# Jean-Luc Godard's  Sympathy for the Devil

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jean-luc-godards-sympathy-for-the-devil/844549>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 8, 2019, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jean-luc-godards-sympathy-for-the-devil/844549 "2019-12-08T04:09:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jean-luc-godards-sympathy-for-the-devil/844549/1 "2019-12-08T04:09:05Z")

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Just watched it again, and while I will always love seeing the evoluton in the studio of “Sympathy for the Devil”, what a piece of crap film. You want to make a movie of the recording of a song, make it. You want to make a documentary of anti-war protests and Marxism and the Black Panthers, make it. But if you insist on combining the two, do NOT show scenes of the Stones in the studio with a narration, in a foreign language.

Maybe there is an edited version out there that only shows the scenes in the studio.

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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jean-luc-godards-sympathy-for-the-devil/844549/2 "2019-12-08T07:18:08Z")

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Thank you for that - and that is sincere. This film was showing in Boston when I arrived at college, and I always wondered about it. It is not on YouTube and not on NetFlix, and I didn’t feel like it was worth paying for. Now I know it isn’t. I’ve seen enough Godard from that period that I totally believe your review.

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**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jean-luc-godards-sympathy-for-the-devil/844549/3 "2019-12-08T17:52:54Z")

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Anybody else think it said “Jean-Luc Picard”?