The Cute Blonde Girl on the Train was Patti Boyd, She met George while onset and she became George's first wife and the inspiration behind SEVERAL Legendary songs by both George and later by her second Husband, Eric Clapton!
Also by Ronnie Wood. Harrison & Clapton were emotional stones who could say or feel nothing except through music and writing songs. They only matured into more wholesome and well-rounded people much later in life.
Yes - an advance warning in future would be useful. Her squeaky approach displays, in its sheer, vacuous inanity, all the attributes of yet another blonde bimbo auditioning for a job as a Fox "News" presenter. Please don't let anybody tell her that the film is sixty years old and practically all of the stars (including two of the Beatles) are now dead. It might be instructive, of course, to ask why she believes anybody should be even remotely interested in her reaction.
The one thing I do know about this movie, George Harrison met his future wife (she's in the movie too) during filming. He proposed the day they met (they married couple years later). But she ended up being the inspiration for Eric Clapton's song Layla. I learned that on a George Harrison documentary or Beatles Anthology I think.
@@camcordercamerin Yeah, I should have mentioned Eric stole George's wife. George was letting Eric stay at his place while he was getting clean from addiction and he fell in love with her.
OH MY GOD!!!!!! Dropping everything to watch this!! I can't believe it!!!! Look at that Yellow Submarine pillow!!! (another great Beatles movie!). I can't believe this! I am completely flabbergasted! I just realized: it was released 60 years ago this month! Ok, let me watch this. I love this channel and I love the frickin' Beatles!!!!! I cannot believe this!!!!
Camerin, you should definitely watch The Beatles' next movie, called "Help!" It is a blast! It's a fun spoof on the James Bond franchise and it also has pre-Psychedelia surrealism and the kind of British humor that would make Monty Python a household name! You will love it!
Thanks for reacting to this classic, largely ignored by UA-cam reactors. This wasn't what their life was like. It's what you'd imagine their life was like.
I was a little too young to fully appreciate their music back then, but I was aware of the excitement they were generating. So when my mom said I could pick out an album from the record rack at the department store one day, I picked this one. I had seen them on TV, and recognized their faces on the cover. You might also like watching episodes of "The Monkees". They were invented as a TV show not long after this. It had the same kind of vibe as this movie. They were actors pretending to be in a band, but they had top pop composers writing some actually great pop songs that were performed every week. "I'm a Believer" was one of their best. They hired seasoned studio musicians to record the music, but the actors themselves actually sang the lead vocals, and they weren't bad. Another fun silly show we kids enjoyed back then was "Gilligan's Island". They rode the Beatles mania wave with an episode called "Don't Bug the Mosquitoes". 60's pop culture was a lotta fun. 🤪
The Grandfather had his own TV show on British TV called "Steptoe and Son." The son on the show often called him a "Dirty Old Man." The joke in Hard Days night then was to call him a "Clean Old Man." We Americans didn't get that joke until decades later when it was explained lol....
That was HILARIOUS! Brilliant! You cracked me up so many times. The fact that you know some Beatle history is EVERYTHING in this reaction!!! Yeah: four guys who look identical....yet each is totally individual! This movie is how most people got to distinguish them, through those caricatures so you're right on about that. And also the pop art element! All of their movies are fun and surreal and wacky, but Yellow Submarine is a really special animated one. And supremely psychedelic!!!! Dazzling to the eye! Ok.... THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!! I seriously cannot believe I just saw you react to A Hard Day's Night, you are fantastic!
Makes me so happy to see how excited this made you! It was a lot of fun. I’ve slowly been getting real into the Beatles and becoming more familiar with their catalogue, but the movies are still completely unexplored!!
Excellent review and comments - thanks. I saw this movie when it came out in mid 1964. It was a completely new approach to pop movies and was received really well. It came just after the Beatles took the US by storm in February 64.
What a wonderful experience to grow up with the Beatles! Would you consider yourself a big fan at the time or a more casual one? And how would you say felt about the evolution of their music over the short period of time?
@@camcordercamerin Thanks for your response. I was a massive fan from the start. Before them, pop music had become pretty boring and predictable in the UK, after initial real excitement in the 1950s with American rock and roll and British skiffle. The Beatles first massive hits in 1963 - Please Please Me, From Me To You, She Loves You.....were like nothing most people had ever heard before. It brought massive excitement and interest to popular music. Even classical musicians and critics took a serious interest - the Times music critic (Mann) made all kinds of comparisons with classical composers in December of 63. It also opened the doors to other incredible groups such as the Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Who etc. They all took America and the world by storm in 64. The fans grew up along with the innovation and development that the Beatles (and subsequently others) put into their albums. It all happened so quickly - from basically three or four chords in 62/63 (sometimes more) to almost classical music in some of the later stuff. The 1960s decade sort of developed at the same speed.as the groups and bands. Of course, the US also had a massive and growing influence as the 60s developed - Dylan, The Beach Boys, The Byrds etc.
It was Ringo who came up with the title "A Hard Day's Night", and a very young Phil Collins, drummer for Genesis was in the audience up on the balcony. I was 8 years old in 1964 when this film was released in the theaters, and just about every kid here in America wanted to be a Beatle, and many of them did become rock musicians in the '70s and '80s. Some did really well and some didn't.
