Sympathy for the Devil
Synopsis
Composing the film's main narrative thread are several long, uninterrupted shots of The Rolling Stones in a sound studio, recording and rerecording various parts to "Sympathy for the Devil." The dissolution of Stone Brian Jones is vividly portrayed, and the chaos of 1968 is made clear when a line referring to the killing of John F. Kennedy is heard changed to the plural after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in June.
Interwoven through the movie are outdoor shots of Black Panthers milling about in a junkyard littered with the rusting cars heaped upon each other. They read from revolutionary texts (including Amiri Baraka) and toss their rifles to each other, from man to man, as if in an assembly line, or readying for an impending battle.
The rest of the film contains a powerful political message in the form of a voiceover about Marxism, the need for revolution and other topics in which Godard was interested. One scene involves a camera crew following a woman about, played by Ann...
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- Executive Producer : Cupid Productions
- Film exports/foreign sales : Carlotta Films
- French distribution : Images Distribution
Full credits (14)
- Screenwriter : Jean-Luc Godard
- Director of Photography : Anthony Richemond
- Music Composers : Bill Wyman, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger
- Assistant directors : John Stoneman, Tim Van Rellim
- Producers : Eleni Collard, Michael Pearson, Iain Quarrier
- Voice-over : Sean Lynch
- Sound assistants : Colin Charles, Garth Marshall
- Assistant Operator : Colin Corby
- Production managers : Paul De Burgh, Clive Freedman
- Production Assistant : Berenice Adams
- Make-up Artist : Linda Devetta
- Sound mixers : Derek Ball, Arthur Bradburn
- Participants : Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, Anne Wiazemsky, Iain Quarrier, Frankie Dymon, Danny Daniels, Illario Pedro, Roy Stewart, Linbert Spencer, Tommy Ansah, Michael Mckay, Rudi Patterson, Mark Matthew, Karl Lewis, Bernard Boston, Niké Arrighi, Françoise Pascal, Joanna David, Monica Walters, Glenna Forster-Jones, Elizabeth Long, Jeannette Wild, Harry Douglas, Colin Cunningham, Graham Peet, Matthew Knox, Barbara Coleridge, James Fox, Nicky Hopkins, Clifton Jones
- Production secretary : Jacqueline Nellist
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary, Experimental
- Themes : Music
- Production language : English
- Coproducer countries : Great Britain, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
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Sympathy for the Devil (originally titled One Plus One by the film director and distributed under that title in Europe) is a 1968 film shot mostly in color by director Jean-Luc Godard.
The end of the film's soundtrack was altered to include a full take of the song in its final form. This angered Godard and caused a dust-up between him and the producer responsible.
During filming of The Rolling Stones' recording, a fire broke out in the sound studio. While footage of the studio on fire was not included on the film, it does exist and has been used in other films.
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