A Hard Day's Night: Difference between revisions

* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't touch Ringo's drums.

* [[Blunt Yes]]: George's response in an interview.

'''George:''' Yes. }}

* [[Chick Magnet]]: Played for laughs near the beginning of the film.

** Particular mention should go to George's completely straight-faced answer to "What do you call that haircut?" "Arthur."

** After John manages to coax a sour "'ello" out of Paul's grandfather:

'''Ringo:''' Well, if he's ''your'' grandfather, who knows, ahahaha. }}

* [[Description Cut]]: "It'll be wine, women and song once Ringo gets the taste of it." Cut to Ringo wincing as he's eating a sandwich in a pub somewhere.

** During the press conference, a female reporter asks John "Have you any hobbies?". John grabs her notepad, writes a four-letter word, the last two letters of which are obviously ''TS'', and then shows it to the reporter, whose jaw drops upon reading it.

** In the same press conference scene, Ringo is asked, "How do you like your girlfriends to dress?" He considers the question for a moment before chuckling to himself.

* [[Groupie Brigade]]: Of note, one of the schoolgirls on the train is Patti Boyd, who would later become George Harrison's wife (and later the wife of Harrison's best friend [[Eric Clapton]], who wrote "Layla" about her).

* [[Hilarity Ensues]]

* [[Homemade Sweater From Hell]]: Worn by the Television Director (which actually belonged to the actor and was not a costume). The Beatles comment on how ridiculous he looks in it.

"She knitted ''him''." }}

* [[Jittercam]]

* [[Mistaken for An Imposter]]: Ringo at the police station

** There's also John and Millie (the stage hand):

'''John:''' (''walking away, muttering'') She looks more like him than I do. }}

** And then there's George at the fashion studio:

'''Simon Marshall:''' They ought to know by now that the phonies are much easier to handle. }}

* [[Mistaken for Servant]]: [[Exploited Trope|Exploited]]. As Paul's grandfather is gambling at the Le Cercle club, he runs out of money. So he writes a "tab" on a piece of paper, puts on a plate, places a napkin on his arm (he's already wearing a very waiter-ish suit, "borrowed" from a room-service man at his hotel) and walks over to a patron, who pays him. He then uses the money to get back in the game.

* [[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.

'''Grandfather:''' ''[Sour]'' But I'm clean.<br />

'''John:''' ''[Cheerful cynicism]'' Are you? }}

* [[Truth in Television]]: A number of gags in the film, such as Ringo getting the most fanmail, are real tidbits from the band's lives. George Harrison's [[Mistaken for An Imposter]] bit was likely a reference to him entering a Beatles lookalike contest under a fake name and ''not winning''.

* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]:

'''John:''' There you go. }}

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]:

'''John:''' Please, sir, can I have one to surge me, sir, please sir? }}

* [[Visual Pun]]: John snorts the top of a Coke bottle... subverted in that it's a Pepsi bottle.