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Hello, @MickyDavyPeterMikeMONKEES!
Watching this movie is essential for all Beatlemaniacs. Hope you get to see it soon.
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9.59am
15 November 2018
Offline MickyDavyPeterMikeMONKEES said
I haven’t seen the movie yet, is it any good?
I haven’t seen the movie yet, is it any good?‘Tis fabulous, @MickyDavyPeterMikeMONKEES , and welcome to the forum!
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@MickyDavyPeterMikeMONKEES YES! (And welcome! 
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9.36am
26 January 2017
Offline MickyDavyPeterMikeMONKEES said
It’s more than good, it’s fab! Welcome to the forum, too! I see you’re a Monkees fan – I’m not an expert myself, but I believe there are a number of fans here in the Forum who I’m sure would love to discuss their music with you at some point.
Back on topic, QM! What’s everyone’s favourite scene from this film? This has to be mine. Not sure whether its hilarious or awful when George falls at the beginning.
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He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
11.46am
15 November 2018
Offline What an incredibly impossible question… the bathroom scene is pretty fabulous, and you have to love the train scene and the George-and-Simon scene… ahhhhhhh I don’t know.
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18 December 2017
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What an incredibly impossible question… the bathroom scene is pretty fabulous, and you have to love the train scene and the George-and-Simon scene… ahhhhhhh I don’t know.
the bathroom scene is the best IMO. it’s never not hilarious.
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11.50am
15 November 2018
Offline Which line is best:
“Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the *SPLASH*”
“She’s a drag– a well-known drag!”
“HEY MISTAH, CAN WE HAVE OUR BALL BACK!”
I could never choose 
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18 December 2017
Offline “Well, if he’s your grandfather, who knows? HAHHAHAHHAHA”
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Playing-field scene is the one I usually call my favourite, but I could just as easily choose that chaotic opening titles sequence. And of course, Simon. (“Get him whatever it is they drink… a Coke-a-rama!”)
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26 January 2017
Offline I like the playing field scene, too. It just seems like the sort of thing they absolutely would have done.
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I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
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2.20pm
15 November 2018
Offline Is it true that they used a body double for John in some of the shots in the playing-in-the-field scene?
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1 December 2009
Offline 50yearslate said
Is it true that they used a body double for John in some of the shots in the playing-in-the-field scene?
Yeah, during the brief bit where a Beatle seems to be handling the camera and shoots his own shoes/legs…that’s Richard Lester.
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1 December 2009
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@MickyDavyPeterMikeMONKEES YES! (And welcome!
Seconded!
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
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Offline QuarryMan asked
What’s everyone’s favourite scene from this film?
Oh, man. It’s gotta be a tie between the train scene and George in Simon’s office.
50yearslate asked
Which line is best:“Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the *SPLASH*”
“She’s a drag– a well-known drag!”
“HEY MISTAH, CAN WE HAVE OUR BALL BACK!”
I find myself saying ‘She’s a dRRRaag — a Well Knoewn Drrraaag’ the most (exactly like that), plus I love that scene, so I’m gonna go with that one.
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7.28pm
13 January 2019
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Oh, man. It’s gotta be a tie between the train scene and George in Simon’s office.
Which train scene?
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7.29pm
15 November 2018
Offline The little old man one.
(y’know, the one with “I fought the war for your sort” and “Give us a kiss” and John snorting the bottle of Coke and all that)
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6 July 2016
Offline Quite by accident last night I discovered a cryptic link between Orson Welles and A Hard Days Night. I watched Welles’ The Trial from 1962 starring Anthony Perkins. Afterwards I was reading a review of the film from film critic Roger Ebert when I read this…
Seen in this restored version (also available on video from Milestone), “The Trial” is above all a visual achievement, an exuberant use of camera placement and movement and inventive lighting. Study the scene where screaming girls chase Joseph K up the stairs to a studio and peer at him through the slats of the walls, and you will see what Richard Lester saw before he filmed the screaming girls in “A Hard Day’s Night ” and had them peer at the Beatles through the slats of a railway luggage car.
It did occur to me at the time when seeing the scene that there was a Beatley flavour but I couldn’t think why. You can see part of the scene here from the trailer at around 2:26 but the scene is much longer in the film so you only get a glimpse here.
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6.07pm
1 December 2009
Offline Wow, I’ve seen that movie a few times and don’t know if I ever made that connection! Was there any pop music at all on the soundtrack? (I only remember the Albinoni and some crazy jazz…)
Another Orson Welles/Beatles link is that Welles is supposedly the biological father of Michael Lindsay-Hogg.
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
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6 July 2016
Offline vonbontee said
Wow, I’ve seen that movie a few times and don’t know if I ever made that connection! Was there any pop music at all on the soundtrack? (I only remember the Albinoni and some crazy jazz…)Another Orson Welles/Beatles link is that Welles is supposedly the biological father of Michael Lindsay-Hogg.
I don’t remember any pop music in the film but yes there is some 60s style jazz. I’d forgotten the Michael Lindsay-Hogg/Welles connection.
One other thing is there are scenes in amongst the ones I mentioned where they film people running on a circular staircase from an angle below and I think there are similar scenes in AHDN so perhaps Richard Lester also took this onboard from The Trial.
PS I didn’t really enjoy The Trial. It’s visually a great film but a real chore to watch.
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