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19 July 2013
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fabfouremily said

One day I shall do the drinking game for Backbeat, drink every time you see a pair of tits or John swears, Astrid says “do you accept” and when Cynthia wears a headscarf :D

 

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Haha yeah, you’ll be drunk by 1/3, and asleep under the table by 1/2 of the way through! :D

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fabfouremily said
Haha yeah, you’ll be drunk by 1/3, and asleep under the table by 1/2 of the way through! :D

I think the director planned ok how many naked women can we get into the first 15 mins, ready, set GO! May I just say that Stu’s portrait of yer one at the beginning was very good in the words of John “He got the tits right”

I can’t be the only one that went d’awwww at the bit with George and his mam wanting him to bring scones with him a-hard-days-night-george-10

 

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^ No, you weren’t. Typical British thing to do, give him some scones for the journey! (I’m always given scones by my nan when going away, anyway). And he was so embarrassed about it, cute! I thought the actor did okay with his accent, which I was listening very closely to the minute he first spoke (after I identified him as being George).

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fabfouremily said
^ No, you weren’t. Typical British thing to do, give him some scones for the journey! (I’m always given scones by my nan when going away, anyway). And he was so embarrassed about it, cute! I thought the actor did okay with his accent, which I was listening very closely to the minute he first spoke (after I identified him as being George).

I get told to feck off and never come back when I’m going away. Aww my loving family and friends a-hard-days-night-john-3 Yeah yer man playing George did a decent job as good as any other George-portrayal we’ve ever seen anyways. Somewhere there is somebody who in the world who looks like George Harrison and sounds like him….SOMEWHERE

And I think I found him:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?…..IPayAV7_eQ

@45:38

Dammit why does it have to be from 31 years ago…

 

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I can’t hear it, I can’t hear it! Nooooo!!! (no speakers – this computer is from the 16th century). Now I’m missing out on the chance to see/hear a George Harrison look and sound-alike! :(

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Interesting review of the the film by the Guardian, tho it seems a little peevish towards Paul at the end. Never knew that the music was performed by a tribute band comprising of “Dave Grohl of Nirvana, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, and Mike Mills of REM”.

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meanmistermustard said
Never knew that the music was performed by a tribute band comprising of “Dave Grohl of Nirvana, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, and Mike Mills of REM”.

Despite the impressive “Supergroup” lineup, I wasn’t impressed with this film at all, a complete bastardization of The Beatles’ rise to fame with the predictable Hollywood treatment.  For a much better and more accurate portrayal of this tale of their story, I’d recommend ‘The Birth of The Beatles’, and Rain did a much better Soundtrack than the updated Nirvana/Sonic Youth/REM tracks…:-)

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It is what it is!  I didn’t mind it.

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I haven’t seen Backbeat, i found Birth of the Beatles to be riddled with annoyances.

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meanmistermustard said
I haven’t seen Backbeat, i found Birth of the Beatles to be riddled with annoyances.

I’m guessing most movies will not please us Beatles fans as we are sticklers for the truth, and most movies exaggerate some stuff to fit their movie, and rarely find actors that portray them perfectly!  That’s why I suggest you try to enjoy it for what it is, otherwise you will be dissappointed.

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Hello everyone! I’m new on this forum but I’ve already visited this site other times to read about our lovely Beatles, I’m glad about being part of the forum now and I have already something to ask about a-hard-days-night-paul-10

So, this afternoon I watched the movie “Backbeat”, which is about The Beatles in Hamburg, mostly about Stu and Astrid relationship. I read some reviews before seeing the movie and they always commended it. After seeing it, I thought it was a nice movie, but still I got a lot of questions in my head about what was truth or what wasn’t. The whole thing of The Beatles in Hamburg always confused me a bit tbh. Anyway, those are my questions:

  • Did Astrid actually lived alone and was very “exotic” about the friends, clubs and parties she went? (I read in the book “John Lennon : The Life” by Phillip Norman that John liked Astrid mother’s very much and that made me think Astrid still lived with her)
  • Did Paul McCartney not liked Stuart or at least the fact that he was part of the band? I’ve already something about it but never payed much attention.
  • Did Astrid really thought that John had a thing for Stuart? (I’ve already read some things about it too, and also about John having a thing for Paul, which I believe is very likely, if Astrid really thought he had, well that’s something…)
  • Did John and Astried had a thing too? It’s pretty clear John liked intelectual and unconventional women and well it’s not hard to believe he had a thing about Astrid, but the movie sort of shows she corresponded him a bit.

Apart from it, it’s very nice to have a movie about that period in their lives, I liked Astrid even more now, she’s very inspiring, a role model for me.

Oh and tell me what are yours opnion on the movie. stuart-sutcliffe

Thanks! a-hard-days-night-john-6

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Awesome username! It is so true!!

I haven’t had a chance to read through this thread where I’ve moved your post. Perhaps some of your questions are answerd here. If not, hopefully we can get them answered. There maybe some other threads we can point you to for some discussions related to your queries.

