Thanks Chris, and yes I agree. I thought "Mendips", Menlove Avenue would have been an easy target for the location scouts? They failed [although I'd be surprised if they didn't actually enquire about it?]. English Heritage had even recreated his school-boy home [sorry but the blue plaque will have to stay on for the shoot!]. Of all the Liverpool icons in the young Lennon's life, "Mendips" would have made a difference here. Aaron Johnson could have been filmed peering out of John's actual bedroom window.
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Thanks John, I share your comment about Backbeat, not just for Lennon's portrayal - I also think the whole movie was of a different class. And maybe that's because it's documenting the first few forays of an emerging Beatles life, before they were mass produced on tea-towels, and anything else which had a printable surface on it [no wonder Andy Warhol was impre$$ed].
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N.B. by contrast - in just charting the frustrations of a soon to be famous lad from Liverpool, this movie would have to be a little bit special to impress the critics. On the whole, I think stage set Liverpool, was the best act in Nowhere Boy.
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