{"id":15053,"date":"2019-10-04T18:57:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T22:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=15053"},"modified":"2019-10-16T18:43:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T22:43:52","slug":"yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;What I&#8217;m offering you is the great and glorious poisoned chalice of money and fame.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yesterday<\/strong>, released in 2019<\/p>\n<p>Jack&#8217;s music career isn&#8217;t going anywhere so he decides to quit. When the lights go out all around the world for 12 seconds, he gets hit by a bus. Afterwards he realizes that he&#8217;s the only person in the world who&#8217;s heard of the Beatles. So he starts singing all their songs, and becoming more and more famous.<\/p>\n<p>I love the premise, and the story unfolds in an interesting and often humourous way. Jack&#8217;s parents are particularly funny.<\/p>\n<p>At one point Jack gains clarity by visiting a particular 78-year-old man.* It&#8217;s a beautiful scene.<\/p>\n<p>Himesh Patel is actually singing all the songs he seems to be singing.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Richard Curtis (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/about-time-2\/\"><strong>About Time<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Stars Himesh Patel, Lily James, Ed Sheeran, and Kate McKinnon. Directed by Danny Boyle (<strong>Slumdog Millionaire<\/strong>). There are lots of Beatles songs, which you can never have too many of, in the soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spoiler alert<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*John Lennon, played by Robert Carlyle. In this universe Lennon never joined the Beatles, and therefore wasn&#8217;t murdered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;What I&#8217;m offering you is the great and glorious poisoned chalice of money and fame.&#8221; Yesterday, released in 2019 Jack&#8217;s music career isn&#8217;t going anywhere so he decides to quit. When the lights go out all around the world for 12 seconds, he gets hit by a bus. Afterwards he realizes that he&#8217;s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,6,5],"class_list":["post-15053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15053"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15089,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15053\/revisions\/15089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}