A Hard Day's Night: Difference between revisions

* [[Devil in Plain Sight]]

* [[Disney Acid Sequence]]: "Can't Buy Me Love" (both sequences)

* [[Fake Shemp]]: For John during "Can't Buy Me Love". He was promoting his book "In His Own Write" during production, so that's why you don't see John much during the sequence.

** Also, those are Richard Lester's legs you see instead of Paul's on the fire escape stairs--Paul was too hung over to participate.

* [[Floating Head Syndrome]]: even in some 1964 posters.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]:

* [[Noodle Incident]]: "But when I plugged her in, she just blew up."

* [[Orbital Shot]]

* [[Performance Video]]: Much of this film qualifies.

** The entire film is probably the [[Ur Example]] of [[Music Video|Music Videos]].

* [[Reality Subtext]]: Paul's Grandfather's complaint that "So far, I've been in a train and a room, a car and a room, and a room and a room!" is based on actual complaints the Beatles had about touring.

** And Paul's appearance in disguise may have been based on his tendency, at least in the earlier days of Beatlemania, to do just that so he could wander the streets without being bothered.

{{quote| '''John:''' You know your trouble, you should have gone west to America. You would have been a senior citizen of [[Useful Notes/Boston|Boston]]. But you took a wrong turn, and what happened? You're a lonely old man from Liverpool.<br />

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

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

** Also, when they perform "I'm Happy Just to Dance With You", the set is decorated with paintings of literal beetles.

* [[You Had Us Worried There]]: This happens several times when the Beatles arrive somewhere they're supposed to be at the very last minute. Only one or two of them are life-threatening.