After reading Garry Berman’s book “We’re Going to See The Beatles!” and watching Steven Spielberg’s ‘spoof’ film, “I Wanna Hold Your Hand.”, these two sources aren’t really all that far apart. While both Berman’s novel and Spielberg’s film have some differences, the similarities really outweigh the differences in comparison.
In Spielberg’s film, “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”, it’s shown that many girls found themselves so deep into the hold that Beatlemania had on them, many hardly realized what they were doing until it was happening. Spielberg’s film depicts thousands of girls coming from all different places, surrounding not only the plane that the Beatles had arrived to New York in, but as well as following them to the hotel the band was staying at during their time in America and attempting to get in. This is paralleled in Berman’s novel, “We’re Going to See the Beatles!” in firsthand accounts from those who had gone to see the Beatles departing their plane; …show more content…
Annette Joseph Walker, who had gone to the airport to see the Beatles’ arrival recalls;
We went through the terminal, and you could see a whole stampede just heading in this one direction. We got down there right as they were passing by. We were back about 20 people deep, and you could only see the tops of people’s heads, but we thought we had just gone to heaven! (61)
Berman goes on to describe that the Beatles were staying on the 12th floor of the Plaza Hotel for their stay in New York, as paralleled in Spielberg’s ‘spoof’ film “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”(62). Berman’s novel goes on to detail the account of Shaun Weiss and his experience at the Plaza
In Spielberg’s film, “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”, it’s shown that many girls found themselves so deep into the hold that Beatlemania had on them, many hardly realized what they were doing until it was happening. Spielberg’s film depicts thousands of girls coming from all different places, surrounding not only the plane that the Beatles had arrived to New York in, but as well as following them to the hotel the band was staying at during their time in America and attempting to get in. This is paralleled in Berman’s novel, “We’re Going to See the Beatles!” in firsthand accounts from those who had gone to see the Beatles departing their plane; …show more content…
Annette Joseph Walker, who had gone to the airport to see the Beatles’ arrival recalls;
We went through the terminal, and you could see a whole stampede just heading in this one direction. We got down there right as they were passing by. We were back about 20 people deep, and you could only see the tops of people’s heads, but we thought we had just gone to heaven! (61)
Berman goes on to describe that the Beatles were staying on the 12th floor of the Plaza Hotel for their stay in New York, as paralleled in Spielberg’s ‘spoof’ film “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”(62). Berman’s novel goes on to detail the account of Shaun Weiss and his experience at the Plaza