@@paultaylor9498 Good song writing based on what era's opinion? All Songs were like that back then. Are they really childish, or just had more morals in front of children back then? That's what society allowed back then, was used to. I lived that era. Lennon, McCartney and Harrison all knew they had to write those kind of songs to break into the market and make it big. In the early years 1962 to 1965, They would joke about the next song to write, saying "Let's write a swimming pool," or "let's write a Rolls Royce." They knew exactly what they were doing and why. Todays lyrics, like "I'm up all night to get lucky" were absolutely not acceptable back then. When the Rolling Stones had the song "Let's Spend the Night Together" and were to sing it on the Ed Sullivan Show, [nationally shown all over the country] they had to change it to "Let's Spend Some Time Together."
@thomastimlin1724 Most of their early stuff and the biggest part of their career wasn't great songwriting. Plus songs were shorter so easier to make. The beatles are obviously good but they don't have the monopoly on the best songs ever made. There's loads of bands who have made songs better than the beatles.
There is a little known film called "Back Beat (1996)." It is a fictional account of the Beatles before they hit it big. It stars none other than Laura Palmer herself, Sheryl Lee. The film feels like a documentary. It highlights the early Beatles "Sound," which was not so great. But they work hard and practiced. Spoiler: by the end of the film, for the first time, we see and hear in a breathtaking scene, the Beatles as we now know them. Brings goosebumps!
It’s such a classic movie and an underrated gem. Also, the horror movie bit with the screaming was hysterical! You should check out the Get Back documentary. It’s a really fun glimpse behind the curtain. Fun fact, when they broke up, not one of them was 30 yet. They conquered the entire world for less than a decade.
the voluptuous lady at the casino was glamour model margaret nolan who also appeared in james bond's "goldfinger" released the same year (1964). bond even mentions the beatles in that film. there's actually a lot of connections between the popular rise of the james bond films and the beatles. james bond's first film "dr. no" and the beatles first single "love me do" were both released in 1962. the 2nd beatles film "help!" (1965) was a parody of 007 films. richard lester, the director of the beatles' first 2 films, also directed a wonderful film adaption of the musical play "a funny thing happened on the way to the forum" (1966). its full of risque humour, sight gaga and double entendres. i highly recommend it. thanks for the video and the smile.
@@richardscanlan3419 ... yep, i mention that in my comment. he says drinking dom perignon ’53 at the wrong temperature is "as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs.” like many his age at that time bond didn't appreciate r&r. it was still considered immature kids music. i think the beatles and 007 were quite essential in each other's rise in popularity. especially internationally as britain took the global lead in exporting their culture. everything british suddenly became cool and glamorous.
Thanks for doing this movie. It's a great classic which, for some reason, has been largely overlooked by UA-cam reactors. You're right also that it's a caricature of their actual personalities. Ringo was actually never picked on by the others. They respected his work too much. I wish your reaction had been longer, though.
Innovative in so many ways. Before then, pop star films were very different. This was the first barely fictionalised documentary-mocumentary. Writers used Beatles conversation styles so they could 'act naturally'. And they wrote, played, and sang all the music, and they did it in a very short time. So many things we take for normal were started by them and the people they chose to work with. The Monkees TV show was based on this. It was intended to be actors with session musicians and bought in songs (including by Goffin & King). The Monkees proved to be good writers, players, and singers themselves
It helps to think of this movie in context. If the music and the way the film was shot seem at all familiar, it's because it influenced a phenomenal amount of what came afterwards. The way this film was shot and edited has been emulated for decades. The Beatles virtually set the template for a hit band to write its own songs, and was highly influential in albums being far more valuable than a couple of hit singles and some "filler." The whole thing really satirized Beatlemania, although if you watch videos of them touring the US (or just clips of their first performances on the Ed Sullivan Show) you'll see it was in some ways accurate.
one thing I’ve learned is that it was somewhat rare for the recording artist to actually write their own music and that the Beatles set the standard for bands going forward
@@camcordercamerin that's very true, people like The Beatles and Bob Dylan inspired everyone in their generation to become singer/songwriters and to be better composers and lyricists
I do enjoy how A Hard Day's Night satirized Beatlemania by how claustrophobic it was for the band when they tour. Paul's grandfather in the film remarks how they're whole trip has been "“a train and a room and a car and a room and a room and a room”.
George's scene was a swipe at society, Tv producers, fashion geeks, and control freak adults programming what teenagers and children shall like, for profit. He made that guy look like an ass, rightly so. They took a swipe at society in subtle ways, every chance they got in this movie. The line You'll like these [shorts], their fab , gear and all the other pimply hiperbalies." And the response from George "I wouldn't be seen dead in them. Their dead grotty, grotesque." He says: "Make a note of that word and give it to Susan." Funny as hell and true. They're STILL doing it today!!! "You're not cool unless you have one of these."
I love this movie! I grew up listening to my dad’s Beatles records. Dick Lester, the director, said he wanted to establish early on that the film would have surreal elements so he put that scene in when the guys are on the train, then suddenly running outside the train. Just to give people a heads up that this was not going to be a documentary 😂. Fun trivia fact: one of the kids in the theater during the stage performance was a young Phil Collins. Your “Why the Beatles broke up” graphic made me chuckle too. Paul’s clean old grandfather.
