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Sarene Leeds<\/b><\/span>\u00a0and Mental_Floss<\/a><\/strong> present 15 Fab Facts About Help!<\/em><\/a><\/strong> \u00a0Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 1. HELP!<\/em> WAS ALMOST CALLED <\/strong>EIGHT ARMS TO HOLD YOU.<\/strong> 3. THE MOVIE\u2019S INTERNATIONAL LOCALES WERE REALLY JUST AN EXCUSE FOR THE BEATLES TO TRAVEL.<\/strong> But The Beatles learned the consequences of their actions the hard way: the weather in the Bahamas was freezing at the time (\u201cIt was absolutely bloody cold,\u201d said Starr), and their crash course in skiing consisted of, according to the drummer, little more than being \u201cedged down the mountain.\u201d<\/p>\n 10. THE MUSICAL NOTES IN THE \u201cTICKET TO RIDE\u201d SEQUENCE WERE PRODUCED OUT OF NECESSITY RATHER THAN CREATIVITY.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
\n<\/em>At first listen, \u201cEight Arms to Hold You\u201d sounds like a nice idea: who wouldn\u2019t want to be held by all four Beatles, right? But when Lester reveals that the Ringo Starr-suggested title was in fact a reference to the multi-armed statue of Kaili that appears in the film, and not a teenage girl\u2019s fantasy of being cradled by The Fab Four, much of the romantic element fades away. In the book accompanying the film\u2019s 2007 DVD re-release, Lester claims that he had wanted to call the movie Help<\/em> from the get-go, but the title had already been registered. Luckily, thanks to The Beatles\u2019 lack of enthusiasm to write a song called \u201cEight Arms to Hold You\u201d and a legal loophole involving an exclamation point, the film was able to proceed as Help!<\/em><\/p>\n
\nWhile A Hard Day\u2019s Night<\/em> stuck to the familiarity of London,\u00a0Help!<\/em> was a veritable travelogue, sending The Beatles to such far-flung destinations as the Bahamas and the Austrian Alps in their attempts to evade the evil Clang (Leo McKern) and his cult of Eastern sycophants. But as Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr revealed in Anthology<\/em> interviews, the film\u2019s travel budget was increased mainly because they<\/i> wanted to go to the aforementioned locales. McCartney recalled how they would say to the writers, \u201cWe\u2019ve never been to the Bahamas\u2014could you write that in?\u201d and \u201cI\u2019ve never been skiing. I wonder if you could write in a scene with skiing?\u201d<\/p>\n