{"id":17826,"date":"2013-12-20T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=17826"},"modified":"2015-12-10T07:39:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T12:39:40","slug":"the-fab-four-the-fab-foul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/20\/the-fab-four-the-fab-foul\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fab Four & The Fab Foul"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You can\u2019t just put any band on a film and expect laughs. And chemistry and appeal. That\u2019s what happened to \u201cSpice World.\u201d<\/p>\n

The directors and creators behind it seemed to basically assume, \u201cHell, this band is popular, they\u2019re a pop band, they have massive appeal with the male audience, they make catchy music, and they\u2019re British, so they\u2019ll be perfect equivalents to The Beatles.\u201d<\/p>\n

And\u2026 well\u2026 if you saw the movie, you\u2019ll know that the logic behind that theory was slightly eschew.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpice World\u201d was awful, not because by that time everyone were exhausted with the manufactured girl group, their dull idea of diversity, and their little act\u2013including yours truly, who\u2019d found them especially worth a wet dream or two for a while\u2013but because people suddenly realized they sucked. Hard.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m not ashamed to admit I was a fan of their music. Stop laughing for a minute, please. It’s no real surprise that the Spice Girls were terrible singers mainly because while they could vocalize their combined efforts to sing love songs and ballads resulted in boring and flat attempts to turn them in to legitimate artists and not merely gimmicky British performers. In the end they were merely just that. Gimmicks.<\/p>\n

“Spice World” garnered zero narrative, boring musical numbers, the acting from the girls was absolutely horrible, and the director completely side stepped any efforts to bring reality or logic in to the fold and just depict them as fun loving girlfriends who didn’t really have any substance to them. And I think over time we found that the actual women in this “band” didn’t have any, either. It was a long and painful death for them after the movie, and they disappeared. It’s a stark indictment on how much we’ve accepted as quality music.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t just put any band on a film and expect a masterpiece. That\u2019s why \u201cA Hard Day\u2019s Night\u201d stands alone in that sentiment. The Beatles had something, and whatever it was, that indefinable aspect, was what made \u201cA Hard Day\u2019s Night\u201d a pure piece of pseudo-documentary meta-filmmaking.<\/p>\n

As someone who has managed to become a passionate Beatles fan over the last ten decade, \u201cA Hard Day\u2019s Night\u201d is not just a movie, but a ride, and a spectacle for the appealing qualities the Fab Four possessed. Beyond the egomania, the conflicts, and creative differences, when the Beatles came together to create music, they managed to form art that would remain in the public consciousness forever.<\/p>\n

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Even their biggest blunders in the studio turned in to art. Just knowing that most of their memorable musical quirks were mere mistakes make them all the more appealing. The feedback before \u201cI Feel Fine\u201d starts was actually a mistake that they didn\u2019t notice until the track was recorded. \u201cA Hard Day\u2019s Night\u201d is currently one of my favorite rock films, tussling with \u201cThe Song Remains the Same,\u201d \u201cWoodstock,\u201d \u201cGimme Shelter,\u201d and \u201cThe Kids are Alright\u201d for the top spot. And the reason for that is because, there\u2019s really nothing else like it around, and there never will be.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a reason why The Beatles are still chart toppers to this day, there\u2019s a reason why there\u2019s continuous merchandising for them, because if you\u2019ve seen \u201cA Hard Day\u2019s Night\u201d you\u2019ll know that they never really took themselves too seriously in the beginning.<\/p>\n

They were four Brits who had their own personalities, personalities that weren\u2019t really manufactured. And the film has enough sense to show them together and then split them apart so we can gain the idea of who they are as a foursome and as individuals. They\u2019re funny in \u201cA Hard Day\u2019s Night,\u201d they\u2019re very funny.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Hard Day\u2019s Night\u201d is very much like Woody Allen’s \u201cStardust Memories\u201d except not as jaded or cynical toward fame. The Beatles wouldn’t become that model of cynicism until many years later. Though the Beatles do riff on their fame, inability to socialize without being chased, and the redundancy of the press junkets, they also seem to be having a lot of fun goofing around. In reality the Beatles decided not to tour after repeatedly performing live to the screams and howls of their audience, many of whom didn’t even seem to be listening to the music. Eventually, they just couldn\u2019t hear their instruments, voices, and musical cues over the screaming and played their songs with perfection based on memory.<\/p>\n

\u201cHard Day\u2019s Night,\u201d in spite of its simplicity, is great because the Beatles have personality, and that\u2019s where the Spice Girls failed. Their biggest downfall though was their hubris. Assuming they were as big as the Beatles enough to make a film in the same vein is futile. And, oh yes, the musical numbers played here are actually entertaining. Artists continue paying homage to them, movies continue referencing them, and musicians continue worshipping them. Because they were The Beatles, and they\u2019re the constant force behind music years after they disbanded. \u201cA Hard Day\u2019s Night\u201d is one of a kind because there was only one The Beatles.<\/p>\n

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