Yesterday Missed A MASSIVE OPPORTUNITY (SPOILERS)
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- With all of these nostalgic musician movies coming out, I think it's far to say that Universal's premise for Yesterday is BY FAR the most interesting of them all! The concept of the world forgetting the Beatles, and being retaught their songs through a newcomer is a great idea! But unfortunately, Yesterday managed to miss so many truly intriguing points. Here's where everything kinda went wrong, and how this movie COULD have been an instant classic.
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Let's be real:
The most unrealistic part of this movie was that it took him 20 years to realize Lily James is cute.
EXACTLY!!!
I was providing highlights of the film to my daughter and THAT was my primary concern - my inability to suspend belief on this point.
that's exactly what made the romance not work for me. the only possible explanation is that she's way more attractive than him so he did not ever consider it out of humility. but then he'd not go off around the world when she told him. Dumb
Yup. Let’s hear the woke brigade tell us that the movie is racist for portraying an Indian Brit as too stupid to see that his high school friend is a perfect soul mate.
That's already anime male protag in a harem levels of dense
A montage of Jack finding all the Beatles, and then bringing them to John Lennon, and talk to them about what he's been doing, and how important the four of them are in another universe. They could've even gotten Paul and Ringo to act in the movie, and act like they don't know the Beatles. People would've loved that.
Although Paul and Ringo probably would've been uncomfortable around two guys pretending to be their close, late friends.
That kinda reminds me of Uncle Drew. I don’t know why
Why would he bring paul and ringo to john if they don’t even know eachother
@@johnnymartini4989 whos to say they they didnt know each other? Paul and George went to school together, they all lived nearby in Liverpool, they could've even formed the beatles but just gave up before the fame
JohnnyMartini George , Paul and John would all know each other because of the quarry men
I would love this
Seeing Ed Sheeran had his ass handed over by The Long And Winding Road was satisfying
Ed sheeran is a hack. Catchy, but not any depth.
Theo Holmes I always wondered why he became so famous. Like he’s definitely not your usual superstar and I kind of have to admire him for that, even if I can’t stand his music.
@@worrywirt He wouldn't have got a slot in a Liverpool pub in the 60s, if he is the best it shows how poor music is today.
The part that makes me wince is when Ed Sheeran says, "I was always told that someday someone better than me would come along!" lol I hate to break it to him but there have always been people better than him. He is not the best by a long shot.
Bruh Moment
Without the Beatles you don't have:
The Traveling Wilburys
Wings
The Plastic Ono Band
The Monkees
and as was pointed out in the movie, Oasis.
Without the Monkees you don't have:
The Archies
The Bugaloos
Somebody else writes and records a song for the James Bond movie _Live and Let Die._
The Beach Boys album "Smile" sounds a lot different.
Several songs by the Byrds sound different.
The band Klaatu is a forgotten footnote, because there was never any rumor that they were the Beatles in disguise.
The vultures in the Disney animated movie _The Jungle Book_ look and sound different, if they are there at all.
The playlist at Woodstock is a bit different because, while the Beatles didn't play Woodstock, a few of their songs were covered.
The following movies are never made:
_Hard Day's Night_
_Help!_
_Yellow Submarine_
_Can't Buy Me Love_
_Norwegian Wood_
_Backbeat_
_Lucy in the Sky_
_Yesterday_
and probably others I have forgotten.
The Japanese group Pucci Moni does not record "Chokotto Love" and if they do it doesn't include the line (in English) "All you need is love."
Babymetal does not cover "Chokotto Love."
The Japanese group Onyanko Club does not record "Valentine Kiss" and if they do it doesn't include the line (in English) "Love me do."
And perhaps the greatest loss of all: William Shatner does not record his amazing cover of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."
These are not random things like Coca-Cola, cigarettes, or Harry Potter. These are things which are different *because the Beatles never happened.*
The excellent I Wanna Hold Your Hand is never made.
British music never makes it big in America so the pre-British Invasion status quo of girl groups, R&B and surf rock is preserved until they run their course by the 70s and give way to something new. The Beach Boys never get super experimental since they weren’t competing with the Beatles. Psych rock still happens, but remains a niche genre without the Beatles and Beach Boys pushing the boundaries and giving it worldwide exposure.
The 60s revival in the 80s would sound very different since a lot of that music was Beatles-inspired, like the spongetones.
Almost the entire western cannon of popular music would probably sound completely different if the Beatles never existed.
Yes. Inconsequential things. You're trying very hard to make this profound when there's simply nothing profound here to begin with.
@@Shamoshio.
Well, you might find the history of popular culture over the last fifty years to be inconsequential, but many of us do not.
Somebody else pointed out that without the movie _Yellow Submarine,_ there either isn't any _Monty Python's Flying Circus._ And thus, the annoying e-mails we call spam are called something else. Now, is that a little thing? Yes, yes it is. But these little things add up, until the world has a different feel to it.
the forgotten things are related:
Oasis was compared to The Beatles
The Beatles smoked cigs, the reason why Geo died
in Come Together John says "He shoot Coca-Cola"
Almu Potter I love that you shortened George to Geo lmao
I also appreciate your pfp
"Although I'm so tired,
I'll smoke another cigarette,
And curse Sir Walter Raleigh,
He was such a stupid get"
Oh I just thought the things he liked disappeared like harry potter
If tobacco never existed cetuaries worth of history would be very different and decades of life added to many thousands of lives. Creating a totally different population make up
Coca cola and Harry potter are also greatly inflential. But perhaps a rival product took thier place. A world without tobacco (and the Beatles) being virtually identical is ridiculous.
