The movie was filmed in England. The film was shown on American television in 1967 in color. This movie that I selected to view is one that I have definitely seen clips of before involving one of my favorite music bands. This film interested me when I viewed a clip of the film about a decade ago on television. What caught my attention was a mix of one of my favorite music band and combination of train adventures. It caused me to sing along from hearing the music within the past. Even though the music of The Beatles was long before I was born. “Many critics attended the movie and prepared to condescend, but the movie could not be dismissed: It was so joyous and original that even the early reviews acknowledged it as something special” (Elbert).

The movie was made and produced in Britain. Every Beatles actor was from England and they got together and formed the band in 1960. Form a cultural standpoint, the humor from a British standpoint is quite different from the American comedians. The teenage following of mostly teenage girls, lent the opportunity to advertise to a large segment across Britain and the United States. These young fans drove brand items related to this pop culture. It was important to include a senior family member known as grandfather to establish that The Beatles were a caring family group.

One of the cultural elements presented by Lewis was language. Music portrays a universal language and can at times develop particular individual behaviors based on worldwide events. The movie offered non verbal language and symbolism. With much of the verbal language spoken by music. Some behaviors were expressed through dance, humor, and getting into trouble. One of the great influences started in the movie with the pogo dance. There is one clip in the movie showing Ringo and a taller actor jumping up and down. 

Often the band members we so overwhelmed with teenage fans that figuring out ways to avoid being seen required great creativity. As viewed in the movie, one scene showed them running from the train car into a series of cars and across to the final car in order to make a fast getaway. Onetime arriving at their music venue with hundreds of screaming girls, they slipped into a free standing tent and ruffled over into the entrance. Globally, The Beatles could be seen on black and white television no longer was the culture only allowed to view them live or on film. Transportation used in the film with trains and helicopters because those loads are used all over the world. 

The twenty-first century would need to show the movie in color the language would need to be English speaking with words that are understood in America. Some of the British words were different to understand its meaning. One other item of interest would be to create more sound effects because the sounds were non existent in the film. I wouldn’t change the storytelling because It was a great story with a lot of humor. Culturally clothing, hairstyles and the behavior of smoking cigarettes would differ dramatically. Our culture no longer finds smoking cigarettes as an acceptable form of socializing. Internationally, The Beatles were trans setters. Their music allowed a large group of people to move out of the main stream and into the hippie era. 

In 1964, The Beatles arrived in America with the No. 1 singles hit “I Want to Hold your Hand” and his began “Beatlemania.” This includes what happened to the Beatles in America. “It was all part of a marketing plan masterminded by band manager Brian Epstein to get people excited about The Beatles’ arrival in the U.S. Sales and radio promo staff wore Beatles wigs around the office. Assistants answered the phone with ‘Capitol Records – The Beatles are Coming.” (History Central) Also in that same year, President Lynden B. Johnson signed into law The Civil Rights Act. This law made it illegal to discriminate against someone based on their race, region, sex, national origin, or their color of their skin. Those people were accepted to their positions and do what they were able to. Here is a clip of the event mentioned above.

There are opinions spoken about the resources used for the film.  The differences seen are about the authors coming together to say what they wanted make a statement. “A Hard Day’s Night-will surely go down in history as some of the band’s least successful ventures, if only for their lack of artistry” (Womack & Davis).”When A Hard Day’s Night opened, it was unlike any other pop-music movie that had come before” (Kashner). The group has made some things that they use and to have fun with back in the day. Those types to get others to come in and does the work with them (Womack and Davis). The film would attract so many to see it so many times, so many unlucky people removed to bring lucky ones to see it (Kashner). The writer of one article mentioned above had them expressing their opinions about the film had other things related to it.

 A Hard Day’s Night was very enjoyable and had a good sense of humor. I really had a good time watching the film even though previously seen clips of it a long time ago. I am very surprised to hear that the film has changed a little bit when I would have liked to see it back then. This was a film to remember to se for generations to come. One day I would hope to see the film modernized with modern technology. To conclude, I decided to add in two of my favorite clips.

Works Cited. 

Womack, Kenneth & Davis, Todd F. Mythology, Remythology, and Demythology: The Beatles on film. Penn State. 1 December, 2006.

Kasher, Sam. A Hard Day’s Night at 50. Vanity Fair. 2 July, 2014  

Elbert, Rodger. A Hard Day’s Night. Rodger Elbert. 27 October, 1996

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-a-hard-days-night-1964 

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/oasam/civil-rights-center/statutes/civil-rights-act-of-1964 

https://www.historycentral.com/dates/1964.html#Anchor-7638