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13 Best Movie Moments Featuring The Beatles Music

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The new film “Yesterday” imagines what it might be like if nobody had ever heard of The Beatles, and as one lady says within the movie, “the world is a worse place without The Beatles music in it.” But a number of nice movies would even be worse off with out the songs of the Fab Four. That stated, Beatles songs are costly, and solely so many movies have managed to hit that good word. And to make this record manageable, we’re excluding films that completely use Beatles songs like “Across the Universe,” “I Am Sam” in addition to The Beatles personal films “A Hard Day’s Night,” “Help!” and “Yellow Submarine.”

Warner Bros.

“Once Upon a Time in America” (1984) – “Yesterday”
In this wistful second in Sergio Leone’s sprawling epic “Once Upon a Time in America,” Robert De Niro performs a gangster leaving New York to the sound of an quaint, Ennio Morricone rating, solely to return years later as a now worn previous man. As he steps again into 1960s New York to look again on the reminiscences of his former life, Morricone’s rating blends right into a rendition of “Yesterday” that’s as forlorn because the film itself.

Paramount

“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” (1986) – “Twist and Shout”
As a bit of child rising up within the suburbs of Chicago not lengthy after this film was launched, I’ll or might not have tried to impersonate Ferris Bueller’s lip syncing to The Beatles model of “Twist and Shout,” furiously stomping my toes in unison to the “shake it, shake it, shake it, baby now!” bit on the finish. It’s a film second and track so enjoyable that it conjures up the complete metropolis to spontaneously stand up and dance and even cartwheel by the air.

Image Entertainment

“Withnail and I” (1987) – “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”
It helps when George Harrison is definitely an govt producer in your film, however the pin drop of Eric Clapton’s guitar solo makes for a fantastically surreal and thrilling second in “Withnail & I,” Bruce Robinson’s autobiographical and alcohol soaked odyssey and cult basic.

United Artists

“Rain Man” (1988) – “I Saw Her Standing There”
It’s only a fast verse, however Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman sharing the Beatles track “I Saw Her Standing There” comes at an emotional turning level in Barry Levinson’s movie, when Charlie Babbitt lastly realizes it was his brother Raymond he remembered singing to him as a toddler.

Universal Pictures

“A Bronx Tale” (1993) – “Come Together”
During this pummeling scene from Robert De Niro’s gangster story “A Bronx Tale,” “Come Together” performs excessive of what begins as a reasonably enjoyable and rambunctious battle scene. “Now youse guys can’t leave,” Chazz Palminteri’s mobster character Sonny says to a biker gang as he locks them in his bar. After one fighter smashes into the jukebox, the track adjustments and the heavy violence of the scene sinks in.

New Line Cinema

“Pleasantville” (1998) – “Across the Universe”
The Beatles got here after the 1950s sitcom interval that “Pleasantville” is ready in, however Fiona Apple’s lush and delicately strummed cowl of “Across the Universe” feels timeless and splendidly matches the movie’s transformation again into full technicolor.