You think you're doing something good and you put everything into it, and you don't get it right. PAUL: "Nobody likes to be told they don't get it right. PAUL 1986 (reflecting on criticism of Magical Mystery Tour) What does he mean write a script?' So I ran off and wrote the dream sequence for the fat woman and the spaghetti and all that." JOHN: "Paul said, 'Well, here's a segment, you write a piece for that.' And I thought, 'Fucking Ada, I've never made a film. JOHN 1970 (remembering the 'Magical Mystery Tour' project) Whatever image they have for themselves they're disappointed if we don't fulfil it."
They'd like just to keep us in the cardboard suits that were designed for us. JOHN: "They thought we were stepping out of our roles. It was a challenge and it didn't come off. It would have been the easiest thing in the world, but we wanted to do something different. We could have sung carols and done a first-class Christmassy show starring The Beatles with lots of phoney tinsel like everyone else. We could put on a moptop show, but we really don't like that sort of entertainment anymore. PAUL: "Was the film really all that bad compared to the rest of Christmas TV? You could hardly call the Queen's speech a gasser. PAUL 1967 (on criticism of the film, 'Magical Mystery Tour') JOHN: "We chose the word because it is a lovely expressive word. Shakespeare wrote words alot more naughtier than knickers!" Surely the word 'knickers' can't offend anyone. PAUL: "Everyone keeps preaching that the best way is to be 'open' when writing for teenagers. PAUL AND JOHN 1967 (regarding the song, 'I Am The Walrus' being banned by the BBC due to the word 'knickers') You can't say it was a success, you know, 'cuz the papers didn't like it and that seems to be what people read to find out what's a success. We'd put together alot of things that we like the look of, and see what happens.
So we thought, 'We'll do something which isn't like that,' which isn't like a real film inasmuch as it's got a story and a beginning and. And we've been asking people to write stories and write plots. PAUL: "We've been waiting for a couple of years now to make another feature film. PAUL 1967 (following the British telecast of the film) But we've got a bloke going 'round the lavatories of Britain, cribbing all the notes off the walls." JOHN 1967 (on their upcoming film project) So these parts, these sequences, we just had a few ideas." You see, that's the difference because it's magic, then we can do anything. just a typical coach tour, but anything can happen.
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It's got to be at least the difference between the song 'Help' and 'Sgt Pepper,' as the movie has got to be that progressed too. We've got to have something good, how we visualize the film. So the thing is, over the last year or two since 'Help', we've had thousands of ideas but they've all been 'Help' and 'Hard Day's Night' revisited. We wanted to do a film that might mean something to either us or to the people who go to watch it. We havent so far done the film because we didn't want to make a film just to make some money. The third one, the thing is, we can do it any time we want. GEORGE: "The contract we signed with United Artists is for three films, two of which we've done. MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR (1967) GEORGE 1967 (on the new approach to the Beatles next film) Beatles Ultimate Experience: Movies - Magical Mystery Tour