LC: This is a movie that makes you feel good, inspires love and cooperation, and does so with a beat you can dance to. The colors and the harmonies work together to infiltrate your subconscious.
Beatles and friends enjoying an impromptu concert at their editing studios where they reviewed footage for Magical Mystery Tour, near where the Yellow Submarine was being produced.
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It is as timeless as The Beatles' music, which enchants new generations every year. And if you look closely enough you can also find cosmic truths embedded in the messages and symbolism of this movie that can help you find your meaning and purpose in life.
We were motivated to write these books by the injustice done to the hardworking artists who made this film. Their stories were never told, and many of them didn't even get a screen credit to show their children when their name flashes by on the screen.
I also really like the message of "We all live in a Yellow Submarine," which I translate as similar to the message of "We are all one people on one planet." We have to take care of our spaceship Earth or we are doomed.
Another of my favorites is the message at the very end of the film, where John Lennon exhorts us all to "go out singing!" and the song they sing at that point is "All Together Now" as that phrase is flashed on the screen in time to the music in all the different languages of the world.
What a way to go!
John Lennon: Pre-production concept drawing by Heinz Edelmann
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RH: When I first saw this movie and heard the narrator introduce the film as being set in a long-ago utopia that lay submerged far below the sea, I immediately thought of Atlantis. Atlantis was much in the news in 1968, with the underwater archeological discovery called the Bimini Wall or Bimini Road confirming the Edgar Cayce predictions about where Atlantis would be discovered.
According to Plato and other ancient writers, Atlantis was a utopia under attack, and survivors from the sinking continent landed in various parts of the world. Many believe such an advanced lost civilization seeded the great civilizations of our ancient history with evolutionary knowledge that seems to have come out of nowhere, such as how to build pyramids.
The pyramid launching pad in Pepperland (from whence the Yellow Submarine departs to seek help) draws another parallel to Atlantis, and mooring the submarine to the top recalls the archetype of survivors of the Great Flood landing Noah's Ark on top of Mount Ararat.
I also think my interpretations of the colors and other symbols in this film explain on a subconscious level why this film continues to be popular and feel relevant to any generation.
In very abbreviated terms, we see yellow as intelligence or the mind, the supremacy over the lower nature, or the physical or emotional aspects of humans. Yellow can therefore be a symbol for divine wisdom, the divine mind, or celestial truth. Yellow is often a substitute for gold, giving it the additional connotations of love, constancy, and dignity. Yellow is also the color of the sun, the giver of life to the Earth. To the ancients, the sun was a universal symbol of the higher self or God, the creator, made manifest.
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