Filming is underway on Nintendo’s first-ever The Legend of Zelda film, with a seasoned blockbuster director behind the digital camera and two relative unknowns solid as Hyperlink and the titular princess. Images from the movie’s New Zealand set look as lush as one would possibly hope, however I can’t assist however marvel if, no matter high quality, the challenge is destined to be lesser. It’s not that Zelda’s wonky lore isn’t match for the display or that the franchise is healthier suited to slick 2D animation somewhat than live-action. No, the issue is that director Wes Ball’s film, so far as I can inform primarily based on Nintendo’s drips of knowledge, isn’t a musical loaded wall-to-wall with Beatles songs. It’s simply that, after you hear George Harrison doo-doo-doo his means by way of “Prelude of Gentle,” there’s actually no various.
RednasVGM understands this. For the final yr, the online game music remixer has been quietly dropping experimental edits of Beatles hits and music from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on YouTube, Soundcloud, and any platform with an add area. The outcomes vary from unexpectedly lovely…
…to utterly deranged as Paul McCartney and John Lennon’s vocals are smelted down and recast into Koji Kondo’s authentic tunes.
A two-minute, 44-second reduce of Zora’s Area with warped lyrics from the Beatles isn’t the sort of factor most individuals need to hearken to with the spare minutes they’ve left on this mortal coil. (Living proof: RednasVGM’s video for that one has 130 views on the time of publication.) However truthfully, I don’t have time to look at the whole oeuvre of David Lynch for my each day headtrip and that is the following smartest thing.
If you’re not ready to scroll by way of the various, many, many audio shitposts RednasVGM has spliced collectively throughout his Ocarina of Time/Beatles run (which, it ought to be famous, is interspersed with Deltarune/Beatles oddities), could I direct you to his first compilation, which rides the sting of melodious vibing and nails on chalkboard fever dream that I feel Yoko Ono would really admire if she had any affinity for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
What makes RednasVGM’s whole enterprise even funnier is that there was, in some unspecified time in the future, speak of a Beatles musical film model of The Lord of the Rings. In 1968, The Beatles reportedly toyed with the concept of casting themselves within the fantasy epic. Because the rumors go, McCartney would’ve performed Frodo, with Ringo Starr as Sam, Harrison as Gandalf, and Lennon as Gollum. (Eventual The Lord of the Rings film director Peter Jackson, who went on to make The Beatles Get Again documentary, swears that is true.) The plan apparently collapsed when J.R.R. Tolkien refused to grant them the rights. Across the time of Get Again’s launch, Jackson mentioned the band had been genuinely excited concerning the concept after studying the books in India, and even had Stanley Kubrick in thoughts to direct. However Tolkien’s unwillingness to let “a pop group” adapt his story stopped the challenge chilly. “What would The Beatles have achieved with a Lord of The Rings soundtrack album?” Jackson informed the BBC on the time. “That may have been 14 or 15 Beatles songs that might have been fairly unbelievable to hearken to.” Nicely, at the very least we now have the Beatles singing concerning the Grasp Sword. Get this within the film model, stat!
