yesterday

[mopinko]

i had never heard of this movie, but bumped into it surfing, and was hooked from the title screen.
what a fun movie. what a clever story. and those songs.

plot- a grocery store clerk/musician's old guitar is destroyed, and his friends get him a new one.
they say- play us a song.
so he starts to play 'yesterday'
none of them had ever heard it before, and start raving about it. "did you write that?" "what? no the beatles wrote that." "who's the beatles?"

he goes home and googles- the beatles. he gets a page full of insects.
the whole sequence is good. he tries several other search terms, and gets those bugs over and over.

so he figures if no one every heard of the beatles, i'm just gonna play their music, and if anyone is stupid enough to believe he wrote it, that's on them.

hilarity ensues as the world discovers the beatles. in one man, all at once.
the criticism that he gets along the way nearly killed me it was so spot on. anyone who was ever in a creative partnership of any kind knows those convos.

kathryn mckinnon plays his manager. she is just razor sharp.

def worth a watch.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I saw it when it was released. Loved it.

[mopinko]

2. such a clever premise.

so many levels to it.

[kelly97]

3. Liked it but

Would have taken it in a different direction. Wasted opportunity

[mopinko]

4. anyone who is a creative

gets it.
kinda didn’t think anyone could miss the bit where the big exec tries to convince him to change 1 letter because jude doesn’t make sense and it should be hey dude.

kathryn mckinnon was so perfect too.