting, drab and uninsightful, "Chapter 27" is one to skip.
On Saturday, it will be 27 years since ex-Beatle John Lennon was shot and killed by a deranged scumbag.
Two movies about the life and death of this peace-loving pop icon/music genius will soon be out here. So, which sounds more appealing: the upbeat, informative, rah-rah one? Or the dreary, uninformative, I'd-chew-my-leg-off-to-get-out-of-here one? I guess it depends on your mood.
・"The U.S. vs. John Lennon" (called "Peace Bed--America vs. John Lennon" in Japan) has a litigious title and made its cable debut on music channel VH1. But fear not: This is not some ludicrous hybrid of Court TV hype and "Behind the Music" melodrama. It is instead good, old-school storytelling: a 99-minute film rich in material that tells a relevant yarn about interesting people, including colorful former newsmakers who are as outspoken as ever. (Wow. Talk about aging boomers! Except Angela Davis, the communist organizer/ex-FBI-list fugitive acquitted in a sensationalist murder trial in the early 1970s--she still looks hip.) The film does well to venture beyond the courtroom; it gathers up the threads of the lawsuit story throughout Lennon's life and then weaves them together into a big zeitgeist tapestry.
The background in a nutshell: By the late 1960s, Lennon was lending his star power to support antiwar, anti-establishment groups. U.S. President Richard Nixon was up for re-election in 1972, and the voting age had just dropped to 18. The administration was paranoid that Lennon's activism would spur young people to vote Nixon out. U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond proposed nullifying Lennon's influence by revoking his visa and kicking him out of the country. The FBI, functioning as political police, gathered intelligence on Lennon for the case. He refused to go quietly.
The story is told by those involved, many of them famous/notorious: former FBI agents including convicted Watergate co-conspirator G. Gordon Liddy (repeating his crack about using a hippie's candle to light his cigar); Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panthers; even poet-activist John Sinclair, who got up to 10 years for giving two joints to an undercover cop. (Sinclair has funny things to say about the cross purposes of smoking marijuana while trying to get it legalized.)
Besides interviews, the story is also told in archive footage of Lennon and others doing talk shows, concerts, protests and so on.
Much of this was before my time, so I can't speak for how rare the footage is, but I will say that hindsight makes for some smug watching. Besides the in-bed protests (with Tommy Smothers!), other choice snippets include a snooty editor from The New York Times telling Lennon he was "ridiculous" and that his song "All You Need Is Love" was a joke.
The footage of Lennon and Yoko Ono is surprising, too. Ono, long blamed and reviled by many for the breakup of the Beatles, has often been painted with a witchy brush in documentaries about the Fab Four. But here, there's no pretense that she's evil. The portrait is kind, if jumbled: Lennon and Ono come across variously as astute rebels, wacky artists, naive activists, scared foreigners. The constant is that Lennon seems truly in love with Ono, even geekily so.
Obviously, in contrasting the vehement antiwar protest movement of the Vietnam era ("Power to the people!") with today's lackluster campaigns, the film has an agenda--that people today should be doing more than blogging to protest the war in Iraq. But you can also watch this film in a specific historic sense to see this legal episode in Lennon's life unfold. Overall, this is an engrossing film, one I wouldn't mind rewatching.
・So, why did MDC shoot Lennon? Because Chapman was nuts. OK, yes, but what exactly was it that made him want to kill the ex-Beatle with the cool granny glasses?
"Chapter 27" apparently doesn't know, or isn't telling. Despite our cinematically spending a meandering three days (Dec. 6-8, 1980) with Chapman until the murder in New York, all we get out of the encounter is a big moue of distaste at the whole proceedings. Chapman (Jared Leto) does a lot of mumbling about phonies and how much he thinks he's like Holden Caulfield of J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye." When he's not repeating to himself that he needs to kill Lennon, he's spewing his anti-homosexual diatribes and other garbage.
Even troubled starlet Lindsay Lohan, who makes brief, unremarkable appearances as another fan, doesn't buoy things along. (A bit of trivia: Lennon is played by Mark Lindsay Chapman--apparently not a close relation. Also, the title refers to a continuation of "A Catcher in the Rye.")
To be sure, this is an atmospheric bit of independent filmmaking by first-time director-writer J.P. Schaefer. Visually, it seems to be fairly in tune with ugly 1980s fashion in New York, with its embrace of unflattering tinted glasses and patterned sweaters. Besides, you can almost feel the bitter winter wind whipping through Central Park to the Dakota building, where Lennon and Ono lived.
And surely the physical repulsiveness of the Chapman specimen comes through, though this seems to be a bit of grandstanding by the actor, who porked up for the role. More often than is necessary, Leto/Chapman's sloppy naked paunch appears in profile, drooping over his tightie whities.
Chapman is an unpleasant companion for 85 minutes, more so since we learn little in that time. Dispiriting, drab and uninsightful, "Chapter 27" is one to skip.(IHT/Asahi: December 7,2007)
Remembering John Lennon On The Day He Was Taken Away From Us 27 Years Ago Today.
