# Yesterday (2019 film) **URL:** \ **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:** 2
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/21 "2019-02-19T22:04:37Z")
[And here’s a guy who thinks that he is the only person to have ever thought of this](https://www.maitlandmercury.com.au/story/5909694/storyline-nicked-or-an-unlucky-coincidence/). ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/22 "2019-02-19T22:28:29Z")
One more note–[the Otherworld episode is on YouTube.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYwbNErMdkw) (They started with _I Want to Hold Your Hand_, not Yesterday.) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/23 "2019-04-18T18:47:41Z")
I love the concept, I’m a huge Beatles fan, and the trailer makes it look like a lot of fun, so I’ll definitely be seeing it. > [@JKellyMap](#): > > Heh. My 8-year-old son recently saw all three “Back to the Future” films… In the first of which, Marty McFly plays some Chuck Berry music from the (near) future at the prom. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/24 "2019-04-18T20:12:09Z")
In the Stephen King novel, 11/22/63, the time traveler Jake Epping was constantly singing or whistling songs from later than November, 1963, to the bafflement of his girlfriend, although he didn’t try to pass therm of as his own. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/25 "2019-04-18T21:18:00Z")
I suspect this movie is going to be a bitter disappointment, because all of the signs say it should be great; Beatles songs, written by Richard Curtis (of Love, Actually and Notting Hill fame) and directed by Danny Boyle (of Millions, 24 Days Later and Slumdog Millionaire fame). So all indications are that I should love it. I’m just afraid that despite that, I’m not going to like it. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/26 "2019-04-18T21:45:41Z")
[Moderating] Thread title edited for clarity. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/27 "2019-04-19T02:52:51Z")
Thanks, **Chronos**. Just hope what happens in the movie doesn’t turn out to “just be a dream.” ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/28 "2019-04-19T17:41:09Z")
In [Peggy Sue got Married](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091738/), Peggy Sue gets transported back to her past and tries to teach her do-wopping boyfrined to sing ‘She Love You’. I am remembering that right, right? ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/29 "2019-04-19T18:41:13Z")
Don’t forget Marty McFly playing_Johnny B. Goode_ at a high school dance and Marvin Berry excitedly calls his cousin Chuck to have a listen. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/30 "2019-04-19T20:42:01Z")
Also a plot arc in John Allison’s webcomic _Scary-Go-Round_, where a couple characters from the modern world end up in Elizabethan England, and one makes a name for herself singing as much as she can remember of old Beatles songs. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/31 "2019-04-20T20:39:05Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Don’t forget Marty McFly playing_Johnny B. Goode_ at a high school dance and Marvin Berry excitedly calls his cousin Chuck to have a listen. I didn’t forget. See post 23. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2019, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/32 "2019-04-20T21:51:13Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > In [Peggy Sue got Married](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091738/), Peggy Sue gets transported back to her past and tries to teach her do-wopping boyfrined to sing ‘She Love You’. > > I am remembering that right, right? “I changed all the yeah-yeah-yeahs to Ohh-ohh-ohhs…” ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/33 "2019-04-21T13:14:58Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > 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, I am curious to how the movie addresses how the music landscape is when the Beatles didn’t exist. Considering their influence and innovation I would think it would be pretty different, but it might be hard to go into all that but still show a recognizable world. Coldplay is referenced and Ed Sheeran is in the trailer so I’m wondering if all other music is the same or if some other band filled the space that the Beatles had. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/34 "2019-04-23T05:15:31Z")
I’m kind of intrigued. On the one hand, I’m generally a fan of stories involving parallel universes and alternate timelines and such. But I’m not a huge fan of the Beatles. I may just let the reviews guide me on this one. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/35 "2019-04-23T15:15:39Z")
> [@Sam\_Lowry](#): > > I am curious to how the movie addresses how the music landscape is when the Beatles didn’t exist. Considering their influence and innovation I would think it would be pretty different, but it might be hard to go into all that but still show a recognizable world. I would think the smart approach would be not to address it at all; the musical world would be totally different without the Beatles. Even if the general development of music was the same, the personalities would be different. If you have no Beatles, you might not have David Bowie becoming famous, as all British music, and Bowie, were influenced by the Beatles. If you don’t have David Bowie you may lose twenty, fifty more artists; a quick Google search of people influenced and inspired by Bowie includes basically everyone in the last 45 years. Who knows? Fighting that would require the movie confuse the audience for no good reason; it’s easier to just anchor the audience in a world where Coldplay, Ed Sheeran and James Corden and other famous people are who you understand them to be. If you wanted a hard science fiction movie that’s a different matter, but “Yesterday” is clearly not that. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/36 "2019-04-23T19:30:07Z")
Sort of like _The Invention of Lying_, where the world is far, far, _far_ too similar to our own. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/37 "2019-04-23T21:11:28Z")
> [@Sam\_Lowry](#): > > I am curious to how the movie addresses how the music landscape is when the Beatles didn’t exist. Considering their influence and innovation I would think it would be pretty different, but it might be hard to go into all that but still show a recognizable world. Coldplay is referenced and Ed Sheeran is in the trailer so I’m wondering if all other music is the same or if some other band filled the space that the Beatles had. Maybe it was a world where the Rolling Stones competed with… The Kinks? Eh. Not the same, but not too bad either. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/38 "2019-04-23T22:06:35Z")
I’m assuming the end will be “It was all a dream.” Let’s face it, in a world where all of the current music is the same it’s just that no one heard of the Beatles, no one is going to get famous singing “I want to hold your hand.” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/39 "2019-04-23T22:29:53Z")
Well, the scenario presented in the trailer is the main character tumbles over the handlebars of his bicycle and wakes up in the hospital to the news that while he was unconscious, there was a blackout, _simultaneously all over the world_. Oh, and all of a sudden no one ever heard of the Beatles. “It was all just a dream” _does_ sound like the most likely explanation but I really hope that Richard Curtis came up with something more clever. As I said, I’m looking forward to it but we’ll see. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769/40 "2019-04-24T00:34:29Z")
I’m looking forward to seeing this movie. I love the Beatles. It is a clever idea that one guy would know previously famous songs that the rest of the world has never heard. I’m not convinced one guy singing Beatles songs would ever become as famous. He’d certainly have some success, but part of the Beatles phenomenon were the four lads from Liverpool. Their unique way of performing and the time period that it occurred helped establish The Beatles. McCartney and Lennon had something special that an imposter would never be able to recreate. Could be interesting to have some songs become hits and others flop. The world in 2019 might not like I Am The Walrus. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yesterday-2019-film/829769.md?page=3)