Should The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night Be Colorized for a New Generation To Enjoy?

Sure. If it can be done well....I say do it.

 

I think they should take the Help movie and do a Mono fold down to Black And White.

 

Should the Sistine Chapel be repainted black-and-white?

 

Just wait until you see the 3D...

 

You guys know that most millennials are now older than the Beatles were in 1964, right? In some cases more than a decade older.

Black & white is a specific stylistic choice in AHDN. As @jjhunsecker said, it's a nod to New Wave. And colorization is a goofy, pointless idea in the first place. Younger people are perfectly capable of watching/enjoying black & white films if they're the sort to care about older movies and music, which many of them are or will be, and many will not.

 

Yeah let''s change everything. Alter all original art to cater for new folks who don't give a crap of history . They should grow a pair and enjoy originality.

 

I agree with you. I've been a Beatles nut most of my life, but I've never been able to connect with this or any of their movies.

 

Yeah its says why bother?! : Let's make Yellow Submarine black and white then.

 

Anyone seeking to know the meaning of the term "straw man argument" should be directed to this thread, which contains several prime examples. "Let's remake yellow Submarine in black & white", for example.

Yellow Sub was intended to be, and was produced as, a colour film. The title perhaps hints at this. I would no more suggest converting Yellow Sub to monochrome than I would want AHDN converted to colour, and for the same reason. It's messing with the art, making it something that it was not in the first place.

There is a hint of desperation in the trend to remake old movies, whether that consists of colouring a monochrome movie or of shooting the film again with a new set and new actors. It says to me "We can't think of a good idea for a new film; this one made years ago was a big success, so let's put out a new version." It's a tacit admission that it's about money, not art.Of course the movie industry, while it has created great art along the way, has always been motivated by profit, but I can't remember this truth being so blatantly thrust in our faces in the past as it is now in the 21st century.

 

Or All Things Must Pass.

 

This is true in TV as well. Rebooting an old TV series — particularly one that was highly regarded and successful — with the same actors and creative forces is one thing, but the list of lesser TV programs for which this has been tried and failed is legion. I've thankfully forgotten most of these attempts.

This will be lost on you over in Australia, but I remember it getting to the point a few years ago where I said it's only a matter of time before someone decides to do a new version of "My Mother, the Car."

For the uninitiated, this is widely regarded as one of the worst TV series in history. The premise was that the lead character — portrayed by Dick Van Dyke's brother Jerry — discovers that his mother has been reincarnated (in a manner of speaking), and her voice speaks to him through his car radio.

By the way, substitute "song" for "film" in your penultimate sentence, and you can apply it equally to the number of music artists of the last 25 years or so that have done crappy and totally unnecessary remakes of 60s and 70s classics. It's one thing to do this for fun after you've established a good track record of writing and performing your own stuff, but more than one artist has started right out of the gate with this tactic. My contempt for such artists is boundless.

 

Nopity-nope-nope.

 

If someone can't enjoy a movie because it's black and white, then they weren't going to enjoy it to begin with.

 

I find it unfortunate that they didn't spend the money to make it in color originally.

 

I haven't seen the "First-through-15th-Chapels" yet!...
NO SPOILERS!!!

 

That was horrible!

 

If they hired the guy who colorized that clip to do it, I'd watch it, just for the novelty. Otherwise,

 

"Black and white" is not always a limitation, it's also an aesthetic, and it's particularly important that new generations learn that.

 

I think the money would be better spent if they re-made the movie with CGI Beatles. They could have a soundtrack of cover versions recorded by the people who did the Perfect Strangers theme song.

 

LOL

 

Yes. It should be colorized for today’s audience..
And Kid Rock should do all the Beatle songs on it too....

 

Another is Yankee Doodle Dandy. Cheer for the white, black and grey?

Just shot one this weekend, and they had a really great Motown cover band called Atlantic Express.

 

Should the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night send push notifications to kids' phones so they know when a good part is coming up?

 

Yes I do know about that show. I think I may have seen one episode. I'm glad to know the general opinion of it dovetails with mine.

 

Didn't they around the corner or jump the fence of something? Isn't there an opening in the wall or building, to the left in the pic; they are certainly rounding a corner in a previous clip.