I swear, romance ruins so many good ideas. It's like the director stole the idea from a friend and changed it into a romcom to make more money.
Totally agree. Hollywood thinks a kiss solves everything.
Why must every movie have a romance in it? This film had a great premise but they just had to go the rom-com route. I loved the John Lennon scene though
They kind of stole the idea from "non ci resta che piangere", an Italian comedy, where the protagonists go back in time and there's a scene where one of them sings some Beatles songs to a lady to make her fall in love with him hahahaha
Legendary Aidan True
That is what Richard Curtis (the screenwriter) does. He's a hopeless romatic and he likes to incorporate fantastic elements as plot starters. You can watch "About Time" written and directed by Richard Curtis, but I warn you: You will have the same amount of doubts and anger when the movie finnishes. I myself enjoy these movies anyway
Personally I would love a film like rocketman and bohemian rhapsody but with The Beatles
Heard of Across the universe. It's just like both those movies you said
Edie xo alright. Will try to check it out
skully 247 YES ME TOO!!
@Alice Wonderland it's kinda wack, I personally didn't like It
Go watch BackBeat (1994)
You know what a mad idea for a Beatles themed movie would be? What if Paul McCartney suddenly woke up as a 15 year old boy, back in Liverpool and had to meet a young John Lennon and re-live everything the fab four went through- but in a Modern time setting. 😉
Dude...you should patent this
Woke up, fell out of bed
Dragged a comb across my head
heres my money I want this movie
I need that right now
I read something in that sort on Wattpad it was very interesting 😂
Imagine there's a blackout right on New year's Day and everyone forgets what emo was? *WELCOME TO THE RAWRING 20's*
I need this In My Life.
ok lesbo
This is one of my favorite movies in years. I'm a simple guy . I just loved it like it was. I cried when I saw John Lennon still alive
joseph hellstern Ditto.
Yea when I saw him, it had hit me that he is actually not with us anymore and my eyes got a little misty
Yeah I liked it a lot too! I wanna watch it again!
Same here, this is only the 3rd movie to ever make me cry and I couldn't hold it back when he said he was 78 and happy.
It was great to see John, but where were the other memebers of the beatles. We never found out what actually happened to the banned. Did the members of the banned just never meet? Also, I wish Oaul and Ringo would have been the "fans". Like why would those other guys actually care about whether or not the Beattles existed,\. Would've made more sence for the actual Ringo/Paul to be happy their music was made and became popular, even if they didn't create it themselves. Also, I'm sure they'd be happy to see John again.
Also where's George? Was his illness inevitable? Did the Traveling Wilburys ever form? This is the deep l o r e we need
If there were no Beatles there might not have been ELO (there was) no Oasis.
If there was no ELO then Jeff Lynne night not get big.
No george or jeff = no wilburys
However...
No cigarettes...?
George might live to this day
Yeah it seems like George was largely ignored in this movie. There was a brief reference to "When I'm Sixty-Four" and possibly "Here Comes The Sun" and "Something" (I don't remember exactly) but nothing else
The traveling willburys probably didn't form since oasis also doesn't exist in that universe
Terminal Lumbago: George didn't write "64."
She fell for him because he sang an Oasis song but then there was no Oasis so how did she fall for him as kids
She thought that was his song?
Farewell Nico but it was almost if as the whole world forgot about the Beatles including himself but getting hit by a bus made him remember them.
I think because when they were kids, the Beatles still existed. When the blackout occurred is when everything changed.
4lucyinthesky but John was alive so it retroactively removed the Beatles from history and Oasis by that same extent
@@patrickmike2524 I know what you are saying but it's like, which came first the chicken or the egg? We could debate this for hours I guess. We'll never get all the answers.
I saw this movie with my grandmother and she started crying when she saw John Lennon.
Patrick Roy aww
I did cry too in that scene
That scene made me so uncomfortable. The more I think about the more disturbed I get.
@@teddi5039 In a good way? I think it heart warming that John lives on happily in that alternative universe.
Patrick Roy So did I, my face was stinging from the tears running down.
I think the point of the movie was to allow the audience to hear these songs as if hearing them again for the first time .... we get to relive these song that we take for granted and gain a new understanding of just how special they were .... This feeling hit me when Jack sings Yesterday for his friends and they are stunned into silence at what a truly beautiful song it is ... it made me have a new appreciation for the Beatles body of work
I never understood why he searched for: John, Paul George and Ringo and not for John Lennon, Paul Mccartney and so on
I would imagine Google autocorrect it to John lemon instead of John Lennon 😂
I liked the film, but that dream sequence ticked me off. I get why they chose to show John, as his death was absolutely related to being a Beatle, but why not track down Paul and Ringo and George (who may not have lung cancer in a world without cigarettes)?
Deb Wilborn John was the leader of the group.
JStarStar00 nah it was Paul. If you could call him that. They didn’t have a leader for the first majority of their career, but Ringo himself said it was Paul keeping the group focused, on task, and telling them things to do with their instruments to make the song sound better
@@fofnifolar Historically, It was John who had formed The Quarrymen, who later went on to become The Beatles. Paul joined the Quarrymen, then Paul brought George into the band. Ringo didn't join until after they met with Producer George Martin who didn't care for their current drummer Pete Best, and the rest of the band decided to fire Pete and hire Ringo. While Paul may have had a cohesive influence on the band, and perhaps was the more knowledgeable musically at the time, it was John's action, drive and initiative that caused The Beatles to become something. Without John taking that action, the Beatles would not exist today, at least not as we know them.
