Richard Curtis / Danny Boyle film, Yesterday

thank god!

now if everyone will be open about the huge influence the piglet files have had on the spy spoof genre i can die a happy man

danny boyle and richard curtis When they met...it was moider!

picturing a scene where he performs "Strawberry Fields Forever" to a festival crowd for the first time and gets mercilessly booed off the stage, now that I wanna see

Revolution 9 or gtf

he plays "run for your life" at glastonbury and gets cancelled

Writes "Taxman" as theme song for the Boris Johnson, playing himself, leadership campaign.

I just want see that smug, self-satisfied grey-thatched phizog of Richard Curtis getting vapourised by hardcore weapons of death.

Should have renamed “let it be” to “let it bleed” and given it the latter’s lyrics

kudos jiv

Revolution 9 or gtf

It was on one of the post-its on his wall and they didn't use it in the movie! Tragically unfired pistol.

I liked some of this. (Don't go in wanting to hate it. You'll hate it.) The premise--clumsily brought into being--is worth pondering; definite affinities with Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood, in general and very specifically once. Thought some of the upside-down arrangements were good: "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and "She Loves You" as acoustic singer-songwriter, "Help" as something approaching punk, etc. The three songs that were confounding Jack, I thought there was interesting reading there, but when an explanation actually came, seems I was over-analyzing things. Drove me up the wall trying to place Lily James...didn't figure it out until I checked online. I'd see her in anything.

The biggest problem for me--not a small one--was Himesh Patel. Found him rather bland, not helped by a script that required he wear the same confused expression the entire film.

"an interesting"

So turns out Richard Curtis screwed the actual writer and ruined his script, massive shock at this revelation of course.

https://uproxx.com/movies/jack-barth-interview-yesterday-writer-richard-curtis/

This film needs a follow-up where Ed Sheeran - playing himself - wakes up one morning a nobody, then never gets beyond the pub circuit because his songs are so shit, despite telling everyone he played three nights at Wembley Stadium.

The thing that kills me about this story is that when the film came out everyone's reaction was "it would be much better if he didn't get famous instantly" and what do you know that's the original story, only in every Richard Curtis film everyone has to be wildly successful because his only mode is making nauseating low-key propoganda for the UK media establishment. Like every creative decision he ever makes invloves closing a door instead of opening one.

Like every creative decision he ever makes invloves closing a door instead of opening one.

otm and fwiw I have been on the receiving end of this in one particular instance although it was theatre so the stakes were much lower. I really feel for that writer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkqXyTwFt6g