Talk:A Hard Day's Night (film)

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[edit] Video CD

I can't fill in any of the details, but from what I remember this was one of the first films to come on Video CD - or at least it was one of the first films to be released on Video CD outside Japan. I remember back in 1994-ish there was a concerted but doomed effort by various manufacturers to make Video CD take off in the UK, and along with Kate Bush's The Whole Story and Star Trek VI this was one of the launch titles for the Phillips CDi, Commodore CDTV and Amiga CD32 etc. Unfortunately I was only a small child at the time and I can't find an authoritative source. -Ashley Pomeroy 21:25, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] main shot in article

are you sure the harrison & boyd shot you have up is a screenshot from the movie?? i don't remember george harrison & pattie boyd sitting next to each other in any scene in the movie...so maybe it's a shot from the set?? =S 70.30.164.129 21:23, 21 November 2005 (UTC) veronica

A photograph of Harrison and a woman who might be Boyd asleep on the train also appears in Roy Carr’s Beatles at the Movies, page 29. The image appears rather candid, possibly suggesting the authenticity of the above photo as being taken from the actual film has reasons for dispute. 207.81.164.238 22:11, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mockumentary?

A Hard Day's Night does not quite fit the mold of mockumentaries. The dialogue in mockumentaries tends to be improvved. Almost everything in this film was scripted (save for the sequence to "Can't Buy Me Love"). Swatson1978 23:11, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

A "Mockumentary" is simply a fake documentary. Whatever other specifics each one has in it are not defining rules but the director's preferences.

[edit] OK I am confused

WP:Beatles thinks B class but WP:Films thinks Start? Huh? Are we Beatlemaniacs overgenerous? Are the filmies overharsh? Grin. I'm confused. ++Lar: t/c 01:08, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Not sure, but it looks a little better than Start class to me. Start/B, either way is not good enough so the discrepancy doesn't matter too much. I notice they wanted to rate it High on importance but their template's importance feature seems to be either missing or faulty. --kingboyk 16:16, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Roger Ebert Review of Film

This is Roger Ebert's review of the film for use in the article [1] - last accessed 1 November, 2006. LuciferMorgan 22:07, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Film review

I am adding this reference November 23, 2006, in the event that references are required in future for this page. Carr, Roy. Beatles at the Movies. (New York: HarperCollins, 1996), p.43, 53. 207.81.164.238 22:04, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] References in Popular Culture

It might be worthwhile to list various occasions whence this film has been referred to or parodied over the years. I can provide three examples. The opening scenes of the first Austin Powers, as well as those parodied in a preview for Goldmember, are directly lifted from The Beatles’ madcap escape from their fans that serves to open this film. Also, in an episode of Eek The Cat, Eek drops into the first sequence on the train, where The Beatles admire Paul’s grandfather. Finally, in an episode of Family Ties, the family returns from having just seen the film; the children did not like it. (Mchelada 19:40, 14 March 2007 (UTC))