Deb Wilborn not just that the way they showed the old John just wasn’t John. Like personality wise we know how spunky he was and a creative even before fame. John wasn’t one to isolate himself like in the film. Hard to watch that scene
The producers and directors have stated they originally planned to have the other beatles in it but felt like it would take away from the reveal of John.
If there's no cigarette George Harrison would probably be still be alive
David Clinging could say the same about john
They originally planned to keep George in the film but later on changed it
There is an alternate ending where at the end Lily James’ character is the one who knows about Harry Potter and Himseh Patel doesn’t know. I thought this was much more interesting than Himesh just remembering everything.
Brendan Little and then she writes the wizard in world based around what she remembers [as well as what she thinks should be in there] and she becomes famous, and almost get to make a Hollywood movie deal out of it until she realizes that J. K. Rowling died on that bus that she came up with the idea for Harry Potter on, and her one regret in life was that she didn’t spend more time with her family. This inspired her to connect with Jack on a much more romantic and personal level. See, that’s one of the problems with these independent artistic movie types. There’s a benefit to franchising that transcends just making money. If it’s a good story, it deserves to be franchised. I’d love to see this universe. There’s so many things that you could re-create. Imagine a kid in America becoming famous for re-creating the career of Elvis Presley, or Bob Dylan. Or maybe somebody rewriting Star Wars. Or drawing Mickey Mouse and discovering that you could make a whole Disney World out of it, except this time do it his way. What if the Henson family wanted Jim to still be alive, so somebody else create Kermit the frog and the Muppets.
@@christianali5431 About your Elvis idea... There was a Twilight Zone episode where an Elvis impersonator woke up in the past, met Elvis, accidentally kills him, and then becomes Elvis. It was really fun!
@@RogeriusRex I believe that movie is called Buba Hotep ;P
@@nightlam3419 ya that's a fun movie! Loved it. Here's the episode summary
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Once_and_Future_King_(The_Twilight_Zone)
She then writes the books and we get why two of her characters are called Lily and James (Yes I know her name in the movie is Ellie)
I was expecting a 'Jack is dead' conspiracy to crop up somewhere in the film
I wish Paul and Ringo would have been in the movie and showed them on that interview. That was the biggest let down ever!
Would have exploded the film's budget though
a cameo would have been cool, but nothing more than that.
Is anybody else feel cheated by that dream sequence?
Not cheated. But just felt like there could have been more.
Not me, I suspected from the moment I first saw the trailer that it was just a dream sequence. That having been said, I was hoping we would see them in some other form.
I had heard rumors that Paul and Ringo might be in the film, so I was hoping it would be more.
Yes that looked like it was going to be one of the best scenes in the movie. I felt cheated but overall I love the movie
Almost screamed in the middle of the theatre
This is just me but Yesterday should've been a TV show where they could've dive deeper into the plot
Edit : HOLY SHIT over 1k likes !!!, this is probably the biggest likes I ever had in any of my comments. Thank you so much everyone
I absolutely agree! There was so much more that could've been covered in the movie, that it wouldn't be a movie anymore but a series!
Spot on. I totally agree as well.
Wait for it....
Could still happen
Every episode could be themed around a certain Beatles song.
It would be more interesting if Jack found the four Beatles, now old, and made them know each other and become The Beatles once again.
Rmr Dsp, or they all had boy children (sons) that looked like the original 4 lads, thus recreating the original group. We die hard Beatle-a-holics will never let them go.
Or, he could go find each one and while he unsuccessfully tries to convince them to meet and leave the normal lives they've established, each one shares some piece of wisdom about life and love as can only be expressed by those individual personalities. Maybe a lyric or two that they unwittingly utter in conversation with Jack. This dovetails nicely with the love story angle.
Post credit scene could be them all meeting for the first time at a rehearsal studio just staring at each other. Black out.
It wouldn't work. Their progression to great musicians had a lot to do with what was going in their lives and in the world at the time.
Then it would be even more interesting, they form a band but it is nothing like what we are used to. They are different persons and so they make different music.
@@brandonflorida1092 Point taken! I'd hoped my description implied that they had written and developed their own musical lives (As session players? Hobbyists? Music instructors?) before being brought together later in life.
It's also the uncertainty of it all mixed in with the hope that even at that stage, something magical could happen.
"Also, the White Album? That could have some diversity issues."
That hurt my fucking soul in a way you can't even imagine.
Ikr
Lmao especially considering he isn’t white
That's the point. It was pretty clear it was supposed to be a dumb line that annoyed Jack.
Yeah it's not like blackbird wasn't on the album or anything
I thought they might mention that album and it was brilliant and hilarious. It's very true to how it would be received now.
The weird part about the other people remembering, though, was how angry they seemed by it. Then, when he finally meets him, they're like "thank you for keeping these wonderful songs alive!" It was played for the misdirect, obviously, but so heavy-handedly that the "reveal" that they were totally down with it made zero sense.
Totes
And how the hell did they find each other but not Jack? How do you find the only other person in the whole world who remember The Beatles when you can barely speak English? If the movie hadn't waste so much time on the useless romance we could have had so much more!
