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1.INTRODUCTIONJude, a young shipyard worker from Liverpool, enlists in the Merchant Navy and jumps ship in New Jersey hoping to find his American G.I. father, whom he has never met ("Girl", "Helter Skelter", "Hold Me Tight", "All My Loving"). Meanwhile, Lucy Carrigan worries about her boyfriend Daniel who is headed for service in the Vietnam War, while in Dayton, Ohio, Prudence pines for a fellow female cheerleader ("I Want to Hold Your Hand"). Jude meets his father, who is a janitor at Princeton University, and befriends Lucy's brother, the privileged and rebellious student Max ("With a Little Help from My Friends"). Lucy receives a letter from Daniel ("It Won't Be Long"), but when Max brings Jude home with him for Thanksgiving Jude becomes attracted to Lucy ("I've Just Seen a Face").

2.TOPICS (I) Friendship and love: One of the topics of the film is the friendship and

love . There is much friendship and love between the characters, they fight for love and peace ,they are against the war and for that reason they belong to the hippie and pacific movement. Jude , Sadie , Prudence , Lucy , Max and Jojo are friends . There have been many lovers ; Jude-Molly, Jude-Lucy , Jojo-Sadie, Prudence-Rita...

North America vs. British:Jude is from Liverpool, England , a quite sad and simple locality then he decides to let his life there to pursue the American dream and also seek and meet his father.When he arrives to America he discovers a very lively country and he is wrapped in its culture and music.In both countries also are differences between their english using in each country different words , expresions or accents.

2.TOPICS (II) Society in the 60´s: The decade of the 60’s in America was marked with

great social changes , the hippies and the psychedelic lifestyles, the black civil rights movement, and music such as the British “invasion” . Integrate all these factors together and it forms the decade of the sixties in terms of society.Martin Luther King Jr. was the most influential and well-known of the leaders of the black civil rights movement who later was killed and Jude during he was strolling he saw on TV the announcement of the dead of Martin Luther King Jr.

Vietnam war: The Vietnam war was a military battle based between the years 1959 and 1975 in which the American army went to combat .Daniel the former boyfriend of Lucy went to combat but he died , later Max the brother of Lucy enlisted in the army to go also to combat but he luckily returned back home.

2.TOPICS (III) Hippy movement:The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that

arose in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world..In New York when Max ,Sadie ,Jude , Prudence and Lucy live together at Sadie´s appartment they join pacific anti-war protests and they are introduced in the "hippie movement" where they discover drugs such as LSD .Later, at one anti-war protest, Jude is beaten and arrested and sent back to England.

Names of the characters:

1. Jude Feeny is a shipyard worker from Liverpool who goes to America to find his biological father, who works as a janitor at Princeton University. There, he meets Max, and they head to New York. Jude falls in love with Max's sister, Lucy, but as the war goes on, they drift apart in more ways than one.

2. Lucy Carrigan is a high school girl whose boyfriend, Daniel, went to fight in the Vietnam war. Daniel ends up dying in action, however, Lucy falls in love with her brother's friend, Jude.

3. Max Carrigan is a young Princeton student living in America, who befriends Jude. He is the brother of Lucy. He gets drafted and goes to war.

4. Prudence is a bisexual teenage girl from Ohio. She joins Jude, Max, Sadie, Lucy, and Jojo in New York. She was a cheerleader at her high school and had a crush on another female cheerleader. She had an abusive boyfriend . She moved in with them and developed feelings for Sadie, who did not return them, so she became depressed and eventually ran away to join Mr. Kite's circus, where she met Rita, a contortionist. Later, she returned and joined Sadie's band.

5. Sadie is a woman living in New York City, who rents out her apartment to Max and Jude.Sadie is similar to a mother/aunt figure to Max, Prudence, and Jude, being very caring towards them. She can also be somewhat of a diva when it comes to her performances.

6. Jojo was a guitar player, He was a artist. His younger brother was killed during a race riot. He ended up moving to New York to find work, and eventually found Sadie, with whom he developed a love/hate relationship.

7. Wesley "Wes" Huber is Jude's father. He is a janitor at Princeton, and later in the movie, tries to get Jude out of jail.

8. Martha Feeny is Jude's mother. She met Wes Huber while he was at war, and she conceived Jude. He then moved back to America to work at Princeton. Martha has a short solo in "Hey Jude".

9. Molly is Jude's ex-girlfriend from liverpool, England. Jude writes home to her every day, until he falls in love with Lucy. When Jude returns from America, Molly is pregnant by Jude's friend Phil Scully.

10. Phil Scully is Jude's friend from Liverpool.

11. Paco is an anti-war protest leader. It is implied he dies after being exploded by one of his own bombs. Jude accuses him of being a "shagger".

12. Rita is a contortionist in Mr. Kite's circus. It is implied she and Prudence are romatically linked.

3.LanguageAs a native liverpudlian , Jude has a scouse accent combinated with british english.

Scouse is notable in some circumstances for a fast, highly accented manner of speech, with a range of rising and falling tones not typical of most of northern England.

Irish influences include the pronunciation of the name of the letter "H" as /heɪtʃ/ and the second person plural (you) as 'youse/yous/use' /juːz/.

There are variations on the Scouse accent, with the south side of the city adopting a softer, more lyrical tone, and the north a rougher, more gritty accent. Those differences, though not universal, are most notable in the pronunciation of the vowels.

Words such as 'book' and 'cook', for example, can be pronounced as 'boo-k' or 'bewk' and 'koo-k'.

The use of a long /uː/ in such words was once used across the whole of Britain, but is now confined to the more traditional accents of Northern England and Scotland.

Famous peopleThere is a lot of famous people in the film such as:

Bono as Dr. Robert

Eddie Izzard as Mr. Kite

Salma Hayek as Singing Nurses

Joe Cocker as Bum/Pimp/Mad Hippie

4. Songs of the Beatles (Ralationship between the songs and the parts of the

film)1."Girl" is a song orginally by the Beatles featured in the opening scene of Across the Universe.

It is sung by Jude on the beach and is interwoved with Helter Skelter.

2. "Helter Skelter " it's sung by Sadie and it's used on the background of the scene that Lucy is getting arrested and Jude is being beaten.

3. "Hold Me Tight" It is sung by Lucy and Molly and takes place at Lucy's prom and the Liverpool club.

4. "All My Loving" It´s sung by Jude to his girlfriend Molly while he is in his way to America.

5. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" It is sung by Prudence, when she had a crush on a fellow female cheerleader and takes place at her School's Field.

6. "With a Little Help From My Friends" It is sung by Max, Jude, and Max's friends after Max first meets Jude. It takes place at Max's dorm, a bar, and around Princeton campus.

7. "It Won't Be Long" It is sung by Lucy and and takes place in Lucy's bedroom and at her school after she finds out Daniel will be returning home. Lucy's younger sister and friend and classmates provide backing vocals.

8. "I've Just Seen a Face" It's sung by Jude while bowling with Max and Lucy when he starts to develop feelings for Lucy.

5.Conclusion: Personal OpinionThe film in my opinion was good but not brilliant . It's hard to

pick just one song because they are all very good and has the bonus that every Beatles song was number one, what is indisputable quality scores. To improve everything needed a correct interpretation and choreography. Julie Taymor, in this case has been responsible for giving life to this work.

It was a well-made film who brings us a lot of culture of the 60´s , good songs and who also make us to cry , to laugh , to understand and to enjoy .I give to the film an 7/10.