I’ve NEVER seen anyone react to this….good for u…..there was actually a very famous movie reviewing / film critic team back in the 1990’s, going back thru the 80’s & prob even the 70’s, they were an institution, for decades, & they called this movie “one of the best black & white comedies ever made”, it was in their top 3 I think, literally, it was high up there in the rankings for them…..and upon second & third viewings (after u haven’t seen it for a while,) u really do realize how hilarious it is (definitely in a UK comedy style)….what can u say tho? the Beatles were a very talented & personable bunch, lol…..anyway, awesome, liked & subbed:)
It really helps to watch "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help!" with captions/subtitles on. It took me years (and buying the book of the script) to realise Paul was saying "and he'll cost you a fortune in breach-of-promise cases"... 🙂Definitely watch "Help!" and look for the TV director from AHDN (Victor Spinetti) playing a more prominent role, as well as Roy Kinnear, the father of actor Rory Kinnear --- although probably more well-known as Veruca Salt's father ("Wonka, how much do you want for the golden goose?"). They never wear the same outfits or have the same haircuts, either.
They had been slogging through Liverpool and Hamburg (Germany) dives for three years before this movie (there are videos on You Tube). All that hard playing made them a tight and sharp band by the time of this movie. This mop-tops & suits look was the idea of their manager Brian Epstein to appeal to a wider audience and record companies...Lennon hated it. They had a rougher, 'leather' look before then (check the pics). They did 4 more 'movies' > Help, Yellow Submarine, Magical Mystery Tour, Let it Be. Each one was different as their music changed.
I saw this movie a couple of years ago and it got me right into The Beatles, I already heard some of their songs before but I heard I Should’ve Known Better for the first time while watching this and thought they sounded really good so it made me want to listen to more of their songs
Actually it does, and you can easily swap "middle eight" breaks of Beatle songs. There's a cover version that puts the "Hard Days Night" break into "And Your Bird Can Sing". They are absolutely formula, as Lennon himself said. But here's the thing: it's HER opinion. They sound alike TO HER. It's HER reaction. I knew what she was talking about immediately. Stop being such a sycophant.
As a musician with a music degree I can say she is saying they sound similar, not exactly alike. I Want to Hold Your Hand's phrase in the middle part [bridge] "And when I touch you I feel happy" has similar rhythm and word cadences to "I Should Have Known Better's "And when I tell you that a love you." And they are about the SAME tempo. You could put "I Should's" middle part [Bridge] in place of "Hold Your Hand's" "and when I touch you" and the song would stand up just as good...she's saying this style of word rhythm and lyrics are similar and interchangeable. That's all.
"Get Back" by Peter Jackson is a must-watch for all Beatles fans! It's probably not a great introduction though for newer fans as its quite slow-paced and feels very drawn-out, but I loved it because watching the creative process of them making their songs in real time fascinated me. ONLY if you've already got some knowledge on the band, I definitely recommend it. If you ARE a new fan, however, I would recommend the Beatles Anthology first.
The studio filmed in black and white because it was cheaper. They didn't expect to make money from the film, they were more interested in the soundtrack album. I'm sure it was ketchup he was putting on his bandaged arm.
A lot of films back then were filmed in black and white. Sometimes, it was for artistic choices. Other times, it was for financial reasons. Black and white film was cheaper, and after so many reels, the price difference could become quite expensive. This film was probably shot this way to save money.
It was. The film execs thought the Beatles were a flash in the pan, wouldn't last. United Artists made a deal to to not spend so much money in case it flopped, thus making in in black and white, and a record deal for the soundtrack of 7 songs, the movie's instrumental music, use of other Beatles songs in the film. If the film flopped, the sale of albums on United Artists label would recoup the money ten fold.
An American Girl reacting to The Beatles - quite Interesting, but Not for the First Time Probably. Such Cute and Charming reactions that I guess You'd Maybe, Maybe is Just a Tiny, Tiny Bit Tipsy ..? In that Case - You are Welcome, I think The Fab Four also Would agree! With a Name like Camerin all Tipsynessisis (?) are Forgiven.
Great reaction. Thank you. You should definitely do Help next. It's in glorious colour and it's a lot of fun. Love your little attempts at a British accents.
They didn't choose to be in b/w. The studio wanted to hedge their bets in case the Beatles were just an overnight thing and would then go away. So b/w was cheaper When distributed in the USA they wanted to put subtitles on because they feared audiences would not understand their accents
The distributors in the USA wanted to dub the Beatles dialogue with mid-Atlantic accents so the kids in the US would understand them. The Beatles refused with Paul McCartney saying "If we can listen to a f***in' cowboy speaking Texan for ninety minutes, then they can listen to us speaking Liverpudlian for the same amount of time."
Paul McCartney was once asked if the girls screaming ever bothered him. He said no. To him, it was like guys cheering for their favorite football team by going, "YEAH!" So, your football analogy was not too far off the mark!
You're the first reactor I've seen react to this or any Beatles film. I hope this inspires you to dig more into The Beatles catalogue as well as thieir post-Beatles careers. If you listen and look at the Beatles' work from Sgt. Pepper onward you'll have an easier time telling John, Paul, George & Ringo apart.
Beatles movies: 1. Hard Days Night - silly fun 2. Help! - whoa, there's a plot! 3. Yellow Submarine - heartwarming cartoon Beatles 4. Magical Mystery Tour - wtf did i just watch? (and possibly my favorite 😅)
You have this confused with the movie "Help". "Eight Arms To Hold You" was a working title for the movie "Help" As a matter of fact, Capital Records here in the States with their greed jumped the gun to get the first single out from the "Help" Lp released the single "Ticket To Ride" in parenthesis below the title "From the United Artists screenplay " Eight Arms To Hold You". There's a lot of these first pressings out there and are quite common. Peace ❤
AHDN was rushed out in as little cost and time as possible, hence it being in B&W, they thought the Beatles were just going to be a flash in the pan, even if the movie didn't make any money, at least the album/sound track would.
