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“Why aren’t you at school?” “I’m a deserter.”
“Why aren’t you at work?” “I’m a deserter, too.”

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A HARD DAY’S NIGHT (1965)
This is it. This scene is the whole reason the movie exists. A Hard Day’s Night is not just about The Beatles and Beatlemania. It’s about the near-impossibility of retaining your sanity when living in the gap between who you are and who people expect you to be.

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This scene was also prophetic. Ringo was in fact a deserter, the first to quit The Beatles, in 1968, during sessions for the White Album. He spent two weeks in Sardinia with his family on a yacht borrowed from his friend Peter Sellers, during which he wrote Octopus’s Garden about these very same pressures.

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Sometimes the only way to save yourself is to become a deserter.

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(Special props to the editor for illuminating the parallels between Ginger and John, Eddy and George, and Dingdong and Paul!)
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