@@bitraisa They just posted on r/MandelaEffect
They where not remembering, when Jack was hit by the bus in the big blackout he was transported to an alternate world.
These people where probably a couple or related and where in the wrong place and got teleported too without relising it.
Yes, definitely didn't have to do that. It's hard to not to be annoyed by that when you rewatch it. And why no scene where they help him with Eleanor Rigby?
Cigarettes never existing would have massive implications on the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade
Dexter Pullyblank Nerd alert!
Gynecologist ok?
How would the Beatles, a band formed in the 1960's have any effect on slave trade that ended a century earlier?
@@aneasyonesoicanremember6933 In the movie, they say that cigarettes are never invented, meaning that tobacco was supposedly never used as a recreational drug, meaning that there would be no tobacco industry, meaning that one of the biggest industries participating in the purchasing and exploitation of African slaves during the trans-Atlantic slave trade never would have existed.
@@mugzy2496 I'm aware of the impact it would have had in the triangular trade, just saying it wouldn't be possible for the Beatles to have anything to do with it
All you need to know now is that after 50 years Abby Road is number one again.That says it all about the Beatles.The movie is very average.
Well we loved it and went to see it 3 times!
Its all a matter of taste in the end.I thought they could have done better.
@@johnnywires943 I know what you mean, but I often rewrite films in my head....for the better of of course!
I can almost guarantee that this movie will develop a huge cult following in years to come. I'm almost entirely positive
Horses for courses.
It would have been interesting if the older versions of the Beatles went to one of his concerts, relating to the lyrics and thinking why they never thought of that.
It would be funnier if they just hate their own songs
@@lamh8225 oh but that happened irl Lennon loved to shit on the Beatles
8:58 I like how Paul is wearing no shoes like on the cover for Abbey Road.
This is how to take a great movie and make it tangential mess.
Also, it would probably have to be a series and not just one movie - that's how long it would take to tackle all the mini-issues he's raising.
Yes. I had to stop watching this video early on there was so much nonsense in it. Yesterday is a movie, and a truly great movie, not a mini-series. The guy seems to think that the blackout caused the world to forget the Beatles. It wasn't the blackout it was the Sun's solar flare activity that did it and caused the blackout..
He had way too much expectation of this being a science-fiction film that could tackle larger practical and existential questions.
@@TechSavvy. it was THANOS half a the people have to die so the other lives i hope all the bad people and greedy have to go firsi
The best scene in this movie is when he visits John
It put tears in my eyes.
Sorry for being a downer, but I didn't like the scene with John. They made his situation too idealized, too romantic - especially with that house on the water. I would have liked to seen a grittier John, more real.
@@throckmortonsnephew6395 agree with Throckmorton's Nephew.
Doesn’t it insinuate that he and Yoko still fell in ‘love’? Hilarious that they assumed that Yoko would glaive a shit about John if he wasn’t famous lmao
@@throckmortonsnephew6395 I thought John was a dreamer, IMAGINE. Don't be sorry for your views, we all have opinions and you expressed yours!
They should make a Beatles biopic
I undersatnd what you say... There are few "Beatles movies", but they don't talk about the entire story and some of them aren't so good. I want a really good biopic too...
no . no there should not be . they'd be cringe fests like bohemian rhapsody watered down for normies .
I don’t think they are interested in it.
They've made like 7
They would have to make multiple movies or it could be a limited series that’s like 3 Volumes
My theory: Person A has a family member that dies from lung cancer. Person A finds a way to travel back in time to stop cigarettes from being a thing. But what they did not anticipate was that the ripple effect over the course of time was that bands, musicians, Coca Cola and other random things would be drastically altered or disappear entirely from the timeline as we know it. I think Jack and the others remember because they have some thing that links them to this change in the first place. Future movies would be amazing! Maybe each person who can remember can bring their talents to the table to recreate what we once had. Or maybe we start to see how much was really effected by one change.
Ooh
Lol why is this more interesting than the actual movie
We could get a whole cinematic universe out of this
Maybe the people who remember these specific things somehow time travelled without remembering this and made an alternate timeline in where said things don’t exist.
Here’s what my Beatles movie would look like:
Four guys named Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr are the only ones who remember the famous musician “Andrew Beetle” who went big in the Roaring Twenties. They’re brought together through a subreddit (which they are the only members of) and decide to meet up, discovering fragments of the late musician’s music along the way. After playing a couple of love songs, a name named Ed Sullivan, who is actually Andrew’s godson, recognizes some of the songs that his missing godfather used to play to him at night. He brings them on the show and they get huge immediately. Following in Andrew’s footsteps, they make a couple more love albums before going with their own preferred style. But as time goes on, a curse unfolds due to their rapid popularity that breaks the band apart. By 1970, they’ve broken up, but their songs remain as best ever made. As they grow old and die, doing their own solo events, John and George meet with Andrew in heaven. The twist? Andrew is actually a time traveler by the name of Ed Sheeran.
Honestly I'd prefer this over the movie they made 😂 this is such a cool idea
The "Who Wrote Beethovens 5th Symphony?" Paradox: The Movie
Ok, but was it the real Paul McCartney, or the guy that replaced him after the car crash in 1966?
@@jefflarkin9619 That never happened.
Just off the time of my head, no Beatles would mean...
