They founded a new kind of daydream nation: the United States of Beatlemania.
The Beatles and their new mobs of U.S. fans built a whole new future together.
He missed his class.
(L-R) George Harrison, Ringo Starr, John Lenon, and Paul Mccartney arriving at JFK airport in BEATLES 64'.Courtesy of Apple Corps, Ltd.
My mother loved the Beatles, Scorsese recalled.
She would come with us to the 8th Street Playhouse to seeA Hard Days Night.
The movie traces the bands immediate impact all over American culture, especially in terms of gender and sexuality.
Those boys are wearing their hair long and saying no to the masculine mystique, Friedan says.
No to that brutal, sadistic, tight-lipped, crew-cut, Prussian, big-muscle Ernest Hemingway masculinity.
The man who is strong enough to be gentle that is a new man.
As Scorsese said at the premiere, They let everybody behave, then picked up on that.
The Maysles brothers got 11 hours of footage, which provides most ofBeatles 64.
Beatles 64is a tribute to the fans as well as the band.
Beatlemaniacs took over the mean streets of NYC, and they liked how it felt out there.
is how the Maysles brothers (like the band) refuse to condescend to these girls.
But these girls are utterly unfazed by the hostility aimed at them.
They are not the least bit afraid of or impressed by him.
He barks, This is as far as youre gonna go.
Theyre creating the future, and they know it.
The film takes these fans seriously, as the Beatles themselves always did.
Each one has a story to tell, including the Julliard student with an armful of classical sheet music.
Their collective confidence is awesome to behold.
Paul McCartney andRingo Starralso appear in brief interview clips.
(Ringo might have moved slow, but it was only because Ringo didnt have to move foranybody.)
But nothing stops the band or the fans.
We were working-class boys used to posh people looking down on us, McCartney says now.
But you know what?
We didnt give a flying fuck.
The band came from the vacuum of non-conscription, he says.
We were the generation that was allowed to live.
What the Beatles did in 1964 alone continues to change the worldandBeatles 64is testimony to that ongoing story.
