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* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't touch Ringo's drums.
* [[Blunt Yes]]: George's response in an interview.
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'''George:''' Yes. }}
* [[Chick Magnet]]: Played for laughs near the beginning of the film.
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** 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:
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'''Paul:''' Of course he can, he's a human being, isn't he?
'''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.
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** 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.
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* [[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.
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"Never know. She might've knitted it."
"She knitted ''him''." }}
* [[Jittercam]]
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* [[Mistaken for An Imposter]]: Ringo at the police station
** There's also John and Millie (the stage hand):
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'''John:''' No, I'm not.
'''Millie:''' Oh, you are.
'''John:''' I'm not.
'''Millie:''' Oh, you are, I know you are.
'''John:''' I'm not, no.
'''Millie:''' You look just like him.
'''John:''' Do I? You're the first one that's said that, ever.
'''Millie:''' Yes, you do. Look. [gestures towards mirror]
'''John:''' No, my eyes are lighter. The nose.
'''Millie:''' Oh, your nose is very...
'''John:''' Is it?
'''Millie:''' I would have said so.
'''John:''' Oh, you know him better, though.
'''Millie:''' I do not! He is only a casual acquaintance.
'''John:''' That's what you say.
'''Millie:''' What have you heard?
'''John:''' (''leans in, lowers voice'') It's all over the place.
'''Millie:''' Is it? Is it really?
'''John''': Mmm, but I wouldn't have it. I stuck up for you.
'''Millie:''' I knew I could rely on you.
'''John:''' Thanks.
'''Millie:''' (''looking through glasses'') You don't look like him at all.
'''John:''' (''walking away, muttering'') She looks more like him than I do. }}
** And then there's George at the fashion studio:
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'''Simon Marshall:''' Oh, you can come off it with us. You don't have to do the old adenoidal glottal-stop and carry-on for our benefit.
'''George:''' I'm afraid I don't understand...
'''Simon Marshall:''' Oh, my God, he's a natural!
'''Secretary:''' Well, I ''did'' tell them not to send us real ones.
'''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.
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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.
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'''Grandfather:''' ''[Sour]'' But I'm clean.<br />
'''John:''' ''[Cheerful cynicism]'' Are you? }}
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* [[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]]:
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'''John & Paul:''' A man? Don't be soft.
'''Ringo:''' Well, ''somebody'' did.
'''George:''' ''[Gets up and checks in closet]'' He's right, y'know.
'''John:''' There you go. }}
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]:
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'''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.
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