Put Me in the Movies

I do plan on breaking down each movie in their own posts with behind the scenes and premieres, but this is a list post.

John

A Hard Day's Night (1964)

Help! (1965)

How I Won the War (1967)

Magical Mystery Tour (1967)

Yellow Submarine (1968)... Well John didn't do his own voice other than appearing in person at the end while married to Cynthia before their India meditation trip; Cynthia didn't have anything to do with the film, not even going to the premiere - Yoko went. There won't be a post for Yellow Submarine because of that (there's nothing to share!)

Let It Be (1970)... Another film Cynthia had nothing to do with other than going to the premiere. Unfortunately at this time, no photos of her at the premiere have resurface. Only Jane Asher's picture have been published. I hope one day in my lifetime something of Cynthia will pop up and I can share on this blog. Fingers crossed!

Cynthia

A cameo in Magical Mystery Tour (1967)

Julian

A cameo in Magical Mystery Tour (1967)

A cameo in Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

Julian's cameo in Leaving Las Vegas with Nicolas

Let's briefly discuss Leaving Las Vegas. It started Nicolas Cage; he won an Oscar/Academy Award for the role. Julian appeared as a bartender who broke up a fight and aided Nicolas's nose. That's it. I don't know how Julian got the role or anything like that.

Now, let's list the movies- most of them made for television- of people portraying John, Cynthia, and Julian on movies about the Beatles and John (and yes, I will have posts about them on their own, too):

The Birth of The Beatles (1979)

Backbeat (1994)

In His Life: The John Lennon Story (2000)

Lennon Naked (2010)

And then, there is Nowhere Boy (2009).

I have a bone to pick with Nowhere Boy. It's about John's early years pre-Beatles except there is NO Cynthia whatsoever. No character, no mention, nothing. And yet, the movie does take John in art school. There's Stuart. But no Cynthia. To be honest with you, I refuse to see it because of that. The director, Sam Taylor Wood, now Johnson, as she is now married to it's star lead Aaron Johnson, is a good friend of the McCartney family. Paul mentioned to her on how Aunt Mimi really was but failed to say that Cynthia existed? That broke my heart. Funnily enough, both Aaron and Sam have met Julian (as shown in the photos below) and Julian seemingly supported the movie at the Cannes Film Festival despite a few years earlier in the introduction on Cynthia's book, he pointed out that Cynthia's role in John's life have been treated like a footnote. Obviously this is it on Nowhere Boy as it won't have a post of its own. No Cynthia, no post. Not even a friggin’ mention!

Julian, Sam, and Aaron at the Quintessentially Party for Nowhere Boy at La Plage vitaminwater at the Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 2009

Julian, Sam, and Aaron at Julian's Timeless photography exhibition in New York City on September 16, 2010. Cynthia was there, too.