@@ar22s It's also accurate of the social climate before The Beatles hit. They were part of a generation sick and tired of their parents and grandparents demanding gratitude for fighting WW2 for them (embodied in that older stuffy passenger). Mark Lewisohn brings it up many times in Tune In (Beatles biography from their ancestors to 31 Jan 1962).
my grandad almost met them in 1963 as he was helping to put on a show in Manchester. he got a ticket for my Grandma just in case she wanted to go to that event. in the end she didn't as she had to stay at home to look after My mum who was a very young baby at the time. apparently he thought they all looked like they needed to have wash
Fun fact: Irish actor Wilfrid Brambell, who played Paul McCartney's fictional grandfather John McCartney, was already well known to British audiences as co-star of the British sitcom Steptoe and Son. The recurring joke that he was so clean reflects a play on his sitcom role, where he was always referred to as a dirty old man.
Is there any meaning behind "clean" in this case? Is it something that only British people would get, or is It just literally referring to this man's hygiene?
And at 4:52. Him and George and Ringo are all pulling these twisted mocking faces - but all Paul can do is a kind of tilted grin. He's such a bad actor, so not-natural compared to the other three Fabs.
Wilford Brambell who played Paul's grandfather very nearly stole the movie away from the Beatles! He was hilarious!!! So glad they added him to the script.
Turns out he "that little old man" was only 52 years old in this movie. Wilfred Brambell was only 30 years older than his "grandson" Paul. Good acting; I was always convinced he was in his 70's or 80's, but when the camera zooms in close you can see he's really only middle aged!
Later when the police are holding him to get him back to Paul, they are serving him tea and making him comfy while he shouts, Do your worst, coppers! I'm a loyal son of the Republic! I bet that raised their hackles at Scotland Yard. The British Film Board must have missed it.
The American producer Walter Shenson told everyone to release the film in July 1964 because "By August everyone will have forgotten them:" Wow. That's how disrepected the Beatles were when they first came out.
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The "I fought the war" exchange with Ringo at 4:36 was scandalous at the time. Dissing war veterans wasn't the done thing in 1964. Conservatives in later decades said the cultural upheavals of the 60s had corroded social morailty. This scene was considered evidence of that.
The guy who played the grandfather was most well known for starring in Steptoe & Son (A show they remade in America as Sanford & Son) in which he played the elder Steptoe who frequently got called a 'dirty old man' by his son. Hence it was sort of an in-joke that in A Hard Days Night everyone keeps pointing out how clean he is.
In a documentary about this film, there is a great anecdote about Alun Owen, the Liverpool comedian who was brought in to follow the boys around and write a script. Apparently, John Lennon initially took issue. Lennon: My problem with this guy (Owen) is he's basically a professional Liverpudlian! Owen retorted: Well, it's better than being an amateur Liverpudlian! Lennon: I like this guy!
That man who wants the window open was an actor by the name of Richard Vernon. He was a very popular character actor in England in appeared in the Avengers and the James Bond movie Goldfinger. I actually met him a few years before he died in 1997 from Parkinsons disease and he talked exactly how he talked in Hard Days night. Same accent, everything.
The "clean" jokes were a reference to the actor's role in the TV show "Steptoe and Son" which was later adapted to become the American show "Sanford and Son".
"You dirty old man" was a constant reference by Harold Steptoe (Harry H. Corbett) to his on-screen father Albert (Wilfred Brambell). Ironically Wilfred Brambell was just short of 13 years older than Harry.
I first saw this movie at the theater in 1965 with my grandmother! Since then I’ve seen it easily 1000 times! I can recite the entire dialogue of the movie while watching it! Who else can do that?!?!
@@carolfreitag6847 Me too about reciting it. I can recite this hole scene from memory too. I saw it first when I was six, back to back twice, till probably two in the morning.
A Hard Day's Night is a 1964 musical comedy film starring the English rock band the Beatles-John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr-during the height of Beatlemania. It was originally released in the United States on August 11, 1964 by United Artists. The film was a financial and critical success and was nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay. Forty years after its release, Time magazine rated it as one of the 100 all-time great films.
The idea was that George was eating rolls. It often said that his mum was always making him rolls to take with him so they picked up on that and added it to the movie. Regarding the Coke snorting. Well in those far off innocent days most of the young British public at least would not have connected what John was doing with drugs (very naive) of course later years make us all only too aware of drug taking and the damage it does to so many lives and not just the users themselves. This is not a criticism of John's play acting. Although more knowledgeable he was just as much caught up in the relatively simple view of life back then before everything became far more serious.
john: ello grandfather grandfather: ello. john: oh he can talk can he? paul: well of course he can. Hes a human being after all isnt he? Ringo: well if hes your granfather who knows-HAHAHAHA.. John: :D
1:16. John Lennon: Hello, Grandfather. Grandfather: Hello. John Lennon: He can talk then, can't he? Paul McCartney: Of course, he can talk. He's human being, isn't he? Ringo Starr: Well, if he's your Grandfather who knows. (Laughs) 1:39. Shake: Hiya. Paul McCartney: Hello, Shake. George Harrison: Hello, Shake. He gives George Harrison a bottle glass of soda, which says "Pepsi." Shake: U got on all right, then? John Lennon: No. He gives John Lennon a bottle glass of soda, which says "Pepsi" too. Best wishes, this is Michael Meneses.
A sad, lonely and depressed 13 year old boy was having another bad day. He'd heard of the Beatles and of this film but never saw it. At the end of that bad day, A Hard Day's Night comes on TV. In less than an hour, the film once called "the Citizen Kane of Rock Movies," with its wit, wisdom, humor and brilliant music has turned him into a Beatle Freak... Nearly 50 years later, the now middle aged man is still a Beatle freak. Go figure.
For anyone interested in knowing why the Beatles captured the world's attention, watch this timeless film. Oscar-nominated screenplay by Alun Owen, groundbreaking direction by Dick Lester and fabulous music tracks. Plus, you couldn't take your eyes off of the Beatles!
+Fatima Curiel That line was put in as a running gag. The actor played a character similar to Sanford on "Sanford and Son" that was always called a "dirty old man", so they put in a few lines about him being clean.
I can never say it enough! This is one of my FAVORITE SCENES from one of my FAVORITE FILMS!! But uuuh, just thought I'd mention that Paul's grandfather seems to be a rather very clean ol'man, ain't he???
That was an in joke because Wilfred Brambell (Grandfather) was the lead on the tv series Steptoe and Son and everyone was calling him dirty all the time.
I loved this movie w all my heart. I watched it so many times that I wore out the video tape I bought with my part time job in high school at the ceremony center. It cost me a fortune! at nearly 5,000 JPY more than 20 years from now.
Nice, charming, funny movie, with lots of laughs and great music! It can also be recommended for children! My husband and I have loved the Beatles since childhood.
In about '68 when my long-haired band were in a motorway services there was a bunch of rockers glaring at us. One shouted, "Give us a kiss." So I did. He froze, hahahahaaa! Wanker!
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