* No rock n' role as it developed from their influence onward
* No "British invasion" of American music in the '60s
* No "Monty Python" (influenced by "Yellow Submarine" and "Magical Mystery Tour")
* Not to mention all the cultural impacts they must've had on youth
Adventure Time would probably not exist in a world w/no Yellow Submarine
WRONG! Even John Lennon himself said that "without Elvis [Presley] there would be nothing."
A lot of what you say I agree with, certainly no British Invasion. They showed the Rolling Stones they could write their own lyrics. Would any British group be popular in the US if not for the British Invasion?
You would still have Monty Python ffs.
@@lucasoheyze4597 yeah Monty Python would definitely have still been around but an interesting twist would be that Life of Brian would have likely never been made since George Harrison funded the movie with his film studios and had the Beatles not been around and George becoming wealthy as a result, that movie doesn't exist 😂
it would have been interesting if they used a band instead of a soloist
@Roberto López Or maybe the two other people who remember the Beatles
Yeah the story could have been pretty much the same, just instead focusing on a struggling band (Hamish could even still be apart of it) consiting of four guys on guitars, bass and drums, and each sort have a resembling a personaility from a member of the Beatles (Jack is either a John or George to me)
And the way the powerout happens is they're driving in a car together when the bus crashes into their car, and then altogether they're the only ones who remember the Beatles, and judging from who acts like what Beatle, they take their role, (whoever is the John and Paul of the band act as the Lennon-McCartney and take credit for the songs they wrote while whoever the George is gets the credit for his written songs) and during their rise to fame, tension builds within in the band, with the media giving more praise to the Lennon-McCartney of the group, causing whoever is George and Ringo to feel neglected, and whoever's John might find his own Yoko and bring her along everywhere, and after a while, the band splits up to record the Beatle's solo careers from their respective Beatle, and eventually they could locate the Beatles themselves (since John and George would be alive without the Beatles and cigarettes) and after that, they would do a highly anticpated reunion show and reveal the truth there
When he visited John, I really thought he was gonna visit Paul. Cause of the location. It reminds me of the Mull Of Kintyre
So did I! I was really shocked when it was John
No one “forgets” the Beatles, he is transported to a parallel universe where the Beatles never existed, and Coca Cola and Harry Potter and some other things.
When the fuck is it established as another part of the multiverse?
@@worlds1ep3enthusiast92 Quantum Immortality
@@worlds1ep3enthusiast92 When he tries looking on the shelf for some of their records and none of them are found. There are neither any digital or physical artifacts of any remnants that the band ever existed. No albums, no articles, no merchandise, no evidence nothing. What if you woke up one morning and something you absolutely loved all of a sudden never existed and you are the only person on Earth who has any knowledge of it ever being there in the first place.
imagine if this is actually how the mandela effect works but on a whole new level
I think this is one of the most frustrating films I've seen, they had so much potential with the concept. I don't think it's a bad film at all (7/10) but they could have made a masterpiece out of this concept 100% Also i wish it was only The Beatles who disappeared, then at the end we find out Harry Potter doesn't exist either, would have made that moment funnier.
Scott Holmes I literally said all of these things as I was walking out of the movie theatre. (Just watched it again on Amazon Prime.) Totally agree!
I literally cried over the John lennon scene, I miss him 😭
I did too. I rarely cried on watching films even if it's a general tearjerker. But, when I saw that scene- man it was a downpour!
Wasn’t he a huge asshole
Johanna Bascom No he wasn’t a huge a hole. He sang about love and peace for the world. It’s so easy to make people look bad after they’re gone tho.
Ringo's Nose My face was stinging from my tears.
Launa Banauna i love the beatles and mourn over john but john was an ass, at least for a majority of his life lol. He physically and mentally abused his wife and neglected his children. But he was a troubled man with a dark complex... he was projecting what he wanted in his life in his music. Think of, oh i dont know, joe biden. He says “we all need to be seen as equal and i care about black lives” yet he has said horrible things and has signed some of the most racist legislation into american law since Jim Crow era. People say and push for things they themselves dont do or believe in! Lol
Yeah I really agree on that interview scene, I was so ready to hear how they would make it work with Paul and Ringo involved but nope. That turned out to be literally nothing.
It's pretty realistic. I can remember every beatle song and could, if in that situation, reproduce all of them, including obscure ones....See, we beatle fans actually do remember the lyrics and chords.
The questions are actually pretty irrelevant. What are Paul and Ringo doing? Why not George too? If John lives, George might live too.
The movie answers these questions in an oblique way...Lennon says he spent his life sailing, so he left Liverpool with his sailor dad, and didn't stay with his aunt. Paul is probably a retired teacher, Ringo is a retired hairdresser, George is a retired electrician. Lennon was the seed of that band. With Lennon away from Liverpool , no Beatles.
It all actually revolves around the miracle that the Beatles were. Right place, right time...Otherwise, everything is lost. That idea goes for the rest of us too in our lives.
No, because John was killed because of his fame. George passed away to soon because of brain cancer.
@@marty3888 Actually it was lung cancer from smoking, and since cigarettes don't exist in the movie anymore, then it's likely George is alive
"See, we beatle fans actually do remember the lyrics and chords. " I'm a BEatles fan, and no I definitely could not. Stop your gatekeeping, please.
@@giovanniluke3882 I didn't know that. I could have sworn it was brain cancer. In that case, you're right.