Don't think filming in black and white was really an "artistic'" choice back then. Actually 1964 was probably the last year when most movies ( and TV shows ) were shot in black and white, unless it was some big budget epic. From 1965 on almost everything was released in color including "Help".
more thoughts on this... to realize how great this movie is, you have to watch the typical American teen movies of the time, which were corny and awful even to 9 year old me.. the Annette Funicelio/Frankie Avalon beach blanket movies, or the Elvis Presley movies, or the Gidget movies (as opposed to the Gidget TV Show, which was pretty awesome... the Beatles were like the Marx Brothers
Many (but I would not say most) like I, do prefer their second film "Help" from one year later (1965.) It's in color and more like a James Bond spoof - much less Brit humor. DO catch it if you have not yet. Would love to see you do a follow up vid.
They look tame by today's "standards" but the long hair and rock music was outrageous to parents...guys had short hair back then, the Beatles changed everything. If you did not live in that era, you have no idea of their impact. Too often people only want to hear their later music, and have no clue of their early music and its impact on musical and societal change.
THe actor playing the Producer, Victor Spinetti, was quite well known in the UK before the film came out. He also appears in "Help" as a mad scientist. Apparently George Harrison told him, "Ey, Vic, You've gotta be in all out films, because if you're not me Mam won't come and see them - she fancies you!"
The Cute Blonde Girl on the Train was Patti Boyd, She met George while onset and she became George's first wife and the inspiration behind SEVERAL Legendary songs by both George and later by her second Husband, Eric Clapton!
But don't look too closely at either of those marriages.
She's at 2:07
Also by Ronnie Wood. Harrison & Clapton were emotional stones who could say or feel nothing except through music and writing songs. They only matured into more wholesome and well-rounded people much later in life.
Wilfred Brambel was on a show called Steptoe And Son, where he was often called "YOU DIRTY OLD MAN!" That's why he's called Clean in this film.
@@craigoconnor6662 wow that’s makes so much sense!!
Yes, it’s a sort of British private joke.
Sanford and Son was the American version of this show
I was going to say this.
The best thing about Camerin is that you can never guess what she's going to watch next. 😆
Consistent genre uploads for optimal algorithmic growth? Not Camcorder Camerin!!
I'd rather be surprised.
Yes - an advance warning in future would be useful. Her squeaky approach displays, in its sheer, vacuous inanity, all the attributes of yet another blonde bimbo auditioning for a job as a Fox "News" presenter.
Please don't let anybody tell her that the film is sixty years old and practically all of the stars (including two of the Beatles) are now dead.
It might be instructive, of course, to ask why she believes anybody should be even remotely interested in her reaction.
The one thing I do know about this movie, George Harrison met his future wife (she's in the movie too) during filming. He proposed the day they met (they married couple years later). But she ended up being the inspiration for Eric Clapton's song Layla. I learned that on a George Harrison documentary or Beatles Anthology I think.
oh those boys and their girls…
@@camcordercamerin Yeah, I should have mentioned Eric stole George's wife. George was letting Eric stay at his place while he was getting clean from addiction and he fell in love with her.
Patty Boyd
OH MY GOD!!!!!! Dropping everything to watch this!! I can't believe it!!!! Look at that Yellow Submarine pillow!!! (another great Beatles movie!). I can't believe this! I am completely flabbergasted! I just realized: it was released 60 years ago this month! Ok, let me watch this. I love this channel and I love the frickin' Beatles!!!!! I cannot believe this!!!!
Camerin, you should definitely watch The Beatles' next movie, called "Help!" It is a blast! It's a fun spoof on the James Bond franchise and it also has pre-Psychedelia surrealism and the kind of British humor that would make Monty Python a household name! You will love it!
but I HOPE she will give "HELP!" more than 16 minutes for a 90 minute movie.
Calling Hard Day's Night a "vibe" is actually a very good way to describe it.
Thanks for reacting to this classic, largely ignored by UA-cam reactors.
This wasn't what their life was like. It's what you'd imagine their life was like.
It WAS what their life was like: Alun Owen, who wrote the screenplay, followed them around through their days while writing it.
@@jnagarya519 He did, but then he wrote a caricature.
Alan Owen caricatured the Beatles but the crowd scenes and them being chased was quite true to life according to The Beatles themselves
And The Monkees was a documentary! 😉
@@CharlesKent-v8s Yes, they did draw large crowds.
I was a little too young to fully appreciate their music back then, but I was aware of the excitement they were generating. So when my mom said I could pick out an album from the record rack at the department store one day, I picked this one. I had seen them on TV, and recognized their faces on the cover. You might also like watching episodes of "The Monkees". They were invented as a TV show not long after this. It had the same kind of vibe as this movie. They were actors pretending to be in a band, but they had top pop composers writing some actually great pop songs that were performed every week. "I'm a Believer" was one of their best. They hired seasoned studio musicians to record the music, but the actors themselves actually sang the lead vocals, and they weren't bad. Another fun silly show we kids enjoyed back then was "Gilligan's Island". They rode the Beatles mania wave with an episode called "Don't Bug the Mosquitoes". 60's pop culture was a lotta fun. 🤪
The Grandfather had his own TV show on British TV called "Steptoe and Son." The son on the show often called him a "Dirty Old Man." The joke in Hard Days night then was to call him a "Clean Old Man." We Americans didn't get that joke until decades later when it was explained lol....
