Lennon's love for the avant-garde helped get this surreal and problematic Western seen by thousands.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT After The Beatles split up in 1970, they each continued to produce their own music independently, as well as endorse the work of other fresh creatives. The Beatles' Apple Corps label continued to support up-and-coming performers such as Badfinger, and their creative championing also extended to the world of film.
El Topo was released in 1970, at a time when Spaghetti Westerns had long hijacked the Western genre. Spaghetti Westerns were more artistic and gritty representations of the stories of the American frontier than the ones told by Hollywood and were predominantly shot for cheap on location in Italy.
As a lover of New York's avant-garde art scene, John Lennon was among the audience one night and found El Topo deliciously surreal. Jodorowsky later recalled, “When I brought El Topo to New York, no one understood the picture. But John Lennon understood. John and Yoko Ono, they presented El Topo in the United States; they introduced it.
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