# Yesterday (2019 film)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** movies
**Created:** [February 18, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769 "2019-02-18T15:45:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/1 "2019-02-18T15:45:13Z")
From the makers of Slumdog Millionaire.
A struggling musician gets hit by a car and wakes up in a world where no-one ever heard of the Beatles or their music…and HE becomes a Rock God.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uqvgPm8U4c)
---
### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2019, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/2 "2019-02-18T16:27:23Z")
Already been done.
[Otherworld](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667370/?ref_=ttep_ep4)
“In the Centrex province, Trace and Gina introduce rock ‘n’ roll music, and record songs written by the Beatles and other classic artists.”
Everything old is new again. Especially if people forget the first time.
---
### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/3 "2019-02-18T16:32:45Z")
Heh. My 8-year-old son recently saw all three “Back to the Future” films, and he has several years of Beatles listening (forced and unforced) under his belt, so he might find this amusing. (Plus, he’s genetically part South Asian).
---
### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/4 "2019-02-18T17:11:46Z")
[Another time it has been done](https://mangakakalot.com/manga/boku_wa_beatles).
---
### Author:  [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2019, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/5 "2019-02-18T20:19:41Z")
I wondered why the concept was familiar…an old furry story of a human transported to a world of werewolves passing off Def Leppard material as his own.
[http://www.foxcar.info/stories/flipside/flip06.htm](http://www.foxcar.info/stories/flipside/flip06.htm)
---
### Author:  [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2019, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/6 "2019-02-18T23:10:41Z")
The same plot point was featured in the 1993-99 BBC comedy _Goodnight Sweetheart_.
> [@](#):
>
> … Gary strikes up a friendship with Phoebe, and makes repeated trips through the time portal, gradually establishing a second life for himself in the 1940s. In this life, he claims to be both a secret agent (aided by his knowledge of future wartime events) and a singer-songwriter, by passing off modern-day pop songs as his own, particularly songs by The Beatles.
> **[Goodnight Sweetheart (TV series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnight_Sweetheart_(TV_series))**
>
> Goodnight Sweetheart is a British science fiction time travel sitcom, starring Nicholas Lyndhurst, created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, and produced by the BBC. The sitcom is about the life of Gary Sparrow, an accidental time traveller who leads a double life through the use of a time portal, which allows him to travel between the London of the 1990s and the London of the 1940s during the Second World War. The sitcom's creators, who also created Birds of a Feather and The New Statesman,...
---
### Author:  [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2019, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/7 "2019-02-18T23:17:41Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
>
> Already been done.
>
> [Otherworld](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667370/?ref_=ttep_ep4)
>
> “In the Centrex province, Trace and Gina introduce rock ‘n’ roll music, and record songs written by the Beatles and other classic artists.”
>
> Everything old is new again. Especially if people forget the first time.
I’m not sure if “forget” is the right word to one episode of a very shortlived 80’s tv show.
---
### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2019, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/8 "2019-02-18T23:38:17Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#):
>
> I’m not sure if “forget” is the right word to one episode of a very shortlived 80’s tv show.
I remembered…
🙂
---
### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2019, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/9 "2019-02-18T23:46:11Z")
I recently rewatched _Otherworld_. It is really, really, really, really bad.
---
### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2019, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/10 "2019-02-18T23:57:40Z")
I wonder about the concept. If no one in the world has heard of the Beatles, would the songs be as successful coming from someone else? Certainly part of their appeal was them (their personalities, appearance, charm, etc.).
Don’t get me wrong; I’ve enjoyed most of Danny Boyle’s movies and will definitely see this one. But I do wonder.
---
### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2019, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/11 "2019-02-19T00:01:34Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
>
> I wonder about the concept. If no one in the world has heard of the Beatles, would the songs be as successful coming from someone else? Certainly part of their appeal was them (their personalities, appearance, charm, etc.).
>
> Don’t get me wrong; I’ve enjoyed most of Danny Boyle’s movies and will definitely see this one. But I do wonder.
I hope he tries to pull off Revolution #9 and they hate it.
---
### Author:  [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2019, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/12 "2019-02-19T00:29:06Z")
I remember that this concept was also used when some guy was transported back in time to like the 1500s or something. (Obviously, there are a few Beatles songs that you couldn’t use in that time period.)
But this looks good, and I wanna see it. I could take Mom out to see it! It comes out the day before her birthday!
---
### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2019, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/13 "2019-02-19T00:36:02Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
>
> I wonder about the concept. If no one in the world has heard of the Beatles, would the songs be as successful coming from someone else? Certainly part of their appeal was them (their personalities, appearance, charm, etc.).
>
> Don’t get me wrong; I’ve enjoyed most of Danny Boyle’s movies and will definitely see this one. But I do wonder.
Well, I thought it didn’t work in Otherworld, either. They went from the beginnings of rock to Beatles to heavy metal to David Bowie in the course of the episode. I don’t think it would work. There’s no context. You can’t appreciate more modern rock unless you know what it is reacting against. And you can’t just give your audience one side - the Beatles worked somewhat because they were better than their contemporaries doing the same thing.
And in a similar thing, give Sgt Pepper to someone in Beethoven’s time and it’ll just be noise. No context. Too drastically a different style than they are used to,
---
### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/14 "2019-02-19T00:39:32Z")
Sgt Pepper wouldn’t even work in the early 1960s, when the Beatles were just getting started.
---
### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2019, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/15 "2019-02-19T00:43:03Z")
There’s a plot point in Tim Powers’ The Anubis Gates where a time traveler goes back to London in 1810 and hears someone whistling a certain song:
> [@](#):
>
> "He was passing a narrow street of Aldgate and somebody crossing one of the rooftop bridges was whistling. Doyle slowed to listen. It was a familiar tune, and so melancholy and nostalgic that it almost seemed chosen as a fitting accomplishment for his lonely evening walk.What the hell is the name of that, he wondered absently as he walked on. Not Greensleeves, not Londonderry Air…
>
> He froze and his eyes widened in shock. It was _Yesterday_…
>
> For a moment he just stood there stunned, like Robinson Crusoe staring at the footprint in the sand.
>
> Then he was running back. “Hey!” he yelled when he was below the little bridge, though there was nobody on it now.”Hey, come back! I’m from the Twentieth Century too!”
---
### Author:  [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2019, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/16 "2019-02-19T00:55:55Z")
(Accidental double-post.)
---
### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2019, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/17 "2019-02-19T01:33:36Z")
The trailer is really very charming. I’m looking forward to it.
---
### Author:  [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2019, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/18 "2019-02-19T09:03:34Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
>
> I wonder about the concept. If no one in the world has heard of the Beatles, would the songs be as successful coming from someone else? Certainly part of their appeal was them (their personalities, appearance, charm, etc.).
>
> Don’t get me wrong; I’ve enjoyed most of Danny Boyle’s movies and will definitely see this one. But I do wonder.
Oh I think their music transcends the band - just look at all the millions of cover songs and the lasting appeal.
And Danny Boyle is a genius, so I’m looking forward to this.
---
### Author:  [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2019, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/19 "2019-02-19T21:35:52Z")
Reaction Videos:
[- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K56YHpmIINQ)
[Yesterday - Trailer Reaction/Review/Rating - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FGNSI0o6AY)
"I’ve got two men…who claim that the song are _THEIRS!"_
:eek:
---
### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2019, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/20 "2019-02-19T21:56:48Z")
Coincidentally (or _not_ coincidentally?) the first song played by the time-travelers in the manga I mentioned was also _Yesterday_.
[Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769.md?page=2)