That was HILARIOUS! Brilliant! You cracked me up so many times. The fact that you know some Beatle history is EVERYTHING in this reaction!!! Yeah: four guys who look identical....yet each is totally individual! This movie is how most people got to distinguish them, through those caricatures so you're right on about that. And also the pop art element! All of their movies are fun and surreal and wacky, but Yellow Submarine is a really special animated one. And supremely psychedelic!!!! Dazzling to the eye! Ok.... THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!! I seriously cannot believe I just saw you react to A Hard Day's Night, you are fantastic!
Makes me so happy to see how excited this made you! It was a lot of fun. I’ve slowly been getting real into the Beatles and becoming more familiar with their catalogue, but the movies are still completely unexplored!!
@@camcordercamerin I just wish you had spent more than 16 minutes on it, well actually you showed less than that. It was worthy of more than that.
Excellent review and comments - thanks. I saw this movie when it came out in mid 1964. It was a completely new approach to pop movies and was received really well. It came just after the Beatles took the US by storm in February 64.
What a wonderful experience to grow up with the Beatles! Would you consider yourself a big fan at the time or a more casual one? And how would you say felt about the evolution of their music over the short period of time?
@@camcordercamerin Thanks for your response. I was a massive fan from the start. Before them, pop music had become pretty boring and predictable in the UK, after initial real excitement in the 1950s with American rock and roll and British skiffle. The Beatles first massive hits in 1963 - Please Please Me, From Me To You, She Loves You.....were like nothing most people had ever heard before. It brought massive excitement and interest to popular music. Even classical musicians and critics took a serious interest - the Times music critic (Mann) made all kinds of comparisons with classical composers in December of 63. It also opened the doors to other incredible groups such as the Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Who etc. They all took America and the world by storm in 64. The fans grew up along with the innovation and development that the Beatles (and subsequently others) put into their albums. It all happened so quickly - from basically three or four chords in 62/63 (sometimes more) to almost classical music in some of the later stuff. The 1960s decade sort of developed at the same speed.as the groups and bands. Of course, the US also had a massive and growing influence as the 60s developed - Dylan, The Beach Boys, The Byrds etc.
I recommend the film I Wanna Hold Your Hand about a group of friends trying to sneak into the Ed Sullivan Show to see The Beatles perform. Very fun.
Super fun movie!
Sounds cute
"And I Love Her" ...just one of the greatest song of 20th Century with inarrivable melody ❤
one of my fav love songs
I've always liked this film and I love your reactions to it
I loved that interjection slide you made of "who really broke up the Beatles".😛
my Beatles podcast education coming in handy lol
@@camcordercamerin Yes, that was an hilarious insert, this old guy lmao
It was Ringo who came up with the title "A Hard Day's Night", and a very young Phil Collins, drummer for Genesis was in the audience up on the balcony. I was 8 years old in 1964 when this film was released in the theaters, and just about every kid here in America wanted to be a Beatle, and many of them did become rock musicians in the '70s and '80s. Some did really well and some didn't.
I think a child must of wrote the lyrics not exactly good song writing
@@paultaylor9498 Good song writing based on what era's opinion? All Songs were like that back then. Are they really childish, or just had more morals in front of children back then? That's what society allowed back then, was used to. I lived that era. Lennon, McCartney and Harrison all knew they had to write those kind of songs to break into the market and make it big. In the early years 1962 to 1965, They would joke about the next song to write, saying "Let's write a swimming pool," or "let's write a Rolls Royce." They knew exactly what they were doing and why. Todays lyrics, like "I'm up all night to get lucky" were absolutely not acceptable back then. When the Rolling Stones had the song "Let's Spend the Night Together" and were to sing it on the Ed Sullivan Show, [nationally shown all over the country] they had to change it to "Let's Spend Some Time Together."
@thomastimlin1724 Most of their early stuff and the biggest part of their career wasn't great songwriting.
Plus songs were shorter so easier to make.
The beatles are obviously good but they don't have the monopoly on the best songs ever made.
There's loads of bands who have made songs better than the beatles.
First band to experience real fan mania.
“and I picture my cat” 😂😂😂
There is a little known film called "Back Beat (1996)." It is a fictional account of the Beatles before they hit it big. It stars none other than Laura Palmer herself, Sheryl Lee. The film feels like a documentary. It highlights the early Beatles "Sound," which was not so great. But they work hard and practiced. Spoiler: by the end of the film, for the first time, we see and hear in a breathtaking scene, the Beatles as we now know them. Brings goosebumps!
SHERYL LEE
It's about their years in Hamburg, where they became a band.
I am listening to all 12 of the UK studio albums by The Beatles in order this week. Next up I guess I have to go back and watch the movies again.
a lovely time!
The music has held up for 60 years now.. The movie is a classic from the mid 1960s... Happy that young people like you can appreciate this movie.
It’s such a classic movie and an underrated gem. Also, the horror movie bit with the screaming was hysterical!
You should check out the Get Back documentary. It’s a really fun glimpse behind the curtain.
Fun fact, when they broke up, not one of them was 30 yet. They conquered the entire world for less than a decade.
crazy how young they were (and here I am! Jk). AND THANK YOU I was proud of that edit lol
@@camcordercamerin I turned 32 a couple months ago and definitely feel my age looking at these four lads lol.
