Same as it was before it was, Richard Lester directed The Beatles' Help! towards the future of comedy.
The Beatles second movie Help! had its Royal World Premiere at the London Pavilion Theatre in the West End of London on July 29, 1965 and in the United States on August 25, 1965. Half a century later, Help! is as fresh as it was before it was.
Wait, I'll tell a lie.
Help! is a Beatles movie, but even without the fab four, it would be an important film. Without Help! there would be no Airplane movies. Jon Landis would have hit his peak with Kentucky Fried Movie. Without Help! there would be no fucking Spike Lee. Oh, he would have been born, but the life-long indie filmmaker would have one less important stitch in the fabric of the tapestry of his comedic art.
Spike's got Help! in every available format, I remember reading in an interview he gave to Spin magazine in the '90s. He couldn't get enough of it. His father, a jazz musician, didn't like electrified instruments but his artsy son caught the shock of an amplified new wave of comedy and it blew his mind. Spike couldn't hide his love away.
Help! is filled with classic slapstick that would work whether it was done by a silent film master like Buster Keaton or a modern hack like Jack Black. Who tries to remove a ring with a wheel? That's what they break butterflies on, ask the Rolling Stones. That's an in-joke, which is in itself an in-joke in A Hard Day's Night. Even the Royal House of Hanover had the wheel.
http://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/help/248034/the-beatles-help-movie-is-more-influential-than-you-think
Wait, I'll tell a lie.
Help! is a Beatles movie, but even without the fab four, it would be an important film. Without Help! there would be no Airplane movies. Jon Landis would have hit his peak with Kentucky Fried Movie. Without Help! there would be no fucking Spike Lee. Oh, he would have been born, but the life-long indie filmmaker would have one less important stitch in the fabric of the tapestry of his comedic art.
Spike's got Help! in every available format, I remember reading in an interview he gave to Spin magazine in the '90s. He couldn't get enough of it. His father, a jazz musician, didn't like electrified instruments but his artsy son caught the shock of an amplified new wave of comedy and it blew his mind. Spike couldn't hide his love away.
Help! is filled with classic slapstick that would work whether it was done by a silent film master like Buster Keaton or a modern hack like Jack Black. Who tries to remove a ring with a wheel? That's what they break butterflies on, ask the Rolling Stones. That's an in-joke, which is in itself an in-joke in A Hard Day's Night. Even the Royal House of Hanover had the wheel.
http://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/help/248034/the-beatles-help-movie-is-more-influential-than-you-think
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