Name: How a Great Beatles Song Is Reborn in 'Yesterday'
Uploaded: 2020-03-25T10:16:20.000Z
Duration: 3 min 26 s
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Hi. this is Danny Boyle, the director of “Yesterday.”

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And I thought people might like to hear them.”

that Jack has recovered from the accident, which happened

during the blackout, where the Beatles were erased

which is to revitalize his own fairly unsuccessful

singer-songwriting career by actually playing the Beatles

That’s his mom, Meera Syal and Sanjeev Bhaskar, who are,

But actually, they are also two of the finest

And he starts to sing by saying to his parents

that he’s got a couple of new songs he wants to try out,

and he’s going to go back to performing,

even though they thought he was giving up.

They wanted him to give up, because they think

They’re inclined to think this is Jack just indulging

So they don’t sense that they are actually

the first people on Earth to apparently hear

I thought — I thought he’d given up?”

“(SINGING) When I find myself in times of trouble — “

“Well, I’d already heard that bit.”

is essential to the comedy of the scene, really.

Because as Jack fights for the great masterpiece

Because everybody’s too busy with their phones,

does a wonderful tapping of the sofa arm,

out of time to the song, which is the ultimate insult.

So the key thing was to try and find the living room that

We wanted it to feel very, very ordinary.

that we kept the property looking almost the same as it

So then they brought along on the day, a choice of pianos.

But I wanted it to look like it was the piano that he

The ordinary is very important in the film.

“Then maybe we can have summer songs!”

You’re the first people on Earth to hear this song!”

our parents to listen to a song, you know,

One of the reasons we picked the location

is that it’s got this round glass, which

gives a distorted view of people arriving.

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How a Great Beatles Song Is Reborn in 'Yesterday'

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