Post by Capo on Aug 4, 2007 22:07:44 GMT
A Hard Day's Night
Richard Lester 1964 UK
A day in the life of the Beatles: escaping screaming fans, meeting deadlines and recording a TV appearance - for which they show up just in time.
It plays very much like a Marx brothers film - four characters, none of whom has the lead, and all of whom are used simply as decorative attractions for the carefree narrative, playing pranks, telling jokes and dropping one-liners at the expense of any kind of story. Its intention was to seemingly to humanise the Fab Four, to put them in a context wherein everyone else around them is crazy and stressed out and carried away with all the media attention and whatnot, so that they're all caught up in the shennanigans without really paying attention to it. The musical numbers are good, too, and presented in such a come-and-go, surreal fashion it's hard not to laugh along.
Richard Lester 1964 UK
A day in the life of the Beatles: escaping screaming fans, meeting deadlines and recording a TV appearance - for which they show up just in time.
It plays very much like a Marx brothers film - four characters, none of whom has the lead, and all of whom are used simply as decorative attractions for the carefree narrative, playing pranks, telling jokes and dropping one-liners at the expense of any kind of story. Its intention was to seemingly to humanise the Fab Four, to put them in a context wherein everyone else around them is crazy and stressed out and carried away with all the media attention and whatnot, so that they're all caught up in the shennanigans without really paying attention to it. The musical numbers are good, too, and presented in such a come-and-go, surreal fashion it's hard not to laugh along.
