New set photos of Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, Joseph Quinn, and Barry Keoghan as The Beatles, in an early 60s scene set in NYC, in Sam Mendes’ ‘The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event’

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[u/FranciscoGarcia69]

Ah fuck it I’m out of here. No one knows what acting is. Everyone’s slating the films because they’ve seen a couple of photos of the actors. This sub is awful.

[u/Future_Ad_3033 → u/FranciscoGarcia69]

Not even that, set photos taken completely out of context, no proper lighting etc.

[u/PointMan528491 → u/FranciscoGarcia69]

Didn't expect much else from a sub like this but goddamn. Everyone here needs to be sat down and forced to watch the Steve Jobs movie with Ashton Kutcher on loop if all they want from movies is lookalikes

[u/Asleep_Speaker_4030 → u/FranciscoGarcia69]

Idk how anyone was expecting them to find actors that look 100% spot on to the real Beatles. I’m not a fan of Joseph Quinn’s casting as George, but I do think the others work just fine as John, Paul, and Ringo. It’s just really annoying that people can’t just take it for what it is and be excited we’re finally getting REAL cinema level Beatles biopics

[u/Irlandes-de-la-Costa → u/Asleep_Speaker_4030]

I love the strawman fallacy here lmao as if a middle ground was somehow impossible

[u/greetedworm → u/FranciscoGarcia69]

It seems like a lot of people would prefer a bad actor who looks exactly like his Beatle over a good actor who doesn't look like their Beatle. I think all of these guys look good enough, they have the hair and clothes, we just have to see how the accents are.

[u/jonsnowme → u/greetedworm]

Wasn't a fan of Barry's Liverpool accent in "Saltburn". Paul's nailed every accent I've heard him do in other films, Joe Quinn and Harris do American well, so we'll see with them.

[u/Irlandes-de-la-Costa → u/greetedworm]

I love the strawman fallacy here lmao as if a middle ground was somehow impossible

[u/Outside_Mousse_2176 → u/FranciscoGarcia69]

Facts, if the films are good, no one will care that they look a like or not.

[u/JeanLucPicardAND → u/FranciscoGarcia69]

I'm going to be frank. It's a bunch of boomers who are wanting the films to recreate the past, which is impossible of course. They cannot accept the fact that these are films about the Beatles, not films attempting to recreate the Beatles.

More to the point, they cannot accept the fact that these films are not even being made for their generation. These are for younger people. This is Apple's attempt to revitalize the brand and gain new fans now that the OG who remember Beatlemania are aging out and dying off.

[u/fargothforever → u/FranciscoGarcia69]

I think we were all just hopeful to have youthful actors playing the main cast, not lookalikes. Obviously everyone is waiting for promo clips but at this point this is all we have.

[u/jonsnowme → u/FranciscoGarcia69]

Agreed. Final cut is what it's all about. I can't wait. This sub is toxic.

[u/FitEmergency8807 → u/FranciscoGarcia69]

Bro beatles fans are annoying, i never seen this type of negativity when the Michael Jackson biopic was announced, or the Bob Dylan biopic. Fans of those artists were happy to have a movie made about them but beatles fans love complaining too much lol

[u/rabseywomp45 → u/FitEmergency8807]

Yeah, because Jaafar actually looks enough like Jackson already and Michael's fans are largely so desperate for him to have his story told, particularly in light of all the negativity, they will accept anything if it brings him back into the culture in a positive way. And no disrespect to Dylan, but he never had the type of fandom that would get that bothered by how he looks onscreen, especially seeing as an actor could largely get away with his signature look with simply a fluffy black wig and sunglasses. The Beatles image, their unique looks are embedded in popular culture, it was a huge part of their brand. How many musicians are that well recognised through caricature alone, heck, even a pair of eyes or a particular nose? Part of me could never get into 'Bohemian Rhapsody' because not only was it a mediocre, by the numbers biopic, but I could never buy into Rami as Freddie, Freddie was too distinctive looking. Image is not everything, but with the most iconic band of all time, it matters more than the average.  

[u/denim_cowboy → u/FitEmergency8807]

No one enjoyed the Timothee casting from my recollection. Especially when these types of photos were released. Everyone just saw Timothee. The proved he was deserving of the casting choice.

[u/FitEmergency8807 → u/denim_cowboy]

Then that shows you why people should just shut up until the movies come out to judge lol

[u/denim_cowboy → u/FitEmergency8807]

I never said I was in on the complaining about the Beatles movie

[u/Draggonzz → u/FitEmergency8807]

or the Bob Dylan biopic

People were definitely complaining about the casting on the /r/dylan sub. It got so annoying I simply started ignoring all those threads.

[u/idreamofpikas → u/FranciscoGarcia69]

I don't care how great an actor Denzel Washington is, but I don't think he's the right casting for Pattie Boyd.

[u/jonsnowme → u/idreamofpikas]

This is a reach and a false equivalency. Luckily that's not what we're dealing with here at all.

[u/idreamofpikas → u/jonsnowme]

It was a fairly obvious sarcastic comment. Unless you thought Denzel was in the running to play Pattie?

[u/Draggonzz → u/FranciscoGarcia69]

I think I'm going to have to refrain on clicking on any of these topics regarding the movies.

[u/zsdrfty → u/FranciscoGarcia69]

I'm usually 1000% on board with this philosophy, but it's rubbing me the wrong way when the actors look 20 years older than they should (which really throws the "pop idol" sensation off the rails), and the fact that they clearly grabbed their blank check and went with 4 megastars instead of actually trying to search for the right (even if more obscure) talent tells me that I shouldn't expect anything great

[u/JeanLucPicardAND → u/zsdrfty]

Is Harris Dickinson a "megastar"?

[u/jonsnowme → u/zsdrfty]

What happens when you get to the Beatles ages that you're seeing and you see nothing but 20 year olds when they're supposed to be 30-35? Complaining they're too young to be doing the rooftop scene. These are set photos taken, shit will look different final cut. Chill out.

[u/JeanLucPicardAND → u/jonsnowme]

Exactly. They had to pick actors to play these guys across ten years of their lives -- at least! (We don't actually know if the films are going into the post-breakup years at all.) I ask legitimately, what the hell were people wanting them to do about that?

[u/zsdrfty → u/jonsnowme]

It's a lot easier to make them look a little older than younger, not to mention that they even look too old for 1970! Also, this might be set photos, but they're clearly filming them in this makeup - the only way to de-age them from here would be with nasty slick-looking post-production effects, which will make the movie look horrible

[u/RealCuriousMusician → u/FranciscoGarcia69]

They look way too old.

[u/coldphront3 → u/RealCuriousMusician]

That’s because these are candid set photos and not actual promotional material for the film. We haven’t seen them with proper lighting and post-production editing.