tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17951989.post4301999709338157083..comments2024-03-13T06:02:45.251-05:00Comments on Cinema Romantico: Friday's Old Fashioned: A Hard Day's Night (1964)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17951989.post-33221224988355688112014-07-14T19:10:03.668-05:002014-07-14T19:10:03.668-05:00Well, maybe not that obscure. I had to find it aft...Well, maybe not that obscure. I had to find it after I mentioned it. God, it's depressing.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvnCKJCgCD8Nick Priggehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17895803287589438170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17951989.post-41929953354910678562014-07-14T19:08:17.178-05:002014-07-14T19:08:17.178-05:00"Like stopping time in a bottle." This i..."Like stopping time in a bottle." This is going to be a super obscure reference, I think, but do you know what watching this made me think of? This old Muppets sketch where the Scientist is singing "Time In A Bottle" and crafting potions that make him younger and younger and younger until the last one when, of course, he just ends up as himself in old age once again. Hardcore tragedy.Nick Priggehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17895803287589438170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17951989.post-11923987246822720022014-07-11T09:26:03.514-05:002014-07-11T09:26:03.514-05:00Totally taking this off topic but this: " In ...Totally taking this off topic but this: " In retrospect, “A Hard Day’s Night” is the happy ending The Beatles never got." is why I think no matter how often we may be burned, we cling to bio-pics especially ones that trace a particular time in a famous person's life. We get to relive that moment and leave with the happiness still intact, or with the promise of happiness. Like stopping time in a bottle.<br /><br />(It's why even as someone who's not a necessarily industrious fan of the Beatles I like Taylor-Wood's NOWHERE BOY so much which deliberately ends just before the success of Lennon, the promise of success to come on film is almost better than re-representing.)<br /><br />Andrew K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647944747041277noreply@blogger.com