Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

A film that contains one of the most famous cinematic depictions of the Beatles: Jack Black, Paul Rudd, Justin Long and Jason Schwartzman's brief cameo as Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in Rishikesh, India is widely quoted and memed. We ask what assumptions it makes about the Beatles' personalities. How responsible was the Yellow Submarine film for how a generation, particularly in America, thinks of the Beatles' individual characters and does that play a role here?

The film itself parodies music biopics so of course there's a lot else to talk about. We discuss the tropes of the music biopic. How many of them will there be in the Sam Mendes Beatles films?

Videos

• The Beatles scene, including the deleted bits that weren't used in the theatrical version:

• American Cox: The Unbearably Long Self-Indulging Director's Cut

• The "artist hits on the famous riff" scene from Straight Outta Compton

Links

• The theatrical version of the film

• Watch Ray

• David Krumholtz, who plays a manager in Ray, and in Walk Hard

• The Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere trailer (which David Krumholtz is also in)

• The Tim Robinson sketch

• Limmy's "Wrong Way Down a One Way Street"