Corrected entry: During the beach scene John holds a clear mug where you can see the liquid. Later the mug turns black and opaque.
Yesterday (2019)
1 corrected entry
Directed by: Danny Boyle
Starring: Lily James, Ellise Chappell, Sophia Di Martino, Himesh Patel
Continuity mistake: During the interview, while sitting, his striped pants are unzipped for a few cuts, then they are zipped in later shots.
Jack Malik: It's times like this I wish I hadn't given up smoking. I could murder a cigarette.
Rocky: Yeah. What's a cigarette?
Question: If there was no Beatles, where did the toy yellow submarine come from?
Answer: Believe it or not, the Beatles did not invent the idea that a submarine could be yellow, and yellow toy submarines were sold for children to play with.
Answer: It is just a toy submarine molded or repainted in yellow. Only the 'stalker' fans know the reference to the Beatles song.
Answer: I think it was so those 2 people that knew of the Beatles could prove they knew the Beatles song, since presumably that was a song Jack forgot about.
Answer: None of these answers explain why it's shaped the same as the submarine from "yellow submarine." It's a specific shape that didn't exist before the Beatles, so shouldn't exist.
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Correction: If you watch carefully as the mug comes into shot you can see it is still the same clear mug and you can see the liquid. However, when John moves the mug (still in the same shot) so that he is holding it with both hands it appears opaque. Jack's mug is also less obviously clear in this shot. The illusion appears to be due to a changed camera angle compared to the earlier shot in which both mugs were see-through, possibly combined with a change in the natural light.
Peter Harrison