A Hard Day's Night

This film (drama)Also known asA Hard Day's Night，is aUKProducerwomen sex，At1964Released in year 。The dialogue language isEnglish, German，Current Douban rating8.5(For reference only)。

In the autumn of 1963, to make some money from the wildly popular Beatles, United Artists in America signed a deal to film a movie with the band, aiming to release the film's original soundtrack in the U.S. They enlisted Walter Shenson as producer and Richard Lester as director, and in 1964, they filmed A Hard Day's Night. Shenson first reached out to the Beatles in the fall of 1963, before their trip to America, asking them to create six songs for the movie—no restrictions on the themes, but two had to be ballads, two fast-paced dance numbers, etc. While vacationing in the Caribbean, they wrote eight or nine songs, from which Dick Lester selected six for use in the film: You Can't Do That, And I Love Her, I Should Have Known Better, Tell Me Why, If I Fell, I'm Happy Just to Dance with You. Before filming began on March 2, the Beatles recorded these songs at EMI Studios in London. A portion of You Can't Do That was cut from the film upon release, but was previously issued as the B-side of the Can't Buy Me Love single, and still appeared on the U.S. version of the soundtrack. Filming took place from March 2 to April 24. The film exaggeratedly depicts a day in the life of the Beatles, with its theme stemming from a phrase John Lennon once said. When Lester asked John how their trip to Sweden was, John replied, “It was a room and a car and a car and a room and a room and a car.” This phrase was slightly altered for use in the film, becoming the line spoken by “Paul's grandfather.” Shenson initially thought he could casually choose a title for the film based on a new song, but none of the six new songs fit well. During the shoot, everyone brainstormed for an appropriate name, and one day, while chatting with John, he mentioned Ringo's interesting language, citing “A hard day's night” as an example. John himself had used this phrase in his recently published book, In His Own Write. Everyone agreed it could serve as the film's title. So, John, following Shenson's advice, wrote the film's theme song based on this title and recorded it during filming on April 16. The soundtrack album released in the U.S. only included these seven new songs, but for the Parlophone UK record, they returned to the studio in June and recorded five more new songs: I'll Cry Instead, I'll Be Back, Any Time At All, Things We Said Today, and When I Get Home. Combined with the previously released single Can't Buy Me Love used in the film, the UK album produced a total of 13 songs, all original Beatles compositions. This marked their first release of a full album of entirely original songs. This achievement is largely credited to John Lennon's prolific creativity at the time. Of the 13 songs, 9 were predominantly written by him. Paul wrote 3 songs and collaborated with John on I'm Happy Just to Dance With You for George. Naturally, following the principle of the lead vocalist being the principal creator, John’s vocals on this album far surpassed those of the other three, even leaving Ringo without a chance to shine. A Hard Day's Night became a classic rock film that taught an entire generation of young people the principles of rebellion, and this album marked a new phase in the Beatles' songwriting, which we might call the “mid-stage of their early period.”