History Film / GiveMyRegardsToBroadStreet

[=McCartney=]'s only significant live-action fictional acting role outside of Music/TheBeatles' movies, this might be considered the ultimate vanity film, as it was self-financed, the story is full of inside references to his life, and it's essentially a JukeboxMusical for his oeuvre, with re-recorded versions of songs from his entire career, including, controversially, six redone Beatles songs. It's a musical about an unusually bad DayInTheLife of a character loosely based on Paul [=McCartney=]--but the story continually shifts through different levels of reality.

[=McCartney=]'s only significant live-action fictional acting role outside of Music/TheBeatles' movies, this might be considered the ultimate vanity film, as he's not only the focus of a story laden with inside references to his life, but it's essentially a JukeboxMusical for his oeuvre, with re-recorded versions of songs from his entire career, including, controversially, six redone Beatles songs. It's a musical about an unusually bad DayInTheLife of a character loosely based on Paul [=McCartney=]--but the story continually shifts through different levels of reality.

[=McCartney=]'s only significant live-action fictional acting role outside of Music/TheBeatles' movies, this might be considered the ultimate vanity film, as he's not only the focus of the story, but it's essentially a JukeboxMusical for his oeuvre, with re-recorded versions of songs from his entire career, including, controversially, six redone Beatles songs. It's a musical about an unusually bad DayInTheLife of a character loosely based on Paul [=McCartney=]--but the story continually shifts through different levels of reality.

This is the only fictional live-action film Music/PaulMcCartney as solo artist truly stars in, and perhaps the ultimate vanity film. It is a musical about an unusually bad DayInTheLife of a character loosely based on Paul [=McCartney=]--but the story continually shifts through different levels of reality.

When it came out in 1984, it was critically panned (Creator/RogerEbert gave it one star) and commercially invisible. The reputation of the film [[GuiltyPleasure has been]] [[SoBadItsGood ameliorated]] for [[FanService fans of his]] by [[VindicatedByHistory time]]; acceptance of Paul's {{Cover Version}}s of [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] songs -- it was considered sacrilege in 1984, but we're used to it now -- and slow recognition that, while it violates WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief for most human beings to behave like the protagonist does, it ''is'' in character for someone based on Paul [=McCartney=]. Even if the screenwriter (possibly) gets humanity in general wrong, he cannot be completely out of characters writing a character loosely based on himself. RealLife incidents from the last decade or so suggest that he was closer to reality than he intended.

Credits:

Director: Peter Webb. Since he was new to film, and since Paul is something of a ControlFreak, it is uncertain how much directing Mr. Webb did.

Screenwriter: Paul [=McCartney=].
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* ContemptibleCover: Several versions.

* {{Mondegreen}}: [[InUniverse The]] [[EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped subtitles]] on the most recent UsefulNotes/{{DVD}} of this film and the liner notes in the soundtrack CD (original printing) are at odds with each other.

Director: Peter Wells. Since he was new to film, and since Paul is something of a ControlFreak, it is uncertain how much directing Mr. Wells did.

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[[quoteright:329: And the music never stops.]]

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: We first see Paul McCartney in the back seat of a limo that's stuck in traffic in the rain, dividing his time between writing lyrics and listening to the radio with an air of silent resignation. Even though this is one level of reality up from most of the film, it foreshadows his role in the film surprisingly well.

* AntiHero: Paul

* BreakawayPopHit: Casual fans are, or were in the 1990s at least, far more likely to know and care about "No More Lonely Nights" (with its great guitar solo provided by [[Music/PinkFloyd David Gilmour]]) than about the film it's a theme for.

* EnforcedMethodActing: Any time you ''[[RuleOfPerception see]]'' music being played, that music was being played ''as it was filmed.''

* ThrowItIn: Perhaps half of Ringo's lines, and possibly some of Paul's responses.

* WagTheDirector: Okay, we don't ''know'' this happened. But we suspect Paul may have done this.

* {{Mondegreen}}: [[{{In-Universe}} The]] [[EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped subtitles]] on the most recent UsefulNotes/{{DVD}} of this film and the liner notes in the soundtrack CD (original printing) are at odds with each other.

* FloatingHeadSyndrome: On the most recent {{DVD}} packaging)

* {{Mondegreen}}: [[{{In-Universe}} The]] [[EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped subtitles]] on the most recent {{DVD}} of this film and the liner notes in the soundtrack CD (original printing) are at odds with each other.

* TheMusical: Natural in a film with PaulMcCartney about a DayInTheLife of a musician.

* [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil Analog Piracy Is Evil]] -- both played straight and subverted. The tape being stolen is a big deal, not just because of its causing problems for the legit release, but because there may be an illegit release. Paul himself gets along with Big Bob the bootlegger but doesn't want to do business with him...
* AntiHero -- Paul
* AsHimself -- not just Paul, either. Everyone who plays an instrument or is seen messing with a recording console is playing who they are.
* AsYouKnow -- complete with lampshading.
* AuthorAvatar -- Paul. This is one reason why the film is of interest.
* BreakawayPopHit: casual fans are, or were in the 1990s at least, far more likely to know and care about "No More Lonely Nights" (with its great guitar solo provided by [[Music/PinkFloyd David Gilmour]]) than about the film it's a theme for.

* ContemptibleCover (several versions)
* CoolCar -- at least one -- the one Paul drives.
* CreatorInJoke -- as noted in the ViewersAreGeniuses entry.
* DayInTheLife -- Specifically, 9 am to midnight.