@@FunBoysGaming bruh ikr i immediately cringed as soon as i read that
I actually liked the one-off "what's a Coke?" jokes. Had they gone into it, it would have been too much. Besides, it seemed clear that no one "forgot" anything. Rather, he woke up in a literally different world. His body or mind jumped to another reality. How? Who knows? But people didn't merely "forget," but there were no physical remnants--no albums, no articles, no anything. And that's a different thing than mere "forgetting." Plus, John Lennon is still alive. It's not his Earth. So several things being different makes sense. But that opened up a whole series of different questions. Like is the girl he chases in this reality really the same one who loved him in his own? Is that real "love" and do these two people from literal different realities even know--much less love--each other?
To me, the BIGGEST question they both failed to answer AND was a missed opportunity was how he and the girl met to begin with. In his original world, it was over the song Wonderwall. But in the new world, it's confirmed when he searches for it that the song never existed here. So, how did they meet and why did she fall in love with him? What is the basis of that crush in this world if NOT him singing Wonderwall at the middle school talent show as it was in his own world? And just like no one remembered the Beatles, his pre-blackout life would have been different as this very example proves. How come no one ever gets weirded out when he "misremembers" his own past in this world? But even if you let all that go, I would have liked to see him sing that for her at the end. He admits the Beatles are these other people, whatever, but then, he could have given that song to her and her alone. The ultimate gift in this world. It was mentioned several times and seemed so obviously set up to make a comeback and just didn't. To the point I wondered if it did in previous drafts and then they changed the ending, but forgot to tone down the set-up.
Good points, but I assume he would've just played a different song in the talent show, and she fell in love with him the same.
@@i_think
It just couldn't be a Beatles song.
Or a Monkees song.
Or an Oasis song.
Or an Archies song.
Or a Bugaloos song.
Or any of the dozens to hundreds of songs by bands which would have still existed, but were never influenced by the Beatles, Monkees, Archies........
I guess sir Walter Raleigh wasn’t a stupid get then in this reality?
Thanks. Now I got ear worm for the rest of the day
it's git you fucken git
I’m so tired. Literally. I’m about to fall asleep.
@@lazyishardwork In the song, it is 'get'.
why his head was chopped off
If cigarettes don’t exist... where’s George
@David Clinging the real answer is because John is the most popular and George isn't really that marketable
I would love that in the middle of one of his shows he just randomly signs an Oasis song. Seriously he could pass off so much songs with two of the biggest bands in the world gone
Imagine him covering "Cigarettes and Alcohol" but there's no such thing as the first.
Was anyone else expecting Jack to play "And I Love Her" for the final scene?
As much as I love the movie Yesterday. So much wasted potential here. Now I love the idea concept of the movie, the type of romcom genre they are going with also the revival of the beatles music in the modern day. Acting and writing was good. The whole movie overall was ok. I'd give it a 7.5/10.
Here are some wasted potential and missed opportunities.
1. Redudant songs. The Beatles have a lot of songs that were not played like All my loving, We can work it out, Ticket to ride, Get back and etc. But the movie played the songs redudantly. Like "Here comes the sun". Played twice in the middle and end scene.
2. Some songs were not even properly played but were referenced. Like strawberry fields forever, yellow submarine, a little help from my friends, hello goodbye, Eleanor Rigby, penny lane and etc.
3. If john is alive and cigarettes are gone. Where is george harrison then?
4. No proper cameo of Paul mcartney and Ringo starr. The movie would have been better if they showed the 2 alive members of the beatles. And have them on a single scene at least.
5. The solar flares were not properly explained. Just like ok.
6. "Get back" I think should have played on the rooftop.
7. I wished he did a little pose of the walk in abbey road to look epic.
8. Hard day's night should have been played while he was running away from the fan girls. Would have been hilarious.
9. Played "Hey jude" music video at the end credits.
10. Played "In my life" or "Imagine" while going to meet john lennon.
11. The alternate ending was better setting up for a sequel.
The movie had some flaws but still managed to do just fine. It was still a success in the box office at least.
Dexterose 125 not playing imagine to John Lennon was such a missed opportunity 🙄
Hwatson1990 Playing solo songs from any of the members would have required many more song clearances. Although I would have done it for ONE John song.
The song is quite expensive.
what really upset me is that after the Lennon scene it jumps to an Ed Shearan song in the next scene immediately. not anything against his music but it just completely ripped the emotional impact the entire scene had. like what if it transitioned to Jack playing something like imagine or in my life?
For #10 I would've preferred the ballad of John and yoko
I have a theory for this: When jack got hit by the bus, maybe he actually died and living in a dream of his. I mean... maybe
and you is dreaming his dream yaboi
he died in one universe and then woke up occupying the body of another self in a parallel universe. This is called Quantum Immortality
If you're a Beatles fan and a musician, you don't forget a Beatle lyric!
r/gatekeeping
They deleted the best scene, which was in the trailer. Where he writes Something on the spot for that actress.
I want to see a sequel we’re the other people who remember the Beatles write all the Harry Potter books
It would be better unlike the current timeline where Rowling is destroying our childhood :(
And start making crack cocaine Coca Cola, and make people addicted to cigarettes!
They should have made the movie Yesterday a Beatles movie that would be way better
@Jett Philips why
like Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman
Falcon yeah but we got so many of the same things just the origin of the band or the musician. We have Straight Outta Compton, and Bohemian Rhapsody. While I am glad that it was a little different with Rocketman. Yesterday was a really cool and creative idea but not a excellent movie but a good movie sadly💡
There were two other persons who knew about the Beatles.
