Playlist Addition Re: MDMD 565.35 Cap'n Kennedy

[Dave Monroe]

This reminds me, Jean-Luc Godard's Sympathy for the
Devil, a.k.a. One Plus One (1968), a sort of
pre-deconstruction of the eponymous Rolling Stones
track, documenting the band working it up over
seemingly interminable rehearsals, not to mention all
sorts of interjected Godardian agitwackiness ...

"Godard's documentation of late 1960's western
counter-culture, examining the Black Panthers,
referring to works by LeRoi Jones and Eldridge
Cleaver. Other notable subjects are the role of the
media, the mediated image, A growing technocratic
society, Womens Liberation, the May revolt in France
and the power of language. Cutting between 3 major
scenes, including the Rolling Stones in the studio,
the film is visually intercut with Eve Democracy
(Wiazemsky) using graffiti which amalgamates
organisations, corporations and ideologies. Godard
also examines the role of the revolutionary within
western culture. Although he believes western culture
needs to be destroyed, it can only be done so by the
rejection of intellectualisation. 'There is only one
way to be an intellectual revolutionary, and that is
to give up being an intellectual.'

http://us.imdb.com/Plot?0063665

Interestingly, you can hear the interruption of the
RFK assassination as the lyric changes from, 'I
shouted out, 'Who killed Kennedy?'" to "I shouthed
out, 'Who Killed the Kennedys'?"  Anyway, I'm with JLG
here ...

"Jean-Luc Godard's original director's cut (titled
'One Plus One') runs approximately 110 minutes and
consists largely of additional footage of the black
power militants. The film's producers were
dissatisfied with this cut and deleted 11 minutes,
changed the title to 'Sympathy for the Devil' to
underscore the Stones connection, and added the final
version of the title song to the film's soundtrack,
over a freeze-frame of the last shot. These changes
were all made without Godard's knowledge; when he
finally saw them at the film's London Film Festival
premiere, he allgedly went berserk and physically
attacked one of the producers."

http://us.imdb.com/AlternateVersions?0063665

And even less relevant trivia ...

"Director Jean-Luc Godard was called to England to
make a film calling for the legalization of abortion.
Shortly after his arrival, though, England relaxed
their abortion laws, and his film became unecessary.
Godard agreed to remain in England on the condition
that he could make a film with either The Beatles or
The Rolling Stones. The Beatles declined the offer,
but the Stones promptly accepted, claiming they were
avid fans of Godard's work."

http://us.imdb.com/Trivia?0063665
 
--- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> Captain Kennedy by Neil Young
> 
> I am a young mariner headed to war
> I'm thinkin' 'bout my family and what it was for
> There's water on the wood and the sails feel good
> And when I get to shore I hope that I can kill good
> My father was a sailor named Captain Kennedy
> He lost his wooden schooner to the Germans on the
> sea
> Exploded on the water for everyone for everyone to
> see
> And humiliate that American Captain Kennedy
> 
> I saw him in Nassau in 1971
> His strength was failin' but he still ran a run
> He worked 'til his fingers wore to the bone
> To buy that wooden schooner and sail on his own
> 
> He was known in the islands as hundred foot iron
> That steel hull freighter was passin' its time
> And time flew by faster with life on the sea
> And the days grew shorter for Captain Kennedy
> 
> I am a young mariner headed to war
> I'm thinkin' 'bout my family and what it was for
> There's water on the wood and the sails feel good
> And when I get to shore I hope that I can kill good

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