Yes, but - he was 44. Or at least Dudley Moore was. It's not like he was in his fifties or something. That's still young enough where he should have liked fifties rock and roll, should have liked The Beatles. He should have at least appreciated the fact that The Beatles were sophisticated musically. My mother was exactly Dudley Moore's age, and she appreciated this about The Beatles.
If he had made fun of, oh, I don't know, Elton John, or whoever was bubble gum pop in the seventies, that would have been more palatable, would have made more sense.
I guess I'm just sensitive to the crack being about The Beatles as opposed to someone of the actual time period.
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captkirk_4
7 years ago
The movie was probably based on something that happened in the early 70s and the idea didn't get around to being made until 79. Might explain the dynamic. I was wondering that same thing when he denounced "Why Don't We Do It In The Road" as typical young people music when that was already a decade old song from the Beatles during their fading out period. I was thinking was this screenplay a decade old by the time it got shot? Sean Connery also denounces the Beatles as James Bond in Goldfinger but that was actually time relevant as the film was from 1964 right at the time the Beatles emerged on the scene as a "Boys Band" for teenage girls.
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jgroub
7 years ago
Right, and right. Right about the time it took to develop the idea to a script to a movie (although I have no facts, this is a plausible explanation), and definitely right about The Beatles in 1964 being just another bubble gum boy band.
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