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Thread started 01/25/18 4:59pm

LaurenceNoonan	Hard Days Night or Help? (Films) This one is for Beatles fans (Obliviously) But what Beatle film do you prefer more? A Hard Days Night or Help? For me, It's a Hard Days Night. [Edited 9/19/18 6:18am]
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Reply #1 posted 01/28/18 6:07am

thedoorkeeper	Yellow Submarine HA!
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Reply #2 posted 01/28/18 6:44am

LaurenceNoonan	thedoorkeeper said: Yellow Submarine HA! Fair enough lol
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Reply #3 posted 01/28/18 11:47pm

thetimefan

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Personally I prefer Hard Days Night too.

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Reply #4 posted 01/29/18 2:23am

LaurenceNoonan	thetimefan said: Personally I prefer Hard Days Night too. It's the better film but Help is good [Edited 9/19/18 6:18am]
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Reply #5 posted 01/29/18 8:15pm

robertgeorge

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A Hard Day's Night is a simple idea with perfect execution. A Hard Day's Night has the best songs and the best album sequence (Help is no slouch either)

Help feels like a difficult second film that to quote Paul Mccartney suffered from paraphrase alert "Oh we have never been skiing can you put that in, oh we've never been to...... can you put that in the plot."

I treasure Help, but Hard Day's Night sets up the classic caracatures of the Beatles in film and has the classic Ringo sequence, Wilfred Brambel being very clean, and some nice John Lennon schtick.

I like how George Harrison speaks almost entirely in idiomatic phrases in this film.

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Reply #6 posted 01/30/18 4:01am

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A Hard Day's Night is a classic!

Help! is poor, I think. I mean, it's cute in a mid-60s' kitsch kind of way, but The Beatles were otherwise always above kitsch. There are some rather off-putting cultural tourism / borderline-racist kind of stuff in it, too (not that The Beatles had anything to do with the story).

What's amazing about A Hard Day's Night is that it was made on the cheap, in a hurry, akin to a 15-minutes-of-fame cash-in kind of project, but somehow it transcended its origins to be something special. (albeit it did create caricatures of The Beatles)

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Reply #7 posted 01/31/18 10:14am

jjhunsecker

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