Richard Curtis, probably best known for writing for Rowan Atkinson, is considered some kind of genius in England. So, all hail his latest film, "Yesterday." The brilliant idea?
What if an Indian guy falls off his bicycle, breaks a tooth, and...ALL REFERENCE TO THE BEATLES MAGICALLY DISAPPEAR?
As opposed to all references to Kardashians. Spice Girls. Rap.
Our hero sits around strumming his guitar and sings "Yesterday," and everyone is AMAZED. What an ORIGINAL SONG!
Our hero will fill up the rest of the movie with the hilarious problem of whether to take full credit for every Beatles song he remembers, or somehow try and get the world to understand that there really, REALLY were four lads from Liverpool who made all the music. You know, and one of them was shot repeatedly in the back and killed, and one of them was stabbed and nearly killed but died of cancer...
The photo above is from a clip that was shown on Graham Norton's show. The bubbly host oohed and ahhed about this brilliant concept for a film, and how brilliant Richard Curtis is (and how one of the stars in the movie grew up loving The Spice Girls, as The Beatles were SO much before her time).
Didn't Richard Curtis see a tedious six-season TV show called "Goodnight Sweetheart?"
Didn't he know that one of the big gags of that movie was having Nicholas Lyndhurst, time traveller, sing Beatles songs to surprised people in the 1940's, who thought HE wrote them?
Oh. Well.
Err. Ahh. Two different concepts here. In one, a guy is taking credit for writing Beatles songs because of some dumb science-fiction quirk that can't be explained, and in the other, a guy is taking credit for writing Beatles songs because of some dumb science-fiction quirk that can't be explained.
The important thing is, what, that 20somethings and 30somethings are going to hear Beatles music for the first time? That people over 50 are going to be happy that somebody remembers The Beatles and doesn't think the world began with Coldplay?
Funny, none of this seems very funny or entertaining.
And in the end the film you make isn't even equal to the TV show you take the idea from.
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