REMEMBER JOHN, NOT HIS KILLER
BOYCOTT CHAPTER 27
It was on this day in 1980 that John Winston Ono Lennon was taken away from us when a crazed fanatic murdered him for no reason or excuse whatsoever.When the man who murdered him was asked for a motive,he only said that he felt that he was a nobody and by murdering John Lennon,he would finally be somebody.Another theory was that it was a "reverse suicide" when a psychologist explained that "He had already tried to kill himself but failed,so he murdered John Lennon." Whatever the reasons that the murderer had,they were null and void.John Lennon's murder was as inexcusable and senseless as any murder of a human being.Plus,the man who did this had no reason or excuse to do this evil deed.But he did it only to become famous.But again,that reason,as any other reason he may have had,that reason as well as those others,are null and void. John Lennon did not deserve to die.He deserved to live as much as any other human being has.Since that day he was murdered,we are still mourning the loss and still crying over this trying to figure out WHY?! When John Lennon was born on October 9th 1940 in Liverpool England,Fred and Julia Stanley Lennon did not realize at the time that their baby son would help in later changing musical history forever when a little band that he helped form when he was still a youth took on the world by storm when their very first UK hit would be released.Few in their country gave them a chance and had doubts.But when Love Me Do was released,that record would be the start of an invasion on the world music scene in epic proportions.That happened when I Want To Hold Your Hand hit #1 in the UK,later in the USA and the rest of the world that would propel that band,named The Beatles,to worldwide stardom that to this day has never let up.Beatle music still continues to sell and their songs have been covered by a wide variety of musical talent.Their songs are still playing on the radio everywhere.They have never been out of style and their music has been cherished and embraced by the world over and over in many ways shapes and forms.Their break-up caused tears and other mixed feelings as personal problems within the band continued to boil over.But their music still remained a driving force when many bands and artists named them as an influence on their music. John Lennon went solo and scored many numerous hits during his solo career.He also wrote and recorded a beautiful anthem named Imagine that still continues to be embraced by every one of his fans and admirers the world over and has been covered by the likes of Diana Ross,Neil Young and Dolly Parton.Imagine continues to be his most enduring song in his catalog.It also is still being played on the radio to this very day.He had many other hits like Mind Games,Whatever Gets You Through The Night,#9 Dream,Stand By Me,(Just Like)Starting Over,Woman and Watching The Wheels.But Imagine remains his most beloved and enduring song and the hymn for countless generations hoping that one day the world will one day live in indefinite peace without having to worry about war,hatred,struggles and suffering. After making a comeback in 1980 and having a highly successful comeback album,the end came too swiftly for John Lennon. When John and his wife Yoko Ono were returning from a late night recording session at the Record Plant in New York, a 25 year old man walked up to John calling to him and fired four shots into him.The murderer was arrested on the spot 20 minutes later as Lennon's bloodied body was taken over to Roosevelt Hospital in a patrol car in hopes that there was still a chance that his life could still be saved if they could get to the hospital as fast as they could.But tried as they did,they did not succeed.Lennon was pronounced dead when desperate attempts to save his life by doctors proved unfruitful.When news announced that John died,tears were shed and anger was unleashed.Tears because John was gone and never coming back.Anger at the man who inexcusably murdered him all because he wanted to be famous. To this day,after his plea of guilty, THAT MAN who murdered John Lennon still remains imprisoned with parole applications being rejected since the year 2000,when his eligibility started.His next parole chance will be next year.Let's hope that it will be rejected again. Let's all remember John Lennon on the day he was murdered. I will be doing a tribute to John tonight when I go to sing.I will be singing songs that John sang solo and when he was in The Beatles. Again,let's all remember John Lennon on the day he was murdered.He was truly a great man who will always be loved and missed. Thanks to all of you for remembering. BOYCOTT CHAPTER 27 and PEACE ARCH ENTERTAINMENT!!!!
"Now I'll be famous" - The larger problem with Chapter 27
Although many who read our blog are compelled to write us emails about our "wasted time" and our "over the top" love for John Lennon and The Beatles, we would like to step away from Chapter 27for just a moment to remember those killed in Omaha yesterday. Why did a young man walk in to a shopping mall and kill 8 innocent Holiday Shoppers? The explanation was in his note......"Now I'll be famous"
We have no way of knowing this persons demons, but can you see our point on Chapter 27? It's bigger than John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Lindsay Lohan, and Jared Leto. Its much bigger than Boycott call against Peace Arch Entertainment. It's learning from history, hoping to prevent future tragedies similar to the assassination of John Lennon. If Actors and production companies are willing to profit from Johns murder, how can we be surprised that history repeats itself.
Man Opens Fire at Omaha Mall, Killing 8 OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A man opened fire with a rifle at a busy department store Wednesday, killing eight people in an attack that made holiday shoppers run screaming through a mall and barricade themselves in dressing rooms.
The young shooter, who left a note predicting, "Now I'll be famous," wounded five others, two critically, then took his own life.
Witnesses said the gunman sprayed fired down on shoppers from a third- floor balcony of the Von Maur store using what police said was an SKS assault rifle they found at the scene.
The Chapter 27 movie trailer....Helping to encourage future - MURDER for FAME
Stop Peace Arch Entertainment and Chapter 27......
Remember John, not his killer!! Boycott Chapter 27!!! Stop Peace Arch Entertainment
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Murder for Fame is a problem that will continue for as long as publishers of Movies, Books, and Magazines continue to offer the very Fame that killers of this type desire.
Please Join us in Boycotting All those involved in Chapter 27.
Including Peace Arch Entertainment, Lindsay Lohan, and Jared Leto!!
You Tube user comments
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This sick bastard started mentally collapsing from the day her was born. This guy was born crazy and his mom, who was just as crazy, mentally abused him for years. The movie looks interesting (I might go see it despite not being a big Lindsay Lohan fan) but I hope it doesn't glorify or excuse Chapman for the senseless act he committed.