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I Met the Walrus
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace.


38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon's every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation.

Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit, and timeless message.

In the six-minute animated film which John Lennon talks about global conflict and the need for peace has caught the imagination of Hollywood.




Edit by admin: Added embedded video for those too lazy to click through.


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Awesome animation. Some balls on that kid though.

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Awesome animation and a pretty amazing interview. For just talking off the cuff to some kid that snuck into his hotel room, Lennon's thoughts were startlingly coherent and complete, and he really had something to say.

A couple of times I felt like there was too much going on between the animation and the interview to take it all in at once... it might require repeat viewing.

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