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The first and greatest film of [[The Beatles (Musicband)|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 (Music)|John Lennon]], [[Paul McCartney (Music)|Paul McCartney]], [[George Harrison (Music)|George Harrison]], and [[Ringo Starr (Music)|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?
 
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 (Film)|Help]]'', ''[[Magical Mystery Tour (Film)|Magical Mystery Tour]]'' (though that one ended up a [[TV Movie]]), the cartoon ''[[Yellow Submarine (Animation)|Yellow Submarine]],'' and the actual documentary ''[[Let It Be]]''.
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'''Director:''' Richard Lester. Most of his work is surreal comedy. Hints of that reach this film.
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* [[Chick Magnet]]: Played for laughs near the beginning of the film.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Ringo, possibly. John strangely doesn't play one himself, in spite of being reputed for being one later in life. Though one could make an argument for the scene in which John plays with the toy boat in the bathtub.
* [[Day in Thethe Life]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: All four Beatles were masters of the craft. An exmple of a detail taken from real life, as the boys really would give sarcastic answers to reporters as they do in the film.
** Particular mention should go to George's completely straight-faced answer to "What do you call that haircut?" "Arthur."
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'''Grandfather:''' ''[Sour]'' But I'm clean.<br />
'''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 (Film)|Dr. No]]''. And the girl with Paul's Grandfather is played by Margaret Nolan, who played Dink in ''[[Goldfinger (Film)|Goldfinger]]''.
* [[Squee]]: The mob of fangirls did a lot of this, to humorous effect.
* [[Straw Fan]]: it opens with the Fab Four pursued by the aforementioned mob of fans. The extras playing the fans, being actual Beatles fans (which was inevitable if you hired three hundred teenagers in London in 1964), were so good that the filmmakers could do only one take of the relevant scenes -- and about half the "takes" were more like "let the fans see the Beatles, and then just keep the cameras rolling".
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