There are not many films that succeed at the box office but then they are more remembered for reasons unrelated to that. One of the few examples that occurs to me is that of ‘Yesterday’, a romantic comedy that has just landed on Netflix and that has been talked about for a long time because two fans of Ana de Armas they sued Universal for removing its appearance in it.
The move with Ana de Armas
The point is that Ana de Armas filmed her participation in the film and even appeared in the trailer, but ended up being removed from the final cut. That led to two viewers feeling ripped off when they paid $3.99 to watch it on Amazon Prime and decided to take action. The case is still open, but a California judge has given his approval for them to file a lawsuit for deceptive advertising.
Apparently, the reason why the scene that you can see just above these lines was eliminated is because it seems that the public did not like that the protagonist was interested in another woman and they wanted to prevent the character played by Himesh Patel we ended up falling badly. And the truth is that the film does not suffer with his disappearance either, although Universal does not end up thinking the same in case they say a sentence against him.
Beyond all the mess with the protagonist of ‘Blonde’, what ‘Yesterday’ proposes is a romantic comedy that makes use of the songs of The Beatles to try to raise the charm that their images already give off – and it didn’t come cheap, since those responsible had to pay a whopping 10 million dollars for the rights to their songs.
It is true that he does not fully squeeze what he proposes, nor is it the best script of the never sufficiently valued Richard Curtis (‘A matter of time’) and that it is surprising that Danny Boyle direct something like that, but also that it’s much better than usual in this subgenre and knows how to find the keys to be close and entertaining.
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