At least.
The uploader mentions this lol
1. i still dont know why they did not do this
2.that undertale song at the beginning
3. first i guess
and 4. your really underrated
without the Beatles, the Rolling Stones would have stayed in England; as well as all Brit musicians.
When I heard 2 brothers were saying they wrote the songs, I thought for sure it was going to be Oasis.
OF COURSE PAUL WAS BAREFOOT WHEN THEY CAME THROUGH THE DOOR
i spotted that too, had to explain it to hubby who thought I was bonkers for remembering Paul barefoot on the zebra crossing, I thought everyone remembered that!!! Then I had to explain why and turns out he had never heard of the Conspiracy Theory either, Oh boy!
this is the most clever joke of the entire movie
It would have been cool if they made a Beatles movie like bohemian rhapsody and rocketman
Nowhere boy
@@leonlawson2196 Thats a Lennon movie, not a Beatles movie. It even ends before they actually become the Beatles
We need a proper Beatles biopic. There’s so much rich story to tell
It's all in the Anthology! Biopics about bands are cringeworthy.
Lucas O'heyze 🙏
Just watch "A Hard Days Night" and "Help" ... and be Happy!
I LOVED the random forgotten bits, they were perfectly timed.
i feel like if I was in Jack's position I would question my own sanity, and maybe the beatles never really did exist but were a figment of my imagination and i really was writing these songs somehow.. also yes the 3 people who remembered the beatles , I feel like the three of them would have been like " what the f is going on , why have people forgotten all these things" not just " hey glad you re recorded beatles songs byeeeeee"
Seriously. Why do they not care to find out what the heck is going on ?
There should be way more bands and genres missing since the beatles inspired whole genres etc. , also they should have never ended the movie with an ed sheeran tune, either beatles or wonderwall (because that's when the girl fell in love with the boy)
An Ed Sheeran Beatles cover would also have worked.
The Beatles also took a lot of other peoples work. Especially Chuck Berry.
@@alexojideagu yeah 100% true but what does that have to do with anything haha
Oasis has known for being inspired by the Beatles, which is why when he looked up the band, there was no Oasis either.
@@alexojideagu You mean cover? And if you're talking about Come Together, literally only one line was taken from You Can't Catch Me, and if you try to say it's the same song, then you're ears are clogged with wax
When they mentioned the other two guys in the trailers I was really hoping it would’ve been Paul and Ringo
If the Beatles never existed, Paul and Ringo would just be two normal guys , and they would have no idea that they wrote the songs ,because they didn't ! So they wouldn't be guests on the tv show.
In the movie we see that Paul becomes the pope and ringo is unknown
3 people remembered the Beatles in that movie.
Yesterday: A ridiculous movie that fails to take into account the historical cultural context that were a huge part of why Beatles songs became so popular, entered current nostalgia, which is why the songs popularity persist.
i just thpught his Consciousness shifted to a parallel reality
I think universal missed their shot. The idea for this movie was great, and they messed up.
My theory for the other items disappearing from history/existence were because they were things that were a part of his life as a musician, because wonder wall was one of the first songs he played, he seemed to always favor coke as a soda, he used to smoke cigarettes before the accident, he read Harry Potter. That’s just my theory though.
Imagine this having a end credit scene seeing Freddie and Elton saying we’re forming a team 😂
And than an entire cinematic universe happens starring.
Ritchie Valens
Buddy Holly
Johnny Cash
Freddie Mercury
Elton John
This dude who remembered shit.
Selena Quintanilla
The Temptations
New Edition
Jackson 5
Whitney Houston
Mötley Crüe
Sid Vicious
And legit any other band in a Biopic and they all form... the shittiest band ever because they're too different-
Honestly I would love a Beatles tv show bio pic, I just think that there is too much there for a movie and it could be interesting
Paul And Ringo were probably asked but didn’t want to join the movie
I loved Yesterday. But I wouldn’t call it one of the best movies. I liked it for being charming, comical and relatable (at least for me). But during my first showing, I was extremely disappointed because the ending fell flat if you were expecting it to be about the Beatles.
The movie would have been better, albeit vastly different had it focused on the Beatles. I feel that it would have been more exciting and satisfying, but this is what we got. And given the course of events, I don’t hold illwill towards the movie. But if they were to revisit the plot, I would bet money it would have been better.
How was it relatable?! LMAO
@@harold3165 Maybe because the protagonist was a struggling artist?
But just imagine if the four Beatles remembered as well. I would have loved to see them reunited. If two other persons remembered the Beatles, certainly others do to. They could've built "an army" of fans knowing they're the real artists and standing up for them. They could've tried to stop Jack or to persuade everyone else that he's a phony. Etc. The intrigue would've been so much better. I don't even want to see the 4 Beatles, but if he had real opposition (appart from his conscience) the story would've much more compelling.
The "fans" could've been named "the beatlemaniacs" and people could've seen them a little bit like we see the flat-earthers.
Jack could've tried to develop his own talent to keep a grip on his career. I mean, the opportunity was huge. They missed the point completely.
And i guess the John Lennon scene was emotional, but sincerely who in the universe would react the way John did when Jack appeared on his doorstep? In this universe, John is an unknown artist living alone in the middle of nowhere. Of course he would have asked "who the f are you and why did you seek me for advice?!". Everybody would!
