Beatles '64
- 2024
- 1 Std. 46 Min.
Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuCaptures the band's electrifying 1964 US debut amid fan frenzy. With rare behind-the-scenes footage, it chronicles their unprecedented rise to global superstardom after performing on The Ed ... Alles lesenCaptures the band's electrifying 1964 US debut amid fan frenzy. With rare behind-the-scenes footage, it chronicles their unprecedented rise to global superstardom after performing on The Ed Sullivan Show to over 73 million viewers.Captures the band's electrifying 1964 US debut amid fan frenzy. With rare behind-the-scenes footage, it chronicles their unprecedented rise to global superstardom after performing on The Ed Sullivan Show to over 73 million viewers.
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WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesIn a 2024 interview with Variety, David Tedeschi spoke about some of the previously unseen footage and one interview in particular that surprised him: "That Harlem footage had never been seen before. So you have various reactions from young, black teenage girls and boys, and a few older people, and of course you have these young men in the record store. The one guy says, 'It's just disgusting the way they play that music over and over again. I like Miles Davis. I like John Coltrane.' But it was sort of interesting the way the teenage girls in Harlem just loved The Beatles, loved their hair, loved their music. That to me was a surprising thing, because of course the civil rights movement was going on. Of course I knew that later on when they actually toured the States, they refused to play before segregated audiences. But when we decided to interview Smokey Robinson, I didn't expect him to say everything that he said. One of the things was that the Beatles were the first white artist of their magnitude that said they loved and learned from black music and sang black music. We have several people, from David Lynch to Smokey, talking about the power of music, I thought in a very beautiful way. And when Smokey says in regards to the audiences being desegregated, that it gave kids a common love and that it was the power of music that literally overcame the barrier that was set up between the white audience and the black audience, I thought that was really a wonderful thing for him to say, and unexpected."
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Self - Writer: It was so visceral, the reaction to The Beatles' music. You know, something we couldn't explain in words. That's why we screamed, because it was just coming out of some non-verbal place.
- VerbindungenFeatures Toast of the Town: Meet The Beatles (1964)
The movie makes extensive use of the vérité footage shot by the Maysles Brothers at the time, interspersed with news bulletins and interview inserts with all four Beatles, naturally of the archive variety with John and George accompanying present-day pieces by Paul and Ringo.
Being the dyed-in-the-wool fan that I am I naturally enjoyed every minute of it, but I wouldn't say I saw anything here which really surprised me or didn't seem familiar in some way. The Beatles all come over strongly as individuals but what is clear is the tight collective unit they had already become, an inner circle if you will, which only a precious few got to really invade, people I suppose like Brian Epstein, Mal Evans, Neil Aspinall and George Martin of course, as well as the wives and girlfriends, although apart from a few fleeting glimpses of Cynthia Lennon, none of these people make much of an appearance, if at all.
There are also a predictable number of "talking head" interviews with contemporary artists, reminiscing and philosophising as is their wont, most strangely including the current incarnation of the artist once known as Terence Trent D'arby plus Leonard Bernstein's daughter and future Lennon producer Jack Douglas who at least has an interesting Beatles-related story of his own to tell.
The music is of course vintage moptop magic as you see and hear them perform their superb early repertoire on TV and live in concert, their playing and singing sharp and on point, before the screamers and jellybean throwers spoiled it for them.
It was nice to see now and then interviews with their predominantly young female fanbase which are contrasted at one point with some input from a bunch of cool, young on-the-street black dudes into Miles and Coltrane who respectfully resist any temptation to diss the new white kids on the block.
There were lots of nice moments but like I said not much fresh insight into the whole Beatlemania phenomenon which I guess may have been the point of the movie. The usual readacross is plied that timing was everything, given the band's arrival Stateside in the immediate aftermath of the Kennedy assassination. The comment that most caught my ear however was from the young McCartney who, when asked by a prescient interviewer if he thought that there was a wider cultural impact the Beatles were having on society, simply smiles and mocks the question, disarmingly stating that all they were doing was just having a laugh.
How wrong he was.
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- Laufzeit1 Stunde 46 Minuten
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