Lennon Naked Page #4

Well, maybe,

because of all the publicity,

I can make a few changes.

Maybe I can make things a bit better

for people like you.

Yoko's very big on all that,

aren't you, Yoko?

John and I want to change the world.

This kind of thing

is our way of doing it.

This exhibit was unaccountably left out.

That's great!

It's a beautiful bicycle.

Pick your spot.

I declare these balloons high.

(WHOOPING)

(CHEERING)

(CLOCK CHIMING SOFTLY)

(CLOCK TICKING)

Mr Lennon.

(EXHALES DEEPLY)

-Call me John.

-I'd prefer to call...

I'd prefer John.

He never did take anything seriously.

I said that to you, Cynthia.

Mum!

He's a long-haired Teddy Boy and he

never gave you the respect you deserve.

How much respect is that?

-See?

-CYNTHIA:
John.

- (CYNTHIA SIGHS)

-Cynthia?

Mr Lennon,

I am Mrs Lennon's representative here

and any communication with her

should go through me.

You're a lying little drug addict.

-Through the lawyer please, Lil.

-Mr Lennon.

I must have loved you once

but I don't any more.

-Mr Lennon.

-Communicate that to her, please.

Mr Lennon.

She thought I was going mad,

has she told you that?

This is the bloody madness

right here, look at us.

You are mad.

What are you still doing in my life?

I never wanted to be in your life.

I never wanted her

in your life, neither.

Well, you should have spoken up,

you'd have saved

a lot of bloody heartbreak.

You're cruel. You're cruel and spiteful.

And you can't keep your hands

to yourself.

I can feel it falling off me right now.

I'm getting lighter by the minute.

He's a sex maniac, just like his mother.

-You never knew my mother!

-Nor did you.

Adultery you're citing, is it?

-With Yoko?

-Mr Lennon.

Do you wanna know how many

other women I've adulterated

-since we got married?

-No, I don't.

Too many to count, girl.

We'd be here all day.

Shut up!

Shame on you and your little whore.

-Mr Lennon...

-Oh, for God's sake, call him John!

-John.

-That's better.

This is our last chance.

Think of Julian.

Go on, then.

It's me or her.

(QUAVERING) You must be

able to see that.

It's me and Julian. Or her.

Is that it?

What else is there to say?

You or her?

Yes.

Then it's her.

Have it all, you've won the pools.

(EXHALES)

-No one does double albums.

-Dylan does.

DEREK:
Apart from Dylan.

What's up?

The cards, there are so many.

It's the Beatles' first release

on Apple.

All the more reason.

"John, you Scouse twat,

you know nothing about art.

"I wish that Jap bird of yours

had fried at Hiroshima."

They can't all be like that.

Don't know who's worse,

them or the f***ing press.

"Stuff it up your arse, Lennon,

Cynthia is worth 1 0 of that Chink."

One from Lil there.

(LAUGHS)

"You're a disgrace to your middle name.

Get a haircut and learn some manners."

Middle name?

-Ooh, walked into that one, Winston.

-Thank you, Mother.

YOKO:
Like Winston Churchill?

Yeah, we're like peas in a pod,

wouldn't you say?

(HUMMING)

Apple's losing money hand over fist,

a double album...

Brings in double the money, right, Paul?

Way too much to go on a single album.

So pare it down.

It's not like it's all number ones.

Are you saying it's all a load

of number twos, Derek?

(LAUGHING)

I'm saying there's songs there that...

They're not really...Beatles songs,

are they?

Like?

Julia. That's just you, John. Blackbird.

Julia was my mother,

she wasn't George's or Paul's.

I know that, I'm just saying.

I'm just trying to communicate

the financial side of this to you.

I mean, Revolution 9?

We're the Beatles, Derek,

we made the music.

Ergo, it's Beatles music.

-She is not a Beatle.

-Shut up, George.

What's "the Beatles", Derek,

if it's not what we say it is?

A box to put us all in,

something suits like you decide for us?

John, it's our company,

we'll do it how we want it.

And how do we want it?

Are you going to tell us?

Eh?

Come on.

-Where's Ringo?

-Doesn't live here any more.

-Is it true you take drugs?

-Only Vicks Vapour Rub.

Hey, slit-eyes!

Couldn't you get an English girl?

Little tarts like you?

Ask yourself this, girls,

would I want to?

Everything off.

-Everything off.

-And you, too.

(GIGGLING)

Jesus Christ. Bra straps.

The last bastion of 1 9-f***ing-50.

I can't do it.

YOKO:
Oh!

JOHN:
Everything, everything.

Slash and burn.

Bollock naked.

Born again.

(CAMERA WHIRRING)

Adam and Eve.

The whole world, just us.

Reverse shot, arse before tit.

You're perfect, I hope you know that.

Us. Not me and not you.

We are perfect.

I was a mess before I met you.

Together we're good.

I'm pregnant, John.

We're starting again.

Naked in an empty flat.

With a baby in your belly.

Here's what we're going to do.

I've got an island

with a gypsy caravan on it.

That's all there is on it.

-I own the whole thing, it's all mine.

-Island John.

Island John and Yoko

and little Yoko John.

Listen, listen. We can live there.

We'll fly out in secret,

you, me and the baby,

and we'll live there,

in the gypsy caravan.

They've never even heard of

the Beatles there.

No Beatles?

-Say it again.

-No Beatles!

There's not even anyone there to

have never heard of the Beatles.

It'll be our realm, our little paradise,

our sceptred isle.

We don't need it.

This is our island, John.

This is our oasis.

In the middle of London?

Shut your eyes.

Shut them.

This is our island.

(DOG SNARLING)

Police. Open the door!

There's a pregnant woman in here.

There's a pregnant woman in here.

(REPORTERS CLAMOURING)

(PEOPLE SHOUTING)

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

Hello.

I'm sorry about this, Mr Lennon,

but we're going to need that bed.

Oh, right.

Sorry, John.

-That's okay.

-Sorry, mate.

Okay.

What's the word on the blood tests?

I'll tell Matron that you

want to see the consultant.

The heartbeat is still weak.

Weaker, in fact.

-But it's there?

-It is, but I'm afraid...

If it's there, it's there.

Let me listen.

It's like a little steam engine,

what are you talking about?

A little steam engine. Listen.

-Go and bring the tape recorder.

-For what?

For after.

(HEARTBEAT PLAYING ON TAPE)

-Yoko?

-John.

Marry me?

TV REPORTER 1 :
Vietnam.

United States helicopter gunships

backed up ground forces

in a strong assault

on a Viet Cong position

only three miles from

Saigon 's Tan Son Nhut Air Base.

JOHN:
I'm just saying,

this is one other way of doing it.

This money, I'm using me money

and me time to promote peace.

And when the money runs out

and the time runs out,

we should have peace by then.

Violence begets violence,

as far as I'm concerned,

it's been proved by protest marches

in Grosvenor Square in London.

The only result of that

was a lot of smashed heads

and front-page headlines

about violence.

TV REPORTER 2:
... ordered by

General Ojukwu's successor,

the bloodbath of Biafra

seems to be at an end.

Your Majesty, I'm returning this MBE

in protest against Britain's

involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing,

against our support

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