I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) - scene comparisons

[@datguyyo]

One of the things that impressed me about this film was how the actors playing the Beatles were able to precisely recreate their exact moves during the Ed Sullivan Show performance.

[@smarkmalark]

nah, the ringo one was shaking his head far too much

[@SMPandanic]

@@smarkmalark and hitting the symbols (ride and crash) when he wasn't supposed to.. but then again I guess they couldn't see the footage to be 100% accurate (also the drum roll at 1:11 is off by how many beats the drummer playing Ringo played, just stuff I notice as a drummer)

[@tonyvalle2310]

Near the end of song 2:12 approx. the real Ringo lowers his arms, the guy playing Ringo in the flick raises his. I always wondered why? Otherwise a pretty good job.

[@johnurban7333]

I noticed they batted their eyelashes at the wrong times and the shot where Ringo’s fingers weren’t right on the drumsticks. Also actor Paul looked down when he should have looked up and John’s legs weren’t bent at the right angle.

[@jack2breeze]

@tonyvalle2310 Ed Sullivan introduces them with his right hand while the Sullivan actor raises his left.

[@panathentic]

Honestly, great recreation, and unlike what's done today, very TASTEFUL. I love the shot where you can see Ringo on the screen, and his hand dips out of screen, and we can see it pop out from the side of the camera to hit the symbol that was out of frame in the broadcast. That just felt really nice.

[@rchiockf2761]

I love how the filmakers strategically put the TV in front of John, Paul and George and the Camera in front of Ringo so that you would think the Beatles are actually there since there's no way you can see the actor's faces

[@wms6101]

A great debut from Robert Zemeckis, definitely enjoyed it. ❤

[@toothbrush5190]

I saw this in the theater. Those Ed scenes were very well done.

[@justbob78]

Fun movie....saw them twice in Toronto at Maple Leaf Gardens. Best thrill in my 80 years!

[@ovalvox7888]

On this day 2/9/64 the Beatles took the title of biggest music phenomenon ever and to this day have yet to relinquish it.

[@M_Lev___]

Well said! I agree!

[@ovalvox7888]

My daughter was born on this day in 2003 so I was ecstatic about that. I turned both of my girls on to Hard Days Night and Help when they were both young. We watched them over and over again.

[@monaural2.988]

Brilliant, Brilliant movie, absolutely excellent cast. Even given the “artistic license” and playfully bending truth a bit.

[@gameboycat05]

Despite the inaccuracies, great movie

[@TheReubenKincaid]

Great movie….my favorite was Eddie Deezen as Richard “Ringo” Klaus

[@M_Lev___]

Such a fun movie! I always wondered if any of The Beatles actually ever saw the movie, and, if so, what they thought of it.

[@gelar27]

The hiding scene in Beatles room were fenomenal

[@MasterBotttle]

Actual watched that 1978 movie, enjoyed it. Wonder what the Beatles thoughts about it this movie?

[@beatlefancraig67]

Best movie about the Beatlemania era, they did an Australian version called "Secrets" in 1994 about Beatles fans stuck in the basement of an Australian hotel building where The Beatles stayed in Melbourne Australia, not as exciting as the American "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" but has some fine Australian actors in it.

[@flwrfan1752]

@@beatlefancraig67 -Never seen that one.Would like to see it.

[@Bookmarkerer]

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!…a more than worthy response to seeing and hearing the Beatles live performance of “She Loves You” in person; or on television, or over the radio, or on their 45’s/singles and albums/LP’s…Love Paul and Ringo, Love and miss John and George-The Beatles-Always and Forever Spreading Utter Joy With Their Music-Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

[@SalGomez]

Such a great underrated film by a very young Zemekis, produced by Spielberg. I've been a huge fan of this film since it's release and I've attended many screenings of it over the years with some of the cast & crew. Although the setting is obviously New York & New Jersey, it was shot entirely in L.A. and on the backlots of Universal & Warner Bros studios.

[@elialunetta1986]

Fun fact this was the first robert zemeckis (back to the future ) movie, producer by Spielberg

[@countalucard4226]

My older cousin, I guess she was around 18 at the time was in the audience for the Beatles that night.

[@labajadaman]

Fun movie. I have a copy on DVD that I pull out occasionally

[@Funkymojo75]

I enjoyed this movie. And thats Nancy Allen from RoboCop...

[@RedVynil]

Notice the difference between the real audience, which mostly just sat there being civilized and the movie audience jumping around like wild animals and supposedly swinging around on the mic cables overhead? I'm SOOO SURE the people in charge of the show would allowed that shit!!

[@kamdan2011]

0:40 My mother closely resembles the girl on the bottom. 1:45 And my aunt (my mother’s sister) closely resembles the girl behind the dark haired girl at the bottom as well.

[@thomassmiththekingbee]

It was very clever to not include the actors so they wouldn't get any complaints from people saying the actors didn't look like The Beatles.

[@fishdaddy35]

They say there wasn’t a dry seat in the house.

[@flwrfan1752]

Went to the movies to see this when it first came out.Steven Spielberg Directed the film or produced it.The red actress in the film is played by Paul Newman’s daughter by his first wife.

[@dimitreze]

produced Zemeckis directed

[@buddiegaming9355]

i watched this movie a few weeks ago

[@pedroguedes3834]

Here before that copyright strike

[@dimitreze]

@@pedroguedes3834 it was cleared already 😁

[@snaredude56]

Really inventive way to pull it off, using the original footage shown on the cameras and monitors with obscured actors in the background. The drums themselves, aren't even close to being accurate to Ringos actual drum set. "Ringo's" motions did not even come close to what you see when you see the actor and the real Ringo on the camera screen. He just continually bobs his head left and right when the real Ringo is clearly not doing that on the camera screen, and at the end he holds his sticks up in the air after the last break before the finale of the song, yet you don't see the real Ringo do that. The other three actors seemed to be more accurate.

[@TheGreatNateVA]

Very clever to hide the “Beatles” faces by camera or low shots to hide the hide the effect that it’s actually them and using captured footage to put on the camera

[@steveconn1375]

Seems to me that the original audience wasn't that crazy they where sat down in comparison to 1978 version 🤔

[@therealdoddfather]

is the girl in the light blue dress doing something dirty 😬😳

[@Mike-0201]

I remember when this was made reading the stand in actors for The Beatles were one of the bunks from Broadways Beatlemania. Not sure which bunk or guys that appeared. If anyone knows please reply.

[@mr.castor2538]

Why 1978?

[@dimitreze]

year the movie was released

[@jack2breeze]

It's a fictional comedy film about kids trying to get tickets for the Ed Sullivan Show and one kid being harassed for having long hair and being threatened to have his hair cut. Real Beatles footage was on the monitors while stand-ins were on stage. The girl at 0:31 went on to star in the 80s sit-com Busom Buddies with Tom Hanks.

[@MikeTMike]

​​@@jack2breeze Wendy Jo Sperber, R.I.P. The guy who voices Mandark is in it too.

[@julianharris530]

​@@dimitreze What About Kung Fu Panda & Kung Fu Panda 3

[@Mike-0201]

@@MikeTMikeWendy was also Marty McFlys sister in Back To The Future.