Also, cool pillow!
the voluptuous lady at the casino was glamour model margaret nolan who also appeared in james bond's "goldfinger" released the same year (1964). bond even mentions the beatles in that film. there's actually a lot of connections between the popular rise of the james bond films and the beatles. james bond's first film "dr. no" and the beatles first single "love me do" were both released in 1962. the 2nd beatles film "help!" (1965) was a parody of 007 films.
richard lester, the director of the beatles' first 2 films, also directed a wonderful film adaption of the musical play "a funny thing happened on the way to the forum" (1966). its full of risque humour, sight gaga and double entendres. i highly recommend it. thanks for the video and the smile.
If you remember "Goldfinger" there's a scene where Bond tales a sly dig at the Beatles.
@@richardscanlan3419 ... yep, i mention that in my comment. he says drinking dom perignon ’53 at the wrong temperature is "as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs.” like many his age at that time bond didn't appreciate r&r. it was still considered immature kids music. i think the beatles and 007 were quite essential in each other's rise in popularity. especially internationally as britain took the global lead in exporting their culture. everything british suddenly became cool and glamorous.
@@cjmacq-vg8um just before Oddball knocks him out with a karate chop to the neck....
@@richardscanlan3419 ... yes, but its not oddball, but oddjob. think "random task" from "austin powers."
@@cjmacq-vg8umduh,oddjob.excuse me,I'm getting old:))
CC is a vibe... I had a great time (too)!
Totally! Love ALL her reactions......and then she does this one! Amazing.
Thanks for doing this movie. It's a great classic which, for some reason, has been largely overlooked by UA-cam reactors. You're right also that it's a caricature of their actual personalities. Ringo was actually never picked on by the others. They respected his work too much. I wish your reaction had been longer, though.
Innovative in so many ways. Before then, pop star films were very different. This was the first barely fictionalised documentary-mocumentary. Writers used Beatles conversation styles so they could 'act naturally'. And they wrote, played, and sang all the music, and they did it in a very short time. So many things we take for normal were started by them and the people they chose to work with.
The Monkees TV show was based on this. It was intended to be actors with session musicians and bought in songs (including by Goffin & King). The Monkees proved to be good writers, players, and singers themselves
It helps to think of this movie in context. If the music and the way the film was shot seem at all familiar, it's because it influenced a phenomenal amount of what came afterwards. The way this film was shot and edited has been emulated for decades. The Beatles virtually set the template for a hit band to write its own songs, and was highly influential in albums being far more valuable than a couple of hit singles and some "filler." The whole thing really satirized Beatlemania, although if you watch videos of them touring the US (or just clips of their first performances on the Ed Sullivan Show) you'll see it was in some ways accurate.
one thing I’ve learned is that it was somewhat rare for the recording artist to actually write their own music and that the Beatles set the standard for bands going forward
@@camcordercamerin that's very true, people like The Beatles and Bob Dylan inspired everyone in their generation to become singer/songwriters and to be better composers and lyricists
I do enjoy how A Hard Day's Night satirized Beatlemania by how claustrophobic it was for the band when they tour. Paul's grandfather in the film remarks how they're whole trip has been "“a train and a room and a car and a room and a room and a room”.
I saw this film when it was released in the UK, saw it twice in a row.
that’s so cool. jealous!
That was fun. Nice work.
The Beatles Are The Best 💯 Period
George's wandering scene is, in my opinion, the best of the entire movie
you mean Ringo?
George's scene was a swipe at society, Tv producers, fashion geeks, and control freak adults programming what teenagers and children shall like, for profit. He made that guy look like an ass, rightly so. They took a swipe at society in subtle ways, every chance they got in this movie. The line You'll like these [shorts], their fab , gear and all the other pimply hiperbalies." And the response from George "I wouldn't be seen dead in them. Their dead grotty, grotesque." He says: "Make a note of that word and give it to Susan." Funny as hell and true. They're STILL doing it today!!! "You're not cool unless you have one of these."
@thomastimlin1724 Plus the producer is superstitious
Now show Beatles "Help' movie & narrate too - thanks
Great selection I really enjoy your reactions,especially your sense of humor! Great outfit BTW!😊
thanks you :-)
I'm always reminded of the horse singing this song in TOP SECRET! Hilarious.
I love this movie! I grew up listening to my dad’s Beatles records. Dick Lester, the director, said he wanted to establish early on that the film would have surreal elements so he put that scene in when the guys are on the train, then suddenly running outside the train. Just to give people a heads up that this was not going to be a documentary 😂.
Fun trivia fact: one of the kids in the theater during the stage performance was a young Phil Collins.
Your “Why the Beatles broke up” graphic made me chuckle too. Paul’s clean old grandfather.
My first time watching you. You're absolutely fantastic ❤
thank you so much❤️
I’ve NEVER seen anyone react to this….good for u…..there was actually a very famous movie reviewing / film critic team back in the 1990’s, going back thru the 80’s & prob even the 70’s, they were an institution, for decades, & they called this movie “one of the best black & white comedies ever made”, it was in their top 3 I think, literally, it was high up there in the rankings for them…..and upon second & third viewings (after u haven’t seen it for a while,) u really do realize how hilarious it is (definitely in a UK comedy style)….what can u say tho? the Beatles were a very talented & personable bunch, lol…..anyway, awesome, liked & subbed:)
I need to watch it again soon, if you can’t notice it’s take me a moment to get dry jokes lol
It really helps to watch "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help!" with captions/subtitles on. It took me years (and buying the book of the script) to realise Paul was saying "and he'll cost you a fortune in breach-of-promise cases"... 🙂Definitely watch "Help!" and look for the TV director from AHDN (Victor Spinetti) playing a more prominent role, as well as Roy Kinnear, the father of actor Rory Kinnear --- although probably more well-known as Veruca Salt's father ("Wonka, how much do you want for the golden goose?"). They never wear the same outfits or have the same haircuts, either.
