Well, I’ll tell you one of the things that affected me — and I never even thought about it before but the footage is there — I had an appreciation how utterly painful this must have been for Paul. Because he’s watching his closest creative collaborator — someone he’s known since he was fifteen or sixteen years old — start to drift and go towards Yoko. John’s not pushing Paul away, but Paul’s watching Yoko now become the creative collaborator John’s excited about. And can you imagine how painful that must be for Paul? How utterly, utterly painful. He’s just watching it. And he’s okay, he deals with it. He loves the Beatles, he loves John, he wants to go on with it. But boy, what a pa— and you feel it. And I never— that never even occurred to me before. You know, it’s all about John and Paul hating each other and not talking to each other, all that negative stuff. But it’s actually— you see this kind of thing happening and it’s just— it’s wow. –Peter Jackson on John & Paul.
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Paul: sings a soft cover of Strawberry Fields directly towards John who’s not paying attention while news clippings of John saying “i love Yoko Ono” appear
“When John got shot, aside from the pure horror of it, the lingering thing was OK, well now John’s a martyr, a JFK…I started to get frustrated because people started to say, “He was the Beatles”. Like Yoko would appear in the press: “Paul did nothing. All he did was book the studio. Like “Fuck you, darling. All I did was book the fucking studio?”
