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[[File:a-hard-days-night_6100.jpg|frame|Ah, the almost-innocent joys of youth...]]
The first and greatest film of [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]]. It provided clear caricatures of the members of the band-- not ideal, but better than the [[Band Toon|Band Toons]]. And it helped fuel the phenomenon it showed onscreen.
It's just an ordinary day-and-a-half in the life for [[John Lennon]], [[Paul McCartney]], [[George Harrison]], and [[Ringo Starr]]: a train and a room and a car and a room and a room and a room; interviews and rehearsals and performances. It's slightly more unusual than most ordinary days, though, because Paul is ''supposed'' to be keeping an eye on his "[[Steptoe and Son|very clean]]" grandfather, a "king mixer." But since when have the Beatles, offstage, done what they were supposed to do?
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The film itself has become a classic due to its many innovations in cinematography (notably the invention of the handheld camera shot and its use of the birds-eye-view shots during the "Can't Buy Me Love" sequence).
The Beatles later did four more movies: ''[[Help!]]'', ''[[Magical Mystery Tour]]'' (though that one ended up a [[TV Movie]]), the cartoon ''[[Yellow Submarine]],'' and the actual documentary ''[[Let It Be]]''.
▲'''Screenwriter:''' Alun Owen. He spent a week with the group to write the right script, and was nominated for an Oscar. But it's hard to know what's scripted and [[Throw It In|what's improvised]].
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* [[Aerith and Bob]]: The Beatles' managers are Norm and Shake.
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* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: In numerous ways, real-life Beatlemania being an obvious example. Other minor examples are George tripping and sprawling over the suitcases during the opening chase (a real accident that was [[Throw It In|left in]]), and Ringo's [[Sad Clown]] sequence walking along the lake (it was praised as some of the best acting in the movie, but Ringo himself later admitted [[Serendipity Writes the Plot|he was extremely hungover and genuinely miserable that day]]).
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: John delivers an unusually good-natured one towards Paul's Grandfather after all the trouble he's caused.
{{quote|'''John:''' You know your trouble, you should have gone west to America. You would have been a senior citizen of [[Boston (useful notes)|Boston]]. But you took a wrong turn, and what happened? You're a lonely old man from Liverpool.
'''Grandfather:''' ''[Sour]'' But I'm clean.
'''John:''' ''[Cheerful cynicism]'' Are you? }}
* [[Shout-Out]]: Ringo is invited to the Le Cercle casino, which was where we first meet James Bond at the beginning of ''[[Dr. No]]''. And the girl with Paul's Grandfather is played by Margaret Nolan, who played Dink in ''[[Goldfinger]]''.
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[[Category:The Criterion Collection]]
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