The Beatles as you've never seen them before: the allure of the documentary film “EIGHT DAYS A WEEK – The Touring Years.”
Previous articleAnd,Beatles songsAs I said, the best way to appreciate its excellence is for everyone to first listen with your own ears and see for yourselves.
This time, I’d like to introduce a film that’s truly worthy of that description: “EIGHT DAYS A WEEK – The Touring Years.”
This film is a documentary that chronicles the Beatles from their debut to their peak, and it will be released nationwide simultaneously starting September 22, 2016.
EIGHT DAYS A WEEK-The Touring Years
Why are the Beatles still loved today?
This is exactly what they mean by “proof over argument.”
If you take a look at this,Why the Beatles captured immense worldwide popularity and continue to be loved to this dayYou can find out.
Since it is a documentary film, it is clear that their success story is faithfully portrayed based on facts.
Moreover, since past footage is used there as material, it ultimately depends on how the director chooses to structure it.
This is the promotional PV.
Just looking at this conveys the level of excitement from that time.
So, who is the director everyone’s curious about…? Believe it or not, it’s that very—The Da Vinci Code」「Apollo 13」「Backdraftand produced works that became major hits in Hollywood, such as “”.A Beautiful Mindwon the Academy Award for Best Director withRon HowardIt is.
You can safely assume that its high level of perfection is guaranteed.
I especially want those who aren’t interested in the Beatles yet to watch it.
And while Beatles fans will certainly enjoy this film, I’d actually like those who aren’t yet interested in the Beatles to watch it even more.
Because this film can be thoroughly enjoyed as a radiant coming-of-age ensemble drama about young people who yearn to become big artists, spend every day single-mindedly practicing and performing on stage, and, though poor, are filled with dreams, hope, youth, and talent.
It portrays, in a documentary style based on footage from the time, how they started as an amateur band, endured a long period of hard work, and then, the moment they made their record debut, rapidly shot up to stardom.
Their songs, with their novelty, bold ideas, catchy pop sound, and beautiful harmonies, instantly sent young people across Britain into a frenzy, etching a vivid image in the public consciousness alongside their strange “moptop” hairstyles and stylish suits.
After achieving great success in the United Kingdom, they went to the United States, and their appearance on the popular TV program The Ed Sullivan Show at the time became the catalyst that swept the entire nation—and eventually the entire world—into a frenzy.
The frenzy at the concerts back then was beyond imagination.
The weapons the Beatles had were feeble sound systems that couldn't compare to modern ones, and they were no match for the audience’s continuous screams during their live shows—like the roar of jet engines at full throttle—amounting to no more than a mosquito’s strength.
Moreover, at that time there was no system to feed our own sound back to us—in other words, it wasn’t customary to place monitor speakers at our feet on stage.
In other words—and it’s hard to believe now—they kept on performing even though they could barely hear the sound they were producing.
However, after years of grueling touring, they became exhausted and eventually stopped performing live altogether to focus exclusively on studio recording.
They are making a major shift here from idols to big-time artists.
Continued in theaters
Since their debut, they continued recording and touring tirelessly from morning to night every day, and this work portrays everything up to their final live performance at the Hollywood Bowl in the United States.
By all means, take a look at this and grasp the secret to why they continue to be loved around the world.
Official website for the film “The Beatles: Eight Days a Week”