In A Hard Day’s Night, Ringo went off parading after snapping a photo of John and Paul, and telling George to stop looking so scornful. Jackson’s film shows the real Beatles, not musicians acting out versions of themselves, having to get back a member who has quit. It has enough good lines for two comedies, and it even overtly nods to their first film when Lennon asks “Who’s that little old man,” about a Hare Krishna devotee friend of George who is very quiet, but Paul notices is “very clean, though.” Apple Film’s Denis O’Dell comes across as though the stuffed shirt businessman on the train was playing Victor Spinetti’s TV director character, although he sounds more like the mad scientist in Help!. Plot SimilaritiesĬoincidentally, The Beatles: Get Back hits every one of these points, and could very easily be cut into an 88-minute madcap adventure which ends in a show. We get snippets of old songs, and a full performance of excerpted musical numbers. They actually have to escape from prying eyes during rehearsals.
They play all their songs during the long and winding road to the TV station, and during rehearsals. Beatlemania is encapsulated for all time. In the greatest jukebox musical ever made, the band has to retrieve an errant band member in time to make a show, and when they make that show, it’s a success.
Jackson does the opposite in his new documentary, creating a slow-mo cinema verité version of director Richard Lester’s A Hard Day’s Night. They showed the erection of a building, from scratch, fit into a few minutes of screentime by shooting a few frames per day. One of the techniques they pioneered was film speed. During the period of Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back, John Lennon and Yoko Ono made many experimental films.
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