A Hard Day's Night Analysis

A Hard Days Night its celebrating 50th its anniversary this year which enhances my reasons for choosing this film. In this paper, I will argue its historical and cultural significance, its influences on modern films, particularly the music video and demonstrate how Richard Lester’s techniques paved the way what seems the norm in the industry. I will also look at the other elements that make the film so iconic today. My Paper will cover concepts such as the influences of ‘The New French Way’ ‘Cinema vérité’. The montage theory, jump cuts and innovations in camera shots. I will also look at the surrealist elements of the film, whether the film can be called a ‘mockumentary’ and performances of the actors. Fifty years later, The Beatles ‘A Hard Day’s Night’; one of the most influential music and films, remains the zenith of rocksploitation and is considered a fore father of the music video part comedy, part cinema vérité, it also launched the career of director Richard Lester. A Hard Day’s Night is innovative and revolutionary and I shall examine the elements that make it so. It mocks the establishment sees the eminence of the “rebellious youth.” It is said by many to be the first music video, its influences are powerful …show more content…
The style will be comedic embracing influences of silent movies, the goons, slapstick (Feely). Lester's use of elements of Early French New Wave, rebelling against traditional film making techniques and ‘cinema vérité’ or ‘observational cinema.’ This would provide us with something that its film industry had not seen before. “Lester did not invent the techniques used in ‘A Hard Day’s Night,’ but he brought them together into a grammar so persuasive that he influenced many other films” (Ebert, 1996). Lester would push the boundaries of film making with the most influential band of the century providing “one of the great life affirming land marks of the movies.” (Ebert,