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paulmccharmly said

    • Did Paul McCartney not liked Stuart or at least the fact that he was part of the band? I’ve already something about it but never payed much attention.

    I heard their was some tension between them I think they even go into a fight once.

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    Paul was envious of how close John and Stu were as well as not rating Stu’s bass playing parts believing they negatively affected how professional the band sounded.

     

    From the Anthology book

    Paul:… Round about this time, Stuart and I got a little fraught, too. I claim that I was making sure that we were musically very good, in case anyone was watching. I felt we had to be good for any talent-spotters. People would now call that the perfectionist in me. I see it as trying to get it right, but not obsessively so. This did create a couple of rifts and I could have been more sensitive about it. But who is sensitive at that age? Certainly not me.

    Stuart and I once actually had a fight on stage. I thought I’d beat him hands down because he was littler than me. But he was strong and we got locked in a sort of death-grip, on stage during the set. It was terrible. We must have called each other something one too many times: ‘Oh, you…’ – ‘You calling me that?’ Then we were locked and neither of us wanted to go any further and all others were shouting, ‘Stop it, you two!’ – ‘I’ll stop it if he will.’

     JOHN: Paul was saying something about Stu’s girl – he was jealous because she was a great girl, and Stu hit him, on stage. And Stu wasn’t a violent guy at all.72

                PAUL: Of course, all the big gangsters round there were all laughing at us because they were used to killing people. Here were me and Stu – neither of us big fighters. None of this helped my relationship with Stuart or Pete.

     

       PAUL: I really got lumbered with bass. Nobody actually wanted to play bass that’s why Stuart was playing it. We all wanted really to be guitarists, and we were three guitar players to start off with.

                There’s something I’d like to get straight because it is kind of historical – someone a few years ago said how it was my relentless ambition that pushed Stu out of the group. We did have some arguments, me and Stu, but actually I just wanted us to be a really cracking band, and Stu – being a cracking artist – held us back a little bit not too much. If ever it came to the push, when there was someone in there watching us I’d feel, ‘Oh, I hope Stu doesn’t blow it.’ I could trust the rest of us; that was it. Stuart would tend to turn away a little so as not to be too obvious about what key he was in, in case it wasn’t our key.

                When it became clear that Stu was leaving because of Astrid, I asked him in the transition period to lend me his bass, which, for me, was upside down – although I couldn’t change the strings around in case he ever wanted to play it. By then I had learnt to play guitar upside down, anyway, because John would never let me turn the strings around on his guitar, neither would George – it was just too inconvenient for them to have to turn them all back again.

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    @Ahhh Girl thanks, that’s how John called Paul once, during and interview. ^^

    @Starr Shine? and @meanmistermustard Oh, now I remember, in John’s biography by Phillip Norman, he mentioned this fight of Paul and Stu. I think I can understant Paul tho, John was his best friend and suddenly he starts not giving attention to Paul anymore and being all over Stuart and may I say, Paul and John relatinship always brought me some doubts.

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    Did you mean this thread in another place, @Pablo Ramon?

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    Great film, by the way. It captures the beauty and spirit of the young Beatles, though not necessarily without artistic license.

    I think, married alongside Nowhere Boy, you’re given as good an impression of those early formative years as can be achieved.

    The beauty and the spirit, as John once referred to a Jurgen photo of him in a Hamburg doorway.

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    This is the thread. Maybe @nowherecara can post thoughts here…. I’ll have to wait until I see the film again, which I did enjoy when it originally came out. 

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    @AppleScruffJunior Sorry I’m 4 years late to this but if you’re still looking for someone who sounds and also looks like Georgey boy, then I recommend looking out for Steve in the Bootleg Beatles. This is him singing While My Guitar Gently Weeps ! I’ve seen him sing this a couple of times and every time I cry, just a tiny little bit. He also does a cracking Roll Over Beethoven which you listen to here, it’s kind of a bad recording though. 

    @Ron Nasty I think they focus on the relationships between them really well, especially Paul and Stu. Nowhere Boy is also a personal favourtie, Aaron plays John so well and he doesn’t have a rubbish accent for him either, which was rather a nice change. 

    @Pablo Ramon Thank-you! I was looking for the thread but couldn’t find one, thankyou for directing me to the right place!

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    Backbeat_BR_PS_72dpi-1.jpgImage Enlarger

    Shout! Select are issuing this on Blu-Ray on 19 February.

    The extras appear to be the same as were on on 2005 DVD Collector’s Edition.

    BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE:
    A Conversation with Astrid Kirchherr
    Deleted Scenes
    Interviews with Iain Softley and actor Ian Hart
    Iain Softley interview for the Sundance Channel
    Audio commentary with Iain Softley, Ian Hart, and Stephen Dorff
    TV Featurette
    Casting Session

    Available for pre-order from Shout! Factory and probably other reputable webosphere shoppy places.

    Great film.

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