Three decades later, A Hard Day’s Night was cited as an influence on Spice Girls’ movie, Spice World.
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Influential critic Leslie Halliwell, who described the movie as a “comic fantasia with music”, said A Hard Day’s Night “led directly to all the kaleidoscopic swinging London spy thrillers and comedies of the later 60s.” The film was immediately imitated by Gerry And The Pacemakers in Ferry Cross The Mersey (1965), and inspired The Monkees’ hugely popular television series in America. The film was a financial and critical success.
Director Richard Lester’s film captures the fun, spontaneity, and unforgettable music of the rock group as they journeyed from Liverpool to London. The movie, which was in stark contrast to Cliff Richard’s “clean teens” films, was improvisational and imaginative. “Dudes, just watch A Hard Day’s Night,” advised the Golden Globe-nominated star.ĭecades before, Alun Owen had earned an Oscar nomination for his screenplay for A Hard Day’s Night, the United Artists’ film that portrayed 36 hours in the lives of the group who had made Beatlemania a global phenomenon. Black, who had made his name in School Of Rock – another light-hearted music movie that owes something to the frothiness of The Beatles’ films of the 60s – told his fellow actors not to be nervous. Long admitted that he and Schwartzman were “freaking out with nerves” about portraying such “sacred musicians” on screen. Paul Rudd appears as John Lennon, Jack Black as Paul McCartney, Justin Long as George Harrison, and Jason Schwartzman as Ringo Starr, and one of the highlights of the film is the witty scene in which Dewey Cox takes an LSD trip with The Beatles in India. Reilly stars as a boy from Alabama who grows up to take America by storm with his rock’n’roll career.
In the 2007 comedy Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, John C.
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