Fact #52348

Richard Lester (director, Help!) : They [The Beatles] said about Help! "It wasn't our film. We felt like guest stars and extras in our film." I think that was true. But it had to be true, because not wanting to repeat this film... you had to make a film which didn't deal with their work, which is concerts, television, theatre, and all that.... We had to create this huge baroque fantasy through which they passed.... I'm very proud of Help because I think Help is as successful as A Hard Day's Night in terms of making four people enormously attractive to the audience. I think that a lot of the things that they did and the way they did them, the feeling of it - they were so bloody endearing...
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