A Hard Day's Night

In a world where most pop artists' movies stunk (even Elvis occasionally),  one band was about to change that.  That band was the Beatles.  They were getting successful in Britain when secured a 3-picture deal with United Artists but when they were about to shoot the picture they were the biggest band in America as well. Little was really riding on the film since it was low budget and kids would watch it regardless of the story, but the producers, the director and the Beatles wanted something new.  New is what the audience got.  A mockumentary about "a day in the life" of the Beatles.  The film is filled with some of the Beatles classic songs and some interesting humor.

The script was very interesting because it contained many different phrases that people believe were part of the Beatles slapstick-type humor.  In fact it came from writer Alun Owen who was a fellow Liverpudlian.  The story seems kinda thin but hey in a day of the life of the Beatles nothing really connects because their lives were very crazy in 1964.

The movie did inspire how to really cut scenes to the beat of a song.  With fast hand-held camera moves and multi-angle shots, Richard Lester (the director) started the trend of making music videos, which was explored more in the next Beatles film Help!