I'm not one of those people who automatically put John Lennon way above the other Beatles. I like them all just fine, thank you very much. But I have to say that John really stands out in A Hard Day's Night, which we just watched in Cinema Criticism. His humor, some of which was apparently ad-libbed, has an absurdist flavor that seems just right for these inescapably absurd times. The other Beatles are great, too: Paul with his sunny smile, George with his amusingly elevated diction and Ringo with those soulful eyes of his. But on this viewing, John stole the show, at least for me.
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