Director Danny Boyle says he knows that one move he used in 'Yesterday' would delight some Beatles fans, while striking others as blasphemy.
USA TODAYSpoilers ahead! If you haven’t seen “Yesterday” or don’t want to know any surprises from the movie, stop reading now.No, not when the Beatles catalog first goes missing from Earth.It was when Jack takes a road trip to a remote English beach house and the bespectacled man who opens the door is none other than John Lennon, imagined to be an old man who chose a quiet life with the woman he loved over fame and fortune.
“When we came to test the film, yes, there are some people that don’t like it at all. But other people like it enormously," says Boyle. "We call it a ‘Marmite scene’ in Britain. It divides people very clearly."Jack Malik plays to adoring fans at Wembley Stadium in "Yesterday."But Boyle says even a more lighthearted Beatles tale like"Yesterday" would inevitably touch on Lennon's death.
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