They had been slogging through Liverpool and Hamburg (Germany) dives for three years before this movie (there are videos on You Tube). All that hard playing made them a tight and sharp band by the time of this movie. This mop-tops & suits look was the idea of their manager Brian Epstein to appeal to a wider audience and record companies...Lennon hated it. They had a rougher, 'leather' look before then (check the pics).
They did 4 more 'movies' > Help, Yellow Submarine, Magical Mystery Tour, Let it Be.
Each one was different as their music changed.
I want to watch all of them!
Help! is also a great movie... some people compare it unfavourably to A Hard Day's Night, but it is also a must-watch movie full of fabulous things
One of the kids in the theater of screaming girls, (and boys), was a very young Phil Collins. FYI
The day he became a musician
If you freeze at 2:06, the blonde girl is Patti Boyd, who was to become George's first wife. She later married his great friend Eric Clapton.
I saw this movie a couple of years ago and it got me right into The Beatles, I already heard some of their songs before but I heard I Should’ve Known Better for the first time while watching this and thought they sounded really good so it made me want to listen to more of their songs
That's so cool!
The most *underrated* artists in history. And that's a fact. 😉
It's annoying to find how little some people know of recent history.
please consider watching "Liquid Sky", it's a sci-fi-punk synth wave movie from 1982. I think you'd love it.
I’d love to one day
"I Should Have Known Better" sounds nothing like "A Hard Days Night" or "I Want To Hold Your Hand". It's just one of many little Lennon gems.
Peace ❤
Actually it does, and you can easily swap "middle eight" breaks of Beatle songs. There's a cover version that puts the "Hard Days Night" break into "And Your Bird Can Sing". They are absolutely formula, as Lennon himself said. But here's the thing: it's HER opinion. They sound alike TO HER. It's HER reaction. I knew what she was talking about immediately. Stop being such a sycophant.
As a musician with a music degree I can say she is saying they sound similar, not exactly alike. I Want to Hold Your Hand's phrase in the middle part [bridge] "And when I touch you I feel happy" has similar rhythm and word cadences to "I Should Have Known Better's "And when I tell you that a love you." And they are about the SAME tempo. You could put "I Should's" middle part [Bridge] in place of "Hold Your Hand's" "and when I touch you" and the song would stand up just as good...she's saying this style of word rhythm and lyrics are similar and interchangeable. That's all.
@@TTM9691 So did I. How could one NOT hear and see that? she means the style and rhythm, tempo...yes interchangeable Bridges, absolutely.
"Get Back" by Peter Jackson is a must-watch for all Beatles fans! It's probably not a great introduction though for newer fans as its quite slow-paced and feels very drawn-out, but I loved it because watching the creative process of them making their songs in real time fascinated me. ONLY if you've already got some knowledge on the band, I definitely recommend it. If you ARE a new fan, however, I would recommend the Beatles Anthology first.
The studio filmed in black and white because it was cheaper. They didn't expect to make money from the film, they were more interested in the soundtrack album.
I'm sure it was ketchup he was putting on his bandaged arm.
A lot of films back then were filmed in black and white. Sometimes, it was for artistic choices. Other times, it was for financial reasons. Black and white film was cheaper, and after so many reels, the price difference could become quite expensive. This film was probably shot this way to save money.
It was. The film execs thought the Beatles were a flash in the pan, wouldn't last. United Artists made a deal to to not spend so much money in case it flopped, thus making in in black and white, and a record deal for the soundtrack of 7 songs, the movie's instrumental music, use of other Beatles songs in the film. If the film flopped, the sale of albums on United Artists label would recoup the money ten fold.
70s schlock horror and Beatles? This channel has everything I like 😄 that was great Camerin, hope you do the rest of their movies
Yay!! I definitely want to!
Awesome reaction! I subscribed!
Peace
Great reaction. My fave...some of these crowd images look like a horror film...lol.
An American Girl reacting to The Beatles - quite Interesting, but Not for the First Time Probably. Such Cute and Charming reactions that I guess You'd Maybe, Maybe is Just a Tiny, Tiny Bit Tipsy ..? In that Case - You are Welcome, I think The Fab Four also Would agree! With a Name like Camerin all Tipsynessisis (?) are Forgiven.
The playing field sequence with Can't Buy Me Love is considered to be the creation of the style that would become music videos.
is that because it wasn’t filmed as a traditional “live” performance?
what i love about this movie is how the beatles are not acting and it works with them just being themselves.
all I’ve gotta do is act naturally
Great reaction. Thank you. You should definitely do Help next. It's in glorious colour and it's a lot of fun. Love your little attempts at a British accents.
It’s on the agenda!! Ty :-)
They didn't choose to be in b/w. The studio wanted to hedge their bets in case the Beatles were just an overnight thing and would then go away. So b/w was cheaper
When distributed in the USA they wanted to put subtitles on because they feared audiences would not understand their accents
The distributors in the USA wanted to dub the Beatles dialogue with mid-Atlantic accents so the kids in the US would understand them. The Beatles refused with Paul McCartney saying "If we can listen to a f***in' cowboy speaking Texan for ninety minutes, then they can listen to us speaking Liverpudlian for the same amount of time."
