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Norm mistakenly thought John's Aunt Mimi was John's mother.
This explains why he says "John, put those girls down or I'll tell your mother on you."It's an understandable mistake. For most of John's childhood, Mimi acted more like his mother than John's real mother did.
Paul McCartney is on a Mission from God.
He said that his mother asked him to look after his grandfather. His mother had, in Real Life, been dead for eight years when this film was released. Clearly, there was some higher purpose... Though we never do find out what it is. Paul's Grandfather broke up the band
We see in the film that he made Norm and Shake have the first fight in their entire friendship. He probably made a similar remark to John or Paul somewhere down the line and ended up making them grow tension and eventually split. John's line about visiting Harrod's is connected to his mother.
"I say, did you go to Harrods? I was there in '58, you know." John's mother died in 1958 — the "'58" John mentioned. John is gay/bi- and has a crush on Ringo.
Given through the HoYay examples in the YMMV page
, which includes the scene when John starts singing "If I Fell" in front of Ringo. In this movie, the band isn't called The Beatles.
The band's name is not spoken in the script. Sure, they have those drums, but they could've just borrowed them from some lesser band. Or "The Beatles" could be the brand name of the drum kit. John is a Time Lord
And the tub is his TARDIS. Meta
A Hard Day's Night is a documentary about the Beatles.
And everything in the film really happened.Yes, there does appear to be counter-evidence, but this theory was once popular among a certain class of film reviewer.
James Bond (as played by Sean Connery) is a real person in the universe of this film.
The unnamed but rather pompous gentleman the Beatles encounter on the train is played by Richard Vernon, who also played Colonel Smithers in Goldfinger which was released in the same year as this film. The two characters could well be the same person — the Bank of England executive who briefs James Bond on gold smuggling also ends up in the same train compartment as four cheeky Liverpudlians while commuting to or from work. We know that the Beatles exist in Bond's world because 007 himself makes a disparaging comment about wearing ear-muffs while listening to them (also in Goldfinger, as it happens).- Taking this a step further, the posh gambling club that Ringo gets invited to (only for Paul's grandfather to steal the invite and go there himself) is the same club where James Bond met Sylvia Trench in Dr. No (which, coincidentally, was released on the same day that the Beatles' first single).
