Help! / На помощь! 1965.

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Так как сегодня хотелось чего-нибудь веселого, я решила посмотреть именно этот фильм.
Как я говорила, название фильма и песни Джона Леннона, и просмотр этого фильма сегодня сыграл для меня своего рода, символическое значение.

Ребята не очень любят этот фильм.

The Beatles were dissatisfied with this movie, saying that they "felt like extras in [their] own movie".

Да, он психаделически абсурдный. Но такой смешной!
Так приятно наблюдать за такими юными, дружными и кривляющимися ребятами!
А какая музыка, какие места съемок. Красота!

интересные факты:

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The actors had 16 days, meaning 10 pages per day to memorize.

According to The Beatles, they were experimenting in marijuana at the time this movie was filmed. That explains why they flub alot of their lines or their lines don't make much sense.

During the filming of the bicycle scene, a Krishna devotee approached all four Beatles with copies of a book about Hare Krishna, sparking the interest George Harrison would carry the rest of his life.

George Harrison said that during the filming of the sequence in which the Beatles threw a hose out the window and the army guards all fall down, they were in hysterics laughing and the scene took almost a day to film.

According to Paul McCartney, the sсript was designed around their requests that the story involves them going to places like the Austrian Alps and the Bahamas because they had never been there before.

The original title of the movie was "Eight Arms to Hold You", although no one really liked it much and by the time the movie was edited, it didn't really fit the storyline at all.
John Lennon had written the song "Help!" around the same time, and it suited the movie's theme so well it became the title song.

Throughout the filming, Paul McCartney drove director Richard Lester to distraction by constantly playing the melody of a new song he was working on called "Scrambled Eggs".
By the time filming had wrapped, "Scrambled Eggs" had acquired new lyrics and a new title: "Yesterday".

In the beach scene towards the end of the film, John Lennon had an appointment and could not be present. Another actor stood in for him.

One scene cut from the movie had George Harrison, disguised as Ringo Starr, sitting in a treehouse.

The swimmer who pops up twice asking for the White Cliffs of Dover, once in the Alps, and once in the Bahamas, is Mal Evans, road manager for The Beatles.

There are many references to the James Bond films, as United Artists also distributed the films of that series.

George Harrison, whom Richard Lester said was the best actor of the Beatles, has more material in this film than in the previous Beatle film.

The "ferocious man-eating tiger" which terrifies Ringo in the cellar of the pub is actually only a cub; it appears to be about ten months old.
A real full-grown tiger would be MUCH larger. In addition to this, Ringo was also behind several inches of glass, separating between him and the tiger (this was mentioned in the special edition DVD).

One of the film's original taglines was, "Please do not reveal the beginning of this movie to your friends (they'd never believe it, anyway)".
This is a spoof of the tagline from 'Alfred Hitchcock''s Psycho, which implored its audience, "Please do not reveal the ending of this movie to your friends (it's the only one we have)".

A miniaturized Paul is wearing flesh-colored bathing trunks during his brief (no pun intended) "nude scene" in "The Exciting Adventures of Paul On The Floor".
The discarded chewing gum wrapper which he uses to wrap around himself as a towel is clearly intended to resemble a Wrigley's Spearmint Gum wrapper, although no brand name is shown.

By Paul and Ringo's own admission, they were so stoned on pot the day they shot the scene where Dr. Foot and Algerman tried to blow them up in the Austrian Alps
that when George screamed his line "It's an fiendish thingy! Run Ringo!" Both Ringo and Paul ran over the next hill.

Originally, the Beatles were going to make a western picture. The story was going to be set in Texas and involved the four of them fighting over the affections of a cattle baron's daughter.
There are even publicity photos showing them on horseback and wearing cowboy outfits.
However the film shut down production and the Beatles ended up making this film instead.