All true, I 2nd that.
The blonde at 2:07 is model Pattie Boyd, the future Mrs. George Harrison. The two met while making the movie.
Loved watching your reaction.. will subscribe.. ;)
the comment -hes very clean-was a reference to another role in steptoe and son? where he was called a dirty old man regularly.
Paul McCartney was once asked if the girls screaming ever bothered him. He said no. To him, it was like guys cheering for their favorite football team by going, "YEAH!" So, your football analogy was not too far off the mark!
You're the first reactor I've seen react to this or any Beatles film.
I hope this inspires you to dig more into The Beatles catalogue as well as thieir post-Beatles careers.
If you listen and look at the Beatles' work from Sgt. Pepper onward you'll have an easier time telling John, Paul, George & Ringo apart.
You should try their next movie, HELP! it's goofy fun and in color.
Yellow Submarine is a classic up there with Wizard of Oz and Willy Wonka.
Have You seen Yellow Submarine? It can go with your pillow.
I haven’t yet!!!
A dazzling, wild movie!!!! Completely trippy, beautiful, resplendent.....and of course, funny and with a fantastic soundtrack!
Beatles movies:
1. Hard Days Night - silly fun
2. Help! - whoa, there's a plot!
3. Yellow Submarine - heartwarming cartoon Beatles
4. Magical Mystery Tour - wtf did i just watch? (and possibly my favorite 😅)
Good take on fab
It's a really fun film. It inspired the TV show The Monkees.
Usually the lead voice was the writer of the song
except for I‘m Happy Just To Dance With You
Oooooohh...nice cat. Enjoyed the reaction.
THANK YOU
I never thought of it until you commented on the posters. But, the original title was going to be “Eight arms to hold you”.
You have this confused with the movie "Help".
"Eight Arms To Hold You" was a working title for the movie "Help" As a matter of fact, Capital Records here in the States with their greed jumped the gun to get the first single out from the "Help" Lp released the single "Ticket To Ride" in parenthesis below the title "From the United Artists screenplay " Eight Arms To Hold You".
There's a lot of these first pressings out there and are quite common.
Peace ❤
Cool channel👍
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AHDN was rushed out in as little cost and time as possible, hence it being in B&W, they thought the Beatles were just going to be a flash in the pan, even if the movie didn't make any money, at least the album/sound track would.
10:35
Armpit Hairy
Days Night
That's Right
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You're right People (girls) certainly couldn't get enough of Ringo's nose! I think this is a classic example of personality triumphing over looks.
he’s so charming
Don't think filming in black and white was really an "artistic'" choice back then. Actually 1964 was probably the last year when most movies ( and TV shows ) were shot in black and white, unless it was some big budget epic. From 1965 on almost everything was released in color including "Help".
more thoughts on this... to realize how great this movie is, you have to watch the typical American teen movies of the time, which were corny and awful even to 9 year old me.. the Annette Funicelio/Frankie Avalon beach blanket movies, or the Elvis Presley movies, or the Gidget movies (as opposed to the Gidget TV Show, which was pretty awesome... the Beatles were like the Marx Brothers
He's very clean
He’s clean though
I still say this when people are questioning a nearby person's shadiness level or gossiping. No one ever gets it.
It's in black-and-white because it was cheap -- a quickie -- because it wasn't known yet whether they'd last.
Little did they know!
This girl is a total ditz.
Absolutely right. And in no way is it an act.🙄
You should watch 200 Motels. by Frank Zappa, you will love it!!! Ringo is in it
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I had the Beatles Wii karaoke game toooo
Many (but I would not say most) like I, do prefer their second film "Help" from one year later (1965.) It's in color and more like a James Bond spoof - much less Brit humor. DO catch it if you have not yet. Would love to see you do a follow up vid.
I want to do all the Beatles movies :-)
Phil Collins as a boy was in the live audience
Black and white was chosen due to budget constraints
And being led around is so much easier.
You crack me up 😂
excited to watch Help hehe
It was the day of black and white
HELP is their 2nd film, in color. And more songs you wont know.
And it has a plot. 😅
Somewhere in the background of the final concert is a very young Phil Collins
the day he decided to become a musician
That wasn't a hard days night, That was I Should Have Known Better.
This is the most classic for sure, but my favorite Beatles movie is still Help.
I thought she was a sandwich.
Maybe make a mental note to consider Jailhouse Rock (1957) for someday. You never know, could be a lot of Elvis fans lurking out there.
They look tame by today's "standards" but the long hair and rock music was outrageous to parents...guys had short hair back then, the Beatles changed everything. If you did not live in that era, you have no idea of their impact. Too often people only want to hear their later music, and have no clue of their early music and its impact on musical and societal change.
That sweater is mohair, not wool
THe actor playing the Producer, Victor Spinetti, was quite well known in the UK before the film came out. He also appears in "Help" as a mad scientist. Apparently George Harrison told him, "Ey, Vic, You've gotta be in all out films, because if you're not me Mam won't come and see them - she fancies you!"
10:37 "says the rich man." You mean the poor bloke from the small town of Liverpool?
I’m not sure if this is correct, but … About calling Paul’s Granfather “Clean” … I heard they didn’t want to call him a “Dirty Old Man.”
Clean old man was a reference to the tv show he starred in called Steptoe and Son.
8:32 and where is the narrator aka Thomas and friends.