A film that contains one of the most famous cinematic depictions of the Beatles: Jack Black, Paul Rudd, Justin Long and Jason Schwartzman's brief cameo as Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in Rishikesh, India is widely quoted and memed. We ask what assumptions it makes about the Beatles' personalities. How responsible was the Yellow Submarine film for how a generation, particularly in America, thinks of the Beatles' individual characters and does that play a role here?

The film itself parodies music biopics so of course there's a lot else to talk about. We discuss the tropes of the music biopic. How many of them will there be in the Sam Mendes Beatles films?

• The theatrical version of the film: https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/walk-hard-the-dewey-cox-story
• "American Cox: The Unbearably Long Self-Indulging Director's Cut" is on YouTube for free: https://youtu.be/8UdDZ9xmcfk
• Beatles scene, with the deleted bits: https://youtu.be/6frgnqTo1eM
• Ray https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/ray-2004 and Walk The Line https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/walk-the-line
• An "artist hits on the famous riff" scene from Straight Outta Compton: https://youtu.be/XC61gApOFac
• David Krumholtz, who plays a manager in Ray, and in Walk Hard: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0472710
• The Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere trailer: https://youtu.be/oQXdM3J33No (Krumholtz is a record exec in this too)
• The Tim Robinson sketch: https://youtu.be/6v1qNVZmofI
• Limmy's Wrong Way Down a One Way Street: https://youtu.be/LW7Iv-V1-Jo

Meet the Beatles Films Podcast

The Beatles Films Podcast is hosted by Matt Looker and Ed Williamson. We're both film writers and Beatles fans. Between us we've written for TheShiznit.co.uk, Total Film, Den of Geek and Virgin Media.

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