Anyway, I was angry at them when I left the cinema. They had so much potentiel, and I felt like they wasted their time and money and mine as well.
Maybe because there are so many “what if’s” or different directions this movie could have gone, maybe another (pt 2) movie will be made. If there will be, I definitely would go see it. I’m about to play this one “to death”
Ringo's nose is why everyone loves the beatles
This movie was a huge waste of a good idea
For this concept to be done right you would need a writer that really goes into detail with how this new world is structured, (assuming without having seen the movie what happened is they woke up in a different timeline and it's not just that everyone forgot something and then never found any evidence for a massive part of music history happening). All of music history from 62 or a little bit after looks totally different now, not counting the Beatles themselves. Did any of the current tendencies in the early 60's go further and bigger, like say instrumental surf rock/girl groups/soul or some other thing, Did the british invasion have a lesser impact in the US without the Beatles as one of the early bands, did Brian Wilson never make Pet Sounds because he couldn't have heard Rubber Soul and Beach Boys would be nothing more than a surf band with cool harmonies. If The Stones took The Beatles place would the collective pop-musical consciousness be much more blues oriented or how would it have looked if it were instead The Kinks/The Animals/The Who/Bob Dylan or maybe Motown as a label. Would Yoko Ono inevitably have met some other western pop culture guy and influenced him in a way that would influence the world in some kind of way. How different would hard rock/heavy metal/punk etc. have looked without Helter Skelter or Revolution and similarly psychedelic music without tomorrow never knows/A day in the Life/Strawberry fields forever, what about concept albums, recording styles, album covers, George Martin, Indian Raga music, the social change in the world and bigger societal and political impacts etc. There's so much stuff to build an alternative world around that it should really be a kind of sci-fi story to be done right.
This would've been better if this was s tv series.
Tijn vadez you’re not the first person to comment that, and I may agree with you, but would you mind explaining to me why? Why would this be better is the TV series, just out of curiosity?
Yes. Because no Beatles no Apple computers Steve Jobs names his company after the Fab Fours label Apple records and that’s just the start would there have been a British Invasion without the Beatles
@@christianali5431 Because it would lasted longer
Love Actually did have All You Need Is Love
They should have made an alternative history film about what would have happened if John emigrated to New Zealand as a child
Moral of the story: Romance ruins everything, unless it is *absolutely* necessary
For my opinion,they should make a biopic for The Beatles like Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman.They should name it Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band or any song by them.Yesterday would be a great title but as you can see,its taken.
TheHyungEve: There was already a Sgt Pepper movie in 1977 starring The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton. It was a horrible bomb at the time but now is a cult classic..
@@JStarStar00 oh thanks for telling me😀Maybe Abbey Road is a nice title?
You've really planned all this out in meticulous detail...do a biopic, name it after one of their songs. What a fucking genius.
there is an actually great manga with the same premise: Beatles dissapear. You might wanna check it out
What?
I guess we'll have to wait 20-30 years for the superior remake
I couldn’t agree more! When I watched it I couldn’t help thinking that there was so much more they could have done with it. Very insightful!
Paul and Ringo should've been in the movie and made a cameo TBH
I think the reason why random things are gone is because they’re important to Jack. Like how Oasis is gone because he performed Wonderwall.
Oasis was gone because they once famously claimed that the Beatles were their one and only inspiration.
@@bilalasfour6322 Stone Roses inspired them as well. But yeah no Beatles no Oasis.
solar flair and the Mandela effect. we do live in a simulation.
I thought the forgotten elements were forgotten because the Beatles were and it’s supposed to make you wonder how the Beatles related to them
Coca cola was mentioned in cone together
Well, I don't see how Harry Potter has anything to do with the Beatles, nor does SNL now being on a Thursday.
@@bendowson3124 simple, because the beatles story of coming out of poor communities and hardship in England never occured, jk Rowling was never inspired to push hard in life and never wrote Harry Potter and because the beatles never went on the Ed sullivan show, late night TV never became as popular and thus snl had to take the Thursday spot
I’ve seen this film twice now and cried my eyes out both times when John opened the door.
One thing I would have like in this movie is people around the world would start to remember the Beatles, like people start to remember moments in time while jack doesn’t notice until his fame has dissipated to a point where he ends up going back to his job
Me too. I was sort of hoping that throughout the course of the movie people would start to remember The Beatles again. It would be like at every concert Jack plays, 10-20 people get reminded of who The Beatles are and the number just slowly grows and grows finally culminating with Paul and Ringo showing up to claim ownership of the songs, and then Jack having to deal with the repercussions of stealing their songs.
@@jjw8885
People couldn't remember the Beatles because they haven't forgotten the Beatles. In this world, the Beatles never happened in the first place. That's why John Lennon is still alive.
I really liked this movie, but I agree that it could've been a lot better, there were a lot of things that were wasted in it
2:33 JUST LIKE JOHN AND YOKO AMIRIGHT!?
I liked this movie, I just have alot of questions that need answering
"I enjoyed the movie, but it wasn't the movie I wanted." Then make your own bloody movie!
The main character is the least curious person ever and also obsessed with The Beatles. He barely googles anything that he finds out no longer exists and only records Beatles songs even after finding out other bands are gone.
I feel like without the Romcom aspect, the movie would’ve been as profitable, if not more
Led Zeppelin is kind of a weird choice right after Beach Boys and the Stones. Zeppelin didn't come out till 68-69