* DisneyAcidSequence (on more than one level)

* EnforcedMethodActing -- any time you ''[[RuleOfPerception see]]'' music being played, that music was being played ''as it was filmed.''

* FloatingHeadSyndrome (on the most recent {{DVD}} packaging)

* ImplausibleDeniability -- but Paul accepts Harry's explanations anyway.
* InevitableWaterfall -- at a critical point of the "Eleanor's Dream" segment.

* MacGuffin -- the tapes.
* MindScrew -- especially if watching this unspoiled.

* TheMusical -- natural in a film with PaulMcCartney about a DayInTheLife of a musician.
* NeckLift -- Big Bob to Tom the Roadie.
* NestedStory -- Starts with Paul awake but sleepy in a limo trapped in a traffic jam. Ends after Paul is awakened at his destination. There are inner nests as well.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero -- the impetus of the plot.
* NightmareSequence (several)
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: there is an ersatz Music/MichaelJackson in the "Silly Love Songs" scene.

* PowerGlows -- the tape case.
* TheQuest: to retrieve a certain master tape...

* TitleDrop: silliness that proves plot-critical
* ViewersAreGeniuses. This film has references to fine art, clever wordplay, multiple allusions, and assumptions of rockstar life (in general) and [=McCartney's=] life (in particular)--and almost no one outside of the screenwriter's inner circle could get even half of these. Even the real MPL of the era missed some of the references in the {{Novelization}}.
* WagTheDirector - Okay, we don't ''know'' this happened. But we suspect Paul may have done this.

When it came out in 1984, it was critically panned (RogerEbert gave it one star) and commercially invisible. The reputation of the film [[GuiltyPleasure has been]] [[SoBadItsGood ameliorated]] for [[FanService fans of his]] by [[VindicatedByHistory time]]; acceptance of Paul's {{Cover Version}}s of [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] songs -- it was considered sacrilege in 1984, but we're used to it now -- and slow recognition that, while it violates WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief for most human beings to behave like the protagonist does, it ''is'' in character for someone based on Paul [=McCartney=]. Even if the screenwriter (possibly) gets humanity in general wrong, he cannot be completely out of characters writing a character loosely based on himself. RealLife incidents from the last decade or so suggest that he was closer to reality than he intended.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: there is an ersatz MichaelJackson in the "Silly Love Songs" scene.

When it came out in 1984, it was critically panned (RogerEbert gave it one star) and commercially invisible. The reputation of the film [[GuiltyPleasure has been]] [[SoBadItsGood ameliorated]] for [[FanService fans of his]] by [[VindicatedByHistory time]]; acceptance of Paul's {{Cover Version}}s of {{Beatles}} songs -- it was considered sacrilege in 1984, but we're used to it now -- and slow recognition that, while it violates WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief for most human beings to behave like the protagonist does, it ''is'' in character for someone based on Paul [=McCartney=]. Even if the screenwriter (possibly) gets humanity in general wrong, he cannot be completely out of characters writing a character loosely based on himself. RealLife incidents from the last decade or so suggest that he was closer to reality than he intended.

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* AntiHero

* AuthorAvatar

* CreatorInJoke

* DeusExMachina

* HeroicBSOD

* InevitableWaterfall
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind

* MacGuffin
* MindScrew

* TheMusical
* NeckLift
* NestedStory

* PowerGlows

* SelfDeprecation

[[quoteright:329: And to spice up the bet, they are not seriously looking for him...]]

When it came out in 1984, it was critically panned (RogerEbert gave it one star) and commercially invisible. The reputation of the film [[GuiltyPleasure has been]] [[SoBadItsGood ameliorated]] for [[FanService fans of his]] by [[VindicatedByHistory time]]; acceptance of Paul's {{Cover Version}}s of {{Beatles}} songs -- it was considered sacrilege in 1984, but we're used to it now -- and slow recognition that, while it violates WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief for most human beings to behave like the protagonist does, it ''is'' in character for someone based on Paul [=McCartney=]. Even if the screenwriter (possibly) gets humanity in general wrong, he cannot be completely out of characters writing a character loosely based on himself, [[spoiler: mostly set within that character's dreamscape]]! Or maybe he could--but RealLife incidents from the last decade or so suggest that he was closer to reality than he intended.

When it came out in 1984, it was critically panned (RogerEbert gave it one star) and commercially invisible. The reputation of the film [[GuiltyPleasure has been]] [[SoBadItsGood ameliorated]] for [[FanService fans of his]] by [[VindicatedByHistory time]]; acceptance of Paul's {{Cover Version}}s of [[TheBeatles Beatles]] songs -- it was considered sacrilege in 1984, but we're used to it now -- and slow recognition that, while it violates WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief for most human beings to behave like the protagonist does, it ''is'' in character for someone based on Paul [=McCartney=]. Even if the screenwriter (possibly) gets humanity in general wrong, he cannot be completely out of characters writing a character loosely based on himself, [[spoiler: mostly set within that character's dreamscape]]! Or maybe he could--but RealLife incidents from the last decade or so suggest that he was closer to reality than he intended.

* BreakawayPopHit: casual fans are, or were in the 1990s at least, far more likely to know and care about "No More Lonely Nights" (with its great guitar solo provided by [[PinkFloyd David Gilmour]]) than about the film it's a theme for.